thedoper wrote:TeamRicky wrote:Ricky's the closest thing to Jason Kidd and Kidd a future hall of famer.
Except Rubio's shooting is far worse than Kidd's making him far from Kidd. Here's a comparison of their shooting in year 5 of their careers. Kidd could finish at the rim. Rubio can't make 50% of his layups. There is a reason Ricky is being called the worst shooter of all time.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/plus/shooting.cgi?player_id=kiddja01&year_id=2005&advanced=compare&comp_pid=rubiori01&comp_year=2016
Since Ricky has missed so much time with injuries, it is fairer to compare his 5th season to Kidd's 4th season.
Here are some advanced box score based numbers about that comparison:
Rubio PER 18.1 TS% 50.5 TRB% 8.5 ASTS% 42.4 STL% 3.7 TOV% 19.4 USG% 17.7
Kidd PER 16.4 TS% 50.2 TRB% 9.5 ASTS% 35.6 STL% 2.7 TOV% 21.5 USG% 17.6
Those stats are from
http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/pcm_finder.cgi?request=1&sum=0&p1=rubiori01&y1=2016&p2=kiddja01&y2=1998&p3=&p4=&p5=&p6=basketball-reference.
So based on statistics Ricky has been this season better than Kidd in his 4th season almost every category. Even his TS% has been higher than what Kidd had. Kidd was selected to all star game that season. BTW. I'm not suggesting that Rubio has been better than Kidd at that season. Kidd lead Phoenix to impressive record 56-26 with roster that was pretty bad. They had past prime Rex Chapman, Danny Manning, Kevin Johnson and Clifford Robinson and then 3rd year McDyess and 2nd year Steve Nash in that team. Ricky has not been able to have as big effect on Minnesota team even though his stats have been better than Kidd's stats were.
Quite many people have been complaining a lot about Rubio's ability to finish at rim. Rubio has had FG% 49.4 at rim so far this season. Kidd had at least three seasons with worse FG% at rim before his last all star season. He might have had even more of those because that type of shooting statistics are available only from his 7th season. In two of those seasons, he was still selected to all star game. Kidd also had totally nine seasons with lower TS% than what Rubio have had this season and was selected to all star game in six of those.
So I think Kidd is much closer comparison to Rubio than many people admit. Still I feel that we might not be able to win championship with Ricky on court in the end of games if he doesn't improve his three point shot and start taking those open three pointers that opponent defense give him.