Well he's shooting 36% from 3 this season and 43% from FGs. and is march he's averaging 24 points, 6 assists to 1.4 turnovers, 54% from the field and 43% from 3s. He's improving, just like all rookies do the more they play. He's pretty much improved every month he's been in the league. Look at the splits on the link below. In October he only played 1 game and had 6 TOs and that s his 1st game in the NBA. Other than that he's averaging around 3 TOs a game with 6 assists. A 2-1 TO ratio is great, but its not bad and its not like he's a turnover machine. And, like you said, he plays 36 minutes a night. You'd think he would turn it over more. There are #s that are a little exaggerated because of his minutes, but there also some stats that are impressive considering he plays so many minutes. And I agree that he does play a lot of minutes, but the blazers have 3 guys in the top 11 in MPG. They have the worst bench in the league so Aldridge, Batum, and Lillard play pretty much the entire game.

So we can speculate how good AD will be and how much he will improve, I get that, but we can't speculate that Lillard will improve too?

And no, Lillard wouldn't be the #1 pick in the draft, again I'm not comparing him with AD saying he's better. They are both going to be really good. But, it would go AD, Lillard, and most likely Drummond. Harrison Barnes has shown me some good things too. I agree with everything you said about AD and what would happen if he played so many minutes. Kid is gonna be a stud.

I just don't get why people speculate how good AD will be and how much he will improve, because he will be a stud I've already said that, but Lillard has already topped out in his 1st season? Doesn't make much sense to me.

Ha come on Drake Deng is 1 of the better forwards in the game and a great defender. Very under rated player. You know that. And that list just measures what they do this season, and CP has missed a lot of games so that's most likely why he's lower then would be.

He's pretty much a top 10 PG for this season. And he's top 20 in the NBA in scoring and assists. Pretty good for a rookie.

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This post was edited on 3/12/13 at 3:37 pm