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Are Jazz fans looking at Rudy through homer glasses?

Which young center has the best future?

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Eenie-Meenie said:
No doubt that Russell was the greatest defensive player of all time, but he was surrounded by tremendous talent -- sure they were players of different era with lesser athletic ability, but they were some of the best players of their era -- Bob Cousy, Sam and K.C Jones, Frank Ramsey, John Havlicek, Bill Sharman, Tommy Heinsohn, all of them All-Star caliber.
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^ This.
Rudy is surrounded by mediocre defensive talent. He is already at or above the defensive level of Russell, with plenty of room to grow. If his offense just gets a little better he will leave Russell in the dust as a player.


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Should probably add Hassan Whiteside to this poll.

Dude is looking insanely good.

Center resurgence in the NBA.
 
In that poll, I think an argument could be made for Nurkic, Drummond and G Unit.

In general I think Embiid probably has the brightest future of any young big if he can stay healthy. He's the next truly dominant big if injuries don't derail his career, I don't see anyway around it. Before the injury shenanigans he was a cut above the #1 pick and it wasn't close.
 
Trying so hard not to be a homer and be objective. It is so hard not to pick Rudy out of that list. I haven't seen a player affect the game of the defensive end like he does in a long time. Most of the work he does doesn't show up in the stat line. Just watching teams try to score around him is hilarious.
 
bigmike said:
In that poll, I think an argument could be made for Nurkic, Drummond and G Unit.

In general I think Embiid probably has the brightest future of any young big if he can stay healthy. He's the next truly dominant big if injuries don't derail his career, I don't see anyway around it. Before the injury shenanigans he was a cut above the #1 pick and it wasn't close.
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Except his health IS a concern. At this point it is very unlikely he reaches whatever ceiling is projected of him. Give me Rudy ALL DAY LONG over he human emergency ward.
 
bigmike said:
In that poll, I think an argument could be made for Nurkic, Drummond and G Unit.

In general I think Embiid probably has the brightest future of any young big if he can stay healthy. He's the next truly dominant big if injuries don't derail his career, I don't see anyway around it. Before the injury shenanigans he was a cut above the #1 pick and it wasn't close.
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If he didn't have that level of upside before the injuries, Dante Exum would be running the tank in Philly. Big men with talent are at such a premium that the 76ers possibly burned the 3rd overall pick praying that Embiid isn't Oden. I'm looking at Dante Exum running the offense and just astounded that he fell to pick #5.
 
We are definitely looking at him with homer goggles to a certain extent. It's weird but, Hassan Whiteside has been coming on strong as well...after like five years or something and two years without playing in the NBA. He has done nothing until this year, but now it's like he's on Rudy's level. Just recorded a triple double with 12 blocks. It makes me pause a little with Rudy, since he only had 2 blocks in his last 3 games, although he disrupted a lot.
 
Rudy is getting less blocks because teams are going into mid range jumpshot mode when Rudy is in the game. Hassan Whiteside is not better than Rudy Gobert. Playing in the East inflates stats. Hell we just beat #6 east seed on the road without Favors and destroyed their #8 seed by 35. No imagine that they have 8 teams way worse than that. Imagine if we got to play the Timberwolves 12 times this year. Burke would be a statistical stud. Hassan is getting stats because the playbook for beating the Heat is to continually go inside and he is benefitting from it.
 
framer said:
Rudy is getting less blocks because teams are going into mid range jumpshot mode when Rudy is in the game. Hassan Whiteside is not better than Rudy Gobert. Playing in the East inflates stats. Hell we just beat #6 east seed on the road without Favors and destroyed their #8 seed by 35. No imagine that they have 8 teams way worse than that. Imagine if we got to play the Timberwolves 12 times this year. Burke would be a statistical stud. Hassan is getting stats because the playbook for beating the Heat is to continually go inside and he is benefitting from it.
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Whiteside just had 12 blocks vs. the Bulls dawg. Those stats aren't inflated.
 
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