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Poll: Gobert PPG for 2015/2016

Over/Under on Rudy's PPG production in this 2015/2016 season:

  • Rudy will score OVER 13.8 PPG

    Votes: 9 25.7%

  • No, he will be UNDER 13.8 PPG

    Votes: 23 65.7%

  • Who cares, it's all about the BPG

    Votes: 3 8.6%
  • Total voters
    35
What I am reading here is, for whatever reason, many of you think that he is tapped out on PPG as is or that he will regress from how he ended the season. Interesting.
 
I think he'll be somewhere in the vicinity of the number in the OP. But I think the guy can push for 14 RPG.
 
Stoked said:
What I am reading here is, for whatever reason, many of you think that he is tapped out on PPG as is or that he will regress from how he ended the season. Interesting.
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If he's hitting 12 rebounds in his second year, first year in the rotation really. He could hit Rodman numbers one day. Please let it be so.


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Stoked said:
I was referring to his PPG since he was at 12 ppg in April.



That's it!
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He was at 12 during a month when teams were not really focused on him at all and we faced as many teams who had already hung it up as were really fighting for anything. But make him a focal point of the other team's gameplan and I believe initially we will see a plateau. I think he will hit between 10 and 12, and mostly on cleanup stuff, putbacks and the like. I think it will take another bump for him to get to the mid-teens in his scoring average. Remember, April is a pretty small sample size. It is never as simple as adding 3% to his output to determine his increase for the next year or month or whatever.
 
Stoked said:
I do not think he will be their focus. I think that Hayward, Favors, Burks and Hood will take that focus of Gobert and leave him in one on ones where he will dominate most nights.
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He will ABSOLUTELY be their focus. A gameplan has to work on not just the scorers but whoever is hurting you. Gobert will create the most hurt of anyone on our team and other teams will have the goal to disrupt his game as much as possible. They will try to get him in foul trouble to get him off the court and they will try to isolate and force him to make plays on the offensive end to make him expend energy. It is pretty standard stuff really, and for a third year player it will be another point of adjustment, which is why I think we will see his numbers be less than we all would like to see them.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I think he will settle in at between 11 and 12. He will become the focus of other teams in a big way this season and that tends to create another plateau for players. I look for him to average a double double and close to 3 BPG. Say 12 PPG, 11 RPG, 2.8 BPG.
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Thee jazz fan said:
Meant to quote I think log who stated he thought Gobert would get 14 rebounds a game.


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Wasn't me.
 
LogGrad98 said:
He will ABSOLUTELY be their focus. A gameplan has to work on not just the scorers but whoever is hurting you. Gobert will create the most hurt of anyone on our team and other teams will have the goal to disrupt his game as much as possible. They will try to get him in foul trouble to get him off the court and they will try to isolate and force him to make plays on the offensive end to make him expend energy. It is pretty standard stuff really, and for a third year player it will be another point of adjustment, which is why I think we will see his numbers be less than we all would like to see them.
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To clarify, I think he absolutely has it in him to be a top rebounder and to score more than we expect. I think that at some point in his career a line of 14-16 PPG, 15-17 RPG and 3.0-3.5 BPG is absolutely achievable given what we have seen of his drive and natural ability. I would love to see him get close to these numbers this year but realistically he will probably be in an adjustment phase somewhat and in this he will be inconsistent. I think he will wow us and then have an off game or 2, and I think overall his averages will be a bit lower.

But that said, what difference would an extremely mobile and driven center who could give us 12 PPG, 11-12 RPG and ~3 blocks per game have make in 1997-98?
 
bjwsan said:
1st shot at a Poll here... go ahead, flame the nub...
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nub is pronounced "n-uh-b".

noob (or n00b or originally, newb) is the correct l33t spelling.
 
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