It is my belief that the defensive ineffectiveness is not a function of inattention to defense in practice but a result of player selection, both the the athletes we recruit and the allocation of playing time. I was looking that the metrics to make the point that we could legitimately play a stronger defensive team (could, not necessarily should). However, I got stopped in my tracks by Rowley's ratings. My initial point was going to be that a more defensive-minded coach would play a lot less Rowley and a lot more Harvey and Blair. How we could do that would be an elaboration of my thesis.

Lo and behold, Rowley's DBPM is -0.2, which looks like the second-best on the team. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong metric (very good chance of that) and maybe there is a particular stat that is making Rowley into a defensive strength (relative to the others on the team).

At this point I'm bewitched and bewildered and simply can't believe the stats over my damn lying eyes.