basketballRob wrote:Franz' net rating as a rookie was -4.9, and Paolo's was -4.2. For a young rookie, that's about the best we could hope for.
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I'm not sure you understand what net rating is and how it works.
Paolo, Franz ( you mentioned Giddey as well) played on teams that are horrible. By design, being on teams that have terrible W-L column, their net rating is terrible, and majority of players, if not all, who play active rotation, have terrible net rating.
Only exception to this rule is if player XY is starter, on bad team, but they are exclusively bad because their bench sucks ( or he is bench player, and they are exclusively bad because of starters).
This is why Scottie Barnes had as rookie +1,8 net rating and as sophmore he had +3,2.
Raptors bench was just horses**** to the point of no return. Starters were playing near 40 mpg to even be in games.
So talking about net rating without any context behind it is simply waste. Walker Kessler, a rookie, had second best net rating on Utah team, and him and Lauri were far away from anybody else. On other side of a spectrum, Banchero was one of the worst Magic players net rating vise and by far worst starter.
Context for all this is very simple one. Magic weren't good team. Only Franz Wagner menaged to have positive net rating among serious rotation players. Issue is that people somehow convinced themselfs Magic were " close to playin" while having 34-48 record. I already said 2 days ago, people make it sound like play in is hard to make. You literally have to be better than 4 out of 14 teams to get there and in most cases among 4 you need to "beat", 2 or 3 of them don't even compete to get there. If playin concept existed in past, we would have teams who were "playin " teams with 18 to 20 games below .500.
Matter of fact, Wizards made playin with 22-47 record during first play in tournament in 2020, things got so dumb and pointless that Hornets surpassed them in standings -by not playiny play-in tournament.