Wait, is someone thinking Anthony Black is gonna be drafted to be a 3 and D wing? That doesn't make any sense.
lol maybe his f hair grew 6" smh you can make an argument for both of these prospects at 16 but neither is worth it at 9 imo
noone is trading up for a last minute riser. He will either get overpicked in the late lottery, by a team with no needs at all, willing to gamble, like OKC,.Or he will go slightly higher than he would have before the last months hype parade. I expect he goes around 18-25 . I might take him at 16
he is 6'6 and he wasn't 6' this time last year smh. you got a lot of bs to support your arguments imo. the take on Giddey isn't bad, but Black is what he is and that isn't good enough for 9th
it does somewhat, since everyone in the NBA that knows he cannot offer any spacing at all,will just game plan against it. Easy to stop a team that has that weak of a link offensively. So he will be either limited to playing a secondary ball handler off the bench, on a team with veteran leaders and on ball savants, until he develops a decent pull up game. Or he will get overpicked to be a point guard by some desperate lottery team, hoping for a long term developmental tank commando, for the next 3 seasons. Are the Jazz really going to go that direction with the Finnisher already here and a few other basically win sooner than later roster? I don't know. But if they do, LM is gone by his own accord
You are looking at things way too black/white (pun intended)
Yes, that's what his career will start as, more or less. (Very few wings are actually strict 3&D)
I don't understand why people are struggling with that concept. He can already guard multiple positions and he's 19 his shot will continue to develop.
Yeah, again, it's not a knock. Rookies have a hard time getting on the court and aren't usually ready to be full time PGs from the get go. If you are drafting a 6'7 guard you are going to play him all over the court, on/off the ball. It's not going to be a traditional PG experience and he's not always going to have the ball.
Ok bud
When you throw a guy in the corner, or when you get a guy to be 3 and D for that matter, dont you want them to space the floor and knock down threes? Black only attempted 2.6 threes per game in 35 minutes and made them at 30% clip (they were probably wide open too). I mean if im playing against Blacks team then im HOPING that his team has him chillin on the three point line without the ball. I would tell my players to not even guard him. Leave him open out there and hope he shoots it. Beg him to shoot it.
And Dyson Daniels has been thrown out there… they are similar players but NO has Ingram, Zion, CJ, Alvarado and they all play ball in hand… they are in win now mode… we have Dunn and maybe THT… Dustin’s development path is ideally getting reps as a pg… we can give that to black… why wouldn’t we?
To get full context on black you have to go watch a couple few games. You may still hate him but that Arkansas spacing was like the Rubio/Favs/Rudy lineups back in the day times like 5. I worry less about assists and turnovers than shooting.
Also to be fair of me being critical of Black statistically, when I look at my guys stats (Cam) there is nothing impressive at all about any of his stats. At Blacks steal jump out at me. None of Cams stats jump out at me in a positive way. I just love the 6 foot 7, 230 pound quick fast athletic powerful dude with a beautiful stroke profile and love that player type. But his stats either suck or are very unimpressive.
Ricky might have in that offense though. Legit think there were a couple/few assists left on the table with no shooters and his bigs dropping the ball… happens with a lot of guys but man that Arkansas offense felt like it was several magnitudes worse. I wouldn’t be surprised to see his assists per minute double in the nba in year 2 or 3. He may be a high turnover guy.
You didn't watch Green this year
