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Over the last few games, The W Bros. have looked their age.
Coby White’s attempt to balance his scoring and distributing has become so difficult that he has struggled to succeed in either category. Patrick Williams, meanwhile, has played engaged on defense, but hesitant on offense. White and Williams currently hold the starting lineup’s lowest Player Efficiency Rating (PER) at 10.67 and 9.65, respectively. These numbers put White 251st in the NBA and Williams in 274th. Yeah … not great.
Note: PER takes a bunch of stats and squishes them together for an easily comparable number, but I caution against over-weighting this particular metric. Not only does it struggle to take into account defensive impact (which hurts a guy like Williams), but it can also shift quite a bit. In other words, we don’t want to use PER to make any rash decisions. Guys like Garrett Temple, Josh Richardson, Gary Harris, Bojan Bogdanovic, Buddy Hield, and Cam Reddish are all worse than White, but I don�