Here are the stats for every rookie that played at least 10 minutes tonight. Performances are sorted by game score. Italicized stats indicate that that player led all rookies in that stat.
👑2022 Pick 2: Chet Holmgren (OKC): 13/10/2, 2 BLK, 4 TOV, 2 PF, 4/7 FG, 0/2 3P, 5/5 FT, 27 minutes
👑Pick 10: Cason Wallace (OKC): 10/2/4, 1 STL, 1 PF, 4/7 FG, 2/2 3P, 26 minutes
Pick 19: Brandin Podziemski: 13/8/3, 1 TOV, 5 PF, 4/7 FG, 3/4 3P, 2/2 FT, 25 minutes
Pick 18: Jaime Jaquez Jr (MIA): 10/4/5, 1 TOV, 3 PF, 4/9 FG, 2/5 3P, 33 minutes
❄️2014 Pick 52: Vasilije Micic (OKC): 5/3/7, 3 PF, 1/5 FG, 1/3 3P, 2/2 FT, 21 minutes
Micic was not a snowflake, he was huge tonight
Are you tracking how many King/Cold emojis players are getting so far? It’d be interesting to see if there’s any correlation with RotY, All-Rook voting at the end of the season.
It honestly hurts putting the cold emoji for Micic, seen as he still had a decent game. Easily the best “cold” game for these posts so far this season (6.4 Game Score).
Also, Cason and Chet tied for the highest game score, so two crown emojis today.
I’m enjoying Podz getting more playing time. He’s really good and could become a really nice NBA player in a few years.
Juan Wick is First Team all Rookie material