He's 6'11 with a good offensive game and can stretch the defense out. I would call that a very good skill. You are being a complete homer if you think babb would be a better pick. I love babb by the way but that is absolutely laughable what you just said.
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He's 6'11 with a good offensive game and can stretch the defense out. I would call that a very good skill. You are being a complete homer if you think babb would be a better pick. I love babb by the way but that is absolutely laughable what you just said.
He had a good college offensive game. He also has a bad foot. How do 6'11 guys with lingering lower body injuries usually work out? Not very good. What's you upside with Kelly? 5-10 mins from a stretch post who will struggle inside and doesn't do much defensively. So where's the risk of taking a guy like Babb over Kelly? I wasn't saying with that pick specifically, I was saying in general, later in the draft, why not grab a guy with one really good skill that translates?
he made a pretty good move. Make some money overseas rather than play with a 8th place big 12 team.
Because he's not a great shooter or defender. Like I said before, he's just pretty good at everything. Plus he's old relative to someone like McLemore.
It's not Haterade. You look at a lot of these guys and they have one thing they are really good at. What is Will really good at? He was just a well rounded college player. Could he make it? Sure. Compare him to someone like JR Smith though. Similar size but he's not as explosive and he's not as good of a shooter. It's just really hard for a 6'6 guy to make it unless they are a great athlete or a great scorer. He'll make money playing ball but the NBA is a different animal. I would say the jump from college to the NBA is significantly larger than from BCS football to the NFL.
CycloneErik
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Nicely said.
Most of these draft picks aren't really going to work out. The jump is so large, and the supply of players is much larger than the # of available jobs. Only so many guys make it into the league at all, and most of them don't stick long. It's really a brutal funnel.
