| Tough opening schedule for a team that is trying to incorporate a lot of new parts. 1-2 since the initial rankings, a blow out loss, a blow out win, and a close loss. The team looks pretty decent despite the two losses, no reason to panic…yet. |
| Rank |
Player |
Comments |
Last Weeks Rank |
| 1 |
Brunson, Jalen |
Considering the way Towns has been playing I have a feeling Brunson is going to be a mainstay at the top spot |
1 |
| 2 |
Anonoby, OG |
OG is playing great defense as expected. He’s looked a bit more aggressive on offense which is good, Brunson can’t carry the load on offense every game. |
3 |
| 3 |
Bridges, Mikal |
Looks like his hitch was a minor hicckup, shot has looked fine in games 2 and 3. |
4 |
| 4 |
Hart, Josh |
Hart is already back in postseason form, rebounding like crazy. |
5 |
| 5 |
McBride, Miles |
The improvement McBride has made over the last 3 years is amazing. Kudos to the frong office for sticking with him while he developed into a legit important piece to this team. |
6 |
| 6 |
Towns, Karl-Anthony |
I’m going to call him “The Invisible Man” until he stops going 5 minute stretches without me even realizing he’s on the court. A disappointing start so far. |
2 |
| 7 |
Payne, Cameron |
He’s done what he was brought in to do. Give solid backup PG minutes, and keep the offense flowing. He’s definitely not shy about shooting, taking almost as many shots as Towns over this 3 game stretch. |
7 |
| 8 |
Hukporti, Ariel |
Hukporti wans’t even on this list last week. It looks like he’s already passed Sims in the rotation, giving solid backup big man minutes. |
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| 9 |
Sims, Jericho |
Didn’t take long for Kukporti to pass Sims in the rotation. To be fair he’s looked kind of lost and he’s been outplayed by Hukporti. When Precious gets back we probably won’t see Sims at all. |
8 |
| 10 |
Kolek, Tyler |
We didn’t get to see Kolek in game 3, but he looked decent in the short time we saw him in games 1 and 2. |
9 |
| 11 |
Dadiet, Pacome |
I’d like to see more of Dadiet, but the opening stretch of games has been really tough, and the main rotation players need time to gel. |
10 |
| 12 |
Achiuwa, Precious |
The quicker Precious comes back the quicker we won’t have to endure those Sims minutes. |
11 |
| 13 |
Robinson, Mitchell |
Should be interesting when Mitch comes back. Maybe he starts and Towns moves to the 4. Will Towns be more effective at that spot? |
12 |
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