I'm not disagreeing with your opinion, I just want to point out that per advanced metrics (or any metrics for that matter), Bosh absolutely destroyed Noah yesterday. As someone who loves advanced metrics but is often beaten up on this board for suggesting that they don't always tell the whole story, I find your post interesting, especially since this wasn't even a borderline case.
You're right - it wasn't a borderline case.
This is the problem with advanced metrics and is probably why so many people disagree with some of the advanced metrics assertions made here. By the math, Bosh "destroyed" Noah yesterday. But Noah's team was clearly better inside and they won. To that end, it doesn't much matter that Chris Bosh played great yesterday - he was a -15 on the floor to Noah's +15.
The bolded demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of advanced metrics in my opinion.The idea behind most sports metrics is to capture what we don't fully grasp with the untrained eye, not what we see and understand. The idea is to do analysis free of bias, limited awareness and selective retention- things that every single sports fan brings to the table when they watch a game.
Saying that the individual or collective perception of something highlights what's wrong with advanced metrics gets it exactly backwards.
I hesitate to use the Bosh/Noah example because most advanced metrics are intended to evaluate over the long term, not one game. But here you wouldn't say that they're wrong because Noah clearly outplayed Bosh, it would be that maybe Bosh played better than was commonly perceived and Noah didn't play as well as commonly perceived, because "hustle" and "effort" and what the announcers tell us about the narrative tend to stick in our heads more than, say, 12-18 vs. 4-14, or getting to the line 6 times and making them all vs. getting there twice and making one. Rebounds and steals and perceived effort and hustle matter, sure, but so does a shot going in vs. not going in.
Not saying Bosh was better than Noah yesterday here, just that your criticism of advanced metrics makes no sense.