Official Ochai Agbaji Thread - Welcome to Toronto, Ochai!

[OakleyDokely]

So far, as a Raptor in 6 games:

15.5 MIN, 7.0 PPG, 1.7 REB, 1.0 AST, 0.5 STL, 0.3 BLK, .455 FG, .353 3PT, .857 FT, .582 TS


As a POA defender, he's been very good. Looks to be mostly a guard defender though, but if he can do that a high level, it means Barnes spends less time chasing around the opposing teams all-star guard. The shooting, he will have to prove over time. He seems to be a boom/bust type shooter so far in his career. He moves well off the ball and he gets into open scoring positions. So far, he looks to be at worst a solid rotation player who could develop into a very good 3+D guard.

[ArthurVandelay]

So far, as a Raptor in 6 games:

15.5 MIN, 7.0 PPG, 1.7 REB, 1.0 AST, 0.5 STL, 0.3 BLK, .455 FG, .353 3PT, .857 FT, .582 TS


As a POA defender, he's been very good. Looks to be mostly a guard defender though, but if he can do that a high level, it means Barnes spends less time chasing around the opposing teams all-star guard. The shooting, he will have to prove over time. He seems to be a boom/bust type shooter so far in his career. He moves well off the ball and he gets into open scoring positions. So far, he looks to be at worst a solid rotation player who could develop into a very good 3+D guard.

Small sample size alert: He's shooting 62.5% on corner 3s (5/8) which means he's 1/9 everywhere else.

[Tripod]

So far, as a Raptor in 6 games:

15.5 MIN, 7.0 PPG, 1.7 REB, 1.0 AST, 0.5 STL, 0.3 BLK, .455 FG, .353 3PT, .857 FT, .582 TS


As a POA defender, he's been very good. Looks to be mostly a guard defender though, but if he can do that a high level, it means Barnes spends less time chasing around the opposing teams all-star guard. The shooting, he will have to prove over time. He seems to be a boom/bust type shooter so far in his career. He moves well off the ball and he gets into open scoring positions. So far, he looks to be at worst a solid rotation player who could develop into a very good 3+D guard.

Small sample size alert: He's shooting 62.5% on corner 3s (5/8) which means he's 1/9 everywhere else.

Others can chime in, but I believe his stats for the Jazz also showed he was a good corner 3 shooter, but struggled elsewhere. But that's OK, we need good corner 3 shooting too. Put guys into a position to succeed and work on developing the other areas.

We preached development, now we have guys to develop. His defense vs guards already bring lots of value to us.

[ArthurVandelay]

So far, as a Raptor in 6 games:

15.5 MIN, 7.0 PPG, 1.7 REB, 1.0 AST, 0.5 STL, 0.3 BLK, .455 FG, .353 3PT, .857 FT, .582 TS


As a POA defender, he's been very good. Looks to be mostly a guard defender though, but if he can do that a high level, it means Barnes spends less time chasing around the opposing teams all-star guard. The shooting, he will have to prove over time. He seems to be a boom/bust type shooter so far in his career. He moves well off the ball and he gets into open scoring positions. So far, he looks to be at worst a solid rotation player who could develop into a very good 3+D guard.

Small sample size alert: He's shooting 62.5% on corner 3s (5/8) which means he's 1/9 everywhere else.

Others can chime in, but I believe his stats for the Jazz also showed he was a good corner 3 shooter, but struggled elsewhere. But that's OK, we need good corner 3 shooting too. Put guys into a position to succeed and work on developing the other areas.

We preached development, now we have guys to develop. His defense vs guards already bring lots of value to us.

So far he's been as advertised with maybe one exception, he's shown he is a decent cutter.

Great POA defender, can hit corner 3s.
Not good above the break, not great with ball making decisions.

I'm excited to watch him grow.

[Psubs]

Small sample size alert: He's shooting 62.5% on corner 3s (5/8) which means he's 1/9 everywhere else.

Others can chime in, but I believe his stats for the Jazz also showed he was a good corner 3 shooter, but struggled elsewhere. But that's OK, we need good corner 3 shooting too. Put guys into a position to succeed and work on developing the other areas.

We preached development, now we have guys to develop. His defense vs guards already bring lots of value to us.

So far he's been as advertised with maybe one exception, he's shown he is a decent cutter.

Great POA defender, can hit corner 3s.
Not good above the break, not great with ball making decisions.

I'm excited to watch him grow.

I'm just excited to see someone hit an open corner 3 consistently.

[Blazing_royale]

he was what we wanted out of Joey Graham. Dude is jacked af. Every time they say his name Agbaji reminds me Gilbert Arenas nickname Hibachi

[YogurtProducer]

So far, as a Raptor in 6 games:

15.5 MIN, 7.0 PPG, 1.7 REB, 1.0 AST, 0.5 STL, 0.3 BLK, .455 FG, .353 3PT, .857 FT, .582 TS


As a POA defender, he's been very good. Looks to be mostly a guard defender though, but if he can do that a high level, it means Barnes spends less time chasing around the opposing teams all-star guard. The shooting, he will have to prove over time. He seems to be a boom/bust type shooter so far in his career. He moves well off the ball and he gets into open scoring positions. So far, he looks to be at worst a solid rotation player who could develop into a very good 3+D guard.

Small sample size alert: He's shooting 62.5% on corner 3s (5/8) which means he's 1/9 everywhere else.

Others can chime in, but I believe his stats for the Jazz also showed he was a good corner 3 shooter, but struggled elsewhere. But that's OK, we need good corner 3 shooting too. Put guys into a position to succeed and work on developing the other areas.

We preached development, now we have guys to develop. His defense vs guards already bring lots of value to us.

Yeah it was like 44% from corners and 26% elsewhere or something like that. a SIGNFICIANT difference.

His entire off-season regiment should be shooting above the break 3's

[djsunyc]

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[djsunyc]

So far, as a Raptor in 6 games:

15.5 MIN, 7.0 PPG, 1.7 REB, 1.0 AST, 0.5 STL, 0.3 BLK, .455 FG, .353 3PT, .857 FT, .582 TS


As a POA defender, he's been very good. Looks to be mostly a guard defender though, but if he can do that a high level, it means Barnes spends less time chasing around the opposing teams all-star guard. The shooting, he will have to prove over time. He seems to be a boom/bust type shooter so far in his career. He moves well off the ball and he gets into open scoring positions. So far, he looks to be at worst a solid rotation player who could develop into a very good 3+D guard.

Small sample size alert: He's shooting 62.5% on corner 3s (5/8) which means he's 1/9 everywhere else.

Others can chime in, but I believe his stats for the Jazz also showed he was a good corner 3 shooter, but struggled elsewhere. But that's OK, we need good corner 3 shooting too. Put guys into a position to succeed and work on developing the other areas.

We preached development, now we have guys to develop. His defense vs guards already bring lots of value to us.

give him a summer with NOAH and he'll be good.

[StopitLeo]

So far, as a Raptor in 6 games:

15.5 MIN, 7.0 PPG, 1.7 REB, 1.0 AST, 0.5 STL, 0.3 BLK, .455 FG, .353 3PT, .857 FT, .582 TS


As a POA defender, he's been very good. Looks to be mostly a guard defender though, but if he can do that a high level, it means Barnes spends less time chasing around the opposing teams all-star guard. The shooting, he will have to prove over time. He seems to be a boom/bust type shooter so far in his career. He moves well off the ball and he gets into open scoring positions. So far, he looks to be at worst a solid rotation player who could develop into a very good 3+D guard.

Small sample size alert: He's shooting 62.5% on corner 3s (5/8) which means he's 1/9 everywhere else.

Others can chime in, but I believe his stats for the Jazz also showed he was a good corner 3 shooter, but struggled elsewhere. But that's OK, we need good corner 3 shooting too. Put guys into a position to succeed and work on developing the other areas.

We preached development, now we have guys to develop. His defense vs guards already bring lots of value to us.

That's correct, he showed the same 3P% difference in corner vs above-the-break 3s in Utah.I think he's still developing the strength to shoot the greater distance above-the-break. Fortunately his mechanics should allow him to do so as compared to DeMar for example. Ochai is a career 45% shooter from the corners and the team should be able to increase the proportion of 3s he takes from the corners until he improves above-the-break.

I think Agbaji has the potential to be the 3&D guy for this core moving forward.

[aminiaturebuddha]

He made a great subtle little move on his backdoor lob dunk. He took a quick jab step towards the top of the key first before cutting hard baseline. It momentarily froze his defender, leaving him a bit flatfooted and meant that there was enough space for the lob that it wasn't really contested.

I love seeing little things like that.

[Blazing_royale]

He's a great first round pick for this year I love what he brings to the team in that OG mold.

[niQ]

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I likely missed it. But where's onion bhaji name from?

[djsunyc]

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I likely missed it. But where's onion bhaji name from?

somebody posted in one of the game threads after agbaji scored, they wrote "i love onion bhaji". i just found it hilarious.

[LoveMyRaps]

Swirsky: ONIONS BHAJI ONIONS!

Jack: GET DAT BHAJI OUTTA HEYA!

Devlin: OCHAI OH MY

[Badonkadonk]

Any chance this trade will make more ppl pause and reflect on the relative value of sending out a late 1st round pick (OKC or Clips) when you're getting a former 1st (14th overall no less) and a legit rotational piece?

Rhetorical, of course it won't.

I'm just happy it's aging well.

[disoblige]

I don't understand why you are so willing to claim it was a crazy trade, he's a 4 year college player who has an insanely limited offensive game. He is not ever going to be a really good player, the best we can hope for is a solid 3+D, cept he averages 34% from 3. Maybe, just maybe, they traded him so early on, cause they identified him not being worth developing.

[MiamiSPX]

Even if his shooting doesn't improve, his D alone is enough to keep him in the rotation.

[Thaddy]

Elite POA and guard defender, and great corner three point shooter. He kind of sucks at everything else though, he's a cheap rotation player for 2 more years and useful off the bench. There's a lot of value in that and he can likely be extended for market value (worst case). If he expands his elite corner shooting to above the break and provide some form of movement shooting he would be a very high end role player like OG.

[ontnut]

Norm Powell 2.0

With better defense.

I’m not seeing the comparison at all. Norm was more of a slasher. And their defence is not comparable.

Two totally different players.

lol this thread is giving me similar "Johntay Porter is Jokic-lite" vibes after he had like 1 good game