Cameron Boozer

[threethehardway]

We talking about high school? High school. High school? High school...

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I mean, the Basketball Hall of Fame considers high school play in the evaluation of HOF status.

Kareem was a lbasketball egend before he got to college, he would've played professionally straight of high school if he could.

When you don't know what you are talking about, you should just say that instead of continuing to type.

[JMAC3]

I feel pretty good settling on Boozer being somewhere between prime KLove and KAT. A guy that will make some allstar teams as a great 2nd or 3rd option but his lack of ball handling and being able to score in the midrange is probably the biggest factor why I don't see him as a future star.

Even still I think he is safer than Peterson given the finishing, handling and mysterys surrounding him so I am going to stick with him at #2 on my board.

AJ is just more ball dominant and actually shows signs of being an elite 3 level scorer.

According to No Ceilings shot charts.

Dybantsa shot 81/165 from midrange or 49%
Boozer shot 5/20 from midrange or 25%

[HadAnEffectHere]

I think he's KAT without the silly fouls and turnovers. Same size, same good at everything on offense, better ball handler, more disciplined.

[MWN]

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[Illuminaire]

Planting my flag. Boozer will have the best career of anyone in this draft class. He will just win games and make his team better. He is the guy who should go #1, and people will eventually look back and wonder how anyone passed on him.

[Phillybul]

We talking about high school? High school. High school? High school...

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I mean, the Basketball Hall of Fame considers high school play in the evaluation of HOF status.

Kareem was a lbasketball egend before he got to college, he would've played professionally straight of high school if he could.

When you don't know what you are talking about, you should just say that instead of continuing to type.

The consideration for a players HS career is incredibly small. It doesn’t make or break a players induction at all. Probably just an “oh btw he did x y and z in HS”. I think at that point their minds if that player is a HOF or not are already made up. I’m not even sure it’s even in their writeup for the HOF. The meat and potatoes is the nba career and then college/international follows suit. HS resumes are just for diehard fans of that player. Or fans just intrigued by a players entire body of work.

[SeattleJazzFan]

Planting my flag. Boozer will have the best career of anyone in this draft class. He will just win games and make his team better. He is the guy who should go #1, and people will eventually look back and wonder how anyone passed on him.

nah, it will be more like mj/hakeem/barkley/stockton draft. boozer might be great, but a few others will also be great and nobody will wonder why guys were passed on. mj > hakeem, but nobody wonders why houston took hakeem.

stockton was great, but nobody wonders why philly took barkley.

[kobyz]

I see a lot Larry Bird in him, unbelievable playmaking and shooting at the PF position

[threethehardway]

The consideration for a players HS career is incredibly small. It doesn’t make or break a players induction at all. Probably just an “oh btw he did x y and z in HS”. I think at that point their minds if that player is a HOF or not are already made up. I’m not even sure it’s even in their writeup for the HOF. The meat and potatoes is the nba career and then college/international follows suit. HS resumes are just for diehard fans of that player. Or fans just intrigued by a players entire body of work.

The point is, if you combine Boozer's high school career and his college career, he's one of the best American prospects of all time.

The sentiment of "We are talking about high school" in relation to Kareem and Boozer is ridiculous because Kareem only played in college because he was forced. The only reason he stayed in college so long was because freshmen couldn't play varsity.

If Kareem was around today, he would've been one and done.

Most of these long ass college careers back then was because players like Kareem had no choice.

Kareem was the best prospect since Wilt Chamberlain and Wilt quit college to play with the Globetrotters to make money.

Nobody cares about college basketball. I am sure if Boozer played 10 years in the NBA at just an All-Star level with him putting up a ridiculous college season and being a GOAT American High School prospect, he's getting into the HOF.

The HOF isn't that hard to get into, someone like Demar Derozan is getting in and he has never been the GOAT level on any level.