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Every time I see Thon I can't even imagine drafting him, it would be another Bruno utter shock moment lol because it would be the #9, I really don't think he's even gonna be on the board at #27 especially with BOS and PHX having extra picks to gamble on upside. For all the trash people talk on him everything that has come out of the combine and workouts has been positive about him so I some times don't know if it's just that a bad reputation that preceeds him or he's just a guy that shines in non structured play which happens a lot with guys.
He's just so weird to gauge because I actually have gone back n watched games of his online n I didn't get a sense at all that he was anywhere near as bad as so many make him out to be and he actually seemed pretty damn good tbh not "lost" or like a role player like so many make him out to be. Every time I finished watching one I was left feeling like some (not all) of his struggles seemed in part to having a crappy team around him especially when he played against American high schools. Gotta remember is hard to do amazing when teams key mainly into you n many times when these American HS teams come up they're the best in the nation, there's still a major gap in the GENERAL level of talent b/w Canadian n American teams. Everybody is ready to label him a bust before he even starts n it's weird because he was being recruited by every large school in the nation (UK, Duke, NC etc).
Although Fran stole my "Curious Case" catch phrase that I was using for Bentil lol it is far more appropriate with Thon because it's so hard to get a read on what's the truth about Thon and what's just myth (good or bad). It's really going to be interesting to see what Thon is like in 4-5 years from now.
I'm very doubtful at this point that we take him because I haven't even heard so much as a peep that we've even looked in his direction but who knows, same was said with Bruno and it's not like we couldn't have seen plenty of him already with him playing right in our backyard n Masai seems to pay a lot of attention to Basketball Without Borders which I believe Thon was the MVP of against a ton of the top recruits.
