I'mWithDan
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When the Cavs drafted him, everyone new his offense was lacking but felt it could be improved with coaching. I don't understand how everyone's patients is gone so quickly? Scroll down these pages and check out the first year stats for the following players:
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/antetgi01.html
Kawhi Leonard Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft Status and more | Basketball-Reference.com
Checkout the latest stats of Kawhi Leonard. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, shoots, school and more on Basketball-Reference.comwww.basketball-reference.com
James Harden Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft Status and more | Basketball-Reference.com
Checkout the latest stats of James Harden. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, shoots, school and more on Basketball-Reference.comwww.basketball-reference.com
Okoro is playing a ton of minutes. It is more relevant what advanced metrics said about these players.
Kawhi - 119 ORTG, 101 DRTG, 16.6 PER, 2.1 VORP, 3.4 BPM, 5.5 WS
Harden - 109 ORTG, 104 DRTG, 14 PER, 1.1 VORP, 0.5 BPM, 4.5 WS
Okoro - 98 ORTG, 116 DRTG, 6.6 PER, -0.7 VORP, -0.3 BPM, 0.2 WS
It is not pretty. The concerning thing is not that Okoro is struggling, rookies go through ebb and flow........it is that he's getting a ton of minutes and doing nothing analytically.
Raw counting stats are pretty useless in discussions like this because Okoro is one of the few rookies who has been given a role this big when he's not good. Harsh, I know but his numbers are horrendously bad analytically. Then when you look at his shooting numbers, oof. It is just hard.
Okoro needs some more time, as I believe he is playing out of position often but the early returns aren't great. There aren't many significant success cases where guys just look this bad initially. Doesn't mean he won't be an NBA player but if you wanted Okoro to develop in to a star, I'm not sure who the parallel is here.