GetYourPHX wrote:Warren has serious issues when he has to defend bigger guys.
He needs to hit the weight room.
Warren didn't break out in college until he lost a lot of weight. He's a wing player through and through, he's such a bad defensive rebounder for a wing (always has been, he was in college too) that there's just almost no way to profitably play him at power forward. He should see minutes at 2 guard before he sees minutes at the 4, playing like a big is just so not anywhere near his skill set.
As for Booker, he gets a solid C for average so far. He looks pretty much exactly like his scouting report. He was bad from NBA 3 in college (some of the guys coming out are decent from the NBA 3, he was not) so it's absolutely not a surprise to see him missing short especially against NBA caliber closeouts. Not expressly worried about his stroke developing, overall his IQ on offense and movement are pretty good. He's also much, much more willing to go after rebounds than I expected based on watching him in college, which is really nice.
On defense, just as poor as to be expected. Best he can do is sort of but not really stay in front of guys, he has almost no way with his mediocre athleticism/length to actually be a playmaker. He'll be yet another example in a very long line of counterexamples as to why combine agility testing 100% does not matter in evaluating prospects. The good news is he can at least develop into "not a total liability" which should make him an acceptable role player but he still has a mountain to climb to get to that point.
