Who should become the first person to be drafted to the pelicans?
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Originally Posted by
greewe
Oladipo had an eFG% of .571 his freshman year. That is higher than the freshman year for Porter, Shabazz, McLemore, and Smart. And Xavier Henry. He didn't suddenly become good this year.
I watched every game of Xavier Henry's NBA career. His struggles were not surprising. Everyone knew he wasn't ready for the NBA and could benefit from more time in the NCAA. Oladipo, on the other hand, is a NPOY candidate. He won't fail--the only question mark is his ceiling.
And as someone else mentioned, Oladipo plays better defense than any of those guys too.
Interesting question. What's his usage rate versus those other guys?
Re: Who should become the first person to be drafted to the pelicans?
I brought up Xavier because he was touted for having a solid-to-good 3pt shot out of college. That's it. I was trying to make the point that I don't think it would be a smart idea to look at Oladipo's percentages this year and expect him to have similar in the NBA.
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Who should become the first person to be drafted to the pelicans?
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Originally Posted by
Bee-Fense
Oladipo:
FR: 22.5%
SO: 23.2%
JR: 22.1%
Porter:
FR: 17.4%
SO: 24.1%
Muhammad:
FR: 30.0%
McLemore:
FR: 23.9%
Smart:
FR: 26.7%
Henry:
FR: 23.4%
To me, it's really scary when a players usage drops to its lowest point as a junior. Makes me think his coach knows something. Not that it's low, just interesting. That and he has the lowest usage rate among those players. Also has a junior or senior come out since Duncan that's been an impact player ?
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Originally Posted by
BallSoHard
To me, it's really scary when a players usage drops to its lowest point as a junior. Makes me think his coach knows something. Not that it's low, just interesting. That and he has the lowest usage rate among those players. Also has a junior or senior come out since Duncan that's been an impact player ?
What do you qualify as "impact"? Taj Gibson, Dejuan Blair, Collison, Thornton all did well their rookie year after coming out as upper classmen. I would need to go through draft lists to find more that became rotation players their first year in the NBA.
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Who should become the first person to be drafted to the pelicans?
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Kibner
What do you qualify as "impact"? Taj Gibson, Dejuan Blair, Collison, Thornton all did well their rookie year after coming out as upper classmen. I would need to go through draft lists to find more that became rotation players their first year in the NBA.
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None of those guys qualify as impact players. Maybe franchise type players would be worded better.
Who should become the first person to be drafted to the pelicans?
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Originally Posted by
Inner_GI
I'm not extremely familiar with usage rate, but .4% and 1.1% doesn't seem like that big of a deal.
Them not going up seems like a telling sign to me. I'd expect the trust by the coach to put the ball in his best players hands would be there by the junior year. Maybe I'm wrong here and I'll do more research tonight, but I'd expect it to go up if he was developing