zzaj wrote:clyde21 wrote:zzaj wrote:Anybody have any particular feelings about the 6'11" Lithuanian kid from Arizona, Tubelis? Doesn't play above the rim, and won't protect it much...but seems to play smart positional play, and shoots low volume from 3 at a passable percentage. A reasonable NBA bench big?
not sure what his role is if he's a low volume 3pt shooter tbh, you can see a path in the NBA if he's a stretch combo guy otherwise he doesn't do it enough defensively or on the boards to make up for the fact that he's still not really a stretch guy at all.
Cool, yeah...I've watched zero Arizona the past couple of years, so he's completely off my radar. From the looks of the limited youtube of him he seems to be a rim runner that has pretty good hands. I guess if I want that at the end of the draft then I'm taking Sanogo who has better hands.
I would take Sanogo over Tubelis. Sanogo seems better defensively, even shows flashes of defending in space out on the perimeter. I buy the shooting more with Sanogo. Sanogo is stronger, tougher and is coming from a culture of winning - after winning the national championship at UConn where he was tournament most outstanding player.
With that being said, I have both of them just outside of my top 60 at the moment (Sanogo knocking on the door).
