As the first month of the NBA season comes to an end, let’s take a look at some of the most impressive and most disappointing players and teams across the league

Most Impressive Player: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks If you haven’t heard about this guy then you need to check him out. Standing at 6’11”, Giannis plays point guard majority of the time for the Bucks. The NBA hasn’t seen a point guard of that height since Magic Johnson and he was still shorter at 6’9″. Then to go along with this height, he is an impressive athlete and is able to control his long and lengthy body like a smaller guard. This season, Giannis seems to be on a rampage. Averaging 33.7 points, 10.3 rebounds, 5.3 assists, and 1.7 steals per game is astonishing. Also, leading his team to one of the teams in the league with a 4-3 record is impressive. Make sure to keep a close eye on him as he goes on his MVP campaign

Least Impressive Player: Kyle Lowry, Toronto Raptors As an all-star, you are expected to put up all-star numbers and not rely on your teammates to pick up your slack. Instead Kyle Lowry has started off slowly on the year. Only averaging 13.5 points on 36.8% from the floor isn’t going to cut it in this league. Lowry is still averaging a high amount assists at 7.3, but as one of the leaders and go to options on offense, he has to step up his game or else the Raptors will struggle against good teams.

Most Impressive Team: Orlando Magic I know there are some people out there who might not even know that Orlando has a team. But here they are sitting atop the standings with a 5-2 record recording wins over the Cavs and Spurs. Young players such as Aaron Gordon and Nikola Vucevic are appearing to be blossoming into the players the Magic hoped they would become.In addition, Evan Fournier gives them the leader in the scoring and Jonathon Simmons seems to give this team the same explosiveness he game to the Spurs at times last year. This young team has come out on fire, but their ability to withstand this play throughout the season will be put to the test.

Least Impressive Team: Cleveland Cavaliers Talk about disappointment. Bringing in all of these players such as Derrick Rose, Jae Crowder, Dwayne Wade, and Jeff Green to help out LeBron and the excitement around this team has put out a 3-4 record to start the year. The same problems are hurting the Cavs this year like what happened last year. The defense is horrendous and LeBron can’t do it all himself. Tyronn Lue looks like he has no idea what is going on whenever the camera flashes to him. Derrick Rose has already been hurt (honestly who is surprised at this one?). Now the Cavs by no means have the worst record or look the worst, but with the best player on the planet and the talent surrounding him, they have no reason to be where they are right now. I’m looking for this play not to last long because one of the greatest players to ever do it is at the helm.

Most Impressive Rookie: Ben Simmons, Philadelphia 76ers Personally, I don’t consider Simmons a real rookie. He was around the league all of last year. He understands the NBA game better because of that and knows what to expect going into it. But, since he didn’t play he is considered a rookie. He is averaging 18.4 points, 9.1 rebounds, and7.7 assists. Now that is impressive whether I think he is a rookie or not. But other rookies who I consider true rookies that have been impressive have been Lonzo Ball, Jayson Tatum, Lauri Markkanen, De’Aron Fox, and Kyle Kuzma.

Least Impressive Rookie: Markelle Fultz, Philadelphia 76ers and Josh Jackson, Phoenix Suns Fultz has been hindered by a shoulder injury to start the season so he only goes in this category because of this. But he wouldn’t be a 76er rookie if he didn’t get hurt. But Jackson is the more unimpressive rookie. Jackson has put up respectable stats on a team that is awful but Jackson made a gun gesture at a fan in the middle of a game. He came out and said he wasn’t making a gun gesture, but was in fact trying to flip the bird instead and didn’t feel sorry for it. Why thank you Josh for clearing that up for us. Here we were thinking you made an inappropriate gesture. Just make sure to make it more obvious next time for us so we don’t have to give you a hard time about it Josh.