Many advanced stats would place Gay as an above-average player, a good starter. But folks assume that because Gay is not an advanced stats darling, the advanced stats believe him to be a scrub. He's got talent, size and skills in varying levels.
That framing has made this a problem because Gay can clearly play basketball. Just because data-driven analysis indicates he's nowhere near as valuable as the 'stars' of the game, that doesn't mean the computer believes he has no value. One of the things totally ignored most of the time when Gay is the subject is that even advanced stats find value in his game. The computer takes input and spits out results. If it had the capacity for compassion, it wouldn't owe Gay an apology, because 'the computer' has done nothing to Gay.
