How many of you even watched that Arenas video before commenting?
it's 4 min, really not that hard to sit through, especially because there is nothing really that Arenas said that isn't true.
His points/claims were:
* most of points vs Baylor were off some sort of broken play*
* Suggs shouldn't be top 3 pick*
* most of the time he was 3rd best player on a floor*
Claim 1.
GO watch all Suggs possessions. He didn't score FGA up until 5 min left in first half... and it was broken play. From what i counted, 4 FGM ( out of 7 i belive) were broken plays
Claim 2:
He wasn't
Claim 3. Timme in particular was their go to man whenever they needed something out of nothing. He provided gravity and allowed guys like Kispert to get wide open and Suggs to cut and drive. In OT game vs UCLA, where Suggs hit A SHOT, whole offense was dumping ball to Timme like he is prime Hakeem. They scored like 8 out of 12 points in that fashion.
During tournament, before finals, Timme averaged around 24 points on 70% FG.
It's not rocket science to admit Kispert and Timme were better college players than Suggs. Just like it's not hard to figure that Andrew Nembhard was bettter pure -PG. ( jawdropping number: Andrew had 4 more assists than Suggs but also 49 turnovers less )
What made Suggs nba- lottery prospect is fact that he 6'5- 215 pounds, athletic guard who can play defense and his offense isn't terrible. Nowdays it's not common to draft player for what he is, most teams just go for potential, for better or worst. Sometimes it turns into Giannis, sometimes in Thon Maker.
I don't think many people expected him to be this raw. But he is. There is nothing we can do about it now but give him enough PT and solid roster around him to improve and find guys who don't expose his weaknesses and hope for best.
His shooting will go up.. i mean... it's impossible to get any worst, guy shoots 20% for 3 and 30% overall.