Year one stats for Towns?

[GopherIt!]

30 pts, 15 rebs, 5 asst, 4 blks He will be the stuff of legends.

Wow. That means the Wolves will have not one but two 30ppg scorers this year. Impressive.

KAT 30pts 15 reb 5 ast 4 blk
Wiggins 30pts 6 reb 6 ast 2.5 stl

[T-wOlvEs 420]

Wouldn't that be something.
Lol, then we woke up!!!

[Dleavitt24]

A consistent 36 is expected from your franchise cornerstone. James ave 41 his second year, that team made playoffs. It's pretty standards stuff. As long as he's not playing 34-36 on month then injuries happen and he's playing 44 again.

[Saltine]

A consistent 36 is expected from your franchise cornerstone. James ave 41 his second year, that team made playoffs. It's pretty standards stuff. As long as he's not playing 34-36 on month then injuries happen and he's playing 44 again.

In the playoffs perhaps, but in the regular season the trend is heading towards 30 minutes. Only 6 guys averaged 36 or more minutes this past season. Just 47 were over 32 minutes...
http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/player/_/stat/minutes

Curry, Thompson and Green were all between 32.7 and 31.5 minutes.
http://espn.go.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/gs/seasontype/2/golden-state-warriors

All the tracking systems and bio monitors are letting the teams see when guys need a break...

[Sothron]

13/7. I don't think he's going to get the minutes we want him to get.

[Grits n Gravy]

A consistent 36 is expected from your franchise cornerstone. James ave 41 his second year, that team made playoffs. It's pretty standards stuff. As long as he's not playing 34-36 on month then injuries happen and he's playing 44 again.

In the playoffs perhaps, but in the regular season the trend is heading towards 30 minutes. Only 6 guys averaged 36 or more minutes this past season. Just 47 were over 32 minutes...
http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/player/_/stat/minutes

Curry, Thompson and Green were all between 32.7 and 31.5 minutes.
http://espn.go.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/gs/seasontype/2/golden-state-warriors

All the tracking systems and bio monitors are letting the teams see when guys need a break...

Curry, Thompson and Green were deflated because they were sitting so many fourth quarters because they were blowing teams out. I think your top player should be playing about 36 minutes and there's nothing wrong with it imo. As mentioned before so long as it's not 42 one night and 30 the next consistently.

[Saltine]

Well the data shows there is something wrong with too many minutes, hence the trend towards not over working guys. This is an excellent article...
http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2015/story/_/id/13098001/golden-state-warriors-show-rest-best

The Golden State Warriors were the last ones standing. As bodies broke down all around the NBA this season, it was the Warriors who remained intact. This wasn't supposed to happen. The Warriors employ so many players who got hit with the injury-prone label at some point in their careers: Stephen Curry, Shaun Livingston, Andrew Bogut, Leandro Barbosa, Festus Ezeli.

But in the regular season, the Warriors finished with the fewest minutes lost due to injury in the NBA. And in the postseason, they finished as champions.

Those two facts are not unrelated; the first was a catalyst to an end.

This wasn't all luck. This was all part of the plan: to rest, to recover, to outlast.
...
Myers credits the training staff led by Johan Wong and director of athletic performance Keke Lyles, and the coaching staff led by Steve Kerr, who rested Curry for 20 fourth quarters when he could have played more to boost his numbers. In turn, the coaches and trainers credit Myers and ownership for building the roster with the right bodies.
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The Warriors are as nerdy as it gets. As clients of wearable technology provider Catapult Sports, they monitor their players' workloads in practice with GPS monitors and analyze the data with acute attention to maximizing performance while minimizing injury risk.

The latest project: Led by the training staff, Gelfand and the team's data programmers, the Warriors have engineered a readiness rating for each player built on a 0-to-100 scale (100 is prime shape and 0 is burnt out).
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The Warriors noticed that player stress was linked to lack of sleep. So they rescheduled their flights to the day after, not the night of games, so they could sleep in and get a full night's rest.

With the subjective side taken care of, the team then tackles the objective portion. They look at SportVU player-tracking data (for game workloads), Catapult data (for practice workloads) and Omegawave heart variability data (to test neurological stress). With these four inputs (including the subjective side), the Warriors have a dashboard that indicates whether a player should give it a go, and for how long.

And the players bought in early.

"Really, if you're fatigued or sore, no one wants to feel like crap," Lyles said. "They want to feel better just as much as we want them to feel better. It's not like a head game."

[Murphs56]

I have Wiggins at 19 PPG this year, Towns at 13 PPG 9 Rebounds

[Calinks]

According to 2K.

13 points, 9.4 reb, 1.9asst, 1.5 bpg on 28 minutes on .450 shooting.

[Klomp]

30 pts, 15 rebs, 5 asst, 4 blks He will be the stuff of legends.

Funny thing is, I think you're actually not far off from the closest prediction.

[Domejandro]

I am actually going to pull over your post from the Rookie thread, Klomp. It is amazing that the thirty point prediction only looks semi-ridiculous at this point, haha. Towns is unbelievable.

Ridiculous

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Speaking of Kevin Garnett, he never put up these numbers in the same season until 2004-05. Yeah that's right, the year AFTER he was the league's MVP. (he was close, but always just off on one of the percentages)