Ace Bailey Hype thread

[KqWIN]

He was projected 3rd by everyone till the pre draft process started.

And? Players move up and down the board all the time. Ace was not the clear 3rd best prospect at all. The biggest harm to Ace’s draft stock was his poor play at Rutgers.

 

[kabenac]

I like the Rashard Lewis comparison (though Bailey will likely be better than Lewis).

Lewis could get his jumper off, had a nice mid-range game, was a good defender and was athletic - though Ace is more athletic and will shoot more volume than Lewis.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I like the Rashard Lewis comparison (though Bailey will likely be better than Lewis).

Lewis could get his jumper off, had a nice mid-range game, was a good defender and was athletic - though Ace is more athletic and will shoot more volume than Lewis.

Taller early career Ray Allen?

 

[bigmike]

Kon Knueppel over Ace will never not be funny. I think we'll say the same about VJ some day but we'll see.

 

[Basketball Novice]

The biggest problem with Ace going to Rutgers is that he wasn’t coached. The poor talent around him obviously makes things more difficult, but a real coach and strong program would have made him look much better. He was leaning into the bad stuff, and there’s just no way Rutgers was going to tell him it was wrong.

The predraft stuff had minimal impact on his draft position compared to his actual play at Rutgers.

I'll admit that I was very down on Ace pre draft but it's clear that he has some incredible talent. The jumper looks automatic and he has been active defensively/on the boards. The early Rutgers stuff looked bad but he did improve as the college season progressed. If he can improve with attacking the rim/getting free throws, he could be an elite scorer. I'm optimistic that Will Hardy and this coaching staff can get Ace there.

 

[str8line]

I'll admit that I was very down on Ace pre draft but it's clear that he has some incredible talent. The jumper looks automatic and he has been active defensively/on the boards. The early Rutgers stuff looked bad but he did improve as the college season progressed. If he can improve with attacking the rim/getting free throws, he could be an elite scorer. I'm optimistic that Will Hardy and this coaching staff can get Ace there.

“Dynamic player, think he’s gonna be a helluva player. I love the coaching staff that he’s with; I love that he got drafted to Utah. Good development program over there,” said Durant about Bailey and Jazz after the game.

 

[rippimpc]

Ace looks good. Like a 6’ 9” rip hamilton

 

[David Hume]

Our colleague Art is getting some notice.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

And? Players move up and down the board all the time. Ace was not the clear 3rd best prospect at all. The biggest harm to Ace’s draft stock was his poor play at Rutgers.

Your right. It wasn’t the fact he didn’t work out for anyone and told everyone in the top five not to draft him.

 

[KqWIN]

Your right. It wasn’t the fact he didn’t work out for anyone and told everyone in the top five not to draft him.

If he was good enough, they would have drafted him anyways. Happens every year. The Jazz drafted him because they thought he was good enough, but the other teams did not. If it mattered so much the Jazz wouldn’t have drafted him either. Teams at the top of the draft do not care about this.

You act as if refusing to workout is the only thing that could possibly move a player in predraft. Ace top 3 wasn’t really even a hard consensus anyways. And if he didn’t disappoint at Rutgers maybe he’d be top 2 still.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I think Ace doing the refusal stuff did hurt him because it reinforced the narrative around him of being selfish and maybe not coachable. But that doubt was cast because of the way he played at Rutgers.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

And if Ace did workout for teams, it's not impossible to think that 2-4 would have been wowed by him in a workout setting. So I think both things are right, but I would say the Rutgers piece is the foundational piece of the doubt around Bailey.