This is perfect illustration of the crazy disparate takes in this thread.
Im so confused. Are you coming at me? I genuinely thought they were like requiring top prospects to attend the combine in the future..
No sorry, the opposite. I think husky429 had a passioned take that no one goes. You dispelled diplomatically.Im so confused. Are you coming at me? I genuinely thought they were like requiring top prospects to attend the combine in the future..
NBA Scouting Combine Invitees Must Participate to Be Drafted Starting in 2024
As part of the new collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and tbhe National Basketball Players Association, draft-eligible players are required to…bleacherreport.com
Fwiw, that mandate begins 2024….
I don’t think NBADraft.net is very good. I also haven’t seen Taylor Hendricks anywhere near as high as 4, so take that fwiw.
People here are getting way too obsessed with looking at him shooting a very small sample size and making some of them. These workouts really aren’t going to show that much we didn’t already know about him & what we can see on film/his whole body of work. There are things he does well and there will be an NBA team who will draft him based on those skills you outlined. From there, they will try to rebuild his shot and attempt to turn him into some type of scoring threat. These workouts really don’t tell us much, we already know where he is at. He didn’t just learn how to shoot all the sudden. It will take him years of development to become respectable in that category, if it happens at all. People need to just sit back and enjoy the process for him. He will get drafted and he will get a shot. Easy to bet and root for a kid like that.
Not sure which one of these Mocks is any good tbh.
Yep exactly. And recency bias of course, but I can’t help but watch PJ Tucker this postseason and think to myself: Andre ***could get to that level/role. PJ had a pretty astonishing career, leaving the NBA for years, only to come back and find himself a role. He’s stuck around a long long time in the NBA for a guy who barely scores the ball.
While I agree with all that, then what's the point of doing that drill at the combine?
This is one of the things that makes evaluating Andre Jackson so hard. I don't think it's a crazy statement to think he could carve out a PJ Tucker role, or someone threw out Andre Roberson as a comp too. But then you look at the stats and Andre Jackson has scored 506 points in 3 years at UConn, PJ Tucker scored 594 his junior year alone when he averaged 16 a game. Roberson wasn't quite as drastic but even he had 2 seasons averaging 11 a game.
There's very little point. It's more dog and pony show than anything.
I just looked at Bleacher Report and ESPN, both post-lottery mock drafts, so they are clearly updated. BR has Andre at #30 and ESPN has him at #29. I have more faith in those writers to actually pay attention to combines than NBADraft.net. I think he's as good as gone, as he should be, if either of those writers have any decent sources to what scouts are actually saying.
true, but the nba's listed heights are without shoes as of a couple years ago. they still tend to round up, but everyone dropped an inch or two a few years back.
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What is tough is whether he gets a guarantee that a team will take him at those slots. A team really can’t say to AJ that we are definitely taking you for example at 29 or 30 because they don’t know who else may be available at that slot, which means he could slip to the second round, and I think Hurley said it is basically first round or he comes back at some point. It really puts him in a tough spot.
