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ANALYSIS: Looney wasn't available at the start of the season--he played his first game on Nov. 10--and then he went on to miss a couple of weeks at the end of November and the start of December. He's now back and in full gear once for all having appeared in the Dubs' last five games without missing one. Oh, and every time he's played he's done so for 20+ minutes and starting at the C position, something that shouldn't change soon with James Wiseman still recovering from injury and not expected back until deep into January/February at the earliest.
It makes sense to look at the most recent sample of games from Looney, who's destroying expectations on a per-minute basis. Looney is averaging a good 0.97 FP/min but if we exclude the bump in the road against the Knicks last Tuesday (still a 4-5-1-0-1 line), he'd be at an impressive 1.07 FP/min average. That's a mark in the Holmes/Jrue/Siakam/Collins/Draymond/Aldridge/Garland realm, just to name a few top-tier players.
In the full five-game span of late, Looney is averaging 9 PPG, 7 RGP, 2+ APG, and 1+ BPG. Most encouraging is the fact that he was already doing that before getting out of the rotation (season-long 7-8-2 with almost 1.5 stocks per game), and is now shooting a fantastic 62%+ on 6 FGA a game. Keep in mind the usage is ridiculously low (13.4%) as he starts as part of a mega-crowded five-man unit.
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