yellowknifer wrote:pillwenney wrote:He probably is currently the best player out of all of those guys. The thing is though that he's about to turn 25, and that makes a difference. Despite the leap he made this year, that's going to reflect as him having a lower ceiling than definitely Tatum, and arguably Brown and Ingram.
I think we haven't seen enough given his age to view him as a future cornerstone in terms of being an offensive fulcrum, but we have seen enough to know that he's a very good over all player, and an awesome glue guy with a particularly valuable skillset and body type. That's not a knock. Those players are very valuable.
I would say unless it's a particularly weak draft (say '13 or '00), he's worth a top 10 pick.
He has also only played basketball at any level for 7 years. His upside is as immense as his wing span and athleticism.
This just isn't true. He was discovered by A Moute at a camp nine years ago, that doesn't mean that he just started playing ball then.
He played in basketball camps as a kid, played acedemy ball in the states, played two years of college ball, then spent time in the developememtal league. Stop acting like he was the model for "The air up there". He had plenty of developement, including a NBA mentor as a kid.
