Until/unless it’s draft combine official with corresponding specificity (and reflective of full skeletal development which usually ends before year 19), I take all measurements with a rock of salt.
To be more specific: is the figure rounded (whereby half an inch becomes a full inch in declared size)? Is it without shoes (and how does this factor into our historic understanding of prior players based on shoes or without, and who did their measurements?)? Is it recorded during the morning or night (this can account for half an inch and different prospects measured at different times using - likely - different methods creates ambiguity), and, finally, are they almost-certainly skeletally developed at ages below 18 (almost certainly not).
Moreso than most prospects we have discussed since enactment of the NBA’s one-and-done policy, Ace’s measurements pre-college/G-League/etc can be reasonably suspected to be a work-in-progress. Since he is one of the youngest players in college basketball - having barely turned 18 when the season began - it seems absurd to me to be guffawing at the thought that 6’ 8” is sub-optimal in any universe or context.
