I don't view them as comparable players at all. Lauri is a much better athlete and so much smoother. For me Filipowski is a 5 and he would really struggle defensively if pushed to the 4.
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I don't view them as comparable players at all. Lauri is a much better athlete and so much smoother. For me Filipowski is a 5 and he would really struggle defensively if pushed to the 4.
I think they are just purposefully being reactionary. It probably drives more interest.
I'll make this prediction, someone jumps ahead of Amen for the 3rd pick.
Nobody cares about or watches the leagues that the top projected picks play in. Somebody is going to raise their stock playing college ball and a team is going to fall in love with them.
Nobody cares about or watches the leagues that the top projected picks play in. Somebody is going to raise their stock playing college ball and a team is going to fall in love with them.
Have you? He isn't nearly as athletic or smooth as Lauri. I'm not saying he is a bad prospect but the Lauri comparison is off base in my opinion. From an athletic and skill standpoint I think he compares pretty favorably to Nik Vucevic coming out of college.
Potentially. Sometimes it's hard to tell how athletic college players are since they are rarely in space, plus a lot of them are far from being at their physical peak that they have a decent amount of athletic gains to make.
I do definitely agree Lauri is athletically superior, I'm just not sure by how much. Flip definitely isnt a stiff and is pretty mobile.
It is certainly possible. It sucks that he and his brother chose to play against such a low level of competition.
And comparing Flip to Vucevic athletically? Are you serious? I beg yall stop making random white guy comps.
Vucevic is a guy who is playing above 260 lbs for his entire career and had a max vertical of 25 inches at his combine.
I promise you Flip is putting up at least a 30' max vertical and testing better across the board athletically while also being the clear better athlete if you have functioning eye balls.
Vucevic is a guy who is playing above 260 lbs for his entire career and had a max vertical of 25 inches at his combine.
I promise you Flip is putting up at least a 30' max vertical and testing better across the board athletically while also being the clear better athlete if you have functioning eye balls.
He clearly hasn’t watched him play.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g7YF6RUU1k
Just an example of his basic open court athleticism (straight line, no moves) here on the final play (starts at 1:11)
That's an athletic 7'.
Very comparable overall games coming out of college. Also you act like Vucevic is some kind of stiff athletically and Filip is some kind of explosive big.