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Quote: Originally Posted by Rashidi

As stated by Hollinger himself, PER is not meant to be an end-all be-all rating and people who use it as such miss the greater point. Brandan Wright is a backup center and it is pretty ****ing clear to anyone with a modicum of intelligence that no backup center in 1995 had anywhere close to Wright's offensive efficiency. There are no 90s backups with a career 20.2 PER, 62.6 TS%, or 7.8 TO% (0.94 A/T ratio for a non-passer). They don't exist, because any player that effective in 1995 would have been injected into a starting lineup effective immediately (where the player's PER would have decreased). Suggesting that Mutombo and Wright should be directly compared off of PER when they don't fill the same team role is taking the simplistic approach (find the irony). I'm not the one using that argument. That's you. I'm looking at 80 players collectively and you can't count higher than two.

Talk about being arrogant and condescending.

Anyway.

You are the one that used PER as a tool (may I say your only tool) of comparing that 2015 big men are better and is deeper position than in 1995 (on which I may or may not agree). And I gave you examples that that tool is flawed. Yet you can't take criticism that was intended as a positive criticism because I believe you're an intelligent human being capable of good, solid discussion. And here you are, taking the my way or the highway approach. I'd like to see league-wide averages for centers in few stats such as PER (yes, PER), DBPM/OBPM/BPM, ws/48, TRB%, AST%, TOV%, BLK% and TS% from both 1995 and 2015 and then see how centers(or big-men because I believe in versatility and position-less bball) stack up against each other. That is why I said simplistic approach.