Rudy is the main photo on ESPN.com's NBA Homepage

It used to be Rose, Beasley, and Mayo. Now, Rose has been moved to the background, Beasley has been taken off, and Rudy is front and center.

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I'm too sexy for this shirt, so sexy it hurts.

 

I love that you can see the 00 on his jersey.

 

Rudy is Ranked 1st

Batum is ranked 16th and improving game by game

With Oden returning he could soon be in the running for ROY

Has there ever been team with 3 candidates for ROY? How would the Blazers handle that situation?

 

This is obviously a very bad situation. We must start playing Bayless so we have 4.

 

maybe we could have a 4 way tie for ROY

 

I wonder if we did have a 2 or 3 way race for ROY, would that create some inner team competition or would the organization would put pressure on Nate to play the rookies more?


...probably not

 

Trust me, the only pressure on Nate is to win.

 

Rose and Mayo play 10+ minutes more than Rudy.

For you math wizards out there, what would Rudy's numbers look like if he played the minutes of Rose and Mayo?

Sure, there are variables like the offense is structured around and through Rose and Mayo, but we can let that go for the sake of the raw numbers.

 

Superstitiously, 4 is a bad number in Chinese.

If you say 4 in chinese and you say die (death) in chinese, they sound the same.

You guys should keep it at 3

 

Rudy is the man. He is scoring only 3 points per game less the Rose, but Rose is playing 9 more minutes per game then Rudy. Rudy is shooting 3pt WAY better then rose. Same steals. Rudys PER is 21.54 and Rose is 16.15

Rudy is a lock for ROY.

 

Per 36 minutes Mayo, Rose, Beasley, and Rudy look like:

PPG: Mayo 19.1, Rudy 17.7, Beasley 17.4, Rose 17.1
RPG: Beasley 6.5, Mayo 4.6, Rose 3.7, Rudy 3.6
APG: Rose 5.0, Rudy 2.5, Mayo 2.2, Beasley 1.6
TOPG: Rudy 1.6, Beasley 1.8, Mayo 2.6, Rose 2.9
SPG: Rudy 1.4, Mayo 1.3, Rose 1.1, Beasley 0.7
BPG: Beasley 0.9, Rudy 0.2, Mayo 0.1, Rose 0.0
FG%:Rose .458, Rudy .455, Mayo .454, Beasley .437
3pt%: Rudy .462, Mayo .439, tied at 2-8(Beasley .250, Rose .250)
FT%: Rudy .909, Mayo .880, Beasley .862, Rose .828

So Rudy is either 1st or 2nd in everything but RPG, and holds the lead in the most categories as well (Figuring that those 9 categories are the main 9 that most fans would look at)