Undefeated wrote:FluLikeSymptoms wrote:It's really tough on the knees to guard the perimeter as an over-sized player. See: Most who have tried. It's probably best that he plays the 4 like a pussy or comes off the bench.
Exactly. Perry Jones III has a high center of gravity at 6'11", so he isn't going to react or move that quickly on the perimeter. Asking a 6'11" SF to get low on their defensive stance for 48-minutes is going to create all sort of pain/damage on his knees. Even LeBron James can't defend a PG/SG for long-stretches, and he's one hell of a physical specimen. So what makes PJ III can?
I want him to defend SF's, not pg's and sg's. Maybe Sg's on switches.
i guess he looks raw at first glance but if you saw him as a freshman you might appreciate how much his skillset has evolved over the past year (and continues to do). if he truly is pegged as a mid-first right now, i'd expect playoff teams to fall over themselves trading up. the reality is, though, i think the mocks are sometimes laggard to reflect changes in value (e.g. why was MKG ranked so low for so long?), especially when it concerns prospects who've been on the board for the better part of two seasons and whose flavour-of-the-month tag has long expired. i could be wrong but my gut informs me that pj3 will rise again with a bullet as soon as workouts/intvs come around and teams begin to reconcile old bias with new info... and if we landed him at 3, 8, 10 or 15, i'd be a happy dude either way.
