Tyrese Haliburton: Basketball’s Next Big Mystery or Hidden Superstar?
Another way we can put numbers to all the things that Haliburton does that are hard to identify with traditional box score stats is DRIP, which projects a player’s contribution to a team’s plus/minus per 100 possessions.
As it stands, Haliburton is tied for the sixth-highest DRIP in the league (4.3) and has the sixth-best O-DRIP (the offensive version of the stat). Like Billups, Haliburton looks a lot more like an All-NBA player when you dig a little deeper into the data.
A Lot Like the Early 2000s Pistons
When you really think about it, Haliburton’s Pacers are kind of like Billups’ Detroit Pistons from the early/mid-aughts (which is funny because their current head coach, Rick Carlisle, both coached for and against that bunch for a number of years).
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