With the 57th pick, the Raptors select Ulrich Chomche

[hype_2004]

Serious question: has a player straight from Africa ever had a good NBA career? My understanding is they typically do a stop at high school/college level before NBA (Mutombo, Siakam, Embiid, Hakeem, Deng, etc). I’m wondering if any guys from BAL have made the jump straight to the league (granted BAL is relatively young).

He could very well be the pioneer, hell why the F not?

[2019nbachamps]

Serious question: has a player straight from Africa ever had a good NBA career? My understanding is they typically do a stop at high school/college level before NBA (Mutombo, Siakam, Embiid, Hakeem, Deng, etc). I’m wondering if any guys from BAL have made the jump straight to the league (granted BAL is relatively young).

He could very well be the pioneer, hell why the F not?

Do you know the answer? I’m not here to debate

[Risk101]

I'm more excited for this pick than any of our other picks.

Jakobe is a close second. Very close.

[C_Money]

Wonder if he gets stashed overseas. The G League isn’t the best place for developing big men.

[Landomar]

Based on his highlights, a guy with his size, athleticism and skill set and potential has to be a horrible basketball player in order to drop this far in a supposedly weak draft…

lol yeah, his highlights are so good, it makes me extremely curious about his lowlights.

I'm assuming that he's just viewed as far away from being ready for the NBA.

[Boogie!]

lol extremely raw due to being new at basketball & lack of professional development

18. 6'11. 240. 7'4 wingspan. Great agility and shown the ability to hit the outside shot.

Sounds like a great risk at the 57 pick.

This kid gonna get bigger and stronger I see him topping at 7'1 260+ lbs if he hits another late growth spurt. Masai might have drafted the future C of the team, low risk high reward type of player if he pans out.

This is my point though how does a guy like this fall so far in the draft... he's gotta be precious achiuwa level bad in terms of basketball iq.

[will]

That is a GREAT name!

Ulrich Chomche.

[XTC]

Yall know Chomche turns 19 December 30th right?

To say he's young ia underselling it. He turned 18 6 months ago!

With our development team, he's going to have all the resources to develop.

[TimeForChange]

Yall know Chomche turns 19 December 30th right?

To say he's young ia underselling it. He turned 18 6 months ago!

With our development team, he's going to have all the resources to develop.

he will dominate in the G-League for sure

[kalel123]

Wonder if he gets stashed overseas. The G League isn’t the best place for developing big men.

Stash at overseas for what? So his valuable early development is at the mercy of people that don't answer to Raptors and don't particularly care about the guy's long-term development just their wins-and-losses here and now? That's a recipe for disaster and kinda what happened with Bruno Caboclo and lack of proper development during his first year.

The guy needs a lot of hands-on development minutes, A LOT of time invested by both the player and the team. The only way you can ensure that happens is through a G league team we have direct control over.

[Duffman100]

18. 6'11. 240. 7'4 wingspan. Great agility and shown the ability to hit the outside shot.

Sounds like a great risk at the 57 pick.

This kid gonna get bigger and stronger I see him topping at 7'1 260+ lbs if he hits another late growth spurt. Masai might have drafted the future C of the team, low risk high reward type of player if he pans out.

This is my point though how does a guy like this fall so far in the draft... he's gotta be precious achiuwa level bad in terms of basketball iq.

Or it was known he wanted to come to us and this is a direct result of the giants in Africa work.

Or yes, it's Bruno 2.0

[hype_2004]

Yall know Chomche turns 19 December 30th right?

To say he's young ia underselling it. He turned 18 6 months ago!

With our development team, he's going to have all the resources to develop.

Same age same birthday as LeBron when he got drafted

[XTC]

Wonder if he gets stashed overseas. The G League isn’t the best place for developing big men.

Stash at overseas for what? So his valuable early development is at the mercy of people that don't answer to Raptors and don't particularly care about the guy's long-term development just their wins-and-losses here and now? That's a recipe for disaster and kinda what happened with Bruno Caboclo and lack of proper development during his first year.

The guy needs a lot of hands-on development minutes, A LOT of time invested by both the player and the team. The only way you can ensure that happens is through a G league team we have direct control over.

Bruno was drafted as a SF, who had to be molded into a big man, plus he was taken in the first round, he had guaranteed money.

Chomche is a 18 year old big man who is athletic, has great measurements, and has played the position he's going to be developed at. Chomche was also taken in the 2nd round. Big difference.

[Consequence]

Did we ever find out what we traded to get #57?

[RoteSchroder]

holy crap, this dude has 16 siblings..

[PhilBlackson]

You can already see as a baby at 18 that he's gonna be one of the stronger players in the league.

If we can develop him right it could be one of the best lane intimidators.

[PhilBlackson]

Did we ever find out what we traded to get #57?

A top 6 protected in 25'.

[PD28]

Watch on YouTube

Giving me early Giannis levels of sincerity

[Phezmo123]

Interestingly enough, Chomche has possibly the highest ceiling of anyone in this draft. Actual star potential.

He's two years away from being two years away though.

[Psubs]

OMG OMG YESSSSSS!!!!