I recently posted my
mid-season NBA shooting guard rankings. Here are my observations on those rankings:
- Manu Ginobili and Dwyane Wade tied for the top spot. That's no surprise - they were one and two in the 2009-10 Final Shooting Guard Rankings. Wade is first in the PER and Estimated Wins Added categories while Ginobili leads the Simple Rating category.
- Ray Allen and Kobe Bryant are on the second level. Allen moved up three spots from the 09-10 rankings while Bryant dropped one.
- Interestingly, Eric Gordon and Kevin Martin are both really hurt by their Defensive Rating. Gordon tied for 51st and Martin tied for 60th.
- Jason Richardson and Vince Carter, who were essentially swapped for each other by the Magic and Suns, come in 11th and 12th.
- The biggest positive surprises to me are Andre Iguodala, Landry Fields, J.R. Smith and Ronnie Brewer.
- The biggest negative surprises to me are Jason Terry, Stephen Jackson, O.J. Mayo and John Salmons.
- The biggest jumpers from the final 09-10 rankings are DeShawn Stevenson (up 52), Nick Young (up 43) and Tracy McGrady (up 28). Those are three very different cases.
- Stevenson boosted his PER from 3.3 last season to a career best 13.3 this season and his Simple Rating from -10 to 3.3.
- The biggest droppers from 2009-10 are John Salmons (down 37), Quentin Richardson (down 31) and Randy Foye (down 26).
- Salmons really surprises me. I expected him to be excellent for the Bucks this season after serving as such a uniter when he came over from Chicago during the middle of last season. The most noticeable difference - his Simple Rating crashed from 7.9 in 09-10 to -4.2 this season.
- Fields is the highest ranking rookie at number 10. Evan Turner is next at 59.
- The two teams getting the least production from the shooting guard position are Utah and Cleveland. The Jazz have Raja Bell at 60. The Cavaliers have Anthony Parker at 61, Alonzo Gee at 62, Manny Harris at 66 and Joey Graham at 68.
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