The weird, wild and entertaining Russell Westbrook
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In my last Player Production Average update, the Wizards were four games into what would become an eight-game winning streak. Unsurprisingly for a team that won four of five since, several players in the rotation had significant production increases.
Biggest improvers among rotation players:
Daniel Gafford — 128 to 144 — +14
Raul Neto — 78 to 87 — +9
Bradley Beal — 154 to 160 — +6
Davis Bertans — 75 to 81 — +6
Beal’s jump is the most impressive because he added 6 points to his PPA with more than 1,700 minutes already on the odometer.
The team’s biggest leap honors go to Anthony Gill, whose PPA improved a whopping 49 points after having by far the best half of his career in the team’s loss to the Spurs. In #SoBrooks fashion, Gill didn’t play in the second half of THE BEST GAME OF HIS CAREER.