NatP4 wrote:payitforward wrote:NatP4 wrote:...Numbers look very similar to Kawhi in his first two NBA seasons....
Uuuuh, similar how? Don't look remotely similar as far as I can see.
Kawhi per 36: 11.9 points 7.7 rebounds 1.6 assists 2.0 steals 0.6 blocks 57% TS
Bilal per 36: 11.0 points 5.3 rebounds 2.2 assists 1.2 steals 1.0 blocks 54.7% TS
Kawhi was a year older and played on a 50 win Spurs team, as opposed to a team with 11 wins, but never mind that!
It's worth noting that league efficiency was WAY WORSE in Kawhi's rookie season. League average TS% was just .527. It is currently .581. So Kawhi's TS% was 4.3 percentage points above league average. Bilal's is 3.4 percentage points below league average. That's a pretty massive difference in efficiency.
Pace is also about 7% faster now. So on a per-possession basis, you can add 7% to those Kawhi stats to make a proper apples-to-apples comparison. So that would be like 12.9 points, 8.2 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.2 steals, 1.0 blocks, and a .625 TS%