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Love Podz. I was mostly out on him, but he went to a perfect fit. I think he is going to be a very solid pro for the Warriors
 
Bufkin vs Keyonte is gonna be an interesting comparison.

Keyonte with a higher upside, but Bufkin has a really nice, assured pace to his game.
 
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Time for @Handlogten's Heros to be insufferable about Leonard Miller :)
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dang had a good game… didn’t see any of it… I’m in Vegas and we had to post up on the small gym all day cuz it gets crazy with Wemby… I did walk past Miller and he’s tall AF. #deepanalysis
 
Thoughts from seeing Wemby in person… looked like he was going 60%… it was weird. Every move took too long to develop with his high center of gravity. In space his handle is tight… as soon as he got contact he had no control and it was sloppy. Even in warm ups he was missing… think he may have been really nervous.
 
Also I was really looking at Whitmore hands for a while… can confirm they seem weirdly small.

Tari Eason is really good… not depressed that we missed out on Whitmore.

Andre Jackson had a two block sequence that was effing awesome… got Peyton Watson twice in like 10 seconds.
 
Wemby looked fatigued as hell. He's got a long way to go before he can handle the 30 games per season that's expected of him.

Other notes on the "best prospect ever":

- As everyone who knows anything about NBA basketball was able to tell ages ago... he can't handle the ball on the perimeter. Not against actual NBA athletes. Wemby has a lot of skill but you can't fool physics. He's just too tall and the ball spends way too much time in the air when he dribbles it. He can try to get lower but I don't think even that's enough.

- His passing instincts are gonna help him a lot in the League. Many of the lanes he sees in the summer league are not gonna be there in the regular season, but it's still encouraging that he seems to have a natutal knack for drawing the defense and shoveling the ball to an open teammate. Wemby is so big that he sees over every defense.

- His outside shot is all over the place. For a 7'5'' guy, he has way too many moving parts in it, and every shot looks a bit different. I don't see Wemby becoming more than a very average shooter from the perimeter, but that might be enough to keep defenses honest. A sharpshooter he ain't.

- Wemby did a lot of posting up, but I don't think that's his future in the NBA even when he inevitably ends up playing the 5. These defenders are just too strong and big and his center of gravity is so high. In Europe, he could kind of inch his way to the basket when he posted up, but that's not gonna work against NBA bigs.

Overall, I see Wemby's ideal offensive role as a high post center, a distributing hub who can dive to the basket from the weak side when an open lane appears. He's not a shooter, low post banger or perimeter ballhandler. On the other side of the ball, he obviously brings some awesome rim protection.

His ceiling is probably a very good role player in the NBA, and that's if he's able to stay healthy.
 
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Handlogten's Heros said:
Also I was really looking at Whitmore hands for a while… can confirm they seem weirdly small.

Tari Eason is really good… not depressed that we missed out on Whitmore.

Andre Jackson had a two block sequence that was effing awesome… got Peyton Watson twice in like 10 seconds.
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Andre Jackson Jr was a guy I was hoping the Jazz would look at #28. He's such a good athlete and ready to contribute immediately defensively. Also a really nice playmaker. If his shot ever comes along he's going to be really good. Even if the shot never quite materializes he's going to get on the court.
 
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