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PlayerUp wrote:Michael Porter for #7?
Yay or Nay?
Red Larrivee wrote:TheSuzerain wrote:Red Larrivee wrote:
You could probably get Edwards a lot later in the draft instead of reaching. He's feast or famine with not much else to his game.
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He was the 2nd leading scorer in high major (to Markus Howard) and Purdue had a top 5 offense in the country. How is that feast or famine?
The most valuable single skill an offensive player in the NBA can have at the moment is the off the dribble 3 because it breaks defenses. It's basically the entire reason people want Garland. Edwards can do it too.
Because...it's all Edwards does. He's awful at the rim < 50% and doesn't present much value elsewhere.
I would draft him, but #7 is a big reach even in a shaky draft like this.
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HomoSapien wrote:TheSuzerain wrote:We should trade down and take Carsen Edwards. Or just take him at #7.
He seems like an obvious fit at PG. More athletic/explosive than White or Garland. Can shoot off the dribble 3's. Big wingspan and stocky build means he can be an adequate defender.
I think Edwards is being overlooked, but he's projecting as a second round pick right now. Taking him at 7, unless we're positive of his abilities could be a mistake that could put us back a few years.
TheSuzerain wrote:Near the top of the Big Ten in free throw attempts.
Being poor at the rim in college is not important for a PG prospect. You said this same line about Trae Young last year.
Edwards has the best single game tape of any prospect in the draft not named Zion.
dougthonus wrote:PlayerUp wrote:Michael Porter for #7?
Yay or Nay?
Nay.
Denver has 100x more information than us on Porter right now. Any scenario they're willing to do this trade is a scenario we don't want to say yes to.
If we want to go off of Porter's HS rankings, we can just draft Cam Reddish at #7.
Red Larrivee wrote:TheSuzerain wrote:Near the top of the Big Ten in free throw attempts.
Being poor at the rim in college is not important for a PG prospect. You said this same line about Trae Young last year.
Edwards has the best single game tape of any prospect in the draft not named Zion.
Being poor at the rim limits one of the highest percentile shots on the floor. How many great point guards in the league are bad at it? Lillard's last year in college: 60% FG at the rim and 36% of his offense came there.
More power to you if you believe Edwards is going to become a great player exclusively taking off the dribble 3's and avoiding the paint. I'd draft him, but 7 is too high.
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TheSuzerain wrote:RedBulls23 wrote:Has Edwards been climbing the boards? I thought he was a 2nd round prospect and could he available at the 38th pick?
Zero percent chance he’s available at 38.
His stats are pretty much a doppelgänger for college Lillard. Less efficient but far superior level of competition.
Also has big hands. Standing reach only 2” off Coby White.
Nassir Little has heard that the NBA pre-draft process is daunting, but he feels he’s ready for anything that’s thrown at him. In fact, unlike some potential lottery picks, Little wants to face off against as many prospects as possible over the next month and a half – especially the wings currently projected to go higher than him. The 6-foot-7 small forward is confident that he can hold his own against his peers and he wants an opportunity to prove it.
“I feel like in these workouts, I’ll be able to showcase things that I haven’t been able to show as much in the past. I think I’ll wake a lot of people up,” Little told HoopsHype. “I’m an extremely hard competitor, so I’d love the opportunity to go against a lot of guys.”
Ask NBA players about their pre-draft experience and most will say some version of, “I’m glad I never have to go through that again.” Even prospects who had a good experience admit that it’s exhausting. For nearly two months, players live out of a duffel bag as they fly from city to city.
During the team workouts, prospects are put through the wringer. Teams want to test each individual’s stamina and resolve, and they want to see how each person performs when they’re absolutely drained. Sometimes, players have several workouts in one week, so they’re still extremely tired from their last workout when the next one begins. Days run together. By the end, all they want is two things: plenty of sleep in their own bed and for NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to call their name.
That’s why NBA decision-makers are impressed when a player goes above and beyond during this process. For example, teams loved when Damian Lillard participated in the 2012 Draft Combine despite being projected as a Top-10 pick. Little understands that this is a chance to make a lasting impression.
“I’m a hard worker,” he said. “I just want to keep showing that, along with my desire to get better.”
Every day, Little wakes up at 6:45 a.m. and makes his way to his first training session. He does two workouts with his strength-and-conditioning coach Randy Hadley (one in the morning and one in the evening) that focus on his “conditioning,” “stretching,” “mobility,” and “strength.” He does two on-court workouts with his skills trainer Darryl Hardin (one in the morning and one in the evening) that focus on his “three-point shooting,” “ball-handling,” “shooting off-the-dribble” and more. He’s working on his craft around the clock.
The primary focus of Little’s workouts has been his shooting. This is the aspect of his game he wants to improve the most. During his lone collegiate season, he made just 0.4 threes per game while shooting 26.9 percent from beyond the arc.
After working on this every day for over a month, he seems more confident when he’s shooting. During a private workout that HoopsHype attended, he got hot and made 16 threes in a row at one point. If he can shoot like that in front of NBA teams, that will help his draft stock.
“I want to showcase my shooting ability; I feel like that’s an underrated part of my game,” Little said. “I’ve been working really hard on that and improving my consistency. I’m ready to display that.”
Little is attending the 2019 NBA Draft Combine from May 15-19. Then, he’ll have a chance to show off his hard work at his Pro Day in Las Vegas on May 27. After that, he’ll be traveling to hold private workouts with teams. Performing well in his team interviews and athletic testing may also help his draft stock. With a 7-foot-2 wingspan and 8-foot-9 standing reach, his measurements should also impress executives once they’re official.
Little described himself as “very self-motivated.” That label seems to fit, considering he became one of the top recruits in the country and still finished high school with a 4.2 GPA.
“Internally, I was always the kid who just felt like I needed to clean my room if it was getting messy; nobody had to tell me. I would tell myself that I needed to do my homework and get it done. Nobody had to force me to do it or anything like that,” he said. “That’s something that was just in me since I was a kid.”
TheSuzerain wrote:Again, near the top of the B1G in getting to the line which is where paint scoring efficiency actually comes from. Avoiding the paint?
And again, 2pt FG% is not that important for a PG prospect. It’s not like teams won’t guard you at the rim. Plus that in between game with floaters and push shots is completely natural to develop after college. Hell of a lot more likely than Barrett or Culver ever becoming plus 3pt shooters.
TheSuzerain wrote:HomoSapien wrote:TheSuzerain wrote:We should trade down and take Carsen Edwards. Or just take him at #7.
He seems like an obvious fit at PG. More athletic/explosive than White or Garland. Can shoot off the dribble 3's. Big wingspan and stocky build means he can be an adequate defender.
I think Edwards is being overlooked, but he's projecting as a second round pick right now. Taking him at 7, unless we're positive of his abilities could be a mistake that could put us back a few years.
Projecting by what authority?
The actual decision makers don’t release mocks.
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VolumePoster wrote:It’s so funny. Watching that reddish video I absolutely had a flashback to watching a grainy video of Paul George so many years ago. Remember thinking: that dude is gonna be good.
Obviously more questions to be answered but he sure does ace the eye test.
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