jasonxxx102 wrote:I'm convinced that a handful of people in this thread don't watch Edey at all. They convinced themselves he was going to be some dominant NBA big man and now they just stick their head in the sand no matter happens. What a random measurement "rookies who averaged 11/7" like that means anything at all....
There is nothing special about Zach Edey. He's an end of the bench big who you can put in for maybe 20mpg to get some easy buckets and then sit him back on the bench when the minutes actually matter
It’s not a random measurement, it’s a response to the claim that ‘11 and 7 is usually the 10th best line in a rookie class’. Not a single rookie who has finished with at least 11 and 7 has finished outside the edit: top 5-7 in the ROTY race in the last 15 seasons.
JMAC3 wrote:8 Rookies last year averaged 12 ppg.
8 Rookies averaged 11 ppg 2 years ago.
9 Rookies averaged 11 ppg 3 years ago.
9 Rookies averaged 11ppg 4 years ago.
Usually, 3-4 are averaging 16-21 ppg.
11 ppg is nowhere close to being in the ROY race, but it is this year because this class sucks as predicted. The best chance for this class to not suck is the 19/20 yr old guys taking massive leaps. Not sitting here trying to say wow Edey and Knecht are great rookies putting up 11 ppg as 22yrs+
3 years from now I think Edey will be a backup center and probably considered in the 12th- 15th best player from this class.
You didn’t answer my question, which was a direct one, where do you think Edey will rank in EPM/VORP in 3 years? For the record, I think it will be top 5 in both.
“Considered x-xyz best player” is mostly a useless subjective way of measuring, Edey could be 1st in both metrics and you’d still have people making reductive arguments about how some mid-average wing is actually better or some other big is way better because of muh switchability
