Rookie expectations may have soared after Mitchell Robinson‘s productive run as a second-round pick, but not all selections in the back-half of the NBA draft are equal. Ignas Brazdeikis, in the preseason, has shown that so far, with just seven minutes in two games for the New York Knicks.
Per Marc Berman of the New York Post, head coach David Fizdale knows the young forward is a “work in progress”:
“He’s a second-round pick and 19 years old,’’ Knicks coach David Fizdale said. “He’s definitely a work in progress.