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Originally Posted by Ashasx
How would that damage my own argument?
I can only evaluate defencemen with what is available to me. Russell obviously fails the "analytics" test, but he also terribly fails the eye test.
Good defencemen block shots too. But Russell's go-to move is to flop on his belly when a forward tried to go wide on him. It was absolutely predictable and forwards ate him alive this past season.
So it must leave that those managers that like Russell like him because of some sort of intangibles. Why should we ever evaluate players, trades, transactions, etc., then, when the acquisition differential is allocated to some sort of goodwill? That argument doesn't work for me.
Managers make mistakes. Russell is bad.
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Meh, the numbers and stats speak for themselves. We don't need to justify them with "also my eye test agrees" - it should be the other way around