Here are the stats for every rookie that played at least 10 minutes tonight. Performances are sorted by game score. Italicized stats indicate that that player led all rookies in that stat.
👑2022 Pick 2: Chet Holmgren (OKC): 13/10/2, 2 BLK, 4 TOV, 2 PF, 4/7 FG, 0/2 3P, 5/5 FT, 27 minutes
👑Pick 10: Cason Wallace (OKC): 10/2/4, 1 STL, 1 PF, 4/7 FG, 2/2 3P, 26 minutes
Pick 19: Brandin Podziemski: 13/8/3, 1 TOV, 5 PF, 4/7 FG, 3/4 3P, 2/2 FT, 25 minutes
Pick 18: Jaime Jaquez Jr (MIA): 10/4/5, 1 TOV, 3 PF, 4/9 FG, 2/5 3P, 33 minutes
❄️2014 Pick 52: Vasilije Micic (OKC): 5/3/7, 3 PF, 1/5 FG, 1/3 3P, 2/2 FT, 21 minutes
Micic was not a snowflake, he was huge tonight
The one silver lining for the Warriors during this skid is Podz earning a spot in the rotation. Grant Hill and co. on the broadcast pointing out he was doing a bunch of things that don’t show up on the statsheet.
Is he ready for the Podzilla nickname?
It honestly hurts putting the cold emoji for Micic, seen as he still had a decent game. Easily the best “cold” game for these posts so far this season (6.4 Game Score).
Also, Cason and Chet tied for the highest game score, so two crown emojis today.
Cason is a stud yo
I’m enjoying Podz getting more playing time. He’s really good and could become a really nice NBA player in a few years.
Are you tracking how many King/Cold emojis players are getting so far? It’d be interesting to see if there’s any correlation with RotY, All-Rook voting at the end of the season.
rough to see my guy VASA at the bottom but I guess it’ll happen on a night with only two games. his no-look dime to wiggins was orgasmic, easily our most unselfish player
Juan Wick is First Team all Rookie material