Even more insane for a point guard that has such a high usage rate. As I said, a true shooting percentage of 56.6% is pretty damn good. When we call up his advanced numbers, his efficiency is just that much more obvious. That will certainly go up, but that's not too shabby. His 6.4 assists per-36 minutes was 15th in the league. He does it with both volume and efficiency that is matched only by the absolutely elite NBA players. It was his rookie season and there's an argument to be made that he's already a top-10 (if not higher) scorer. Only James, Durant, and Kevin Love had a True Shooting % better than Kyrie's 56.6%. Of the players ahead of him on that list, only Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, and Kevin Durant had a better field goal percentage. Every player ahead of him on that list was an All-Star. His 21.8 points per-36 minutes were 9th in the entire NBA. Much less a rookie point guard who was still just 19 years old for much of the season. That's elite production for any point guard. If Kyrie played the normal number of minutes for a starting point guard, he would produce 21.8 points, 6.4 assists, and 4.4 rebounds per game. When you adjust the numbers as if he were playing 36 minutes per game, they just get even more impressive. To get a better sense of Kyrie's production, we ought to look at his numbers per-36 minutes.

His 3.7 rebounds per game were 9th among rookies, in case you were wondering. His 5.4 assists per game were second only to Ricky Rubio's 8.2 assists per game. Second place was Brandon Knight with 12.7 points per game. Of rookies that played more than 20 minutes per game, Kyrie was obviously first in points per game. As the season progressed, Scott started taking those restrictions off his playing time. Coach Scott was wise to limit Irving and help his body mature and make the change for the NBA game. Going from playing just 11 games (40 minutes each) with several days in between games in college to playing 66 games with countless back-to-backs is quite the adjustment. Byron Scott did a nice job of managing his minutes in the shortened season, but his total numbers suffered because of it. Another thing worth noting is that he accumulated these numbers in just 30.5 minutes per game. Once he gets some weapons around him, I expect he'll get many more. Obviously we'd like to see more assists from your point guard, but that will come with time. Kyrie averaged 18.5 points, 5.4 assists, and 3.7 rebounds per game. His surface, per-game numbers were impressive enough, but they don't tell the whole story. We'll start with the raw numbers and work our way deeper. But when you look at the numbers, his season is that much more impressive. Remember kids, don't drink and vote for NBA season awards.ДЄnyway, Kyrie won the ROY award. I'm not sure who voted for Kenneth Faried, Kawhi Leonard, or Iman Shumpert.but it happened. He won Rookie of the Year with 117 of the possible 120 first place votes.

If you have been even partially paying attention this season, you know that Kyrie Irving had a phenomenal rookie campaign. I've been meaning to do this for a while and now that we have a holiday, I finally have a chance to run some stats and really dive into the numbers.

Kyrie irving stats