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Walker Kessler named Western Conference Rookie of the Month for February




infection

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Do they usually announce these halfway through the following month?
 

Jingled

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Do they usually announce these halfway through the following month?

This was announced a couple of weeks ago and was posted in the Kessler hype thread.

The question I keep asking, but don't have a real answer for, is how much credit should Alex Jensen get?


Probably quite a bit, especially after seeing how much he helped Rudy develop over the years.
 

JimLes

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After tonight's heroics, I'd like to add this.

Multiple advanced stats seem to suggest that Walker is the best rookie in the league this year. From Box +/- to VORP to PER, to my personal favourite: The Raptor by 538.

This is the definition of "it's not even close":

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Walker's the only rookie(I've filtered out anyone playing fewer than 1000 minutes) whose both offensive and defensive Raptor is positive, as well.

Here it is on a graph, though:

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White circles are qualifying rookies. Walker is red, Banchero is blue. Greyed out circles are vets.
 

HermanG

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After tonight's heroics, I'd like to add this.

Multiple advanced stats seem to suggest that Walker is the best rookie in the league this year. From Box +/- to VORP to PER, to my personal favourite: The Raptor by 538.

This is the definition of "it's not even close":

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Walker's the only rookie(I've filtered out anyone playing fewer than 1000 minutes) whose both offensive and defensive Raptor is positive, as well.

Here it is on a graph, though:

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White circles are qualifying rookies. Walker is red, Banchero is blue. Greyed out circles are vets.
Yeah this is exactly what I was saying in the quotes thread. Hardy, our other players and our beat writers need to start the campaign now.

Man deserves more respect than flipping at #3 and #4 in the odds and national ladders. There must be a discussion at least.

Jokic wins MVPs because of these exact numbers, so why do we evaluate ROY on different standards?
 

jope

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Does WK already basically give us everything our $40M player would have (who most here deemed irreplaceable last season)?

Who would you rather have?

(Per36)
Player A - 16.3p, 13.6r, 1.7b, 1.2a — 127ortg, 109drtg, 1.3vorp, 0.6dbpm, 0.2obpm, 19.4per
Player B - 13.7p, 13.3r, 3.6b, 1.3a — 140ortg, 111drtg, 1.7vorp, 1.4dbpm, 1.2obpm, 21.2per
 


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