Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Andrea Bargnani, November report.

Andrea Bargnani, the lone Italian player to play in the NBA, the first ever European selected number 1 at last June daft, begun the season with high expectations.

His numbers started off not too well, with his foul prone defense and sub par rebounding limiting his time on the floor. However, as the days passed, he gained confidence, and it seems that his coach gained confidence in him too. So his minutes increased dramatically, together with a better scoring. Still needs to work on his rebounding, but in the last games his scoring numbers are as high as last year in Italy, prompting some ESPN.com expert to write that his potential is much bigger than expected. Coach Peterson predicted him to produce important numbers comes January. We will see, and I will surely keep you informed.

So here are Bargnani's stats for November, in avarage:

15:47 minutes played, 42.5% FG, 33.3% 3-pointers, 82.1% FT, 2.53 Rebs, 0.4 Assists, 0.26 Steals, 0.73 TO, 0.6 Blocks and 7.4 Points, 2.66 PF.

His highs and lows:
Minutes played:
high of 30:31 on November 29 at Dallas,
low of 06:18 on November 8 against Philadelphia
FG%:
high of 66.6% on 6-9 shooting on November 28 at Oklahoma City,
low of 0% on 0-3 shooting on two occasions
3%:
high of 66.6% on 2-3 shooting on November 28 at Oklahoma City,
low of 0% on 0-2 shooting on two occasions
Rebs:
high of 5 on two occasions,
low of 0 on two occasions
Assists:
high of 2 on two occasions,
low of 0 in few occasions
Blocks:
high of 2 on two occasions,
low of 0 on few occasions
Points:
high of 16 on November 28 at Oklahoma City,
low of 0 on November 8 against Philadelphia

His team, the Toronto Raptors, in November posted a record of 5 Ws and 10 Ls, 33.3%.
Toronto averaged 98.06 points, and its opponents 101. On the Ws, Toronto outscored its opponents by 99.2 points to 88.6, while when losing Toronto was outscored by 107.2 to 97.5. They enjoyed a not so special winning streak of 2 but also suffered a losing streak of 6.

Bargnani has a streak of 17 consecutives FTs going into December.

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