NBA SCIC Roundtable: Playing The “Numbers Game” With The Golden State Warriors

Hassan Whiteside currently leads the league with an absurd 4.56 blocks per game. How many blocks per game will he finish the season with?

Jason Coldiron: 4.5

Evan Caulfield: 4.1

Jay Rosales: This will surely drop – simply because opponents will test him less. It happened with DeAndre Jordan last season (BPG dropped post-all-star break), and Dwight Howard before him. He’ll still finish No. 1 with 3.3 blocks per game – the highest total in four seasons in the NBA.

Brandon Osborne: Whiteside is a defensive specialist who excels at blocks, I’ll go with 3.75 for the year.

Michael Saenz: Everything says that Hassan Whiteside probably won’t be able to continue to block shots at this outstanding pace, but I’ll go out on a limb and say that he can keep this pace up. Shot-blocking is probably his biggest asset to the Miami Heat and he’ll play enough where he’ll routinely get 3-4 blocks per night. Then, to bump up his average, he’ll have those few nights per month where he’ll go crazy and block like 7-10.

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