The Sophomore Bump

This isn’t really a ‘gotchya’ but I was re-listening to the 2000 re-draftables where Russillo and Simmons which they dunk on for being historically bad - fair enough.

But there was an amusing nugget where Russillo critiques people for getting sucked into ‘the sophomore bump’ where a high draft pick who’s obviously not going to work out gets more burn and better stats because the team is invested in their success.

Anyway it immediately put me in mind of their mutual love for Scoot Henderson and their slight revival of their Scoot Stock Status.

To be fair Scoot is more efficient so it’s not really a case of just more minutes, but it made me laugh a bit that 4 years ago it was a rule of thumb that smart people ignore sophomore bumps but in the case of Scoot - maybe it’s real!?