December 24, 2009  Is There Lemon In This Curry?    "What does
that prove? The kid is money -- who cares if he does badly by
some cockamamie ranking system you just made up?" How I've
missed you, Imaginary Quoted Guy! How are your holidays going?
"Good, good... can't complain. How was lunch with your dad?"
Good. I'm going to continue this blog post now. "Okay."  IQG has
a point. The SCORE system, surging Internet phenomenon though it
may be, is not infallible (nothing spells "hinkiness" like Chris
Paul finishing in fourth). But if you examine the core
components here, Curry's low placing is no accident: he's the
seventh-worst point guard by Individual Win %, the sixth-worst
by PER, he gets lit up defensively more than almost anyone, and
we do worse when he plays. Almost every other starting point
guard rates as at least average by one of these metrics... Steve
Blake can point to the Blazers' success when he's on the court,
and Aaron Brooks has a good defensive showing in his favor. But
there's no way to slice