Reeko wrote:Gradey is a pretty selfless player, if you throw him out there with a bunch of me first, low level players, he's not going to shine. It's too early in his development for him to succeed as an individual when he's playing with a bunch of scrubs. We saw this when he was playing in the G league and people swore up and down that if he couldn't be good there then he was bound to be a bust. No, this stretch of games does not mean that his ceiling is that of a role player.
yup, jumping to conclusions early led to many wrong conclusions. He just turned 20 years old. It's still way too early to conclude what type of player he will be when he's 23,24,25 years old. He has a pretty vast skillset, he has good size and a lot of smarts, which can take you pretty far.
The problem is, he's compared to a lot of guys who came into the NBA at 22,23 years old. If he had stayed in school, he'd be playing his soph season in the tournament right now, like many of the prospects we're talking about in the draft thread.