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First 68 Games Comparison: Lebron / KD / Paolo (via @WeltGawd)



First 68 Games Comparison: Lebron / KD / Paolo (via @WeltGawd)

by BrotherBroseph

16 Comments

  1. _picture_me_rollin_

    That’s 3 pt % is impressive considering he went a whole month and made like 1/30.

  2. BrotherBroseph

    Out of the 3, Paolo is either 1st or 2nd in all categories:

    2nd in Points /
    1st in Rebs /
    2nd in Ast /
    1st in FG% /
    Tied 1st 3P% /
    1st FTA /
    2nd Mins

    Summary, Jalen who?

  3. Tkainzero

    That 3pt shot % makes me feel a LOT better about paulo and his 3pt %.

  4. Nickname-CJ

    I think I’ve been a bit too harsh on Paolo. It’s been hard for me to see the superstar upside with how inconsistent he’s been. But I’m sure I wouldn’t said the same thing if I was old enough to watch Bron and KD back then

  5. Tkainzero

    Luka First 72 games (his rookie season)

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    1526 points

    563 Rebounds

    429 assists

    42.7% FG%

    32.7% 3PT%

    6.74 FTA

    2318 mins

    ​

    Paulo is in ELITE company

  6. SonicNarcotic

    ..and Big Bank is just getting started.. Stats only tell half the picture, the eye-test tells me he’s well on his way to becoming one of the NBA’s elite players, and his contribution to winning in ORL is hardly spoken about..

    As the focal point of our offence, Big Bank gets the opposing teams defensive game plan and the lion’s share of attention (which has opened up opportunities for the rest of the squad)..

    The greater general NBA discussion has criminally neglected to give our rookie the same amount of fanfare as players like Lebron, Durant and Donĉić, and that’s most likely because Paolo was slated to go 3rd on most Draft Boards, and so he has sailed under the radar a little…

    ..Next year (with our new rookies and a maturing squad) I have no doubt the rest of the NBA will know all about Orlando..!

  7. benignporcupine

    If you scale the rookie scoring relative to the nba total scoring for each year you can get (perhaps) a rough indication how each player might fare if they were co-rookies:

    Lebron’s rookie year:

    * NBA: 93.4 (2003-2004)
    * Lebron: 20.9 (2003-2004)
    * Durant: 19.0 (scaled to 93.4 pace)
    * Banchero: 16.1 (scaled to 93.4 pace)

    Durant’s rookie year:

    * NBA: 99.9 (2007-2008)
    * Lebron: 22.4 (scaled to 99.9)
    * Durant: 20.3 (2007-2008)
    * Banchero: 17.2 (scaled to 99.9)

    Banchero’s rookie year (so far):

    * NBA: 114.9 (2022-2023 to date)
    * Lebron: 25.6 (scaled to 114.9)
    * Durant: 23.3 (scaled to 114.9)
    * Banchero: 19.8 (2022-2023 to date)
    *

  8. HamSundae

    In a lot of ways, he better then all them fools

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