![]() ![]() "We made it!" the store wrote on Facebook. Lesson #11: Do not get carried away even if several rookies in recent past were better than expected.The Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore, Md., has opened in its new, larger location, a move postponed for several months by the Covid-19 pandemic. Even if minutes and opportunities are there. Lesson #9: Buyers beware! If your rookie cannot make FG or FT to save his life in college – he won’t magically learn to do that on a biggest stage of all. Lesson#8: Contrary to whatever you may believe or have been told earlier in this article – if a transcendent talent comes to NBA – draft him as high as you can and do not worry about anything else. Lesson#7: Conservative approach pays off. Lesson #6: Pay attention to pre-season, as it can be an early indicator of future success. See which one is getting playing time and is able to produce. It may be better to take a veteran instead and target rookies in the first few weeks of the season. Lesson #5: It may be better to skip drafting rookies if none is looking like a sure thing. As for Beasley – player can have all the talent in the world but if his ego is even bigger – that’s a recipe for a disaster. Oden had a long track record of health issues, so we could and should have been more conservative and draft him later. If your player is forced to play outside of his natural position – he may not be as productive as he could.Even if offered enough playing time. ![]() They may come around within next couple of years, but in their rookie season if they cannot shoot, or make FTs or rebound –NBA game will only magnify their problems. Lesson #2: Avoid drafting rookies with gaping holes in their game. Lesson #1: Rookies can help you win championship! It’s also your ability to not overvalue them and draft too early. Remember that not only pure talent makes a good rookie in fantasy. Ayton, Bagley, Bamba may be the next crop of great big man.īut do not set your expectations for them based on how many solid rookies we have seen recently. Trae Young and Colin Sexton possibly too. So the lesson (#11) here is to remember that and to not get carried away with the class of 2018. He took the league by the storm and became highest ranking rookie who was selected outside of Top10.įour rookies ranking in Top75 is unprecedented and goes against anything we’ve seen over the years. Dirk Nowitzki version 2.0? But the biggest surprise was Donovan Mitchell. He certainly looks like a modern version of an offensive big. Markkanen might have been the biggest prize of the Jimmy Butler trade to Minnesota. Lonzo missed a lot of time and showed a lot of promise but was simply drafted too early. Markelle Fultz had his rookie campaign cut to only 14 games – thanks to his injured shoulder. John Collins benefited from the Hawks rebuilding project which included actively working on their lottery position and developing youngsters rather than fighting for the win in each game. Injury to Gordon Hayward forced Jason Tatum to mature in a matter of days rather than months. Simmons played more like someone who spent a whole year learning about NBA. Fate of this rookie class was highly impacted by injuries. Season 2017-2018Īnd then there was last season. Had an ADP in Top100, so kudos for managing your expectations. It was the worst rookies class for fantasy since we have started looking at data!īut also in order to be fair – fantasy managers did not expect a lot since none of the rookies Ones), but to make matters worse – not even one of them came close. On top of that none of the other rookies managed to beat their ADP (even those modest Not only current #1 pick (Ben Simmons) did not play a single game. Others – well – they played more like rookies and were quite useless for fantasy purposes. Unfortunately his rookie year was also his best so far. Jahlil Okafor was overdrafted, but definitely was not a bust. Myles Turner and WCS turned out to be fringe rotation players. But there were several other rookies worth a mention. KAT and Porzingis were simply amazing, beating all expectations and winning many leagues for their managers. The odds were not great, but if you wanted to build on rookies – that was the year to do it!Ģ015-16 was one of the best seasons to draft rookies since two of them ended up in Top50 ranking (9-cat), which hasn’t been the case since….Tim Duncan and Zydrunas Ilgauskas back in 1997-98. ![]()
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