Geaux_Hawks wrote:King Ken wrote:1. I never disrespected you before that post. Let's be clear.
2. Prove me wrong. I've continue to push Edey as a perfect fit aka Cinderella fit for Trae. I've have so many writing already explaining why. If you disagree, prove me wrong, you won't but go ahead, try.
3. That's still a horrendous opinion. If I said he's offensively like a worse Marquese Chriss at the same stage as prospects, just prove me wrong. Don't say, i know you don't watch the games when that's 100% false. It's clear to me, you can't and that's why your retort is rubbish.
I've never understood what's so hard about debating your take without being disrespectful
Quite frankly, he's not going to have the defensive impact he's had at the college level. Edey has a clear weakness in the PnR, and he's not going to be able to just sit in the paint like he's done in college. We don't even know if he will be a threat spacing the floor. He's not bouncy or super quick, so there's the concern of whether or not he will be a true threat in the PnR as a lob target.
The things that made Edey special at Purdue, will only slow Trae down. Purdue had one of the slowest pace's in all of CBB. The Hawks were 5th this year, and 9th last year.
Sarr is miles ahead of Chriss in terms of BBIQ. He's shown he can hit jumpers on the move. He can literally dribble from one end of the floor, to the other and score. Turns the ball over a lot less. Can initiate offense as a playmaker. I mean I could keep going on and on how different the two are, but the fact of the matter is Chriss was an athlete trying to play basketball, and Sarr just needs to fine tune some things. The two aren't the same. It's really that simple. If anybody actually watched Chriss at Washington, the red flags were always there.
How? Is he going to get stupid? His athleticism is terrific. He's over 100 for the BSPARQ. I don't see his defensive impact getting worse. His mental acuity is off the charts. He's still extremely long 7'10.75 wingspan with a 9'7 standing reach. Strong as an ox. 300 pounds at 7'5. Please convince me.
He gets picked on a lot for PnRs yet his PnR defensive metrics are good. In the tournament, teams had success for 12 mins and then got locked down. He adjusts mentally. I expect the same in the NBA. He should have some struggles at it but it's overblown and the data says the same.
He really doesn't just sit in the paint like Azubuike did. He does move around and offenses are always trying to get him in space and it doesn't work out the way they hope more times than not. Purdue doesn't have the quality of defenders to keep him hidden.
He will be a massive threat for spacing the floor for Trae. That's what matters most with his elite screening, his rolls and his roll IQ. As for him providing spacing, yet to be seen but expecting it at this moment wouldn't be truthful as he haven't seen it. Even if he could do it, he will have to prove it.
He's been a vertical lob spacer when they had those passers as a Soph when Ivey was there and he's been an arm's length finisher recently which has equaled insane PPP off high volume for each of the last two seasons. Far ahead of Lively and this year, everyone.
He played better against pace. Check out my cohost, Coach Von page who has posted videos of Edey performances against high pace teams and Purdue didn't slow things down either.
The Hawks are **** when they play at a high pace. Trae is a terrible floor general. He's best when he can spam PnRs and patiently dissect the defense. That's been reflected in our OffRtg since he's been in Atlanta.
Defensively, yeah. Offensively, Chriss wasn't an airhead. He didn't get smarter but as a prospect and even as a rookie, his offensive BBIQ wasn't bad. It was as expected for a rookie which is what Sarr is.
His volume is extremely limited and the numbers really don't show favor either. His best metrics is the dribble pull-up and the volume was insanely low and most of the makes was within 21ft.
Sarr can grab a board and go coast to coast but that doesn't really have too much value. JJ does that and it didn't have value until he became more polished and was able to do more.
Sarr is definitely a better passer which let to some issues for Chriss we saw more in the NBA. Chriss passing was clearly questionable whereas Sarr shows flashes that it could be a strength in time. I agree with this one.
I think the initiate an offense is years down the line but I saw a couple flashes but it also might not be real.
Please keep going because I have a lot of reasons why Chriss is better as a prospect offensively than Sarr.
I completely disagree with the athlete trying to play Basketball. Chriss has talent but progression ain't linear, bro.
