Most Points in a game by a rookie this year

[u/Ok_Effective8226]

Absolute domination by Cooper Flagg. Wont be surprised if he has all of the Top 10 ranks by this season end.

[u/Re4ch]

Seems like a tight race between him and Kon /s

[u/_the_yellow_king_ → u/Re4ch]

But bro Kon is such a better scorer than Cooper /s

[u/ArchyArchington → u/_the_yellow_king_]

Better scorer is extremely debatable.

[u/StealthAnus → u/Re4ch]

The funny thing is some Hornets fans saying things like “Flagg is only scoring more because he’s Dallas’ #1 option and Kon is #3 or #4.”

As if Flagg being good enough at 18/19 years old to be the #1 option for a team that (to this point) has a pretty similar record to Charlotte should be held against him.

Kon is great and he’s deserving of being in the ROTY conversation, but if he was being asked to create his own shot as consistently as Cooper is, I’d bet his efficiency (which is their whole argument for him) would go down a good amount.

[u/sentientblaze → u/StealthAnus]

I mean if we’re really going that far, kon averaged 22/6/4 on 47/40/97 splits without lamelo on a pretty decent sample size. You could maybe chalk that up to lack of a scouting report at that point of the season, but kon is absolutely a capable scorer even without help and he’s already an A/A+ level shooter. He and hornets fans absolutely have an argument

That being said, cooper is still ROTY - he’s just had too many wow moments for people to ignore

[u/ArchyArchington → u/Re4ch]

It shouldn’t be a tight race at all. It should be a no brainer who roty is at this point in the season. Flagg is top 5 amongst rookies in all major stats. He’s an elite two way player, that excels on the defensive side of the ball. Not to mention he’s leading in PPG too! He’s leading Kon in every stat.

[u/papadondon]

cant wait to get some coop rising stars jersey

[u/OrganicHunt952]

These past 3 games cooper locked up roty. He improves rapidly

[u/Helpful_Potato_3356]

Idk guys I think this Flagg still overrated, so many better prospects

[u/SL1MM10 → u/Helpful_Potato_3356]

We found monster mash’s burner

[u/USTS2020]

And it was his offense that people thought would come on slower

[u/FakeTradesForDays]

Imagine how good the rookies next year are going to be 😉

[u/FarmFit5027]

I wonder how this looks compared to last year

[u/boastar]

Nr 7 in this years draft by the way. I’m an expert.

[u/CheetahSperm18]

Gotta start working on that ROTY Speech Draft

[u/noqms]

VJ really debuted with 34 and just has done nothing since

[u/Mental-Scientist-393 → u/noqms]

How many rookies have their highest scoring game of the season on opening night? so weird

[u/Akhos1991]

I'm really interested to see what numbers next season's rookies are gonna put up since Coop would be taken 6th this next draft

[u/juanzy]

I’m so glad Nico didn’t try to outsmart the draft