The biggest difference comes in the form of minutes, with Anderson playing 30.4 and Kelly playing 20.2 per game, although the circumstances there differed, with the Celtics winning 48 games while the Pelicans only won 30.
Anderson played 36 mpg and averaged 19 ppg on a 2013 NO team that was 12-10 in the games he was on the court. That's the type of player he was when he was deemed to be worth $20 million a year, and before injuries did him in.
So the Rockets paid him based on his 2013 play, ignoring the recent injuries, rather than on his 2016 play?
Oh, duh. The Pelicans apparently paid him $8 million/year. I thought it was more like $13-15 million. Which still obviously isn't $20 million, but he still has a track record of playing big minutes on winning teams, and I expect GMs to come down to earth crashing down the road. I don't think Olynyk will command anything close to Anderson's contract.
I don't think he will, either (especially since he's missing the big cap space boom by a year), but the suggestion that Dellavadova money (<$10 million/year) is more than Kelly can get is ridiculous, and Anderson is the best example of a great young 3 point shooter who came off the bench and became a FA in the new cap climate
I agree the guy is trolling. If he is basing his argument off the fact that Delly got paid just wait and see what KO gets. KO is the best 3pt shooting big in the game. Dude is gonna get paid WAY more then Delly.
He is... if you don't count Dirk, Ryan Anderson, Chris Bosh, and Kevin Love. And then there are Scola, Frye, and Leonard that are arguably at least as good.
The highest 3p% among the first 4 was Dirk at 36.8% (while Kelly was at 40.5%), and only Love and Anderson had more 3pa/36
Source: http://bkref.com/tiny/gtJ0R
The next group has much better percentages than the first, but Kelly still beats all of them (although Scola at 40.4% is essentially the same, but at much lower volume). Frye and Leonard both beat him for 3pa, but their percentages are significantly lower
Source: http://bkref.com/tiny/8WvcE
Unfortunately, I couldn't fit them all on one page, so the comparisons are separate
Two other things you need to take into account: (1) track record, and (2) volume. Otherwise, your best three-point shooting big will clearly be Enes Kanter.
I took volume into account, but due to the huge minutes played range I used 3pa per36. Given that they each played a good amount of minutes each game, that should even things out
I certainly don't think KO is the best 3 point shooting big (I'd take Dirk every day and twice on Sundays), but also don't think it's ridiculous to suggest that he might be. He shot the lights out last year, and if he repeats that this year he'll have a good case for it (depending on how others do as well)