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Stoked said:
https://espn.go.com/mens-college-ba...reighton-doug-mcdermott-worthy-top-draft-pick

Scoop Jackson article on ESPN on how Doug McDermott is the real #1 pick in this draft.

Thoughts?
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This article lost me when it mentioned Hayward as a good shooter. Grouping Hayward and McDermott in any sort of comparison is stupid. McDermott is probably going to be some type of versatile, Boris Diaw rotation player who can also stretch the floor. Most likely he comes off the bench.
 
Catchall said:
This article lost me when it mentioned Hayward as a good shooter. Grouping Hayward and McDermott in any sort of comparison is stupid. McDermott is probably going to be some type of versatile, Boris Diaw rotation player who can also stretch the floor. Most likely he comes off the bench.
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Hayward isn't a good shooter? We are going to ignore 3 years of good shooting just because he has had 1 bad year?
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Hayward isn't a good shooter? We are going to ignore 3 years of good shooting just because he has had 1 bad year?
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Hayward is a streaky shooter at best. He goes through long stretches of being off, like usually the first half of every season. He's not a versatile shooter like McDermott, and he didn't have those kinds of percentages in college either. But then again, McDermott isn't the athlete or distributor that Hayward is.
 
Catchall said:
This article lost me when it mentioned Hayward as a good shooter. Grouping Hayward and McDermott in any sort of comparison is stupid. McDermott is probably going to be some type of versatile, Boris Diaw rotation player who can also stretch the floor. Most likely he comes off the bench.
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Hayward IS a good shooter. Even with the lousy year he's having, his career numbers are 44%/37%. He's averaging 16/5/5 this season. And he's a solid defender. No doubt McDermott is a dead-eye shooter, but that might be it. There are serious ?'s about his ability to defend. Two different types of players. One is versatile; the other a specialist.
 
Catchall said:
Hayward is a streaky shooter at best. He goes through long stretches of being off, like usually the first half of every season. He's not a versatile shooter like McDermott, and he didn't have those kinds of percentages in college either. But then again, McDermott isn't the athlete or distributor that Hayward is.
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2011-2012 was the year he was awful the 1st half and amazing the 2nd half.

Last year he was an amazing shooter every month besides the 1st one.

Freshman year he didn't really play enough, but when he started getting minutes he was a great 3pt shooter.

He has been really bad shooting this year, but it's his 1st year out of 4 that he has been this off, so I'm going to give him a mulligan on the year and still call him a good shooter.
 
Only thing about Hayward is that he isn't a volume shooter. He isn't a guy who just goes out and bombs 3's from every spot on the court at will. He needs to pick his shots and be selective. It was why he was so great last year because he was usually in the same spot off of Big Al post ups and he knew where his shots were coming from. Doesn't really have that benefit this year of predictability with where his shots on the floor should be coming from.
 
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All the people who said Wiggins didn't live up to the pipe were wrong. He is a monster, and has a fairly complete game.

Having said that, if Wiggins ends up in LA I'll shoot myself.
 
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