How NBA Scouts See Drummond, Lamb

[Clockshop]

http://borgesblognhr.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-nba-scouts-see-drummond-lamb.html

 

[Clockshop]

http://borgesblognhr.blogspot.com/

 

[upstater]

Is Kemba going to get POY over Hansbrough?

Oh, wait!

 

[suzyq]

I’d like to see him stay at Connecticut, I think a great deal of the coaching staff. Any player that will stay at Connecticut and work will have the opportunity to get better.”

Can we get these two sentences to play on a loop in their dorm rooms?

 

[champs99and04]

"He’s very friendly, seems like a nice kid. With all those big guys, you’d like to crawl inside his brain. Does he like to play? A lot of big guys are forced into it because of their size. How much does he wanna work? He's so physically talented, he can probably make a living roaming the court, rebounding, blocking a shot here and tehre, alley-oops. But right now, there's a real lack of skill."
I thought this was the most interesting point in regards to Drummond. As the scout said, he's an "alien". He can pretty much dominate any game he pleases if he wants it bad enough. Sometimes he puts those physical tools to work, sometimes not. On the outisde, he looks like a kid who likes basketball but doesn't love it. Maybe he does love basketball, maybe he just doesn't live and breathe it. I may be over simplifying things, but how good Drummond turns out to depend on how good he wants to be. He's one of the 10-20 guys in the world who the basketball god's gave a blank check to. He can fill it out for 100,000,000 or he could be happy just being another Deandre Jordan. It's going to depend on his will to dominate games and his desire to be great.

With a kid like Anthony Davis, you can tell he has that attitude. His finger prints are on every game. Not only does the kid have incredible gifts, but he understands he has incredible gifts, quite simply, because he hasn't always had those gifts. You're talking about a kid who was an unheralded 6'3 guard who suddenly grew eight inches. He probably feels like he's sitting on a winning lottery ticket and he's cashing it in every game he plays.

Lamb is a completely different story. He doesn't have the physical gifts that Drummond posseses, but he has a tremendous feel for the game. He has a great touch arond the rim, he knows how to avoid a charge, he uses screens very well, he's great at playing the passing lanes, and he's good at positioning himself for rebounds. Unlike Drummond, Lamb looks like a kid who started playing basketball when he was four months old. The kid knows how to play. Scouts will certainly take into account Lamb's phenominal play during the tournament run last year. Lamb was meant to be a second, third, or fourth option, not to be an alphadog. He played the role of Pippen about as perfectly as you can do it during those eleven games. He's not afraid of the moment, but he also doesn't want to be the moment, like Kemba. He'd rather work off the ball, hit some open jump shots, play good defense, grab some boards, and quietly put in his 15-20 points. I think he'll be a very good NBA player.

 

[Prezidint]

Nobody would ever confuse me with an NBA talent scout, but my fear at spending a draft pick on each guy is exactly the same - do they have the fire to use their potential in the NBA.

Fact is, you just don't have that doubt with Rivers at Duke, Crowder at Marquette, Virtually every guy on Syracuse, Robinson at Kansas, the guy at Ohio State, and so on.

If Thabeet and Stan did anything for the NBA, it's this . . . conclude positively that being an effective NBA player is much more than having the physical tools to get the job done - you've got to want it like a chained dog wants free.

 

[Lefty2one]

“You’d have to start from scratch,” he said. “It’s a testament to the world of AAU. Someone who (cared) about the kid would have started at basic fundamentals. He doesn’t even hold the ball correctly. You can teach anyone how to do that, especially when they’re young enough. With his talent and athleticism, all he needs is a hook shot. If he can hit an open jump shot, he’d be basically unguardable.”


Damn...

 

[sparky]

I hate AAU. As an official I called many games and so many of these kids were only displays. Little or no fundamentals being taught. HS coaches and MS coaches need to get these kids and teach them fundamentals and hopefully teh AAU expeience doesn't ruin them.

 

[mets1090]

“You’d have to start from scratch,” he said. “It’s a testament to the world of AAU. Someone who (cared) about the kid would have started at basic fundamentals. He doesn’t even hold the ball correctly. You can teach anyone how to do that, especially when they’re young enough. With his talent and athleticism, all he needs is a hook shot. If he can hit an open jump shot, he’d be basically unguardable.”


Damn...

Is there anything there that hasn't been said on this board? It's not as if NBA scouts aren't going to realize that too.

 

[freescooter]

I hate AAU. As an official I called many games and so many of these kids were only displays. Little or no fundamentals being taught. HS coaches and MS coaches need to get these kids and teach them fundamentals and hopefully teh AAU expeience doesn't ruin them.

You don't get recruited playing high school ball any more, and AAU doesn't give a damn about fundamentals. That is the ultimate streetball.

 

[freescooter]

This is what is wrong with the NBA...both scouts basically say these guys would be better off staying in school another year, but both will probably be high draft picks...essentailly they are saying we're going to pay through the nose for guys we aren't sure are ready to play at this level.

 

[Lefty2one]

Is there anything there that hasn't been said on this board? It's not as if NBA scouts aren't going to realize that too.

His point? Of course not. But how he said it was hilarious, implying that no one cared about him lol. Just seemed as cold as can be.