SupremeHustle wrote:Help me get a gauge on Cooper Flagg. If these guys from the last ten drafts were in this draft, would he be picked before all of them? Is he a better prospect than Ben Simmons was? Remember Colin Cowherd told LeBron to retire because Simmons was here now? lol
2024: Zaccharie Risacher (Atlanta Hawks)
2023: Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio Spurs)
2022: Paolo Banchero (Orlando Magic)
2021: Cade Cunningham (Detroit Pistons)
2020: Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves)
2019: Zion Williamson (New Orleans Pelicans)
2018: Deandre Ayton (Phoenix Suns)
2017: Markelle Fultz (Philadelphia 76ers)
2016: Ben Simmons (Philadelphia 76ers)
2015: Karl-Anthony Towns (Minnesota Timberwolves)
Two questions in one. Where would he have been picked AND where would I pick him?
He probably would have been picked third or 4th.
I have him close to Wembanyama. So probably second. Many of the others are very good, but I never saw the combination I see with Cooper and Victor.
Flagg has this going for him:
1) He won't turn 19 until the end of the year.
2) He is already a day one excellent defender
3) Great passer and rebounder.
4) Excellent shooter and rapidly improving.
5) High BBIQ
6) And this last one, is what has sold me on him--he's a Giannis-type competitor.
To summarize, he is the exact opposite of Kyle Kuzma.