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Austin Rivers Article on ESPN
Posted on 12/26/12 at 5:10 pm
Posted on 12/26/12 at 5:10 pm
Anyone with ESPN insider post some of the article or give a summary of the article
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This post was edited on 12/26/12 at 7:29 pm
Posted on 12/26/12 at 5:18 pm to marchballer
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While Davis and Rivers were once considered perhaps the top two prospects in the country coming out of high school, they have had very different professional debuts. When healthy, Davis has lived up to the hype he generated as a National Player of the Year and national champion during his lone college season; he leads all rookies in PER. By contrast, Rivers has struggled with the transition to the NBA, in several ways -- that includes making only 34.6 percent of his shot attempts inside the 3-point line.
In fact, Rivers is on track to make dubious history during his rookie campaign. Two months into the season, Rivers projects to rate nearly seven wins worse than a replacement-level player by my player metric, which would be the worst WARP score in the 34 seasons on record, starting with 1979-80, the first NBA season with the 3-point line.
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Still, Monty Williams will surely find regular playing time for Rivers, who appears to be a major part of New Orleans' future by virtue of the high pick the team used to draft him. Williams indicated as much to the New Orleans Times-Picayune earlier this month, saying, "I'm going to play him through his mistakes and it's going to help our program two or three years from now."
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Despite the cautionary example of Adam Morrison (see chart), the only rookie currently in the WARP bottom 10, a poor first season isn't necessarily a death knell for a player's career. Allan Houston, Chris Kaman and Glen Rice all developed into All-Stars after rating at least three wins below replacement as rookies. And none of those players was anywhere near as young or inexperienced as Rivers at the time.
Still, the more common outcome is that even those ineffective rookies who go on to long careers tend to never rate well statistically. Jeff Green, who had -4.1 WARP during his first season with the Seattle SuperSonics, is a good example. As much as young players tend to improve, the shape of their performance usually doesn't change, and Rivers' volume shooting has always played better among scouts than by the numbers.
fwiw, this is the first PER Diem post-Hollinger
Posted on 12/26/12 at 5:29 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 12/26/12 at 5:36 pm to SlowFlowPro
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this is the first PER Diem post-Hollinger
except the one posted yesterday,slow.
Posted on 12/26/12 at 5:58 pm to RonBurgundy
sorry. he sent out a misleading tweet
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