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In both a good and a bad way, this guy gives me major MPJ vibes
In both a good and a bad way, this guy gives me major MPJ vibes
PBJ nickname is three levels better than MPJ, but the athleticism is really suspect. Could be injury-related, maybe he's just got YMCA hops. He's probably a first-rounder for his shooting alone. But if for health/athleticism issues he somehow slips to 37, we gotta pull the trigger.
You may be mixing his shooting up with another player. He's like bottom of the barrel shooting wise. Mix that with his YMCA hops and I'm not even touching him in the 2nd round.
He shot poorly this season, in limited game action while injured. He is a pure shooter by high school reputation and you can see just how smooth his stroke is in that clip. He wasn't considered top-ten coming into the season because he was a poor athlete who *couldn't* shoot.
dude was a riser on some boards so this is a little surprising
Good for him and for the long term future of UA if Terry and Koloko both go in the first, but I really was hoping he'd return to the Wildcats. Someone gave him a promise so I guess we'll see how that works out.
We’ve reached peak draft content starvation.
Crazy how much time, effort and money go into the draft, when:
Only 10 players are still with their original teams after being selected in 2017 NBA Draft:
3. Jayson Tatum
5. De’Aaron Fox
6. Jonathan Isaac
13. Donovan Mitchell
14. Bam Adebayo
19. John Collins
23. OG Anunoby
45. Dillon Brooks
49. Vlatko Cancar
51. Monte Morris – 8:25 PM
Crazy how much time, effort and money go into the draft, when:
Only 10 players are still with their original teams after being selected in 2017 NBA Draft:
3. Jayson Tatum
5. De’Aaron Fox
6. Jonathan Isaac
13. Donovan Mitchell
14. Bam Adebayo
19. John Collins
23. OG Anunoby
45. Dillon Brooks
49. Vlatko Cancar
51. Monte Morris – 8:25 PM
PBJ nickname is three levels better than MPJ, but the athleticism is really suspect. Could be injury-related, maybe he's just got YMCA hops. He's probably a first-rounder for his shooting alone. But if for health/athleticism issues he somehow slips to 37, we gotta pull the trigger.
For the most part, that list is also a list of which players were good picks, other than Cancar who didn't come over for two years and now is just a mediocre bench player. I'd say Jarrett Allen, Kyle Kuzma, Derrick White, and Josh Hart also outperformed their draft slot, and Lonzo Ball has proved to be a good NBA player even if he disappointed relative to being the #2 pick.
But it's also understandable why all of them were traded. Hart and Ball were part of the AD trade. And Kuzma was part of the Westbrook trade. Jarrett Allen was moved as part of the Harden trade and White was moved since the Spurs are doing a minor rebuild and probably wouldn't have paid to re-sign him.
What I get out of that list is how important it is to draft well because you can get either core players or trade pieces for established stars. That and the Lakers had a pretty good 2017 draft, even if they should've taken Tatum or Fox instead of Ball. . .
Good for him and for the long term future of UA if Terry and Koloko both go in the first, but I really was hoping he'd return to the Wildcats. Someone gave him a promise so I guess we'll see how that works out.
I could be dead wrong on Baldwin, and I hope for his sake I'am. But I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole. Nothing about him screams NBA player, other than he press clippings. One simple question I would ask. Based simply on his athleticism, and from what I saw when watching individual defensive plays by him, who would he be able to guard in the NBA? If your trying to build a team based on physicality, defense, and shooting, maybe he fits one of those scenario's. I say maybe because although he has this beautiful form on his shot, the ball doesn't go in. He would be a terrible fit on the Kings.
Baja, did you happen to see the Robert Morris game? I admit that other than that game he didn't look so good, but in that one, he flashed it all. Beautiful form combined with couldn't miss shooting, had a lot of good stuff going on offense using his BBIQ to run the offense at the anchor point from the soft spot in the zone. I worry about his athleticism, and I really worry about his injury history, and in the second round, he's probably not a swing-for-the-fences guy at this point. But he's a guy you can hope to groom into a sharpshooter bench role, and as long as his medicals check out, I think that's a safe floor. In the second round, I can't argue with that. But no, I don't see star potential at this point. If you want your second rounder to be the next Jokic (hmm, let's ignore the athleticism parallel for the moment) then you probably shouldn't take a swing with PBJ. You want a bench role player on the cheap for 3-4 years and see what happens from there? That's more like it.
I’m getting the idea some team is going to be really fortunate when Dyson Daniels falls to them.Interesting article by Kevin Pelton of ESPN and his rankings based on a multitude of different statistics. I'm sure it will definitely surpirse you.
2022 NBA draft -- Ranking the top 30 prospects based on stats and scouting (espn.com)
Anyone else have any hot takes about these prospect?
Most will view this as a hot take, but I really believe in Johnny Davis. I think he’s going to be a future All-Star and face of the new young guards. I was high on him during most of the season, until his 3pt shot went downhill after his injury. But I realized that I was too critical of his play… simply because I watched him too much. I think fatigue is a real thing in scouting. If I only watched 5 games of Mathurin compared 15 games of Johnny Davis, it just gives me more games to try to poke holes.
Davis’ floor is projectable at the next level, and I wonder if this is what led to him getting picked at 5 vs. 10?