The NBA Is Witnessing Something Insane..

The NBA Is Witnessing Something Insane..

The NBA season has been flooded with Incredible comeback stories so far such as Dante exom when he was selected with the fifth overall pick in the 2014 Draft the expectations and excitement was high but sadly that didn’t last all that long no one expected him to come in and have

A really polished game immediately but after a rookie season that’s saw average less than five points with atrocious efficiency it was getting harder to imagine him ever putting it together especially after his development was put on a major pause he would suffer a knee injury that cus miss the entire 2016

Season when he returned things were only marginally better six points shooting 43% from the field throughout The Following Season he would once again miss a lot of time with entry but he did show some improvement in his few appearances eight points and three assists now shooting 48% from the field

Slowly some of the excitement regarding his future was creeping back up he had already been establishing himself as a reliable perimeter Defender and now he was making jumps offensively very very small jumps but nonetheless jums this gave Utah enough confidence to sign him to a 3-year $33 million extension one

That quickly looked like a mistake by the 2020 season he was barely seen the court with Utah so only a couple months into this season he’d be traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers where would close out the year averaging Five Points a year later he was now out of Cleveland’s

Rotation it would be traded once again this time to the Houston Rockets there he would never make a regular season appearance before being waved at that point it looked like Dante xm’s NBA career was over the opportunities had run out he was a solid Defender but that was about

It even when he had some of those stretches where it looked like he was starting to put together things offensively the progress was consistently halted by various injuries and so just like that in the eyes of many especially the American audience Dante exm vanished I don’t know about

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Decide to take his talents to Europe where he signed with one if not the biggest Club outside the US FC Barcelona in the lia ACB there he immediately looked comfortable in the European game he averaged an efficient 7 points in the Spanish league and efficient nine points

In the Euro league then after one season he signed with a Serbian Club in the ABA League where he really started to get things going he averaged 11 and four as a 47% three-point shooter in their ABA games he up that to over 13 a night during their Euro League games now those

Numbers don’t really jump out by NBA standards but the European game and the the statistical standards there are much different to get an idea per 36 he was averaging 26 and5 on 5490 he was one of the top players in the ABA he made their equivalent of all

NBA first team and managed to close out the year holding up the championship trophy this whole situation was wild this wasn’t a case of exm reinforcing the value he can bring to a team this was a completely different player it almost didn’t make any sense over the

Seven years he had spent in the NBA he didn’t show even the slightest Improvement as a shooter he had shot 30% across his entire career in his brief appearances during his final season he was shooting 38% from the field 18% from three and 50% from the line now only 2

Years later he’s leading a team to a championship as a 50490 player not only that he managed to shoot 50490 across the 91 International games he played in the 2 years since leaving the NBA after putting up a season like that still only 27 years old it wasn’t surprising that

The NBA started calling again and just weeks after hoisting up the championship trophy he was back he reached an agreement with the Dallas Mavericks on a 2-year deal at the vet minimum the second year of that contract is non guaranteed so effectively it’s a team option clearly based on that it’s not

Like there was a bidding war for his Services most just looked at it as an intriguing low floor okay upside signing heading into the year very few projected even a somewhat significant role for this season if they did they were likely very very confident we weren’t being deceived by this new found shooting

Ability without the ability to space the floor minutes just wouldn’t be there and well to begin the season there weren’t many for him through his first six games he played Just 6 minutes a night averaging two points and went just one for three Beyond The Arc it was a great

Comeback story just not with the ending we all hoped so that’s the video guys like And subscribe and I’ll catch you next time oh wait his role actually starts to take up after that over the next 10 games he averages 14 minutes and seven points but then once again he’s

Struggling Beyond The Arc he makes just 21% or three of his 14 attempts I guess the doubters were right nothing really changed XM really just belonged in the Euro league so that’s really the end of the video guys smash the like button catch you guys soon okay we’re done with that sorry on

December 8th the Mavericks are starting off a quick road trip against the Portland Trailblazers things begin relatively unnotable that is until Midway through the second quarter when Kyrie Irving goes down with a foot injury almost immediately he’s ruled out for the rest of the game the Mavericks

Needed someone to step up alongside Luca and ultimately looked at Dante ex he finished the night with 23 points seven assists and six rebounds in the final three quarters he went N9 for 12 from the field and two for two Beyond The Arc Kyrie Irving is now set to miss

Some time this level of opportunity isn’t going to be going anywhere in the following game he dropped 166 and four then the next game he does this it is exom will fire the triple actually hard to Fathom that this is the same player from a couple years ago over the 12

Games after Kyrie went down with injury exm averaged 164 and four shooting and here this 64% from the field 58% from three and 84% from the line now unfortunately this run would be put on hold he suffered a heal injury that caused him to only play in just three

Other games since the start of the New Year hopefully he’s back out there soon and this is only the beginning of one of the most impressive NBA comebacks we’ve seen in quite a while now while he never came close to the lows in the league that exm did another

Really impressive comeback in the making right now is former eighth overall pick Colin ston Sexton’s career has been a pretty polar one so far as a rookie in 2019 he had put up some decent numbers on paper 17 points three rebounds and three assists shooting 40% from three

But while the scoring was strong there was also some glittering issues he wasn’t much of a facilitator also despite him commonly being betrayed as this tenacious in-your-face Defender that was the quote unquote young bull he really struggled defensively to begin his career take a look at this one of

The more sided Advanced metrics over the last few years has been 538s Raptor wins above replacement it’s pretty similar to net rating but a little less influenced by the rest of the team it’s been tracked from 2013 to 2023 10 entire seasons and of the 5,226 player Seasons tracked the worst

Season at least according to Raptor War belongs to colins ston at7 .4 then in his second season he goes up to 21 points three assists three boards shooting with 47 38 splits this is when his value in the league really started to become a heated debate on paper the

Offense appeared to be nothing short of incredible for his age and while yes the scoring was there were legitimate questions about the actual value of his production given the detriments and positional limitations he had in that season going back to war he recorded the second lowest defensive score recorded

At the point guard position now in defensive Colin seon many were pointing out the limitations of these metrics and suggesting that there’s actually very little to take away on that end playing alongside guys like Kevin Love Darius Garland and Kevin Porter Jr a valid defense but come his third season

Despite him ramping up his scoring to 24 points a night you slowly started to see more people turn on seon by now there was no one denying his talent as a scorer but those other concerns were becoming more and more prominent in 2019 the team had drafted Darius Garland with

Their top pick another undersized point guard who in this same season had also taken a big jump he went to 17 points as a 40% three-point shooter while also bringing a facilitating skill set seon wasn’t all signs were pointing to him being their point guard of the future

But he was also a guy bringing very little defense so we started to see questions quickly Rising about the viability of this back court going forward questions that only grew to open the 2022 season where through 11 games seon was now averaging only 16 points on 5424 split before unfortunately suffering a torn

Meniscus knocking him out for the rest of the Year this obviously put seon in a tough spot there were now serious health concerns added on to those concerns that already existed about his fit with the team then to make things even more complicated the Cavaliers went on to put

Together a great season they doubled their win total from the year prior so then going into last season they wanted to expand on that and instead of continuing to see what this group could do with seon back the Cavs decided to get aggressive and made a block by offer

Move for All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell in the process Colin seon was sent to the Jazz going into last season his fifth season in the league first season with Utah coming off injury the excitement surrounding him was really cooling down and that didn’t really change throughout the year he played

Just 48 games where he was well a sixthman he averaged 14 points on 5139 splits these were solid numbers but far from the 24 points T night he was averaging not long ago and unfortunately this seemed to be the player we would going forward an efficient shot Creator

Coming off the bench that was about it but then when this current season tipped off it was looking like he might not even bring much value in that role that now he just might be one of the worst contracts in the entire league over the first 20 games he was getting 21 minutes

Off the bench averaging only 12 points on 44 32 splits not ideal but then things get interesting Jordan Clarkson who had been starting nightly was set to miss some time with with injury this made way for a much bigger opportunity for seon in fact he’d be inserted into

The starting lineup in the very next game the December 12th match up against the Knicks he would end up dropping 26 7 and four shooting over 50% from the field and the success didn’t slow down 27 28 27 in his next three games across the six that Clarkson ended up missing

He would average 25 points and five assists shooting 48% from the field and 40% from three the Jazz had also gone 4 and two they were starting to get on a roll so even when Clarkson returned ston didn’t leave the starting lineup and the Jazz really started to catch fire over

Seon’s first 19 starts the Jazz had a record of 15 and4 and he was averaging 22 points and five assists on 5242 splits now to put all that team success on seon would be ridiculous Lori started to catch fire John Collins was playing better Chris Dunn was stepping up but

This was still clearly massive for his Outlook going forward he was now making a massive impact for a team that was nothing short of dominant for a quarter of the season now over the last couple weeks things have cooled down quite a bit for Utah but for seon they really

Haven’t over their last nine games since that dominant stretch he’s been averaging 21 points and seven assists what’s important to realize is that during this stretch he isn’t just returning to the scoring we saw in Cleveland but he’s showing a playmaking ability we just haven’t seen from him

Before if he’s able to keep this up he’s going to be a huge part of Utah’s future which just 30 Games ago was getting really tough to Envision 30 Games ago very few were also expecting to see former Warriors top selection Jonathan kaminga playing close to the level he is

Right now there’s never been any questions about his physical profile his upside his talent at one point he was the number one high school recruit in the country but since then things haven’t been very smooth sailing after some rough efficiency during his lone g- League season he would follow the

Warriors at 7even during the 2021 draft but then as a rookie the excitement really started to pick up again he was only a averaging nine points but there were more than enough displays of jaw-dropping athleticism to get the rest of the league nervous about his future

With this Warriors team as at the time they didn’t need him at all they went on to win the title in his rookie season but then last year the situation changed quite a bit they didn’t look like the reigning Champs they didn’t have Wiggins for around half the season Jordan P was

Doing Jordan pool things and they had lost guys like auto porter in free agency because of all that kinga’s role shot up he was getting 21 minutes a night he was was still only averaging around 10 points but he had become a big part of the rotation for pretty much the

Entire regular season heading into the playoffs there was no signs of that changing but seemingly overnight it did and not just a slight roll change his role was pretty much gone through their 13 playoff games he would play in just 10 for an average of 6 minutes some of

The causes were clear Wiggins was back the fit with kaminga and Draymond together was never great the rotation Always Rings in the playoffs and while kaminga at the point of attack had showed a ton of defensive Talent his ability off the ball Drew concerns going into the playoffs where offenses are

Focusing on what can be exploited but having his role reduced to irrelevance that was surprising and ultimately didn’t solve any of their problems they were bounced out in the second round and were now one of the hardest teams to project going forward coming into this season Vegas was giving them one of the

Highest win totals but there were just so many questions yet to be answered they had made a huge move swapping out Jordan pool for Chris Paul what was he going to bring at 38 years old what were they going to get from Wiggins who after returning from an absence for personal

Reasons last year was far from the player that played such a pivotal role in their most recent title run and then the biggest question what were the Warriors going to get from this young core not even two years ago so much excitement surrounded it they had the second overall pick James wisman two

Lottery selections with Moody and kaminga and then they had the break out of Jordan P now flash for to tip off of the 2024 season wisan was gone P was was gone Moody’s role had been inconsistent and Jonathan Ginga just spent their entire playoff run warming the bench if

The Warriors Championship hopes were going to get reinvigorated this year they were going to need a lot more from their youth well that was assuming a few things that was assuming that Draymond didn’t look at the league as a WWE Royal Rumble and got suspended that clay

Didn’t have the worst season since his rookie year that Andrew Wiggins didn’t continue this wild fall off he is a season removed from being an All-Star starter yet is now averaging 12 points as a 31% three-point shooter when all that is happening to the core of the

Team it doesn’t matter what the young core is doing their Championship hopes are pretty much dead even their playoff hopes are on its last leg according to the Vegas odds they currently sit with a less than 19% chance to make the postseason it’s been a disaster the

Reign of this core as we know it seems to be reaching its end but while that might be the case at least there has been some positives to come out of this drama field season a lot of the things we expected from this roster didn’t happen a lot of the things the team

Hoped for from this roster did their rookies have really impressed second round pick Trace Jackson Davis and most notably their first round pick Brandon po jimsky but then the guy that appeared to be their xfactor entering the season Jonathan kaminga he’s starting to catch fire for the first 20 or so games things

Were not looking great he averaged 11 points shooting with just 4525 splits but then Dr did this oh man Draymond suspended indefinitely and now the Warriors desperately need kaminga to step up and just like Dante exom just like Colin ston he did that in the 18 games without Draymond he averaged 16

Points and five rebounds on good splits solid but draymond’s return a couple weeks ago is where things actually got interesting kinga’s role didn’t go anywhere in fact it’s actually gotten bigger he’s averaging 35 minutes in screen return and he’s dominating over the Warriors last nine games he’s

Putting up 25 points and six rebounds a night shooting with 62 54 splits he dropped 25 against Atlanta without missing a single shot he dropped 24 points going 9 for2 against Chicago 29 going 11 for 15 against Memphis now during this n game stretch the Warriors

Do only have a record of 4 and five but that doesn’t really tell the full story three of those losses are by a combined nine points a couple more things swing their way and that record looks a lot different they’ve had the eighth highest net rating in this stretch as well as

The fourth highest offensive rating since draymond’s returned the lineup of Curry Wiggins Draymond poiny and kaminga has been the second best net rated lineup in the entire league and the number one offensive rated lineup in the entire league it’s definitely been a roller coaster for a season for this

Team it’s also unlikely that roller coaster is over just yet but over the last couple weeks kaminga is definitely making things a lot more interesting and after what he went through in the playoffs it’s impossible not to root for a success to continue

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