Luka is going to attack a rookie, always, but Flip was very solid. Dude doesn't look or play like a rookie, which is really the highest praise and how you can see the guys that have the mental fortitude to play and stick in the NBA. Right now there is no discussion about whether he's going to stick in the NBA, just his potential ceiling...
Kyle Filipowski's Road to Being a 7' Playmaker
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Luka's line.....37 pts, 9 asst, 7 rebs. We were lucky to get away with a win in this one. If that is the best defender we have on Luka we are damn lucky Luka targeted him. He would have gone off for a prime Harden stat line otherwise. 50-15-12 or something.
Step-Back Lauri
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I'm still amazed Jazz got him at 32. I would have been ready to pick him with their own 1st round pick.
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I am curious to see if he continues to play like this if he has a shot at rookie of the year. The class kinda sucks.
Doubt it with McCain going off.
I'm guessing not, but feels like there is a good chance at All Rookie team. That would be 3 years in a row we would have a player make an all rookie team.
Domino
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He will probably cool off once maxey comes back and embiid decides to start playing
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Thee Idiotic Minivan K
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I loved Filipowski from day one and has an obvious path to allstardom. Not saying he will be but the path is obvious unlike say Cody Williams.
seattlejazzfan
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it's insane how good flip is.
He didnt nerf him at all. If you watched Flip, he's playing basically the exact same way he did at Duke. It was very easy to see how talented he was, but some people couldnt get past him having short arms and white.
I disagree. Nerfing probably wasn't the right word to use, but his main thing at Duke was being a self creating scorer combined with his playmaking ability. He's scaled down into an NBA role fantastically and a big reason for that is he's making his 3's and finishing around the basket. Kyle did not convert on these opportunities at Duke, his value was as a high volume player.
Poor spacing is universally understood at the college level, and sometimes we use it as excuse for some players than others. McCain and Flip are the two players who have benefited from NBA spacing the most so far and are significantly better inside the paint at the NBA level than they were in college. What I was trying to get at with that comment is maybe we should look at Duke as potentially a school where the spacing is extra bad. It will be something I'm watching for in this next year's draft class. The Duke-UK game sure looked like a clogged toilet.
The big (and only) question mark for Flip was always his defense. And he seems to be quite capable of defending both bigs and wings. If he cannot be played off the floor he could easily become the 17-18 PPG, 5 APG kind of a player. And that is probably his most likely path. His ceiling could be higher.
No, the question is shooting. People were just wrong that he has to be a great shooter to be a good player
Tremendous Upside
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Nobody said he has to be a "great" shooter. But in the long run, he has to be a threat from the outside on decent volume to open up the rest of his game, when teams inevitably start playing off him after figuring him out.
Right now Flip is very far from that.
I looked into the pre-draft threads and the repeated concerns that folks raised about Flip were 1. Can he move his feet fast enough? 2. He has T-Rex arms. The scouting reports also showed among his weaknesses the lack of athleticism, size and the lackluster defense. His shooting and FT shooting were considered to be "nothing special" but not being his major weakness.
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My guy, he shot 31% from the perimeter over two seasons, and on decent volume to boot. He also had a 47 FG% and never got to the line despite being huge. For a player who was obviously going to have to command some real attention out on the arc in the pros to open up the rest of his game, that all translates into a major weakness.
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I probably should have said ROY consideration, rr top 5 in the rookie ladder.
Maybe, but their roster is *** outside of the top guys so he will still play a ton even when they are fully healthy.
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Kid is the truth
People forget that he was supposed to be the NCAA POY going into his sophomore season at Duke and was viewed as a lotto guy
Didn't really improve as a sophomore although he was still really good and then there was drama surrounding him during the pre-draft process