I don't view them as comparable players at all. Lauri is a much better athlete and so much smoother. For me Filipowski is a 5 and he would really struggle defensively if pushed to the 4.
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I don't view them as comparable players at all. Lauri is a much better athlete and so much smoother. For me Filipowski is a 5 and he would really struggle defensively if pushed to the 4.
I think they are just purposefully being reactionary. It probably drives more interest.
I'll make this prediction, someone jumps ahead of Amen for the 3rd pick.
Nobody cares about or watches the leagues that the top projected picks play in. Somebody is going to raise their stock playing college ball and a team is going to fall in love with them.
Nobody cares about or watches the leagues that the top projected picks play in. Somebody is going to raise their stock playing college ball and a team is going to fall in love with them.
Have you? He isn't nearly as athletic or smooth as Lauri. I'm not saying he is a bad prospect but the Lauri comparison is off base in my opinion. From an athletic and skill standpoint I think he compares pretty favorably to Nik Vucevic coming out of college.
Potentially. Sometimes it's hard to tell how athletic college players are since they are rarely in space, plus a lot of them are far from being at their physical peak that they have a decent amount of athletic gains to make.
I do definitely agree Lauri is athletically superior, I'm just not sure by how much. Flip definitely isnt a stiff and is pretty mobile.
It is certainly possible. It sucks that he and his brother chose to play against such a low level of competition.
And comparing Flip to Vucevic athletically? Are you serious? I beg yall stop making random white guy comps.
Vucevic is a guy who is playing above 260 lbs for his entire career and had a max vertical of 25 inches at his combine.
I promise you Flip is putting up at least a 30' max vertical and testing better across the board athletically while also being the clear better athlete if you have functioning eye balls.
Vucevic is a guy who is playing above 260 lbs for his entire career and had a max vertical of 25 inches at his combine.
I promise you Flip is putting up at least a 30' max vertical and testing better across the board athletically while also being the clear better athlete if you have functioning eye balls.
He clearly hasn’t watched him play.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g7YF6RUU1k
Just an example of his basic open court athleticism (straight line, no moves) here on the final play (starts at 1:11)
That's an athletic 7'.
Very comparable overall games coming out of college. Also you act like Vucevic is some kind of stiff athletically and Filip is some kind of explosive big.
Maybe if Vucevic was playing college basketball now they would have comparable games, but he was much more elbows and post centric w/ power moves than Flip is. Flip is much more off the dribble, face up, dribble drive, and from the 3pt line that Vucevic ever was.
Athletically Flip is closer to Lauri than he is Vucevic.
And yes, Vucevic is kind of a stiff athletically. He's very fluid out of the post, but he doesnt have anywhere near the foot speed, open court speed, or vertical ability that Flip does.
Dear lord time stamp what you want me to watch that is supposed to support what you are trying to say. I'm not going to watch a 5 minute video of Vucevic highlights.
And how is what I posted a reach? I just showed you what he looks like in the open court. I think that's valuable information (running gait, how they gather, their vertical ability in space, their speed, where they can take off from to finish, etc) if you are trying to make an overall athletic evaluation of a player.
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And yes, Nikola Vucevic has a 9'5 standing reach. He's a massive human being, he's going to have poster dunks.
Dunks have absolutely nothing to do with it. It is the way he moves as a big and his overall skillset. Fili moves the exact same and the skillset is very similar. The more I dive down this Fili rabbit hole the more I think he can be a Vucevic caliber offensive player. I think a Lauri, Kessler, Fili trio at pf/c could be really good. Right now this draft looks so deep with so many guys that would be a great fit.
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Yes, pure shooter with NBA range at 6'8". Can do other basic things too, though defense is a work in progress.