Piecake wrote:I really dont like Dunn as a prospect at all. The dude is a straight up chucker who doesnt do much else to help his team. I dont think he will be a good pro at all.
Tough to call it chucking when it goes in at the rate it does. He’s never had a TS% below 60%, and his eFG% has also been good throughout his career. He also helps Baylor in other ways (good hands on defense, is playing more of a combo guard role this year, gets to the line, etc.) than you’re giving him credit for.
I guess more of the chucker reaction will be there for him this year, since more people are tuning into Baylor games hoping to see the Perry Jones show. Unfortunately for them, Dunn has a chance to become the Big 12's all time leading scorer and thus has a light as green as *insert hippie reference of your choice here*.
I'd much rather draft a player like David Lighty over Dunn with our utah than him. I actually think he could be a good player. He can shoot, drive, real smart and heady player, and plays great defense - might have a chance to be Afflalo 2.0.
Lighty’s a good player I’ll be happy to see leave the Big Ten, and if there’s a season next year he’d be a decent bet for David Thorpe’s Courtney Lee Last Rookie Standing Award. Like Dunn he’s a decent but not great athlete, but both have good body control and burst around the rim.
He can drive a seam, but he’s greatly helped in that area by Thad Matta’s willingness to play smallball, where Lighty’s spent a good amount of time at PF. His first step is ordinary, but due to his role and Ohio State’s excellent spacing, he gets to spend a good amount of time driving by PF’s who are already at a disadvantage because they’re closing out on a shooter. When it was an even up situation against the Gophers, he had trouble getting a step on Mbakwe.
He does get after it on the defensive end, which is something that should translate, and he seems to have used his redshirt season to improve his range to the college 3.
As for Jospeh, I dont think we draft him because, unlike Irving, he clearly isnt better or will be better than what we have.
That’s a tough bit of criteria to apply to a pick in the 20’s. Either way, Joseph will have a chance at being one of the top PG’s in what could potentially be a strong PG class, depending on who chooses to declare.
What he’s done hasn’t been as impressive as what Irving did, but it has been on par with what Knight and Selby have done for their teams, even though he doesn’t quite get that type of pub. He’s not quite the athlete Selby is, but he’s a better distributor than both those guys, wastes fewer possessions and gets after it on the defensive end (his work on Kemba Walker last weekend was exemplary). He can also shoot, which combined with his size and defensive potential would make him a nice fit for the Wolves.
I don’t know if he declares, Avery Bradley did the Findlay Prep to Texas to the draft thing last year, and part of the reason Joseph was rumored to have chosen Texas was because they get players to the NBA quickly. I also think that the less time he spends getting coached by Rick Barnes the better, but that’s my own personal bias.
