Not rookies, but this contrast between the twin brothers on the Hornets (the first of whom was the starter) struck me as funny:
He looked good again yesterday against Miami. Plays better D already than Lillard or CJ. One thing I notice about Boston; it they get matched up wrong, they will switch back very quickly. We never do that.
Devin Vassell and Xavier Tillman have great +/- in comparatively few minutes. Vassell in particular looks like a keeper.
Top rookies ranked by EPM (Estimated Plus-Minus) https://dunksandthrees.com/epm Newest all-in-one metric, lowest prediction error (in terms of predicting team net rating) of all the other similar metrics ( RPM, RAPM, PIPM, RAPTOR etc.) with or without accounting for roster changes. *Tested on data since 2013-2014 season https://dunksandthrees.com/blog/metric-comparison 1) Xavier Tillman: +3.1 (Offense -0.7 / Defense: +3.8) 2) Deni Avdija: +1.7 (Offense: 0.0 / Defense: +1.6) 3) Payton Pritchard: +0.1 (Offense: -0.7 / Defense: +0.8) 4) Facundo Compazzo: -0.0 (Offense: -1.1 / Defense: +1.1) 5) LaMelo Ball:: -0.4 (Offense: +0.5 / Defense: -0.9) 6) Devin Vassell: -0.5 (Offense: -1.9 / Defense: +1.5) 7) Tyrese Haliburton: -0.6 (Offense: +1.7 / Defense: -2.3) 8) Desmond Bane: -0.7 (Offense: -1.3 / Defense: +0.6) 9) Mason Jones: -0.9 (Offense: -0.9 / Defense: 0.0) 10) Immanuel Quickley: -1.2 (Offense: +0.3 / Defense: -1.5) Bonus) CJ McCollum: +6.9 (Offense +6.9 / Defense: -0.0) *2nd in the league
Xavier Tillman also led the entire NCAA in box +/- (which is why I wanted so badly for us to draft him). I can't get too mad at this list, though, because at least none of them went to teams I really loathe, and the Hornets, Knicks and Wizards have been down so long it's about time something good happened to them. Just REALLY glad I'm not a T-Wolves fan.