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How Does Robert Covington’s Season Match Up?

Robert Covington had a decent year for the Philadelphia 76ers last season. To say the least, I’m very impressed with what he did throughout the year and I’m looking forward to what the future holds for him. After doing some research on him though, and realizing that before his great year with the Sixers, he was largely just a D-League player, I was curious to find out how he matched up against other small forwards from around the league at different times in history.

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In order to do this, I looked up several small forwards with Basketball-Reference.com, and compiled four of their stats, including points, assists, rebounds, and shooting percentage. I compiled an average out of each player, weighing the points and shooting percentage at 30%, and weighing  assists and rebounds at 20%.

I also only took the statistics from every players sophomore year, to see just how well along Covington was coming.

Below is a table with the information.

PlayerPPGAPGRPGFG%Weighted Average
LeBron James

27.2

7.2

7.4

47.2

25.24

Grant Hill

20.2

6.9

9.8

46.2

23.26

Andre Iguodala

12.3

3.1

5.9

50

20.49

Jalen Rose

10

6.2

3.3

48.0

19.3

Shane Battier

9.7

1.3

4.4

48.3

18.54

Kyle Korver

11.5

2.2

4.6

41.8

17.35

Robert Covington

13.5

1.5

4.5

39.6

17.13

The furthest column to the right is the weighted average. This table is compiled of several different small forwards, some coming from careers that are considered for the best of all time, and some who were simply role players behind stars all throughout their careers. I was curious to see how Covington’s second season matched up with these players’ second seasons.

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I was disappointed, but not entirely surprised to see that Covington’s season was last in weighted average on the list. An encouraging facet of the table, though, is that he’s not too far behind Atlanta Hawks’ player Kyle Korver. Korver had a fantastic season this year, and lead the Hawks to having the best record in the Eastern Conference.

Korver ended up shooting just under 50% from the three point line this season. That’s pretty impressive if you ask me.

He’s also not too far behind players like Shane Battier or Jalen Rose. Both of these players had admirable careers as well.

Covington is pretty much out of the running with LeBron James, at least for this year, which was to be expected. It’s pretty wild to see statistics like this that came in just LeBron’s second season in the league. It’s even more out there to remind ourselves that he would only be two years removed from high school at this time.

Again, all of these stats are from these players’ second seasons in the league, and this doesn’t mean Covington can never be as good as Andre Iguodala. He’s got a whole career ahead of him, but it’s nice to see where he is as far as being on track with past players.

Just some interesting statistics for us to look at.

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