Post#643 » by pepe1991 » Thu Jan 5, 2023 6:56 am
Age gap of year- year and half isn't that big at that age if you consider gap in production between players.
Case and point : Kuminga - Franz age corelation & Primmo- Cade /Mobley.
I've spent whole my basketball youth playing with year older kids due my birth date being mid November. It's only noticable when you are 11, 12. Later puberty hits everybody different and age gap isn't that important. By the age of 17-18 everything, from body development evens up. It's discovered that boys nowdays hit puberty much earlier than before due raise of of their BMI.
Fully body maturity & strenght for male is at it's peak at late 20s and early 30s. Given how much medicine , training & strenght and fitness improved, you can argue that most players reach their peak at age of 30 or even later. Where in past 30s were retirement years due worst medicine, conditioning & preservation.
From Lebron, Durant, Messi, Modric, Ronaldo, Đoković, Serena, Curry, Federer, Nadal,Brady it's very noticable pattern of athletes lasting much longer than they did in past.
Tyerese Haliburton drop to 12# in 2020 proves that scouts & teams tend to overthink whole process in neverending search for "perfection" and would rather take complete mistery over proven quality.
Fact that major "red flag" for Haliburton was frame & lack of isolation scoring but they were perfectlly fine with Okoro ( apsolutly zero offense), Okongwu ( Biyombo's twin brother ) and Hayes ( mistery box and lazy , superficial scouting) proves that sometimes you just have to trust numbers and eye test and not overthink stuff.
In this case in particular, Cam Whitemore isn't even SG. He is tunnel vision 6'6 SF (0,7 apg, 2 TO), 28% three point shooter.
Imo he is very similar to Josh Jackson, KUminga type prospect. Guy who has physical adventage over players of his age, but isn't particularlly skilled. And nba exposes those type of guys every year.
Gradey Dick might have, in vacuum, lower ceiling, but he will aslo much easier hit his floor than Cam will, imo, mostly because his shooting will make him playable right away.
On team like Magic, i really see zero value of adding non shooters. They will look worst due poor spacing and make other worst by having no ability to space floor themselfs.
And i saw many people talk about Thompsons. I just don't see how can anybody evaluate them with straight face, and watch same highlits of nothing but transition basketball against nobodies to a oblivion and come to conclusion they are watching anything more than glorified pickup games of random aged kids from 16-20. They might be good, even great. But i could film pickup ball in front of my house and hype somebody to a moon based on similar highlights. Aside from probably getting arrested for potential pedophilia, outcom would be same, one kid would look amazing , but mostly because other kids aren't, so by default.
Especially after OvertTimeElite draft count from 2022 draft is one fat big : zero.
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