Hendricks ~ Rodman?
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outerspacefan
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These generations of basketball players are completely unable to produce a Dennis Rodman.
Too much kombucha, cool aid.
Too much kombucha, cool aid.
The Jazz Wonderbra
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Infection is always talking about fairly nice rich men's Wangs.
I am higher on Tay Henny than most. The combination of 6'9", incredible length, and the high vertical meaning he has tools that most don't. I do think he is a lower IQ player at this stage of his career so if the development is "taylored" to improving the thinking muscle i could see him go places.
I also liked hearing Zanik speak about how Tay grew so much while defending the other teams best players last year. Those things springboard in to big gains when the card are played right.
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Well said
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Lol at the first sentence.
I'm very high on Tay Henny as well (I'm an admitted homer though)
I think the main driver of his success will be his motor and his confidence. For both of those things it's nice that he has Sexton around him.
I think Hendrix will be a player that fills up the box score eventually. Won't have a lot of any stat but will have a little of every stat and will be efficient. Won't hurt the team in any way but will help the team in almost every way.
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SoberasHotRod
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Just curious. Would you prefer a top level athlete with low basketball feel/iq, or a below average (for the NBA) athlete with top level basketball feel/iq?
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That is almost the argument for traore and Harper in the next draft. Although I wouldn't say traore is low IQ but not super high either.
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That is a great question. I think I would go with the top level athlete but that is a tough one.
The Jazz Wonderbra
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Feels like a Westbrook vs Stockton. One was a pure athlete with not the highest IQ. The other was all IQ and Grit with below average athleticism.
I think it depends on the player but typically athleticism pops and sticks. But I gave a terrible example for my conclusion.
I think it depends on the player but typically athleticism pops and sticks. But I gave a terrible example for my conclusion.
We could replace Westbrook with Dennis Smith Jr. in this one and get a completely different answer.
I think it's all in how these elements balance out. Westbrook's BBIQ isn't low, and Stockton was by no means a poor athlete on the NBA scale. It's just that their athleticism & feel/IQ respectively were so high in comparison that it seemed like that's all their games were about, with a superficial glance.
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Yeah, Stockton's athleticism, especially in his younger years, is insanely underrated. His strength and stamina for his size are probably generational.
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Stockton dunked it twice in his career? He was an underrated athlete but athleticism didn't define his strengths on the court.
Westbrook played himself off the court by being a total ball hog who takes I'll advised shots and didn't realize that if he played the right way he would extend his career and help teams win. I don't know that IQ was his defining strength although he could play the game when he wanted. But he dunked on everything and everyone.
All players have to have balance but as far as DEFINING strengths... I think those are good comps especially since we aren't taking players who succeeded vs players who didn't succeed
Westbrook played himself off the court by being a total ball hog who takes I'll advised shots and didn't realize that if he played the right way he would extend his career and help teams win. I don't know that IQ was his defining strength although he could play the game when he wanted. But he dunked on everything and everyone.
All players have to have balance but as far as DEFINING strengths... I think those are good comps especially since we aren't taking players who succeeded vs players who didn't succeed
Jokic and luka have top IQ but not the most athletic.
Otoh you have young cleveland sexton and tht. Sexton got smarter when he came here. Tht sadly just don't get it. He had the size, speed and power for a guard he just couldn't get rid of his dumb moments.
At some point, I think the dream scenario is you can do a death lineup (one you only use to break the game in the closing minutes, not a lineup that plays a lot of minutes together) with Lauri at the 5 and Hendricks at the 4.
If he has half the toughness of Tucker we are in good shape.