Savor it, this is an outlier. I can't recall a season like this. A freshman class like this is one of a kind.
Is Brown back? He was out for a few weeks. Louisville is much better with him.
looking into his stats he can't shoot at all tho, not even FTs. As an older player it's hard to stick or even enter the league as a connector/role player without a shot.
If he can't play defense, I don't think he’ll have much of a shot.
That dude with a solid jump shot/three pointer would make many millions in the NBA.
And Flagg should be in this class.
He can play defense according to his stats. And is rebounding/assist machine. That said, it's the Sun Belt.
*Conference USA
You are right about that. In this NBA Mock Draft the first 18 players are American. I wonder when the last NBA draft was without a foreign born player in the top 18.
Nothing he says makes sense
The commentary has mostly come from the top 5 players in the league all being foreign born and before last year, a lot of the top picks being so as well.
That commentary is also flawed because SGA always gets grouped under "international development" and he's Canadian, Canadian development is the same as American, their top guys play on the sneaker circuit, attend prep schools and go to American colleges. SGA went to prep school in TN, played for an Arkansas based EYBL team, and then went to UK. Before injuries knocked him from the top 5 people used to do the same thing with Embiid and he didn't even know how to play basketball until he moved here and played AAU and went to an American prep school. As long as the top guys are still committed to playing in the Olympics I'm rolling with whoever we put out there in '28.
Haha yeah those points are very valid and it's funny how that works when it comes to SGA and Embiid.
Yeah they’re not a team to really worry about. Or all that interesting to watch. I haven’t found Brown must watch.
They live and die with the 3. When they are making them in bunches, they look great. When they aren't, they look terrible. Not a great defensive team, not much size.
26 of their 41 shots are 3s. They're getting killed on the boards. They are an exquisitely boring watch as all they do is launch.
I agree on Louisville. Just not a good team and not well coached. I know people like Kelsey, but they just jack it up. I don't see a ton of coaching. With regard to Duke the stunning thing is how much bumping and physicality they get away with. You look up and they have 2 fouls with 10 minutes left in the half. I think the key to playing them is making Boozer defend and trying to get him off the floor. They are a totally different team when he is not out there.
There is no player in the country more relied on than Boozer. He's the NPOY.
I think UConn's offensive movement would make Duke work a lot harder on D. If UConn's shooters come to play, I love our chances frankly. So long as the game is called fairly, UConn's D would be quite disruptive to Duke's O. I would relish the chance to play them if it works out that way.
