Paul4587
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Not trying to argue your points, but I will say that although Benny used raw numbers, he DID in fact mention the possibility of recovering from surgery being possible reasons for decline / weaker numbers in some areas multiple times in the article (I know it was long).
Point conceded about the wrist injury in 16-17. Was he in fact hurt the entire season? Or did it happen at a certain point of the season? I don't remember.
I would also point out that these are projection tools he's using. You said "Lindholm's shot was significantly harder than it's ever been before," but 1) I'm not sure you can verify this statement in literal value (speed clocks?), and 2) getting more shots through by the end of the year shouldn't be used as projection for how he might be in future years...in smaller sample sizes, it could be a bit of luck...or maybe he really has improved and his numbers will continue to trend in that direction. Hard to project that...he's just trying to just get a feel for where Lindholm is projecting based on historical data.
Just makes it interesting for me to read. In the dog days, I'm hungry for almost anything.
His wrist according to an article by Stephens was injured in I think his third game that season. He was wearing a massive wrap right until the end of the playoffs.
The problem with not using relative numbers is that you’re not factoring in a massive drop in raw numbers due to systems. While he does acknowledge Carlyle’s system has likely impacted the numbers he’s also completely ignoring that relative to his teammates Lindholm had the second best shot suppression numbers among all dmen and the one guy above him only plays 19 minutes per night.