How is Anthony Edwards so low on this model? He's the fourth-worst rookie, just above Poku. -44 offense, -83 defense. ??? And that's out of more than 100 rookies, it looks like.
It's a cumulative stat and Edwards played a ton (2,314 minutes). Rookies are almost always negative, so guys that play a ton will look bad. Plus it looks like his D was REALLY bad, at least based on this model.
A large number of the rookies with less negative TPA are only "better" than Edwards because they played less than 1,000 minutes. Put them out there 2,300 minutes and they would probably be worse than Edwards.
Ball, Haliburton, and Quickley are the only 3 rookies that were positive TPA that had any sort of consistent playing time. Otherwise, it's just varying degrees of bad, with the total negative TPA heavily dependent on minutes played.
For the Celtics, Pritchard at -28.57 in 1,268 minutes is pretty respectable. Held his own for sure.
Nesmith at -45.21 in 669 minutes is not, but of course he was trending up big time down the stretch. It's not totally fair to extrapolate since more playing time Nesmith may have improved more quickly. But for comparison sake, if he played the same minutes as Edwards, his overall TPA would have been -156.38.