TheSuzerain wrote:I do like Edey for us though.
We currently have no coherent organizing concept, so might as well snag that intriguing talent who will likely fall in the draft because you have to organize around him. That seems like a good match to me.
I am really uncertain about Edey. He has such strengths, but I'm not sure he can defend in today's NBA, and there's not very many people organizing their offense around feeding a guy in the post for 7-foot hook shots like Purdue did. I can't imagine him chasing around mobile bigs, or bigs who can shoot, God forbid people who are both. I can't decide if he's a poor man's Yao or a rich man's Boban, and I have Hibbert fears, too. I have real respect for his talent, but it feels like a pretty hard zag in today's league, no? You'd have to commit to it and organize around his strengths and weaknesses, like you said, to have a shot. I think I would look elsewhere with our pick, especially with our lack of three point shooting and guards skilled in feeding the post. He's much more skilled than the Tacko Falls and Thabeets, but it seems like he will run into some of the same difficulties they did, and it feels difficult to incorporate him into a standard, modern team concept.