OFFICIAL POINT GUARDS TO SHOOT OVER 50% FROM THE FIELD IN A SEASON WHILE PLAYING AT LEAST TWENTY MINUTES PER GAME IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS POWER RANKINGS
1. Stephen Curry 2015-16 (30.1 PPG, 50.4% shooting)
2. Ben Simmons 2018-19 (16.7 PPG, 56.9% shooting)
3. Goran Dragic 2014-15 (16.3 PPG, 50.1% shooting)
4. Trey Burke 2017-18 (12.8 PPG, 50.3% shooting)
5. Derrick White 2018-19 (9.3 PPG, 50.3% shooting)
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6. Tomas Satoransky 2017-18 (7.2 PPG, 52.3% shooting)
7. T.J. McConnell 2018-19 (6.6 PPG, 54.2% shooting)
As you can see, Derrick White is an elite company with the numbers he’s putting up this season. Well, maybe it’s not quite elite company given that he shares the above power rankings with a significant amount of role-players, but, hey, Steph Curry is on the list! Derrick White is on the same list as Stephen Curry and it’s not a completely arbitrary cherry-picked stat! You got yourselves a keeper, San Antonio.