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The NBA In Season Tournament is underway and the Magic, Pistons, Hawks, Rockets, Thunder and Warriors are leading their respective groups with an honorable mention to the Knicks. Due to scheduling only 8 Teams have played 2 of the 4 IST games so very little can really be noted at this point. Lebron remains undefeated in his single close match against the Spurs

Some updates around the league:

• The San Antonio Spurs have announced that Head Coach Gregg Popovich has suffered a minor stroke and has no timeline for return

• De'Aaron Fox has lead the injury plagued Kings to a blowout over the injury plagued Suns. With the added responsibilities Fox was able to produce a screaming 162 point week.

• Alperen Sengun has taken the next step many predicted last season with him throwing huge contribution in Rebounds Assists while maintaining a healthy number of defensive stats. We have also seen improved Free Throw Efficiency.

• Jalen Williams has joined SGA as a top nba producer leveraging very similiar player profile anchored on high accuracy free throws mixed with steals

• Wembanyama seems to swing back and forth between being able to score and able to defend. His rebound numbers have been up over the last week, and he's hitting lots of threes. Block and steals are down but his shooting effeciency is way up especially considering he's up over 4 made threes a game.

• Someone needs to stop the badman Jarred McCan who is averaging almost 30 ppg while Maxey is out.

PG

591

Cade Cunningham

Volume

Efficiency

FG

FT

3PT11.0

PTS92.0

REB30.0

AST40.0

STL8.0

BLK6.0

TOV19.0

This weeks selection has been expected to breakout for a few seasons now and it finally seems to be happening. It was expected the next step would require better shooting and fewer turnovers, but it turns out that leading the league in assists while showing value in FT, 3PM, REB, STL, and BLKs are enough to overcome a horrific 2nd place in weekly turnovers. This weeks bread and butter pick of the week is no other than the main man in Detroit, Cade Cunningham.

Welcome back to Picklytics for another season. Little bit of an announcement. This year we will be modifying the format to use the BIGDAWG algorithm. The immediate impact of this is that:

1. Each NBA player can only win a single pickle per season
2. The BIGDAWG model uses the highest stat of each category to establish the baseline instead of the mean.

There will be additional posts outlining the new methodology coming soon.

This season is off to a dynamic start where we saw some incredible individual performances including.

• Tatum leads the league in made 3s at 18, while putting up 33 ppg.
• LaMelo has ankles again and is attempting 12 3s a game.
• Giannis is 4th in the league in free throws made despite only hitting 58%. He has been to the line 43 times in 3 games.
• AD is the first player to eclipse 100 points this season
• Harden is averaging 13 dimes per game which has turned Ivica Zubac into a 20 ppg player who happens to averages 14 boards.
• Chet is hitting 4 blocks with 12 blocks on 23 points per game.
• CJ McCollum shares the top steals in the league with SGA. Could CJ finally be trying defensively?

SGA has hit the ground running this season. He has been making bank on peripherals thanks to outstanding steals, hitting almost 9 boards a game combined with 6 assists. He's even been getting a couple blocks per game and has only 4 Turnovers on the season. He has missed a single free throw out of 19. Other than a slight dip in efficiency from the field he appears to be pickling right up from the end of last season.

Here at picklytics we understand that consistency is one of the most important elements of a delicious chicken sandwich and SGA provides a consistent backcourt that powers OKC as they make their bid to top the western Standings. It is with great honor we grant the inaugural bread and butter pick of the week to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.