Which draft prospect prototype are you most adverse to?

[mandurugo]

Which prototype scares you the most in prospective NBA players?

1.)The 1/2 who is too small to play the SG position, but doesn't have the required ability to play the PG position.

This is the guy who is an asset to most college squads because he can create his own offense and score in bunches. The guy whose considerable flaws have been over-looked by high school and college coaches alike because he scores so well.
This years prototype(s): Eric Gordon, J. Bayless, OJ Mayo.

Watching the wolves, this is the one that resonated with me - though it seems like we've got (or recently had) players to fit every one of your categories.

Great job coming up with your archetypes.

[Malinhion]

Watching the wolves, this is the one that resonated with me - though it seems like we've got (or recently had) players to fit every one of your categories.

Great job coming up with your archetypes.

How would you place the following players according to this archetype rubric? Either when the Wolves acquired them or when they were drafted (or both).

Al Jefferson
Corey Brewer
Randy Foye
Rashard McCants
Chris Richard
Sebastian Telfair

[moocow007]

#3 easily. I would absolutely stay the hell away from guys like Chris Lofton. I don't think Curry really qualifies in this group, since you say "he's not particularly quick," and Curry is pretty quick, and seems like a decent slasher. I hardly think Curry is a future star, but he has more game than just the 3, and playing beside the right 2-guard (a play making 2 like Roy, Kobe, Wade, etc.), I think he has NBA starter potential. Absolutely needs to be on the right team though.

Curry is definitely pretty quick for a C. I'm really not sure where all this Curry is slow is coming from. Just because he's a big guy and has conditioning problems doens't make him slow. Nor does it make him unskilled because he doesn't rebound and defend like people expect him to. Way too many people are making assumptions about things that they may not be in the best position to be making.

[AQuintus]

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Curry is definitely pretty quick for a C. I'm really not sure where all this Curry is slow is coming from. Just because he's a big guy and has conditioning problems doens't make him slow. Nor does it make him unskilled because he doesn't rebound and defend like people expect him to. Way too many people are making assumptions about things that they may not be in the best position to be making.

I'm pretty sure they're talking about Stephen Curry from Davidson.

[moocow007]

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I'm pretty sure they're talking about Stephen Curry from Davidson.

No, I'm pretty sure they were talking about Eddy Curry. It was a statement about slow and unskilled bigs and the examples that the poster used was Curry and Shaq.

[AQuintus]

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No, I'm pretty sure they were talking about Eddy Curry. It was a statement about slow and unskilled bigs and the examples that the poster used was Curry and Shaq.

The post you quoted was talking about Chris Lofton, an undersized shooting guard who is similar to Stephon Curry.

There was another post talking about slow and unskilled big men that mentioned Eddy, but it wasn't the one that you quoted.

[moocow007]

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The post you quoted was talking about Chris Lofton, an undersized shooting guard who is similar to Stephon Curry.

There was another post talking about slow and unskilled big men that mentioned Eddy, but it wasn't the one that you quoted.

Ahhh...gotcha. But yeah, I meant to repond to the Eddy post.

[j3yuen]

my vote goes to number 2. The crappy big man who can "play the game" is a scary thing. Being a Toronto Raptor fan, Rafael Arujo was the first thing to come to my mind when I was reading the OP. Sure he sucked really bad in the NBA but he really wasn't half bad in college.

The 1/2 Tweeners are the least of my worries, AI has been a 1/2 tweener his entire career, monta ellis seems to be doing fine and lou will is coming along this year. Lutherhead is doing alright at houston and If i'm not mistaken didn't Dwill play a 2 guard role on Illinois sometimes?

[kodo]

#4, you always see big guys go higher than they should in the draft. Seattle has wasted many years on this.

2001: Radmanovic (12)...#13 was Richard Jefferson
2004: Robert Swift (12)...Al Jefferson still on board.
2005: Johan Petro (25), Maxiell, Kleiza, and David Lee all still available
2006: Saer Sene (10), tons of decent players left