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Good news: you get a few extra thoughts for this game! Bad news: those thoughts are way shorter than the usual Triple Team points! Davis will have to sit at some point, and the Jazz could be at an advantage in those minutes, but the Lakers will be a really tough team to stop.
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is a really tough lineup, and thanks to Alex Caruso, Wes Matthews, Ben McLemore, and Markieff Morris, they still have decent enough depth to play behind those guys. In other words, I think the Lakers are going to be best with Davis at the five against the Jazz, probably with a Dennis Schroder, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Kyle Kuzma, LeBron James, Anthony Davis lineup. But who does Drummond/Harrell/Gasol guard, then? Bogdanovic? Ingles? O’Neale? All three are terrific shooters and could likely drive past those slow-footed big men. Now, yes, the Lakers could play Drummond/Harrell/Gasol next to Davis, and then have Davis guard Gobert so that he’s defending the Jazz’s pick and rolls. He’s not a terrific mover either at this point in his career, but does offer more smarts defensively than the other two, as well as a jump shot. Their third center is Marc Gasol, who didn’t play tonight. I think Harrell’s playoff fate might be similar to last year, when he was a net negative for the Clippers.
#SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR FREE#
Then, because he doesn’t have an outside jump shot, Gobert can play free safety a little bit, stifling the other Lakers’ drives. Harrell’s the better player, but his length deficit made it exceptionally easy on Gobert tonight to bother his shot and get rebounds anyway. Honestly, it was repeatedly Kanterian defense - Drummond seems to lack the lateral movement to defend the pick and roll well, and it’s something the Jazz should be able to eat up with either Gobert or Derrick Favors on the floor. Does it usually require at least a ball fake to get the defense out of the way? Also yes. Like, does Joe Ingles do this to a lot of centers? Yes. And in both games, defensively, he had no impact, offered no resistance. But here’s one thing that I think I did learn, maybe: I don’t think the Lakers are going to be able to play too much of Andre Drummond or Montrezl Harrell in that series.ĭrummond had a big points game on Saturday, but truthfully, I wasn’t too impressed: he scored a lot of those in transition, when he was the highest man up the floor, staying attached to Ersan Ilyasova. So it’s really, really hard to learn anything from what happened this weekend: the Lakers are going to be a much different team with their two best players involved. Anthony Davis missed all three games, and LeBron James and Donovan Mitchell missed two of them. It’s really a shame that in three Jazz/Lakers matchups this season, we never got to see a full-strength battle.
#SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR SERIES#
I don’t think the Lakers centers are going to play much in a hypothetical Jazz/Lakers series Still, it’s worth noting what a luxury the Jazz have: very possibly, the two best sixth men in the league belong to Utah. But I think it’s more likely Clarkson wins the award. I think, if I were a betting person, I’d take Ingles’ odds. Ingles has a 5.8-2.8 lead in Win Shares, a 4.6-4.3 lead in ESPN’s RPM Wins, 4.8-4.5 in RAPTOR WAR, and a 4.4-0.8 lead in BPM.īut Clarkson certainly fits the mold of a Sixth Man winner (read: POINTS!) far more than Ingles does, and the national media essentially crowned him 3 months ago - if voters aren’t doing statistical research, they’re probably just going to check the box next to Clarkson and move on. The all-in-one stats that try to put all of these factors together point towards Ingles. He’s also a better passer (albeit probably more turnover prone) and a better defender than Clarkson. And yet, he’s scoring them at one of the most efficient rates of all time: no one in NBA history has a better true shooting percentage than Ingles, among players taking 7 shots per game or more.
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Yes, he’s only scoring a measly 12.1 points per game. He stands at +650, actually second-most likely to win the award. It’s possible Ingles is the better candidate, though. He is also the fun choice: everyone knows Clarkson, likes him, and the NBA’s Filipino fans might throw him a parade if he won. He’s scoring 17.4 points a game for perhaps the best bench unit in the league.
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In other words, you’d have to bet $670 of your own money to win $100 of the casino’s if Clarkson won. If you had to sum up these two players, it might be this simple: Joe Ingles makes his baskets look easy, while Jordan Clarkson makes his baskets look hard.Ĭlarkson is the runaway leader in the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year race: right now, he’s the -670 favorite to win the award.