Karl Malone also missed it by 1 but it’s his PPG that dipped on year 6

psh, more like Cantenkenkoumpo.

jk he’s amazing

What a fraud

I always knew Thanasis was better smh

Players who did first 5 seasons:

Dick Snyder (1966-71): 6.1→19.4 PPG, .464→.579 TS

Don Chaney (1968-73): 4.0→13.1, .328→.532

Fred Brown (1971-76): 4.2→23.1, .363→.529

Paul Westphal (1972-77): 4.1→21.3, .490→.571

Tom Boswell (1975-80): 2.7→11.4, .463→.616

Larry Nance (1981-86): 6.6→20.2, .543→.616

Karl Malone (1985-90): 14.9→31.0, .504→.626

Avery Johnson (1988-93): 1.6→8.7, .378→.556

Will Perdue (1988-93): 2.2→4.7, .422→.578

George McCloud (1989-95, missed ’94): 2.7→9.6, .387→.543

Jason Richardson (2001-06): 14.4→23.2, .487→.538

Mike James (2001-06): 2.8→20.3, .456→.583

Clint Capela (2014-19): 2.7→16.6, .409→.658

Dwight Powell (2014-19): 3.1→10.6, .552→.682

Kelly Oubre Jr. (2015-20): 3.7→18.7, .507→.560

Malik Monk (2017-22): 6.7→13.8, .477→.597

Yes! And Mchale actually did it his first 7(!) seasons

Karl Malone did it his first 5. Tatum got close but had a high TS his first year. He improved scoring every year but TS was improved from years 2-6 since he had a 58.6% year 1 and didn’t reach that again till year 6. Tracy mcgrady got close. TS was 50.5 rookie year and 50.4 second year and he scored 26.8 in year 4 and 25.6 year 5.

Klay Thompson was really close.

Kevin McHale first 7 seasons

1980–81: 10.0 PPG, .556 TS%
1981–82: 13.6, .568
1982–83: 14.1, .573
1983–84: 18.4, .605
1984–85: 19.8, .617
1985–86: 21.3, .623
1986–87: 26.1, .655

His streak ended in Year 8 when his scoring dropped to 22.6 PPG, even though his TS% increased slightly to .656.

Great player, Great team.

Another close call, Austin Reaves is only 5 years into his career and was on pace to do it but had an extreme outlier positive TS% in year two that would disqualify him from this neat stat. Should’ve sandbagged your sophomore year Austin!

Reaves PPG

21-22: 7.3
22-23: 13
23-24: 15.9
24-25: 20.2
25-26: 23.3

Reaves TS%

21-22: 600
22-23: 687
23-24: 613
24-25: 616
25-26: 641

There are just so many talented players at the top end of the league that predicting that someone will win an MVP is difficult, especially when team success is a factor in the voting as well. Doncic has been a favourite to win MVP like four times already.

Nothing like being clearly hobbled and still getting double teamed from half court

Gotta hand it to the Wolves, atleast they address their problems and actually try something with going for Lamelo

Now that we have LaMelo, the playmaking isn’t as much of a need from him. I think he’s in scoring title territory next tear

ya, he needs a touch more playmaking

and tbh, going into last year I thought it was on him to solve that

but I don’t hate the direction the wolves took

they said, look, you don’t need to be luka/sga/jokic run the entire offense guy. you just need to be MJ – you’re a high volume high efficiency scoring 2 guard. we’re going to take a lot of the playmaking off your plate (you still need to be able to kick it to a corner shooter on a drive, which he can), but just focus on being an insanely efficiency bucket getter and a two way force

and, let’s say he bumps himself into 30ppg on the same efficiency, and a little more locked in on defense play to play? that’s an mvp player and a guy who can lead us to a chip, for sure

Depending on Wemby’s health and voter fatigue 

Luka averaged 34/8/8 on 62% TS last year and didn’t get one vote.

Not with LaMelo on the team. If Ant is going to win an MVP now, it’s going to be from winning the scoring title by A LOT, at least reaching the Finals, using the energy LaMelo saves him by not having to create for others and himself to become a true two way player with flashes on the defensive side of the ball, and by putting up insane efficiency numbers doing all of this shit.

Any isn’t going to be asked to be a playmaker for others much with LaMelo on the team now. His path to an MVP is just being an absolutely unstoppable scoring machine who can play high end defense too.

I don’t know what makes you so confident he will win an MVP considering Luka still hasn’t

Melo is going to feed Ant this year and Ant is going to fucking FEAST. Just y’all wait

his only shot at an MVP is if a bunch of guys get 65-game-ruled. Hes a great player, but hes just not likely to end up in an MVP category while shai/wemby/luka/jokic are going crazy and in a few years there will probably be some other dudes joining the mix.

33ppg on 62%

Maxey being drafted 6 years ago does not compute in my brain for whatever reason he seems fresher than Ant

Ant gonna be dropping 60 per game with 85% TS y the time he’s Bron’s age at this rate.

Durant 20.3 -> 25.3 -> 30.1 -> 27.7-> 28 -> 28.1 -> 32

PPG dipped, but he led the league in scoring the entire dip. So while less for him, he reached the pinnacle of what anyone in the league could do and coasted there before going up two more times. % went up every year as well.

LeBron *20.9 -> 27.2 -> 31.4 -> 27.3 -> 30 -> 28.4 -> 29.7

LeBrons first Cleveland stint. TS% goes up every year as well from 48% as a rookie to 60% in his last year in Cleveland.

Chris Webber 17.5 -> 20.1 -> 23.7 -> 20.1 -> 21.9

Pre-Sacramento Webber. % are a little crazy. TS% 56% -> 52%-> 58% -> 55% -> 52% which shows how much more he struggled than the others as defenses adjusted.

Chris Paul 16.1 -> 17.3 -> 21.1 -> 22.8 -> 18.7 -> 15.9 54% -> 54% -> 58% -> 60% -> 58% -> 58

Steady increase. Interesting to throw a “pure” point gaurd into the mix. David West makes a jump from 4ppg and 6ppg to 17ppg, 18ppg, 20ppg during the time Pauls scoring goes down.

Blake Griffin 22.5 -> 20.7 -> 18 -> 24.1 -> 21.9 55% -> 56% -> 57% -> 58% -> 55% (also stays around 55% on 21PPG for next 5 seasons) Hit the ground running. Insane TS% until starts attempting jump shots and more post moves.

Kawhi 7.9 -> 11.9 -> 12.8 -> 16.5 -> 21.2 -> 25.5 57% -> 59% -> 60% -> 57% -> 61% -> 61%

OK. I think I found it. My answer is Kawhi, who had 3 Hall of Famers to help him grow in possibly most fruitful soil for a player to develop in. One dip in TS%, but he kept growing into 25.5 PPG on 61% TS which is GODLY.

Those numbers are ridiculous, Jo goes crazy.

He already failed it by being way too efficient coming off the bench in year two.

No he’s not. He TS% his 2nd year was .687 and his 3rd year it was .613.

So no

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Cool question! I’ll see if we can track this down.

His PPG decreased from year 5 to 6 which disqualifies him.

Also his TS% took a big drop from year 3 to 4

He increased his scoring for 4 straight seasons, but the efficiency was up and down.

His scoring increased for his first 4 seasons, his efficiency increased for his first 3

Will Perdue’s scoring decreased from year 5 to 6, so disqualified

Also his true shooting % dropped by 12% from year 5 to 6 so again disqualified

Scoring decreased significantly from year 5 to 6, so disqualified

Also his TS% from year 5 to 6, so again disqualified

Scoring yes, but he doesn’t come close regarding the scoring efficiency

Couldn’t you have not commented instead?

PS, I did google and got no answers.

Nope

Bad bot 

He didn’t

He’s increased his PPG for 5 straight years, but his second season was his best TS%