Suns Basketball » aging http://www.sunsbasketball.net Following the Rising & Setting Suns Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:05:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 For Prime Out Loud! http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/01/20/for-prime-out-loud/ http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/01/20/for-prime-out-loud/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:04:13 +0000 Fanhouse NBA Blog - suns http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/01/20/for-prime-out-loud/ Bethlehem Shoalsby Bethlehem Shoals

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Amidst all the cries of sin, sinner, and "like the trailer for Legion," there's been precious little talk of the basketball side of the Gilbert Arenas situation. I refer not to the brewing snooze-fest over what will happen with Gil's contract, and whether or not the Wizards would have their lawyers on speed-dial if this huge deal weren't attached to a chronic injury risk. The question is, at age 28, how much value is left in Gilbert Arenas? Injuries aside, the Wizards just might have invested too much, for too long, in a player who even under the healthiest circumstances would be declining soon.

Last week, Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus performed a thorough investigation of these concerns. His articles should be digested in full. But the upshot is that scoring guards of Gil's ilk peak soon and decline rapidly. Combined with Dave Berri's recent proclamation that NBA prime, lone believed to strike around 27, in fact arrives at 24 and then drops off from there. Open up the skies, we've got an issue to address: Exactly what is prime, and how did it get so reified?

 

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]]> Bethlehem Shoalsby Bethlehem Shoals

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Amidst all the cries of sin, sinner, and "like the trailer for Legion," there's been precious little talk of the basketball side of the Gilbert Arenas situation. I refer not to the brewing snooze-fest over what will happen with Gil's contract, and whether or not the Wizards would have their lawyers on speed-dial if this huge deal weren't attached to a chronic injury risk. The question is, at age 28, how much value is left in Gilbert Arenas? Injuries aside, the Wizards just might have invested too much, for too long, in a player who even under the healthiest circumstances would be declining soon.

Last week, Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus performed a thorough investigation of these concerns. His articles should be digested in full. But the upshot is that scoring guards of Gil's ilk peak soon and decline rapidly. Combined with Dave Berri's recent proclamation that NBA prime, lone believed to strike around 27, in fact arrives at 24 and then drops off from there. Open up the skies, we've got an issue to address: Exactly what is prime, and how did it get so reified?

 

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