thebuzzardman wrote:HEZI wrote:mpharris36 wrote:
there is a weaknesses videos for anthony edwards too...doesn't mean I still wouldn't take him in the top 2.
Everybody has weaknesses that isn't the point. Lamelo Ball has Julius Randle type of weaknesses where he hurts your team a lot. Did you study the weaknesses or are you just content with knowing players have them therefore it's all good?
I want LaMelo but have these concerns as well; you've helped sell them.
So, ISO scorers tend to not help teams, as the ball stops with them (If they are that kind of player) and they have to have unreal efficiency to overcome that. Ex would be Antoine Walker on Boston etc, who didn't.
Some people (not you) confuse "ball dominant" with bad, but a ball dominant player, who has decent efficiency and is a very good playmaker is usually helpful.
The worry with LaMelo is that he'd be "ball dominant", and not an "iso scorer" but if his efficiency is bad and his decision making poor, then the easy buckets he'd get his team at times would be offset by lost possession on bad shots, turnovers, or just badly run sets.
I still want LaMelo, of course would be fine with Edwards, but I'm still wary of LaMelo.
If only we had any way of actually knowing what any of these KIDS will become when they get to the NBA and are surrounded by professional basketball players and professional coaches and have to go up against other professional basketball players, but we don't. These kids will grow and learn better ways of playing the game and different ways of playing the game so to think what you see now from what these kids did in college or high school (Wiseman) or overseas will be what they will be in 2-3-4-5 years from now is absolutely ridiculous. We just need to hope we get the player that has a good basketball mind and will love to learn and soak everything in and is coachable cause they all have talent or they wouldn't be mentioned as getting drafted in the draft.
LaMelo and Deni won't be the LaMelo and Deni we saw playing euro ball and Wiseman won't be the player we saw in high school or his 3 games in college and Edwards won't be the player we saw at Georgia and so on. These kids are just kids and the NBA is a different game where some of these kids talents will fit better there and they'll thrive and some will have to work their a**es off to fit their games to the NBA game and for some the NBA game will just be too big for them and will end up being busts at the NBA level. Finding the right players is the tricky part and there's no way to 100% do it right which is why there's multiple players in every single draft that will end up busts all through the draft even in the lottery every single year.
