Bernman wrote:Why is Anigbogu a better prospect than, say, a guy like Kaba? They have similar measurements. Kaba is now in the 240's to 250's weight-wise. Kaba has the jumper teams now crave from a big. He's a better handler. He's more aware. He's more graceful. He's a better rebounder. Anigbogu has a better block rate, but also a significantly higher foul rate. So it's a trade off. Kaba has a vastly superior steal rate. Kaba's #'s, when he stepped up in comp, are extremely intriguing. Efficiency dropped somewhat, but volume went up, rebounds were all the way up to 10 in 26 minutes, he averaged 1.6 steals and 1.2 blocks. His steal-rate is consistently really high overall for a big, making his deflection-rate good overall.
Kaba's name has been around for a little while though. So it loses luster. Anigbogu is in the honeymoon period. That would be a reach of a pick. He's more theoretical potential guy, not realistic, let alone mostly developed one. He was a limited bench player at UCLA. Behind fellow frosh T.J. Leaf, who would be the superior pick at 17, and then we may get the better version of Anigbobu w/ our 2nd. Although I suspect some GM's see similar things I do with Kaba.
Literally a week ago in a conversation about Bolden, you were telling me that one league is significantly weaker (ie, the very one where Kaba plays), and therefore not translatable yet here you are directly comparing numbers.
