Who has watched PG extensively since his injury? Those stats are pretty discouraging. I am intrigued by George because he had the rep of being able to defend Lebron. Is that still the case? What about defending KD? How does he do against him post injury?
Who has done the research? Not I.
I won't say I have watched him extensively, but I watched him a fair amount. He looks the same as before the injury in my eyes. He doesn't seem to work quite as hard on defense anymore, but that is likely partly due to the fact the offense is solely on him now. I think you would see a renewed effort from him on defense if he didn't have to carry the entire offensive burden.
Also, what stats are you referring to as "not encouraging"?
Did you know that George just shot the highest FG% and TS% of any season of his career this past year, as well as the second highest 3P% of his career? He also averaged the highest PPG of his career each of the last two seasons. His shooting percentage are going up as he takes more shots, that indicates to me a player that is at least as good as he was pre-injury, if not maybe even better.
Some of his other regular counting stats have slightly dipped, but he's being asked to do so much on offense I'm not worried about this. At the end of the day he still has a positive +/- and held the man he was defending to a net neutral percentage (compared to against the rest of the league). The Pacers were a net -4.6 points per game worse without him on the court.
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