QingJames wrote:JMAC3 wrote:HadAnEffectHere wrote:It's hard to have very strong feelings about Edey when this draft class has been so horrible and he's like... fine and was picked 9th.
Salaun, Sheppard, and Cody Williams are going to be out of the NBA in a couple of years and he's going to stick around, it's whatever.
Guess it just depends on how much you value age when it comes to prospects.
Someone like Devin Carter struggling as a rookie at age 23 is a lot different to me than guys like Tidjane Salaun and Ron Holland struggling as 19 yr olds.
The fact that Missi, Ware and Flip are basically just as good as Edey is right now probably means that in 18 months chances are all 3 are better players.
Missi is quite bad. Ware and Filipowski are going to be better than Edey in the longterm though, yeah.
Missi isn't great but he doens't have bricks for hands and he can actually move laterally.
Edey is unplayable when the games matter. He can go out and dominate teams that are tanking and when the tallest opponent is 6'10 but once the game is close he's useless.
He can be the greatest offensive rebounder on earth but he has 0 post moves so he just passes it right back out.
Edey is such a curious case because so many people are just so wrong. It's all so obvious on the film and yet people continue to blame Jenkins for not playing him more. It should have been obvious even before the NBA.
Jenkins is trying to win games. As soon as he puts Edey in the game the opposing team targets him immediately and people can't figure out why he gets pulled so fast
I do find it funny though that people were trying to use early season defensive EPM to claim he's not a terrible defender. Well what would you know, the good ol' eye test was spot on and it just took some time for the metrics to catch up. He's 27th percentile overall and I would say he's even worse than that because Jaren cleans up a lot of his mess
