The mocks have the first ~20 picks or so all being college freshman- many whom didn't have a ton of success this year - . When the draft sets up this way, it ends up with the NBA playoff teams at the end of the first round getting the most game ready rookies (like Broome, Clayton, Wolfe, Clifford).
Pretty much. Teams picking early have their hands forced more or less to take the high upside, high risk plays. Those NBA ready guys low ceilings but high floors don’t move the needle for ****** teams, but can instantly play decent bench roles on good teams!
CJ Bruton. Terrible.
I think guard is mainly the problem Mason Williams will be good but the freshman are gonna neeed to step up if we want to be good.Also why doesn’t anyone talk about xzavion Mitchell he’s playing out of his mind offensively
Mitchell best position will be SF/PF with Milan, Joshua, Nate, Pleita and Mulder there just isn't a lot of minutes available to see him play early. Not saying XF couldn't earn minutes but makes sense he's the least talked about freshman.
Honestly Last year was an outlier with TJ and Freshman. 3 out of his 4 years at Iowa State we have had at least 1 Freshman be a big contributor. Year 1 was Hunter, 2 was Lipsey, and 3 was Milan. I think Batemon will join that fraternity next year.
Because he's gonna have to play a different role than he did in high school I would imagine. Plus his defense is an unknown since he didn't play much of any in high school. He definitely has the athletic ability to play defense. You don't become Mr. Basketball of Wisconsin if you don't have skills.
Offensively, possibly. He'd have trouble on defense with quicker off guards
He's listed as a SF/PF and shooting is considered the thing he needs to work on the most.
Yeah not really, more of a stretch 4. I’m not sure what the plan is for that position I was just adding the guys that might end up playing that position.
feel like Mitchell's best shot for early minutes is a small ball 3. Milan can always play the 4 when Jefferson's not there.
