Rising NBA Stars: Kon Knueppel and Cade Cunningham

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00:00Let's get to two players that are playing great.

00:02And what can you say about Kyle Knipple?

00:04We talked about Cooper Flagg,

00:06who's obviously his best friend and teammate at Duke.

00:09But Kyle Knipple's been the goods.

00:1120 games this year, 47% from three,

00:1441.3, 47% from the floor, excuse me,

00:1841.3% from three, 18.4 points per game,

00:215.7 rebounds, three assists.

00:24When we looked at Kyle Knipple,

00:25we knew why I thought they were going to get him.

00:28That's because of with LaMelo Ball,

00:31you space the floor out with Knipple and Brandon Miller.

00:35And then obviously you have Miles Bridges that's stretched four,

00:37and then obviously you can put your big in the dunk spot,

00:41which has been, I believe, Yusuf Nurkic,

00:43who's had a pretty good year rebounding the ball.

00:47But Knipple showed me that his ability to score off the bounce,

00:52his movement without the ball,

00:54his ability to defend and create

00:57were things that we maybe didn't get to see at Duke.

01:02And that's a testament to John Shire.

01:05And I can't speak enough about what John has done

01:08with these young guys getting ready to play.

01:12What a great start for Kyle Knipple,

01:15who right now should be the rookie of the year.

01:18Let's head to a guy that was rookie of the year.

01:20That's Cade Cunningham.

01:2117 games, 28.8 points per game.

01:25Lord have mercy.

01:269.4 assists, 6.4 rebounds,

01:3146% from the floor, 31% from the three.

01:34Now we're going to look at Cade and say,

01:36okay, maybe this is not in regards to shooting splits we want,

01:43but you have to understand what they have in Detroit.

01:49JB Picker's staff is more about, with him, shot volume.

01:54So you're going to get rough shooting games.

01:56We'll shoot 25, 26, and go 9 to 26 for the floor.

02:00But he's still going to be able to impact the box score

02:04with his rebounding, and especially with his assists,

02:06on his averaging a double-double.

02:07I will say this.

02:09The longer that Detroit keeps in contention,

02:15the more we have to have, ready folks for this,

02:19a serious, serious talk about Cade Cunningham

02:24being an MVP candidate.

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