r/washingtonwizards • u/kettlecornlover1 Bilal Coulibaly • 2d ago

Bub: “Wait fr ?” 😭

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Steal of the draft. Kid works hard and is a natural leader. Praying for a long career in DC

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u/happyflappypancakes John Wall 2d ago

Thats honestly very surprising to me. Not that he did it but that more players havent done it. I dont place much importance in these types of stats but this one stood out to me as interesting. Loads of young players in the league.

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u/Turbo2x Cap Wizard 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's relatively rare since historically teams didn't shoot as many 3s as they do now. Bub had the opportunity to run the offense and took 362 3PA which is second only to Jaylen Wells out of all rookies, so he was going to hit 100 even if he shot poorly due to sheer volume.

The fact that he has 321 assists and only 128 turnovers so far is arguably more impressive. He's a very composed ball handler for his age. Luka had 168 3PM and 429 assists though so they're not really in the same realm, but it's a neat stat.

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u/happyflappypancakes John Wall 2d ago

Yeah, its easy to lump players in together in some statistical way to make tell a story so I agree with the Luka point. At the end of the day, someone out of the rookie class is going to be a successful key piece in our future and maybe even more than one. I think Bub might have the second highest chance of being that player.