Post#205 » by scrabbarista » Wed Mar 3, 2021 6:11 pm
Bill Simmons teased a take that everyone should slow their roll on Cunningham on his podcast yesterday.
With the big caveat that my opinion was formed off of a few highlights and scouting vids watched over the last few months, I was "encouraged" to hear someone like Simmons agree with my impressions. When I first checked out Cunningham, Mobley, and Suggs, I was most impressed by Suggs, then Mobley, then Cunningham. [EDIT: I'm not saying CC "sucks," or anything crazy like that. I'm just talking in the context of "should he be the number one pick?"]
Simmons gets a lot of disrespect, but he's been attending NBA games since the 70's, watches an obscene amount of NBA basketball, literally wrote a book on the history of the league, and, imho, has a good grasp of elite NBA talent. He's not always right, sure, (Derrick Williams was a big miss), but he was incredibly adamant on the Oden/Durant question, which he ended up nailing (he predicted Oden's body would break down and Durant would be a generational player - before the draft), and I respect his opinions on that highest level of "historical" talent. I think he's been a little too high on Doncic, but he was exuberant about Doncic as an all-timer well before nearly all non-fanboy pundits, which looks smart to me.
I'll be interested to hear his full take, which he said should be coming up on The Ringer's "University" pod, or whatever it's called. Either today or next Wednesday, I guess.
I haven't read any of this thread, so I apologize if this has been covered, but what do you all make of CC's negative AST/TO ratio? Is it really as simple as "his teammates suck?" Should it be at least a bit of a red flag that he can't even get it to 1-1? I submit all of this humbly, as someone who only pays attention to the most elite prospects and almost never watches a full college game.
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