Tonight, Jared Sullinger will finish his 82nd NBA game verses the Toronto Raptors. The 82nd game, falling in technically his Sophomore season, was of course due to the fact that Sullinger required season ending back injury last year shortly after Rondo's season ending ACL injury.
Considering how well Jared has been playing, this day is a very important milestone in hopefully a long (Boston Celtic) career and deserves a full recap. However, I'm going to focus on one astounding element.
Jared Sullinger clearly projects to be a double-double machine.
I'm not saying he will become Kevin Love or LaMarcus Aldridge (although his first 82 game production is eerily similar to Lamarcus' first 82 games) but Sully does project to be a very talented big.
Lets focus on games where Sully played 28 minutes or more, of which there were 26 total over the 82 game span. Of those 26 games, Sully produced 11 double-doubles. That is pretty impressive.
But, what about those other 15 games? Did he disappear into the stands like Jeff Green? Or, was he close to another double-double?
Here are the 15 other games:
Washington 11/13/12: 7pts 4reb
Portland 11/30/12: 9pts 8reb
Brooklyn 12/25/12: 16pts 7reb
Indiana 1/4/13: 7pts 10reb
Chicago 1/18/13: 7pts 15reb
Portland 11/15/13: 26pts 8reb
Indiana 11/22/13: 13pts 5reb
Atlanta 11/23/13: 15pts 9reb
Charlotte: 11/25/13: 8pts 5reb
Milwakee 12/3/13: 12pts 8reb
Brooklyn 12/10/13: 15pts 5reb
Clippers 12/11/13: 10pts 9 reb
New York 12/13/13: 19pts 6reb
Detroits 12/18/13: 19pts 8 reb
Cleveland 12/28/13: 8pts 3reb
Out of these 15, only three stand out as awful (Washington, Charlotte, Cleveland). In a lot of these games, Jared focused heavily on either scoring or rebounding. In fact, if you were to total both points and rebounds, you would find that 8 of the 15 were greater than 20 combined.
In Summary, Jared Sullinger is on pace to become an indisputable double-double machine.