I also feel this draft is being seriously underrated. The top 5 is very week and I wouldn't want to be drafting there unless it was at #1 for Noel. But this draft is full of rotation guys and I'd bet more than a few will become all stars. I do not see one single superstar here though. Next years draft will be epic, of course. But I wouldn't overlook this one.
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Park Bites
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impressive numbers from zeller.
pg ranking
Burke
McCollum
schröder
Larkin
wolters
McW
canaan
Jackson
bongo
green
brown
pressey
young
siva
mccallum
pg ranking
Burke
McCollum
schröder
Larkin
wolters
McW
canaan
Jackson
bongo
green
brown
pressey
young
siva
mccallum
There will for sure some good players come out of this draft and posts like these will be heralded as prophetic...
However, I've never seen a single person say there are no good players and none will be surprise people, but I think that always goes without saying.
What people have said, including me as long as two years ago, is this draft is comparatively weak and unexciting.
Hantlers
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Lets just do a non-money wager. I'm a poor college student. Probably an avatar or sig bet, but I'm open to other ideas.
Name one.
Too lazy to go back and read them all.. but they're in the multiples of 10.
Hantlers
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Please. You can't even find one. The only recent one that I was wrong on was Austin Rivers (I was homering dammit).
I was the first one to guarantee that Lillard would not be only a good player in the NBA, but a stud. Almost everybody else was disagreeing with me at the beginning, but eventually they realized the scouts were saying the same thing I was. Same thing happened with McCollum this year. While he was projected in the 20's or something, I was touting him to be a big time player. Nobody listened. They listening now fool.
Hantlers
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FWIW, PKM is right about Larkin. While his athletic numbers are great, you can't really compare him to Nate Robinson. Even though they both have about the same vertical, you can tell that Robinson is much more explosive. Now what I mean by that is that Robinson gets up quicker. It's like having two guys that both run a 10.7 in the 100 meter, but the first guy runs a 4.3 40 and the second guy runs a 4.5 40. Now Larkin isn't bad by any means, but these Nate Robinson comparisons aren't exactly legit IMO.
Larkin rarely every dunks (even though he can, kinda, has small hands), and doesn't finish nearly as well as Robinson does. He struggles running an offense, and his size is a limiting factor. I like him, but I like him as a backup.
Larkin rarely every dunks (even though he can, kinda, has small hands), and doesn't finish nearly as well as Robinson does. He struggles running an offense, and his size is a limiting factor. I like him, but I like him as a backup.
Fixd
No, I was referring to your jabs about anything UK. Was just playing.
And I can't say anything about Rivers because I pimped him harder than you did, I think... and I still believe.
You had Lillard in higher regard than I did. I admit that.
We have both been buying McCollum for a long time now.
we agree here as well..