Myles Turner is Having the Best Season of his Career (And I am NOT Saying I Told You So)

He is doing what you all have been wanting him to do for the past 4 seasons. Are you happy?? For 4 seasons all that you guys have been telling me is that he is horrible and that he and Sabonis can’t play on the same team and that he needs to be traded. Heaven forbid a team has two good big men in today’s NBA, let alone two good big men with vastly different skill sets.

Myles is currently in the best year of his basketball career, and I am not the “I told you so” type. I am a scholar dammit. I am a salesman with a degree in education. I am nothing if not a man of good earnest will. So I will most definitely NOT be telling all of you that I told you so. Nope, not today. I 100% for certain am not going to say the words “I TOLD YOU SO”…….

Let’s look at some stats children.

These are all the different stats that Myles’ is currently top 20 in the league for:

Blocks per game, total blocks, block percentage, field goal percentage, 2-point field goal percentage, 3-point field goal percentage, effective field goal percentage, true shooting percentage, games played, PER, win shares, defensive win shares, win shares per 48, box plus/minus, defensive box plus/minus, and VORP. Almost all of those are career highs as well to go along with averaging a career high in points and rebounds.

Alright so to be honest I don’t even know where to start. Do we start with offense or defense? Let’s make this a “choose your own adventure.” If you want to read about his defensive stats first, then just keep reading this in order because that is the one that I am going to put first. If you want to read about his offensive stats, then just read the part about his defensive stats first and then the offensive ones will come right after that. Alright so we have a gameplan. Ready? Break.

Myles is dominating the paint on defense this year. He is looking like a hungry dog out there and he is hunting that basketball. He is currently first in the league in BPG by 1.1 PER GAME. A whole block more per game than anyone else in the league. He is also leading the total blocks category by a whopping 17 at the time of writing this. In his last five games he has recorded 25 blocks total for an even 5.0 a game. Just monster numbers.

There is no one safe from the palm of our young headbanded king. Rudy got so mad after getting blocked yet again that he successfully pulled off a visceral anger-hug. Do you know how mad you have to be at someone to run over and just squeeze them? Rudy wanted to pop Myles’ eyeballs out like a Happy Tree Friends video.

Myles is also leading the league in block percentage by over 2 percent, but that should not surprise anyone given the previous two stats mentioned. If he keeps these numbers steady and does not get nominated to an all-defensive team this year then I am not sure what else he can do. If that happens I will then launch a private investigation on Adam Silver on suspicion of hating the state of Indiana and race cars and fried pork tenderloin sandwiches.

Alright defense is out of the way. While his numbers on defense this year are great, they aren’t necessarily surprising. What is surprising are his offensive numbers. He is currently in an offensive explosion and it makes me the happiest little boy on the planet. Myles is currently making 44% of his 3’s while firing off a career high 4.9 attempts a game. That is just good basketball, ya understand.

As someone who is on the record not being exactly head-over-heels about his 3 point attempts over the years (especially during scoring ruts), I am ecstatic about this. I now want him to shoot it every time he gets the ball on the perimeter. The man with the highest jump shot of all time is finally hitting them at an elite rate. Sometimes I wonder if Boomer is up in the rafters catching these shots and then dropping them in the goal.

It is not just 3 pointers either. Myles is averaging a career high percentage from inside the arc as well. He is getting to the line more than he has since the Pacers acquired Sabonis and his role shifted. He’s pulling in more rebounds than he ever has. He looks more aggressive. There is a fire in him this season that we have not seen since he joined the league. He’s getting in comedic tussles, he’s getting memed, but most importantly… he is finally getting some respect. I told you so.