Alex Hoops
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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That being said, Zachary research since the start of the new year has been In terms of volume and efficiency, he has been the most, probably most impactful scoring rookie since the start of the new year. 50, 40, 75 shooting splits. Obviously, the free throw percentage is whatever, but 40% from three on 4.7 attempts a night.
The thing that really popped to me when I was diving into him a little bit is... He's not only averaging the most points or the third most points since January 1st among all rookies, but his points per touch is by far the highest of any rookie right now. People use the fact that he's not a ball handler. He's not a shot creator. They use that against him.
But in the context of this Hawks team, it's his strength. The fact that when he gets the ball, he's scoring it at a really efficient level. I've been super impressed with his play.
A lot of Rookie of the Year comes down to timing. And you can either...
popping early seems to help a lot like guys who are good quick helps a lot but if you're not able to sustain like a baseline level of like solidness it seems like you can taper off really easily and I think that's kind of what's happened here with with guys like Jalen Wells where it's like he hasn't been bad not at all he's been he's just been fine he's been contributing in a pretty limited role because the Grizzlies are just healthy at this point and it's
The need for Jalen Wells has gone down. That's not to say his production necessarily has diminished or fallen off of a cliff. It's just the loudness of Jalen Wells is not quite there anymore. And I think there's such a... there's such a balance of how loud is your production and how long are you able to sustain that production?
It's like, are you a starter or are you a guy who's the seventh man in the rotation? Yeah. It's going to be a lot easier for a Zachary research or a Steph castle to to maintain that buzz over an 82 game season than it is for a guy like Jalen Wells, where he's only playing 26 minutes a night, um, for a guy like Kalel, where playing 26 minutes a night and not necessarily, um,
you know, always getting the usage that those guys are getting.
Okay. So who I would take number one and who I think will be the best are two different answers. Give me, give me who you think. Okay, sure. Yeah, go for it. So I know this is controversial. If I am your average NBA team trying to contend in a vacuum. All right. I'm probably taking Zachary research.
So that's your number one pick, right? I think the fact that Zachary Reese O'Shea went number one, I think that's totally reasonable. I understand there are other guys with higher upside, but the fact that his production is where it is at 19 years old and he's contributing... at a positive level already, I'm like, cool, I'll take that from a number one overall pick.
People are like, he might be like, he gets a lot of Michael Porter Jr. comps, he gets a lot of Klay Thompson comps. I'm like, if you get that with the number one overall pick, that's fine. That's totally fine. For 99% of NBA teams, that's totally fine. Now, best player, who I think will be the best. There is only one player that I have watched this year where I watch him
OK, first one caveat is probably Jared McCain. I think Jared McCain is going to be the best, but he's hurt. So I'm not going to include him. Yes, it's probably going to be him, though. He would run away with rookie of the year right now.
OK, aside from him, the only guy that I've watched this year where I've his play like gives me star vibes and he does like star things where I'm like, whoa, I can't believe you just did that on an NBA court against NBA defenders and like
are helping win games while doing this crazy stuff right dude it's modest buzellus wow yeah i love it just i am blown away by some of the stuff that he does and maybe part of it is like me longing for the g league ignite to have one good thing come out of it yeah and uh i mean i understand jonathan cominga is like technically you know he was still a good player but like
I just really want there to be a star from the G League Ignite emerge from the ashes. And maybe that's Modest Booz Ellis, but he... Like you said, I'm working on a video on him right now. And just... the willingness to try some of the stuff that he does, like the audacity to do some of the things that he does with the basketball. I'm like, you've got it.
I don't know if you're, it's like, it's kind of, um, Who is it for the jazz?
Other guard. I can't think of his name. Oh, Keontae George. Keontae George. There you go. It's like Keontae George syndrome where I don't know if you'll ever be efficient, but holy cow, you've got the star gene. Right. Where you do star things, but the ball does not fall in the basket at a star rate. Yeah. That's kind of my thing with Booz Ellis. I'm like, the flashes are there.
He's doing the things. It's like, does the ball go in the hoop enough? And does he get enough opportunity to put it all together?
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