interesting to see huge older bigs w excellent block rates continue to translate. it’s what the models suggested and, obviously, scouts have been right they don’t have a ton of upside. but how many picks have to go by before you stop caring about that?
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So this shames me, Isaiah is my favorite Michigan hooper! I just completely spaced on him!
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TIMMAY shot 53% from 3 in October of last year so he may just be a guy who starts off hot. I haven’t seen any Nuggets games and he’s coming off the bench so I’m not sure how often he’s actually on the court with Jokic.
78 of his 139 minutes
The Pistons are very focused on paint points so far. It makes sense with Duren and Ausar getting to the rim a lot ( so does Cade, but he has other spots) or getting put backs.
The Pistons are great at this paint differentials in the paint with the offense/defense split. The offense is basically a Duren and Ausar stats, and the defense is a Beef Stew stats. Beef is averaging over 20 mpg, which puts him in line for the All-Defense team. Beef is one of the best rim protector in the league. Players keep challenging him at the rim and have mostly been unsuccessful at it.
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Dallas being dead last is literally hysterical
(we’re gonna be huge! nobody will score! wait, what do you mean these three guys combine to average 80 games a season!?)
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Duren’s averaging a solid 1.4 blocks a game as well. If he can maintain that along with his improved scoring, he has an outside chance to be an all-star this year.
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Sorry, I thought this was the Pistons/NBA thread.
Houstan had 8 points in 8 minutes in the first half for the Hawks.
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I think being in the G-League for a bit will be good for Danny long-term. This is the most aggressive I’ve seen him hunting for shots, and it also seems like he’s become more athletic.
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I do not honestly understand what Wolf, Traore, and Saraf are doing here.
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I honestly think this is organizational malpractice. The G-League is like hamster-wheel basketball. Super-fast pace, lots of guys go down there and play like “the man” (which they are, here), despite it not being a role they can possibly fill in the actual league (see: Ignas Brazdeikis, Mac McClung, Jett Howard, like 100 other guys). To me, seeing Wolf, Saraf, and Traore here is just wild.
I just know because the Bulls have had more than one of these guys, but here are your G League top scorers by year, starting with most recent:
Bryce McGowens
Kenneth Lofton
Bulls legend Carlick Jones
Carsen Edwards
Frank Mason III
Jordan McRae
Bulls legend Antonio Blakeney
Quinn Cook
Elliot Williams
Brady Heslip
Manny Harris (went this far just to include him)
How many games of NBA career are on this list? Like 40?
(I mentioned this in the all-purpose NBA thread, but I don’t understand a team that WANTS to lose drafting 5 first rounders they want to develop and then…not playing them. This seems like you can kill 2 birds with 1 stone!)
I think the reason is something like what we pointed out at the time: it’s really difficult to roster that many rookies and have a functional team. That’s half your rotation going to sub-replacement level players. Easy to imagine that being a big problem for the development you want to do.
Which is why everybody thought they’d for sure trade some of the picks.
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Yeah was gonna say what Colin said. It’s just kinda impossible to have that many non lotto rookies. I suppose by mid season to towards the end they’ll all be up.
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Regularly, I would agree for the reasons you pointed out.
But I think what the Nets have done with Danny since the start of summer league indicates they don’t see him as a traditional role player. He has handled the ball plenty and I think they have even gone out of the way to make sure that
- he is getting primary/secondary ball-handler minutes with teammates that don’t completely dominate the ball and
- he is able to play through some admitted atrocious turnovers and as a result has created quite a few highlight moments and has clearly grown even over just the past month or two
Is the most likely outcome that Danny Wolf becomes nothing more than just a solid role player? Sure. Perhaps he isn’t even that. But he’s so unique that I don’t think you can put him in a box and assume the role he’ll have in the league and so I’m totally on board with seeing him do his thing in the G-League for a bit.
With that said, all of this might be moot for now since he’s just been recalled after Day’ron Sharpe got injured yesterday.
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Yeah, I mean the bigger problem too is that every guy they drafted is a pass-first ball handler (I guess not Powell, but the other 4 are)
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Yeah doesn’t help they’re all one big Spider-Man pointing meme
Both Duncan Robinson and Jordan Poole also started by playing exaggerated roles in the G-League of what they ended up becoming in the NBA! So there’s two success stories that you can point to.