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Originally Posted by XXtwindad
He hasn't slipped that much defensively. He was never a prolific shot-blocker, so that's not really relevant. Despite his defensive prowess, he's never averaged above ten boards a game, so hard to see how that's really slipped. And he's averaging the second most steals of his career.
The problem (as you mentioned) is on the offensive end. He was never a great shooter, but he's even worse now. I think he's still a great player within Golden State's system.
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Second lowest defensive rebound percentage of his career, only above his rookie season. Second lowest overall rebound percentage of his career. So of all the available rebounds to him, he's hoovering them up at the lowest rate of his career. We'll throw out offensive rebound percentage as that's largely scheme-based, but that's also second lowest of his career. And even as you point out but dismiss, the counting stats in that particular area are declining. And hasn't slipped defensively? One metric to get a sense of that is personal fouls per game. What a shock this season as he's slowing down he's reaching more, and committing the second highest number of personal fouls per game in his career.
My original point still stands. Do you want to pay this guy $27 million dollars in 2023/2024? When he's averaging right now 6/6/9 and shooting 40% from the floor? Those numbers are only going to get worse the next couple years. He'll still have his moments, all great players do, but to pretend this isn't the process of a decline for his game is silly.