I was set to write about Anthony Gill’s statistical doppelgängers, and then...I saw the list. Yikes. It’s not so much that the players were terrible in the NBA — a few ate some minutes at least the level of not totally awful on bad teams when they were younger. By the time they were similar to Gill, they were generally in decline from even that.
Here’s the list, without further commentary, according to the Statistical Doppelgänger Machine:
- Pete Chilcutt, Houston Rockets, 1995-96
- Jonas Jerebko, Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics, 2014-15
- Jonas Jerebko, Detroit Pistons, 2013-14
- Scott Padgett, Houston Rockets, 2003-04
- Craig Smith, Portland Trail Blazers, 2011-12
- Austin Croshere, Golden State Warriors, 2007-08
- Pete Chilcutt, Vancouver Grizzlies, 1996-97
- Scott Padgett, New Jersey Nets, 2005-06
- Mark Strickland, Miami Heat, 1998-99
- Scott Padgett, Houston Rockets, 2004-05
As I previously wrote, the point of all these statistical similarity comparisons was to have some fun in the runup to the season while considering the current players through a different lens.