Marty McFly wrote:NoDopeOnSundays wrote:Marty McFly wrote:
Thinking about fitting into the current NBA all the while having the possibility of drafting someone who could change the game isn't forward thinking enough. he's a big who blocks shots, rebounds, can put the ball on the floor and shoots better from anywhere on the floor, better than anyone else in the draft. His shooting splits are 60/40/75; his TS% is .702. that doesn't sound generational to you?
That sounds like a great college player, but how does that translate to the next level if he can't play the position he's best at because he's not physically ready? I don't really care about TS% at the college level for a big either, or in general, people used Fultz TS% as a reason to draft him over Tatum. How you translate to the next level is really more important than anything else, and I don't see generational talent from Chet, he doesn't create that much of his own offense for him to be on that level.
We're not talking about a typical big's TS%. He's shooting 60% from the field 40% from three and 75% from the free throw line. the shooting is going translate. the guys who are going to give him trouble early on, are the leagues 3 MVP front runners.
I disagree, guys like Jonas, Adams, Allen, Vucevic, Zubac, Drummond, Mitch etc will absolutely kill a center who is 195lbs, it's not just the 3 MVP bigs who will give him trouble. He's not like Mobley either, nobody knows whether or not he can switch onto smaller players and defend in space, which is going to be important if he has to play the 4 for his first couple years.
The TS% is overblown, he's a 75% freethrow shooter which is more telling and is spoon fed a lot of his baskets. The shot creation of Jabari lowers his percentage, he's taking more difficult shots but that's the player I'd want to draft based on potential. If it's between a play finisher and a creator, I'm taking the shot creator especially when they're so close in size.
