Once again, players getting ample opportunities on shitty teams wouldn't put up the same stats in a lesser role on a good team. You have to have players with specific roles to be successful.
The dude is best as a role player.. Defense, passing, and rebounding translate to any role... Being able to score of the pick n roll and play off our guards would be a strength of his as well. This isn't a Kevin Love situation. Quite the opposite.
Hernangomez is already putting up 15/10/3 per 36 with 55%+ shooting and good defense. The guy is comparing Pat and him...
GOOD DEFENSE? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? The whole reason he wasn't playing on NY and got traded for almost nothing was because he is absolute garbage on defense.
I don't see how we can have even a remotely "big" summer. It's gonna be a big fat fail... you know it, I know it, the nba universe knows it.
For some of us...chewing cake may be more difficult 20 years from now but that's why blenders were invented!
Tough to do basketball-reference by 36's right now for some reason, but assuming Patty plays 24 mpg (about the MAX he'll play on a team with Dame and CJ), that's 10/6.5/2 per game. Literally not been done by anyone in the last 20 years. So yeah, it'd be awesome.
Interestingly enough, if you up the minutes to <25mpg, you get three people: 1) A guy who is widely considered, if not a "bust", underperforming (Jared Sullinger) 2) A guy who literally got bought out and signed for vet min (Monroe, x2!) 3) A guy who's considered a foundational piece (Randle)
I'm saying that's what Hernangomez is doing, as someone compared Connaughton's ability level to that of Hernangomez's. Actually Hernangomez is getting 17.2ppg / 10.4rpg / 3.2apg / 60.5 FG% per 36 with a +1.2 DBPM. He's only playing 9 minutes per game but he put up very similar stats across over 1300 minutes last year as a rooke when he was playing around 20mpg.
