IlliniwekKDR
- Colorado Springs, CO
I'm having visions of Will Levis going home not knowing what team he is on after the first day
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illiniswish09
- Northwest Suburbs
The only thing preventing TSJ from going lottery is his age
I always think of Rashard Lewis having to wait until 32. More recently, Jaden Hardy waited until 37.
Yeah but they are.
Same height(Boban has longer arms), same weight, similar foot speed. Similar skillset(Boban is actually probably a better passer).
If you ever have seen Boban play he's basically the same type of player.
It's not a comparison.
You said:
"In the current NBA if you want to be an actual big man who gets minutes, you need to either be a floor spacer like Lopez or Embiid or Porzingis, or an athletic rim runner Derrick Lively-type."
Well, Steven Adams is neither of those. And he's played 10 years in the league and averaged over 26 minutes per game.
Combine stats -
Lane agility time:
Adams - 11.85 seconds
Edey - 11.19 seconds
Shuttle run:
Adams - 3.02 seconds
Edey - 3.01 seconds
3/4 sprint:
Adams - 3.40 seconds
Edey - 3.42 seconds
I'm not sure that qualifies as "much more athletic and fleet-footed".
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To make way for TSJ at 11th ??
Nope. Really more of an insurance policy in case Lonzo still isn't healthy when the season begins. Giddey is also only 21 and was pretty well expendable in OKC with the emergence of SGA.
Basketball is more than combine measurements. And Steven Adams did come into the league as a more athletic big man who's job was to run straight at the rim and catch dunks and feeds.
That’s true. It’s easy to get sucked into the athletic measurements of raw prospects. GM’s Fallon love with upside in raw athletes.
There aren’t many sure things in this draft. You gotta pick someone. It won’t take long for some GM to decide it’s safer to draft the guy who averaged 25 & 12, was 2X player of the year, and dragged his team to a national title game, than draft a European kid the owner has never heard of.
Captain Bubbles
- Fairfield, IL
I take NBA mock drafts with a grain of salt. The website I only follow when it comes to that is NBADraft.net. So far, it has TJ to go 27th for Minnesota. For next year's draft, Kylan Boswell is a projected late first rounder at 29th. Though the 2025 draft will change over time, I found that to be interesting.
What has always intrigued me about every draft are the blowups that occur. Everything going well as projected, then zing! Who is this kid? Why did this team recruit him? We shall see next week of the blowups and snags that will occur.
What has always intrigued me about every draft are the blowups that occur. Everything going well as projected, then zing! Who is this kid? Why did this team recruit him? We shall see next week of the blowups and snags that will occur.
This should be good for Ayo - he and Caruso provide similar contributions to the team
Really bad for the Bulls, unless they're finally deciding to tank.
KAT shot lots of threes back in high school. He was simply not allowed to do that in games at UK. So I am not sure if that's a fair comparison.
Yeah, his Kentucky squad might have been the most talented team in history. (Certainly, in recent history) There was no reason for him to need to do that.
I've talked myself into thinking Shannon gets drafted by the Lakers if he's still available at #17. I'm probably reading way too much into the LeBron tweet but the man doesn't have much time left in the league and they need a win-now player.
Agree for sure, but similar logic lead to things like Ayton and Bagley getting drafted over Luka
They’ll take Bronny there.
That's what pick #56 is for!They’ll take Bronny there.
If I have the 55th pick, I’d grab him just to see what I can get for him.
Bagley going over Luka was another shot fired in the Yugoslav Wars
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Luka's performance as a 16-18 year old at Real Madrid, especially winning the Spanish and EuroLeague MVP his final year, was such a singular 1 of 1 that teams lost sight of what they were looking at. No one has ever been close to that good that young at that level.
The EuroLeague is a level of basketball so much higher than the NCAA is or ever has been that Luka was the most proven player ever to enter the NBA Draft, full stop. He was the surest of sure things, but that being true of this chubby Slovenian teenager just kinda became an optical illusion for scouts.
Who is he guarding? If your premise is that Edey can't play because he can't guard... I mean... a 6'2" kid with a 6'3" wingspan is going to slow down Tyrese Maxey or SGA?
He'd better be more Steph Curry than Jimmer Fredette. Could go either way.
The Kings had just drafted Buddy and Fox (who is awesome in his own right), so you can sort of understand why they might look for a bigger guy. They are also very famous for making bad moves, so...
Ayton looked like the real deal too, but he wasn't proven like Luka. Ayton has never really made "the jump". He's good, not great.
Scouts get hung up on guys who don't fit their paradigms. Luka does not look the part of an NBA superstar. He's just so freaking skilled and is a bad shot maker. He's got stuff you can't and wouldn't teach.
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