2019-2020 College/Draft thread (Part 2)

robillionaire · Post #1541 » by **robillionaire** » Sun Mar 8, 2020 5:49 pm

Big update on tankathon.

http://www.tankathon.com/big_board

Edwards no longer in tier 1. Hayes in tier 1. Lots of changes

semjazy · Post #1542 » by **semjazy** » Sun Mar 8, 2020 5:58 pm

robillionaire wrote:Big update on tankathon.

http://www.tankathon.com/big_board

Edwards no longer in tier 1. Hayes in tier 1. Lots of changes

Edwards not in first tier?

Something significant happend or tankathon just decided to be contrarian?

damedash09 · Post #1543 » by **damedash09** » Sun Mar 8, 2020 6:01 pm

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jvsimonetti0514 · Post #1544 » by **jvsimonetti0514** » Sun Mar 8, 2020 7:04 pm

I wouldn't be shocked if Dayton ends up being a final 4 team. Toppin pretty much looks unstoppable every time he's on the floor. The real question is if that's because he's a literal man among boys. I'm sure being 22 has to have something to do with his domination. He only played one year of high school basketball, so I don't think he's done developing either. What's his ceiling really? A bouncier Kevin Love? I think i would stay away from him for two reason; I'm just not sure there's a role for an all offensive, no defense big in the NBA. He does have three point range but you really can't get away with playing two bigs anymore with Mitch here.

RandlesCornrows · Post #1545 » by **RandlesCornrows** » Sun Mar 8, 2020 7:05 pm

I been on Obi. He’s a player man

Juco24 · Post #1546 » by **Juco24** » Sun Mar 8, 2020 7:09 pm

Tankathon has us taking Killian hayes... has anyone seen him play?

knickstape4ever · Post #1547 » by **knickstape4ever** » Sun Mar 8, 2020 7:26 pm

I'm not too worried about Edwards; his issue is shot selection; with better talent around him and good coaching that can be fixed. I'd still take him #1

Post #1548 » by **HerSports85** » Sun Mar 8, 2020 10:36 pm

Ouch

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Post #1549 » by **HerSports85** » Sun Mar 8, 2020 10:43 pm

Lmao this is a terrible mock

spree8 · Post #1550 » by **spree8** » Mon Mar 9, 2020 2:11 am

HerSports85 wrote:Ouch

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jvsimonetti0514 · Post #1551 » by **jvsimonetti0514** » Mon Mar 9, 2020 2:59 am

we've fallen to 6 on tankathon and have one more game against Detroit. Does anyone know what Towns in injured with? I think we can catch the Cavs and Wolves if everyone plays.

sims · Post #1552 » by **sims** » Mon Mar 9, 2020 3:33 am

semjazy wrote:
robillionaire wrote:Big update on tankathon.

http://www.tankathon.com/big_board

Edwards no longer in tier 1. Hayes in tier 1. Lots of changes

Edwards not in first tier? Something significant happend or tankathon just decided to be contrarian?

this is a realistic take. i've been saying all season that he's being overrated in the same way fultz was at UW - everyone overstating his effectiveness while glossing over his obvious flaws. he'd be particularly bad on this roster as the last thing we need is another inefficient, high-volume perimeter scorer.

RHODEY · Post #1553 » by **RHODEY** » Mon Mar 9, 2020 3:41 am

jvsimonetti0514 wrote:we've fallen to 6 on tankathon and have one more game against Detroit. Does anyone know what Towns in injured with? I think we can catch the Cavs and Wolves if everyone plays.

He has a severe case of tankitis. Minny FO recommends siting him out infidelity to "protect "him from reaggravating his wrist injury.

jvsimonetti0514 · Post #1554 » by **jvsimonetti0514** » Mon Mar 9, 2020 3:44 am

RHODEY wrote:
jvsimonetti0514 wrote:we've fallen to 6 on tankathon and have one more game against Detroit. Does anyone know what Towns in injured with? I think we can catch the Cavs and Wolves if everyone plays.

He has a severe case of tankitis. Minny FO recommends siting him out infidelity to "protect "him from reaggravating his wrist injury.

That's what I'm afraid of

WargamesX · Post #1555 » by **WargamesX** » Mon Mar 9, 2020 4:04 am

I like Haliburton for us.....I think RJ needs to be ball Dominant at the wing to maximize his skill set and a back court of Haliburton and Frank (with hopefully Dotson mixed in) would compliment him.

BugginOut · Post #1556 » by **BugginOut** » Mon Mar 9, 2020 4:31 am

Edwards is going to bust. Nothing I seen in his game makes me believe he will be effective in the NBA. Only elite level talent I see is Lamelo.

Of course the Knicks are screwing up the tank when we finally have a chance to get the PG we been searching for. Only teams in the lottery that need a PG are the Piston, Wolves and Bulls. If we can stay ahead of them and land in the top 4 I think Lavar will push Lamelo to the Knicks. But we NEED a top pick

Zenzibar · Post #1557 » by **Zenzibar** » Mon Mar 9, 2020 1:26 pm

Bleacher Report is favoring Obi Toppin to win the NCAA Player of the Year.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2878988-ranking-obi-toppin-and-top-mens-national-player-of-the-year-candidates#slide10

Ranking Obi Toppin and Top Men's National Player of the Year Candidates

1. F Obi Toppin, Dayton
10 OF 10

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Stats: 19.8 PPG, 7.6 RPG, 2.1 APG, 1.3 BPG, 0.9 SPG, 32.0 PER

Laine Higgins of the Wall Street Journal recently wrote an article titled, "The College Basketball Season Without a Household Name," which offered the following assessment:

"Last winter, a certain 6-foot-7, 285-pound Duke freshman dominated the court and the airwaves: Zion Williamson was quite literally the biggest thing to hit college basketball in decades. Making it to March without knowing his name would have required hibernation.

"But this year, a season without One Great Team or One Transcendent Player, it's a different story. You would be forgiven if you had no idea who might succeed Williamson as the 2020 national player of the year."

A big reason for that is the nation's most compelling player is suiting up for the Dayton Flyers in the Atlantic 10 Conference.

Obi Toppin filled up the stat sheet as a freshman with 14.4 points, 5.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 0.8 blocks and 0.6 steals per game.

This season, he's improved those numbers across the board.

Since being held to eight points against Grambling on Dec. 23, Toppin is averaging 20.4 points per game on a blistering .636 field-goal percentage, and he has the Flyers in position for a run at a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

In terms of impact on his team's success, the case for Toppin to win National Player of the Year is a compelling one.
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Here another article by SlamOnline as Obi is currently the most talked about NCAA baller and on the loudest media BLAST.

OBI ONE: THE INCREDIBLE RISE OF DAYTON’S OBI TOPPIN

If you had never seen Zion Williamson, but you had to sketch him based on what people told you about his game and how humiliated he makes everyone else look when he dunks on them, you would accidentally draw Obi Toppin.

Obi is not the action-figure-lookin’ superhuman that Zion is, at least physically. His frame is within the bounds of reality. But he plays like him and he jumps like him and he dominates around the rim like him.

So, of course, Obi—who’s averaging about 20 ppg on over 60 percent shooting as I’m typing this—is at one of those schools that vacuums up 6-9, walking YouTube compilations. Duke. UNC. Maybe Gonzaga, for something a little exotic.

Nope. Dayton. As in the University of Dayton. As in Ohio.

“It’s off the charts. We’ve never had a big name like this,” says David Jablonski, who’s been covering the Dayton Flyers, which is what they’re called, apparently, for a decade.

A perfect storm of events had to happen for Toppin, who is almost certainly going to be a lottery pick, to end up in Dayton, literally playing peek-a-boo with David’s 3-month old baby last year, instead of catching lobs from Cole Anthony at UNC.

After all, Obi’s from Ossining, NY. His dad was a streetball legend in New York. He spent a lot of his childhood in Florida.

Dayton, OH, was not on Obi’s radar. At all. As Jablonski wrote in a profile of a still-unknown Toppin in June of 2018, who was redshirting as a freshman, when Obi got off the plane, he was surprised to learn he wasn’t in Florida. He thought he was going to Daytona.

He wasn’t recruited after his senior year in high school. Even though everybody raved about him, his grades weren’t great. Obi was 6-4 at the time.

Then, suddenly, he wasn’t. He grew to be 6-9, very quickly. He went to Mt. Zion Prep in Baltimore and dominated. Dayton’s new coach Anthony Grant pounced.

That’s how Obi wound up holding Jablonski’s kid in Dayton 14 months ago.

A lot of things have changed since.

“The hype grew very gradually. Everybody said great things about him. What he was doing in practice was turning heads,” says Jablonski. “Then he played in that pickup game in New York City.”

Clips started going viral, and Obi Toppin, unrecruited and currently playing on a team whose previous best player was probably Giannis Antetokounmpo’s younger brother Kostas, was suddenly on everyone’s radar.

Maybe too much on everyone’s radar. We tried to get Obi on the phone to talk about how quickly this has all happened. Dayton’s poor PR guy responded somberly, like I was asking for venture capital money to start a multi-million dollar dog trafficking cartel. (“We have so many requests for him. I will put you in line for him,” he said, but it wouldn’t be soon.)

There’s an old YouTube video called the “Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video,” that semi-jokingly claims “our main export is LeBron James.” That’s what’s going on in Dayton with Obi Toppin, who might win National Player of the Year. Dayton’s only two losses this year are in overtime to Kansas and Colorado, who are both really good. Most other games except for the opener have been never-in-doubt blowouts.

You’d figure this would change Obi, that he’d be itching to get out of Dayton as national media and NBA scouts started flying in.

“A week ago, I took my wife and kid, who’s now 17 months old, to the game. We were walking around the arena and Obi sees the baby. He recognizes him. He’s all excited, and he asks to hold him,” says Jablonski. “I’m an old school beat writer. I’m not a fan of the team. I don’t wear their colors. But it tells you what kind of man Obi is. And it’s a great story to tell my kid. We’ve had some great players over the years, but nothing like Obi Toppin

rajajackal · Post #1558 » by **rajajackal** » Mon Mar 9, 2020 2:18 pm

WargamesX wrote:I like Haliburton for us.....I think RJ needs to be ball Dominant at the wing to maximize his skill set and a back court of Haliburton and Frank (with hopefully Dotson mixed in) would compliment him.

i feel exactly the same way

Post #1559 » by **HerSports85** » Mon Mar 9, 2020 4:19 pm

Looking at last year draft, really won’t be that upset if we ended up in the 5th or 6th spot. Hopefully we can leap to the top like the pelicans, grizzles and lakers

http://www.tankathon.com/past_drafts/2019

RHODEY · Post #1560 » by **RHODEY** » Mon Mar 9, 2020 4:30 pm

BugginOut wrote:Edwards is going to bust. Nothing I seen in his game makes me believe he will be effective in the NBA. Only elite level talent I see is Lamelo.

Of course the Knicks are screwing up the tank when we finally have a chance to get the PG we been searching for. Only teams in the lottery that need a PG are the Piston, Wolves and Bulls. If we can stay ahead of them and land in the top 4 I think Lavar will push Lamelo to the Knicks. But we NEED a top pick

You think the wolves would draft a PG after trading for DLo?