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Following Potential 2018 Draftees

rare144 said:
This is a great draft if Devonte Graham is a fringe 2nd rounder.

I remember a couple mocks had him going late 1st last year had he entered. He'll find a spot on a team in the league, I don't know if I like him better than Mason, but he's better than Nigel Goss foh sho
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Graham will be safe somewhere in the 2nd. He just gets NBA style buckets IMO.. it'll translate..
 
So I'm finishing up my first mock of 2018 and in the very late stages I finally went to see DX and their top-100(which i refuse to pay for still out of principle).. As usual they have some names I'm unfamiliar with...

Marko Simonovic who plays for Siena and just turned 18 not long ago, looks extremely good, like a 1st rd talent, they have him at #39 in their top rankings.. He's 7-foot tall and extremely mbile, looks like he's got some shooting touch too...

It's funny they have MArkus Howard listed at 6'0 with a 6'0 wingspan, both of those numbers are embellished. He's in the 30's tho!!! I once said "I don't co-sign midget players unless their game is as sharp as this"
 
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Ehh, NWG could be with the Jazz next year. He has been one of the best players in Eurocup and Adriatic League. His team isnt very good (one of the worst in Eurocu and just a middling team in the Adriatic), but he is definitely someone who has a potential future in the NBA.
 
Oh this French Kid looks good! I'd actually say he looks like a good fit for Utah, way better than that kid from Weber St, who to me was the bad kind of tweener. This kid is a pure PF, quite frankly he could be 'on sale' cuz he's 6'8" and not 6'10"..



Looks like he's got the Larry Nance Jr type of skillset...


The Canadian kid at Syracuse, O'Shae Brissett (who I posted about here long ago) they have listed in the 40;s is probably better tho..
 
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Saint Cy of JFC said:
Ehh, NWG could be with the Jazz next year. He has been one of the best players in Eurocup and Adriatic League. His team isnt very good (one of the worst in Eurocu and just a middling team in the Adriatic), but he is definitely someone who has a potential future in the NBA.
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Glad to hear that for Stocks sake
 
PG_AB said:
Oh this French Kid looks good! I'd actually say he looks like a good fit for Utah, way better than that kid from Weber St, who to me was the bad kind of tweener. This kid is a pure PF, quite frankly he could be 'on sale' cuz he's 6'8" and not 6'10"..



Looks like he's got the Larry Nance Jr type of skillset...


The Canadian kid at Syracuse, O'Shae Brissett (who I posted about here long ago) they have listed in the 40;s is probably better tho..
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Nice find
 
Just one more quick hit on that CP3 in-and-out dribble... The Spurs Kyle Anderson is noted for how slow he is, yet he still drives effectively, one reason being that he uses that in-and-out dribble on almost every drive!!!
 
DX having Jalen Brunson so low on their board bothers me. What more is he supposed to do? He's obviously range-bound on their board and that range is in the bottom of the 2nd rd...


If thats the case, lemme predict he will be an Andre Miller style journeyman, thats probably even more talented naturally....


I'm putting him much higher on my board tho tbh.. I think it's plenty fair to say he projects as a backup, to me he's safe tho. Don't tell me Frank Mason is the 37th pick last year and this kid can barely get drafted this year (which is what I thought of Monte Morris.. but i guess there's an age difference)..
 
So now that thats out of the way lemme address one of the PG's who've usurped Brunson on their board, Markus Howard, in the 30's...

Talking about how this player projects to the NBA is a whole lot of fun... He's a classic 'spark-plug'... He really is the ultimate type of player where you say "If he was 6'5...." lemme be the first to say that if Markus Howard was 6'5" he'd be like the GOAT SG prospect(I'm serious, at the very least they'd call him the next Ray Allen) and he'd likely make a run at the #1 pick this year...

Back here in reality tho, he's like 5'9" or 5'10 with T-Rex arms!!

Lemme begin by saying he'd be a GREAT fit in Utah, and he'd play the Trey Burke role off the bench but he'd do it with immense efficiency.

Most people you know that are the same height as Markus Howard, say "I'm too small to play basketball" thats just simply the facts and yet here he is projected to make the NBA, he's just a teenager...

U just can;t play defense at that height with any sort of regularity in the NBA anymore.. Thats pretty much all I'ma say on his defense..

He projects as the type of player who can trade 3's for 2's tho.. He's also a Sophomore but the same age as Marvin Bagley, and they both missed their senior year to play in college (see what i'm talking about with the Bagley is young label?)

Howard simply put, and you don't hear me use this word often, is a brilliant offensive player, and he'll make it rain with just the slightest of open looks. He doesn't just get hot either, he goes on a rampage..... He used to drop 40 almost every night in HS, was the nations leading scorer..

If I had to say a comp, Id say think something like Shabazz Napier, but an even more automatic outside shot entering the league..





 
Don’t remember his name but whatever happened to that skinny *** French kid who was projected to go late 1st last draft and was (sillily) being given Gobert comps here by some?

Some wanted him as our stretch 4 because he hit a couple 3’s once.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
Don’t remember his name but whatever happened to that skinny *** French kid who was projected to go late 1st last draft and was (sillily) being given Gobert comps here by some?

Some wanted him as our stretch 4 because he hit a couple 3’s once.
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He has a degenerative spine disease and he cant play basketball anymore.
 
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