Big J wrote:King Ken wrote:If you understand Edey game, you will value Edey. If you don't, you won't. This argument will last for till game 1 and regardless of what he does, this discussion will have strong opinions in either direction.
Who doesn't understand Edey's game? He's one of the easiest player evaluations I've ever done. There's nothing complex about what he does, and what his limitations are.
He's been my most difficult eval. 2nd was Brandon Clarke. I've watched 27 games possession by possession. Wrote two scouting reports, re-wrote my 2nd one. I watched over 20 different players as comp and NONE came out as compatible on tape. This has been easily over 60 hours as well.
He's a senior so he should be difficult for anyone who's being serious. My biggest regret of 2019 was not taking Cameron Johnson seriously as a prospect. I didn't like him as a 3, wrote him off only to realize he's a small ball 4 genuinely stretches the floor with movement, BBIQ, feel, and his shooting ability. I always saw him as a undersized 3 without the athletic ability and wrote him off. I shouldn't have did that. That was stupid on my end. With Clarke, I didn't make that mistake thankfully.
Seniors should be your most difficult evals who are 1st rounders because if they became 1st rounders, it's unlikely they fit a prototype we have seen before or they would have been in the draft previously as a 1st rounder the year before or before that. Edey is difficult because what he does in college, he won't exactly do in the NBA but he will to a degree. His style won't change, his usage will.
OAD are the easiest to project but the hardest to land accurately. Sophs are more difficult but they are easier to be accurate on than OAD. Juniors are fairly difficult and seniors who are 1st round grades are extremely difficult. The easiest is guys like Dalton Knecht who are late bloomers as they have a prototype.
I've found Edey, Shannon Jr, Tyler Kolek, Oso I, and da Silva to be difficult evals and I honestly think, where they land is far more important than anything else.
Anyone saying Edey is an easy eval likely just wrote him off like I did with Cameron Johnson. It's easy to do as every draft has a ton of players.