The starting point guard for the Atlanta Hawks continues to stay within the top 15 in the league among starting point guards in PER (player efficiency rating). Does that make him a top 15 starting point guard? I think the consensus answer would be no. In my opinion, the PER stat rewards usage too much. Which is why we have the Dennis Schroder report.
Players that can be responsible for creating offense certainly have value. But as to determine how a player rates against his peer group one has to dig a bit deeper. So let’s do that.