Only showing players who played 10+ minutes. Players are sorted by game score. Stats in italics mean that that player led all rookies in that stat last night.
1. 👑Pick 12: Dereck Lively II: 16/10/1 (5 OREB), 1 STL, 1 BLK, 1 TOV, 4 PF, 7/8 FG, 2/3 FT, 31 minutes
2. Pick 10: Cason Wallace: 13/2/1, 1 BLK, 1 TOV, 3 PF, 5/5 FG, 3/3 3P, 19 minutes
3. Pick 1: Victor Wembanyama: 15/5/2, 2 STL, 1 BLK, 5 TOV, 5 PF, 6/9 FG, 3/5 3P, 0/1 FT, 23 minutes
4. 2022 Pick 2: Chet Holmgren: 11/4/3, 1 STL, 1 TOV, 3 PF, 4/7 FG, 2/3 3P, 1/3 FT, 25 minutes
5. Pick 2: Brandon Miller: 13/3/2, 1 TOV, 3 PF, 5/9 FG, 3/7 3P, 25 minutes
6. 2017 Pick 57: Sasha Vezenkhov: 8/2/0, 2 STL, 1 PF, 3/6 FG, 2/5 3P, 16 minutes
7. Pick 18: Jaime Jaquez Jr: 6/2/2, 2 STL, 1 TOV, 2 PF, 3/3 FG, 13 minutes
8. Pick 16: Keyonte George: 8/2/2, 1 TOV, 3/5 FG, 1/3 3P, 1/1 FT, 19 minutes
9. Pick 5: Ausar Thompson: 4/7/3, 5 BLK, 2 TOV, 2 PF, 1/7 FG, 1/2 3P, 1/2 FT, 27 minutes
10. Pick 52: Toumani Camara: 7/2/1, 1 BLK, 2 PF, 2/5 FG, 2/2 3P, 1/2 FT, 16 minutes
11. Pick 3: Scoot Henderson: 11/3/4, 4 TOV, 2 PF, 5/11 FG, 0/3 3P, 1/1 FT, 36 minutes
12. Pick 7: Bilal Coulibaly: 3/4/3, 3 BLK, 3 TOV, 1 PF, 1/3 FG, 1/1 3P, 23 minutes
13. Pick 4: Amen Thompson: 8/5/2, 4 TOV, 2 PF, 3/10 FG, 1/7 3P, 1/2 FT, 21 minutes
14. ❄️Pick 20: Cam Whitmore: 0/1/0, 1 TOV, 0/4 FG, 0/2 3P, 10 minutes
We talk so much about boom or bust with draft picks but I would also be interested to somehow learn more about the other side of the process aka what teams do or don’t do well to support and develop their draft picks. I know the NBA has rookie programs on things like now to not spend all their money but I would be curious to see what support systems various teams put in place and what the most important factors to those are.
Lively is going to be a top 5 center very quickly. He’s the real deal. No raining 3s, no ball handling like a guard. Just an old school center. And a good one.
Old school centers aren’t top 5 centers anymore
I am here for long boi Camara