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Following potential 2014 draftees

PKM said:
James Young, Aaron Harrison, TJ Warren, and PJ Hairston... off the top of my head.
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TJ Warren isn't he's a occasional corner shooter who's just efficient on less than one attempt like Poythress.
Rasheed Sulaimon though is lights out. So is Gary Harris. Vasilije Micic is also and Alessandro Gentile can be considered in the future. Gentile hasn't shown accuracy in games yet(Has yet to shoot more than 31% in the pros, but his shot is looking smooth and he's confident shooting around 3 per game)
And when it comes to perimeter shooting, just add Doug McDermott. Simply so (tk)³ can't come around the corner and call me out on missing him.

Jako said:
Jazz Second Round pick and our future stretch 4

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Rasheed Sulaimon is not a lights out shooter. He is a streaky shooter.

He's going to get challenged for playing time by Matt Jones this year.
 
Hantler's is right, though.. overall his numbers may be pretty good, but he's more of a hot/cold shooter than a consistent. For whatever that's worth.

And yeah, Matt Jones is a player.
 
PKM said:
Hantler's is right, though.. overall his numbers may be pretty good, but he's more of a hot/cold shooter than a consistent. For whatever that's worth.

And yeah, Matt Jones is a player.
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Maybe I'm a little bit too ecstatic about Sulaimon, but I think he'll have a pretty good NBA career. Just look his shooting mechanics and he's got pretty neat handles. He does nothing crazy, but the things he can do he does with low amount of errors. He can spin, he shift gears, that's more than most NBA SGs can do. I also hope to see a couple games of him where he plays PG, as his PnR skills are really advanced for his position. If he can play PG court vision wise he can be very valuable. He wouldn't need to bulk up his limited frame to maintain quickness to defend guys like Paul and his tiny speedster friends.
A good comparison might be: Ben Gordon with defense but less clutch. I really hope from the vids I seen of him that he getts a chance to play more PG, I think he could be the good kind of combo guard.
I don't know nothing about Matt Jones, so I can't talk about that challenge. But Duke's backup PG is trash. So it should be easy to give him 10 min at PG and another 15-20 at SG.
If the recruitment ranks on Jones are accurate, he won't see too much freshmen playing time on a program like Duke.
 
BTP said:
Maybe I'm a little bit too ecstatic about Sulaimon, but I think he'll have a pretty good NBA career. Just look his shooting mechanics and he's got pretty neat handles. He does nothing crazy, but the things he can do he does with low amount of errors. He can spin, he shift gears, that's more than most NBA SGs can do. I also hope to see a couple games of him where he plays PG, as his PnR skills are really advanced for his position. If he can play PG court vision wise he can be very valuable. He wouldn't need to bulk up his limited frame to maintain quickness to defend guys like Paul and his tiny speedster friends.
A good comparison might be: Ben Gordon with defense but less clutch. I really hope from the vids I seen of him that he getts a chance to play more PG, I think he could be the good kind of combo guard.
I don't know nothing about Matt Jones, so I can't talk about that challenge. But Duke's backup PG is trash. So it should be easy to give him 10 min at PG and another 15-20 at SG.
If the recruitment ranks on Jones are accurate, he won't see too much freshmen playing time on a program like Duke.
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Duke's backup PG is Tyler Thornton. Average player, tons of heart. Coach K loves him. He's also a team captain. You won't be seeing Sheed playing PG over him unless if Thornton gets injured.

Now don't get me wrong, I love Sheed as a player, but I watched every single Duke game last year, and I watched Sheed play over the summer. He's a good player, but he is definitely struggling right now and he is a streaky shooter. He did play great defense for a freshman though, and never seemed to get too rattled by the pressure of major college basketball. He's really nothing like Ben Gordon. I would say he's fairly comparable to Gary Harris (not as consistent of a shooter though), which also states how overrated Harris is.

Now you can try to predict Matt Jones' playing time based off of his recruiting ranking, but that would be a mistake. He'll get minutes, he looks way better than I thought he would as a freshman. For the most part, recruiting rankings are garbage. ****, if we can barely rank how well players hit the NBA after playing in college against decent to good athletes, imagine how hard it is to rank high school kids.
 
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