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Kyle Filipowski's Road to Being a 7' Playmaker

Saint Cy of JFC said:
I mean he didnt really have a choice. He was being targeted over and over by Luka.
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Luka is going to attack a rookie, always, but Flip was very solid. Dude doesn't look or play like a rookie, which is really the highest praise and how you can see the guys that have the mental fortitude to play and stick in the NBA. Right now there is no discussion about whether he's going to stick in the NBA, just his potential ceiling...
 
tksavis said:
Anyone want to dispute that he’s the team’s best defender on Luka?
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Luka's line.....37 pts, 9 asst, 7 rebs. We were lucky to get away with a win in this one. If that is the best defender we have on Luka we are damn lucky Luka targeted him. He would have gone off for a prime Harden stat line otherwise. 50-15-12 or something.
 
I am curious to see if he continues to play like this if he has a shot at rookie of the year. The class kinda sucks.
 
I loved Filipowski from day one and has an obvious path to allstardom. Not saying he will be but the path is obvious unlike say Cody Williams.
 
Jon Sheyer might be the next Cal. He's nerfing his own NBA prospects.

I'm amazed at how good Flip has been so far.
 
KqWIN said:
Jon Sheyer might be the next Cal. He's nerfing his own NBA prospects.

I'm amazed at how good Flip has been so far.
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He didnt nerf him at all. If you watched Flip, he's playing basically the exact same way he did at Duke. It was very easy to see how talented he was, but some people couldnt get past him having short arms and white.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
He didnt nerf him at all. If you watched Flip, he's playing basically the exact same way he did at Duke. It was very easy to see how talented he was, but some people couldnt get past him having short arms and white.
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I disagree. Nerfing probably wasn't the right word to use, but his main thing at Duke was being a self creating scorer combined with his playmaking ability. He's scaled down into an NBA role fantastically and a big reason for that is he's making his 3's and finishing around the basket. Kyle did not convert on these opportunities at Duke, his value was as a high volume player.

Poor spacing is universally understood at the college level, and sometimes we use it as excuse for some players than others. McCain and Flip are the two players who have benefited from NBA spacing the most so far and are significantly better inside the paint at the NBA level than they were in college. What I was trying to get at with that comment is maybe we should look at Duke as potentially a school where the spacing is extra bad. It will be something I'm watching for in this next year's draft class. The Duke-UK game sure looked like a clogged toilet.
 
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