Wizenheimer wrote:if I had to guess, I'd probably say his ceiling is somewhere between Przybilla and Gobert
And that's why I made the steroids reference. Because I truly believe he'll be better than Przybilla. You have to think of every future NBA all star big who played in Summer League in its history and Clingan set the Summer League record in blocks. He's quicker, taller and longer than Joel with great defensive instincts at a young age. But suffers from the same type of limitations on offense, though he has more potential at it than Joel. The question is how much. Too early to tell. I do like he doesn't bring the ball down to get stripped after getting a offensive rebound. He keeps it up. I hate how fundamentals like that are rare now versus when I was growing up no NBA big would do that.
He's got great instincts too on rebounding. Too many bigs don't boxout consistently. And yet Clingan does and uses his body and good footwork with it.
All I can say is when I was watching Clingan, all of a sudden my mind was like... "Oh... oh... who was that big who used to play for the Blazers over a decade ago? He reminds me of him."
It took me like 20-30 seconds for it to hit me, "Oh, it's Joel Przybilla I was thinking of."