Following Potential 2025 Draftees

[HadAnEffectHere]

Maluach gets defended a lot with "well, he doesn't get blocks because Duke has him on the perimeter constantly"

But man

He has 6 steals.

... In the entire season.

 

[bigmike]

Derek Lively averaged 5 and 5....

Decent comp. And I think he went #12-#13 which seems "about right" to me for someone like Maluach. Would also say Lively's NBA production so far is "about right" for a raw guy picked #12.

Just can't do the mental gymnastics required to put him in the top 5-8 where some folks have.

 

[bigmike]

I just "can't" with this Big 12 Tournament. This court might give me a seizure.

 

[KqWIN]

Lively averaged 5.7 stocks/40, had a good AST/TOV ratio for a big, and had a 6.8 DBPM. Offensively Maluach can be Lively but defensively (where Lively produces most of his value) they were in different worlds.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Kon hype is about to sky rocket after that game

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

The potential is ridiculous, that's the only way I could justify something in the #7-#10 range, but he's just so far away.

I can't recall a raw big who averaged something like 8 / 6 in college (in meaningful minutes) turning into a force at the NBA level. Maybe a guy like DeAndre Jordan?

Embiid averaged 11/8, but he showed more offensively than Maluach. Embiid also blew people away in workouts.

 

[bigmike]

Gotta be a good sign for Flagg that he returned to the bench without 1) a boot and 2) ice (weird, tho - that would seem to be a no-brainer)

 

[framer]

Do the Jazz have an early second round pick they can give a promise to Saunders with?

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Do the Jazz have an early second round pick they can give a promise to Saunders with?

They have two later 2RPs (currently #45 and #47) they could possibly consolidate and move up a bit with--maybe to #37 or #38. I guess it depends on how early you'd want to be in the 2nd round.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

IDK, maybe I should buy into the Kon hype as well. Maybe he really is the next Desmond Bane.

 

[bigmike]

Holy crap - that Ole Miss - Arky game.

How can you not be romantic about college basketball.

 

[HadAnEffectHere]

Embiid had also barely played any basketball by the time he got to Kansas. Everything he did was shocking and you saw him improve dramatically game to game to do things basically no seven footer should be able to do. Tons of mistakes, but tons of "how in the world has this guy only played basketball for 18 months???? How can he be this coordinated at this size????"

Maluach has played basketball for a lot longer and has been... fine... at Duke.