It seems a little crazy to start comparing a rookie who has played 42 games in a Utah Jazz uniform to a bonafide All-Star in Gordon Hayward, but it’s hard to ignore what Donovan Mitchell has been doing since December 1st.
On David Locke’s Locked On Jazz podcast earlier this month, he did a comparison using his proprietary PAAC (Points Above Average Created) metric to compare 10 games from Donovan to Hayward’s best season (2016-17). I assumed Hayward would be far and away the “better player” in that comparison. I assumed wrongly.
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