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Saint Cy of JFC said:
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He's had 4 G-League games thus far and he has yet to look like a NBA caliber player in any of them. It's been the worst case scenario for him thus far.
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He was injured and missed all of summer league. He’s a little bit behind the curve as far as experience goes right now. Let’s cut him a little slack.
 
KqWIN said:
FWIW, Hendricks had a sizable dropoff in production against top 50 opponents. I'm sure every player has a dropoff against better competition, however, so I don't know what's "normal".

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I touched on this a little a while ago. When guys are the only scoring option on their team and play against teams with better talent they can just focus on limiting them while forcing the worse teammates to beat them. Oh yeah and you know college spacing is horrendous so that is at play on top of it.
 
Domino said:
Ochai looked really bad in the G league and has been serviceable in the NBA some players just aren’t built for the g league


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Yep and I also dont think that ochai has reached his peak in year 2 of his career.
 
Elizah Huge said:
I touched on this a little a while ago. When guys are the only scoring option on their team and play against teams with better talent they can just focus on limiting them while forcing the worse teammates to beat them. Oh yeah and you know college spacing is horrendous so that is at play on top of it.
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What you're saying is true, but it's true for pretty much every draft prospect. UCF did not run their offense through Hendricks in the first place. Again, I don't know what the normal or expected drop-off would be, but I wouldn't expect it to be worse for Hendricks versus other prospects. I watched both of the HOU games, for example, and it's not like HOU was focusing him.
 
Elizah Huge said:
I touched on this a little a while ago. When guys are the only scoring option on their team and play against teams with better talent they can just focus on limiting them while forcing the worse teammates to beat them. Oh yeah and you know college spacing is horrendous so that is at play on top of it.
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Hendricks wasnt the only scoring option on the team. He averaged 15 ppg, so it's not even like he was scoring all taht much. They had 4 players average 10 points or above.

Hendricks just isnt good and he probably struggled against higher ranked teams because higher ranked teams have actual big men and Taylor was charmin soft in the paint.
 
KqWIN said:
What you're saying is true, but it's true for pretty much every draft prospect. UCF did not run their offense through Hendricks in the first place. Again, I don't know what the normal or expected drop-off would be, but I wouldn't expect it to be worse for Hendricks versus other prospects. I watched both of the HOU games, for example, and it's not like HOU was focusing him.
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I guess what I said was in general and might not be directly correlated with Hendricks. It shouldn’t be worse either you’re right there.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Hendricks wasnt the only scoring option on the team. He averaged 15 ppg, so it's not even like he was scoring all taht much. They had 4 players average 10 points or above.

Hendricks just isnt good and he probably struggled against higher ranked teams because higher ranked teams have actual big men and Taylor was charmin soft in the paint.
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You’re going overboard.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
Why do I think it was common knowledge you mean?

It was gone over to death in the conversations yesterday that were very pointless. It was my theory based on how the draft went down.
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I see.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Hendricks wasnt the only scoring option on the team. He averaged 15 ppg
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I believe that is more than any other college player drafted before him and more than most drafted right behind him as well. And he did it more efficiently than the other dudes who also scored less.
 
fishonjazz said:
I believe that is more than any other college player drafted before him and more than most drafted right behind him as well. And he did it more efficiently than the other dudes who also scored less.
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Yeah, a freshman averaging 15 PPG isn’t something to sneeze at.
 
Elizah Huge said:
Yeah, a freshman averaging 15 PPG isn’t something to sneeze at.
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I think it was more points per game than anthony black, jarace walker, gradey dick, cason wallace, kobe bufkin, keyonte george, etc. And more efficient as well.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Yeah, but I think we are all hoping Hendricks is a bit better than Ochai, whose top end looks like a solid 5th option in a starting lineup.
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Yeah so he could be Lauri Markkanen on the cavs he can sit in the corner and shoot threes and theoretically be a better defender than Lauri was those types of players often don’t look great in the G league I don’t think he’s ever gonna be a star but I think he could for sure be a solid 5th player in a starting line up much like Markkanen was on the cavs if we got him at 16 instead of 9 I think that’s what everyone would be hoping for so let’s just pretend we got key at 9 and him at 16 because we aren’t sure any of the players between those picks are any better than keyonte is rn


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