He dropped 40 points on just 21 shots in a win over the Brooklyn Nets. As the Hornets continue to rebuild they suddenly have a former second rounder playing like a lottery pick. (Trae Young, I’m looking in your general direction.)īut let’s forget about where Graham can improve and just revel in what he has become. He’s not a great defender, but he’s also not a complete liability. That said, despite the heavy offensive load he carries Devonte’ does give consistent effort on defense. Per Basketball Reference, Devonte’ had the worst Defensive Rating (116) on the team along with the team’s lowest Defensive Box Plus/Minus score (-2.1). Graham’s over-reliance on three-point shots, which made up 585 of his 963 field goal attempts, runs the risk of turning him into a one-trick pony where good defensive schemes could marginalize him.Īt 6-foot-1 and 195 pounds Graham can also improve on the defensive end. When drilling down into his shot chart he hit just 27.4 percent of his attempts between three and nine feet from the rim which is problematic. For example, his 39.7 percent shooting on two-point attempts needs to get better. Just to be objective, however, there’s still room for improvement. He may not end up winning the award given his low profile nationally and the Hornets losing record, but nobody can dispute he’s made one of the biggest year-over-year improvements in the league. The Ringer glowingly says Devonte’ went “from fringe piece to centerpiece seemingly overnight.” NBA.com highlights how unexpectedly and quickly he “turned into an All-Star caliber talent.” CBS Sports has him among the five players receiving votes for the Most Improved Player. Nearly every NBA media outlet has him in the running for the NBA’s Most Improved Player Award. Defying all expectations, Devonte’ Graham has suddenly become one of the better creators in the game. His assists are especially impressive given the Hornets play with the NBA’s slowest pace at 96.2 and he isn’t exactly surrounded by elite scorers. When the NBA suspended the season Devonte’ ranked third in the league in three-point attempts (585), fifth in three-point makes (218), and fourth in assists (471). To put Graham’s combination of points and assists in context, only seven players were averaging at least 18 points and seven assists per game when the NBA suspended its season - James Harden, LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Damian Lillard, Trae Young, Kyle Lowry, and our very own Devonte’ Graham. You can totally trade worlds of hive minded pops to vassals, even though you can't release those worlds of hive minded pop as their own vassals.It’s simply astounding. (Seriously, and TL DR: Why did the vassal system do this?!) What? Where's my baby hive mind?! No! Stop purging all your drones! Gah! Thus spawned the Ymacera Commonwealth a Constitutional Dictatorship of Honorbound Warriors and completely not hive minded. Makes sense, but damnit! But wait! One world still had a couple of un-assimilated pops! I could release that one! Maybe I could add the other planets to it later! So I absorbed the Ymacera Entity, assimilated their pops, and then.Ĭan't release hive minded species as vassals. Clearly I should assimilate the pops first, then release a baby hive mind with pops that won't rebel. However, they didn't manage their pop's happiness nearly so well (0% happiness), and rebel planets started breaking free. They'd inherited their own hive mind government, and their populace wasn't being assimilated or eaten. I ended up with the "Ymacera Entity," which was much like my first thrall. So I watched them, and saw that their empire stayed cohesive.įiguring I could run a bunch of thralls, I decided to intentionally recreate this process. (around the 20-30% mark) Weird, but okay. Everyone was massively unhappy, sure, but not completely so. They had inherited a hive mind government of their own, but a quick check revealed that their population was still normal individuals, wasn't being assimilated, and wasn't being eaten. It worked! I had a "Belmacosa Unity" minion! Then I noticed something. No! Bad hive mind! Eating people makes enemies! And you want to be cozy with that big alliance who doesn't like it when you eat sapients.Īs a last ditch effort, I released them as a vassal. Now, at that time, I didn't have the ability to assimilate, so the game defaulted to eating them. Partway through the game, one of my neighbors took some territory I wanted, but they were whimpy (whimpy! whimpy!), so I clobbered their whole country.
So, my latest playthrough has been as a Hive Mind.
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