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I've been playing a lot of 2K lately and decided to create a team that's made up of this year's UConn roster. I'm going to import an NBA player's DNA into each player. Heights might be off by an inch or 2, and obviously the NBA player is 10x better than the UConn player will ever be (minus potentially Bouknight). These are simply players I feel have similar games.

Let me know where I went wrong here:

RJ COLE – MIKE CONLEY
JALEN GAFFNEY – GEORGE HILL
JAMES BOUKNIGHT – ZACK LAVINE
BRENDAN ADAMS – KENTAVIOUS CALDWELL-POPE
TYRESE MARTIN – JUSTICE WINSLOW
TYLER POLLEY – MICHAEL PORTER JR
AKOK AKOK – CHRISTIAN WOOD
ISAIAH WHALEY – JOHN COLLINS
JOSH CARLTON – MASON PLUMLEE
ADAMA SANOGO – MONTREZL HARRELL
RICHIE SPRINGS – BOBBY PORTIS
JAVONTE BROWN – JAVALE MCGEE
ANDRE JACKSON – JOSH GREEN
 
Cole = patty mills
Bouknight = small Paul George?
Jackson = Corey brewer
 
Great thread and good job with your comparisons.

For Sanogo, how about Bismack Biyombo?

Whaley is the hardest for me to picture a close comparison.
 
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Bouknight to Zach Levine is the easiest comp of all time. Even kinda looks like him facially.
 
InKembaITrust said:
I've been playing a lot of 2K lately and decided to create a team that's made up of this year's UConn roster. I'm going to import an NBA player's DNA into each player. Heights might be off by an inch or 2, and obviously the NBA player is 10x better than the UConn player will ever be (minus potentially Bouknight). These are simply players I feel have similar games.

Let me know where I went wrong here:

RJ COLE – MIKE CONLEY
JALEN GAFFNEY – GEORGE HILL
JAMES BOUKNIGHT – ZACK LAVINE
BRENDAN ADAMS – KENTAVIOUS CALDWELL-POPE
TYRESE MARTIN – JUSTICE WINSLOW
TYLER POLLEY – MICHAEL PORTER JR
AKOK AKOK – CHRISTIAN WOOD
ISAIAH WHALEY – JOHN COLLINS
JOSH CARLTON – MASON PLUMLEE
ADAMA SANOGO – MONTREZL HARRELL
RICHIE SPRINGS – BOBBY PORTIS
JAVONTE BROWN – JAVALE MCGEE
ANDRE JACKSON – JOSH GREEN
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I’ve been trying to think about who Bouknight reminds me of. Maybe Dejountay Murray from the Spurs.
 
The Tyler Polley one is the least accurate I think. Porter can create something other than spot up shooting. More of a Svi Mykhailiuk
 
auror said:
The Tyler Polley one is the least accurate I think. Porter can create something other than spot up shooting. More of a Svi Mykhailiuk
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Maybe Polley's style is like Steve Novak's who played for the Knicks for a while and for another team before that, but Novak had some head fakes and could do a step back.

Novak wasn't much of a ball handler either.

Maybe he was not 10x better, but still was good enough to make the NBA and stay there for a few years.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Great thread and good job with your comparisons.

For Sanogo, how about Bismack Biyombo?

Whaley is the hardest for me to picture a close comparison.
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Whaley? Maybe Cornbread Maxwell for the Celtics. Lots of scrap when on the court. I haven't searched his stats and this is just an "off the type of my head," thing.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Bouknight to Zach Levine is the easiest comp of all time. Even kinda looks like him facially.
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i kinda see it with the inconsistencies. no way bouk is as athletic as levine.

i say afflalo
 
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I like the Whaley to Dennis Rodman comparison. I wasn't the first one to say this though.
 
auror said:
The Tyler Polley one is the least accurate I think. Porter can create something other than spot up shooting. More of a Svi Mykhailiuk
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Yeah, Polley was a hard one to figure out. Andre Jackon too.
 
InKembaITrust said:
TYRESE MARTIN – JUSTICE WINSLOW
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AJ is the poor mans winslow comp. winslow had his breakout playing point forward with the heat before he got hurt
 
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bendm said:
AJ is the poor mans winslow comp. winslow had his breakout playing point forward with the heat before he got hurt
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I'd still say Jackson is far more athletic than Winslow. Hard to compare him to anyone in the NBA, especially at his height.
 
InKembaITrust said:
I'd still say Jackson is far more athletic than Winslow. Hard to compare him to anyone in the NBA, especially at his height.
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justice lead duke to a chip his freshman year as an undersized PF and he's also ~6'8. if you had to chalk it up to one attribute it was his athleticism.

to say AJ doesnt even compare to NBA players in terms of athleticism is nutso at this point. if he was as superhumanly athletic as everyone wished than he'd have been averaging more than 8mpg on this team...he woulda been crushing it out the gates like tyrus thomas did at LSU. his entire game was based on being athletic and nothing else. he was so athletic he turned it into a lotto pick yet still couldnt cut it in the nba. AJ was not on track to do those things...just sayin
 
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bendm said:
justice lead duke to a chip his freshman year as an undersized PF and he's also 6'8 or thereabouts. and it wasnt due to his outside shooting...if you had to chalk it up to one attribute it was his athleticism.

to say AJ doesnt even compare to NBA players in terms of athleticism is illogical. if he was as superhumanly athletic as everyone wished than he'd have been averaging more than 8mpg on this team...just sayin
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Andre Jackson is more athletic than Justise Winslow.

Winslow is 6'4.5 barefoot and was actually a pretty great shooter at Duke. He also had some help from Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones, Quinn Cook etc.
 
If you're giving everyone on the team annba comp I'd like to go better than Lavine for Bouk. I'm having trouble coming up with some one though.
 
superjohn said:
Andre Jackson is more athletic than Justise Winslow.

Winslow is 6'4.5 barefoot and was actually a pretty great shooter at Duke. He also had some help from Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones, Quinn Cook etc.
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i dont see winslow listed under 6'6 anywhere but if winslow was a 6'6 freshman PF then that's even more impressive.

the fact that winslow was playing with multiple pros helps my point. he was a starter and arguably the best player from day 1 on a champ team, which is a far cry from AJs role on UConn's roster. the only healthy player he had to beat out for minutes was martin, and it's not because hurley doesnt play freshman either. look at bouk and akok last year even before all the injuries.

but above it all, i was saying that if AJ, right now, really was as athletic as anyone in the nba, than he shouldve been averaging more than 8 mpg on a borderline tourney team based on his superhuman athleticism alone.
 
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bendm said:
i dont see winslow listed under 6'6 anywhere and i don't see AJ listed over 6'6 anywhere. but if winslow was a 6'6 freshman PF then that's even more impressive.

the fact that winslow was playing with multiple pros helps my point. he was a starter and arguably the best player from day 1 on a champ team, which is a far cry from AJs role on UConn's roster. the only healthy player he had to beat out for minutes was martin, and it's not because hurley doesnt play freshman either. look at bouk and akok last year even before all the injuries.

but all that is besides the point. i was saying that if AJ, right now, really was as athletic as anyone in the nba, than he shouldve been averaging more than 8 mpg on a borderline tourney team based on his superhuman athleticism alone.
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Reread your post, it doesn't make sense.

They measure players height at the NBA draft combine, Winslow was 6'4.5. He shot 42% from three at Duke.

Andre is a work in progress as a player and has had injuries since he got to UConn hurting his early development, as a pure athlete he stacks up with the top athletes in the NBA.
 
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superjohn said:
They measure players height at the NBA draft combine, Winslow was 6'4.5. He shot 42% from three at Duke.

Andre is a work in progress as a player and has had injuries since he got to UConn hurting his early development, as a pure athlete he stacks up with the top athletes in the NBA.
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what doesnt make sense? it doesnt make sense that everyone has anointed AJ like this based on high school dunk videos. right now he stacks up a lot more favorably to kwintin williams than justice winslow. if justice excelled as an undersized PF on a loaded team then how can you say AJ is the better athlete as a frosh than justice was? what is it based on?

edit- i'm hoping he does turn into some kinda penny hardaway-scottie pippin hybrid but i cant buy it after 30 minutes total played.
 
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bendm said:
what doesnt make sense? it doesnt make sense that everyone has anointed AJ like this based on high school dunk videos. right now he stacks up a lot more favorably to kwintin williams than justice winslow. if justice was such an undersized starting PF on a loaded team then how can you say AJ is the better athlete as a frosh than justice was? what is it based on?
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I tried to help you out with some of this. His name is Justise Winslow, he is 6'4.5 and was ready right away as a college freshman. He was an excellent shooter at Duke, Jackson's shooting needs a ton of work at this level. Jackson not being ready quite yet has nothing to do with his athleticism. Nobody said anything about taking Jackson over Winslow as a college freshman. The poster said he thinks Jackson is more athletic than Winslow, I agree with him. You bringing up Kwintin Williams ain't helping your cause, he was bad athlete on the court at this level. Give it some time with Jackson, if you can't see he's an athletic freak I don't know what to tell you.

Your first sentence of the second paragraph doesn't mean what you think it means, that's why I asked you to reread it.
 
superjohn said:
I tried to help you out with some of this. His name is Justise Winslow, he is 6'4.5 and was ready right away as a college freshman. He was an excellent shooter at Duke, Jackson's shooting needs a ton of work at this level. Jackson not being ready quite yet has nothing to do with his athleticism. Nobody said anything about taking Jackson over Winslow as a college freshman. The poster said he thinks Jackson is more athletic than Winslow, I agree with him. You bringing up Kwintin Williams ain't helping your cause, he was bad athlete on the court at this level. Give it some time with Jackson, if you can't see he's an athletic freak I don't know what to tell you.

Your first sentence of the second paragraph doesn't mean what you think it means, that's why I asked you to reread it.
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appreciate you not just dismissing my argument. i agree with the gist of what you're saying but there's a couple key distinctions i wanna clarify:
1) the fact that justise was undersized and had to play against bigger/stronger PFs means he had to make up for those disadvantages with his superior athleticism. it sounds like you're saying winslow being shorter than AJ makes his athleticism less impressive, but i think it's the opposite given that winslow had to play up a position.

2) i 100% agree that AJ not being "ready" has nothing to do with his athleticism, i guess i failed to articulate that notion. but if AJ's allegedly in the top percentile of bball athletes then he should have been able to rely on his athleticism alone in order to make a noticeable impact. i brought up tyrus thomas because he had the bare minimum of requisite bball skill (as opposed to kwintin) but still played himself into the lotto as a frosh.

3) pointing out "the fact that winslow was playing with multiple pros" was meant to contrast their circumstances even further. while winslow was obviously the better all around player, imo his single best attribute as a frosh was still his athleticism, per my first point. similarly, AJs best attribute is undoubtedly his athleticism. yet while winslow was a starter on a champ team, AJ could barely muster 8 mpg on a borderline tourney team. per my second point, if AJ's as freaky as we thought it's inexplicable that he could barley crack the rotation competing against martin and polley. for as you said, it's not like he was competing with quinn cook, grayson allen, semi ojelye etc. because being benched behind them would be understandable.

i hope AJ turns out to be the freak we thought we were getting as much as anyone but i need to see something, anything, before i agree that his athleticism is hard to compare to any nba players.
 
bendm said:
appreciate you not just dismissing my argument. i agree with the gist of what you're saying but there's a couple key distinctions i wanna clarify:
1) the fact that justise was undersized and had to play against bigger/stronger PFs means he had to make up for those disadvantages with his superior athleticism. it sounds like you're saying winslow being shorter than AJ makes his athleticism less impressive, but i think it's the opposite given that winslow had to play up a position.

2) i 100% agree that AJ not being "ready" has nothing to do with his athleticism, i guess i failed to articulate that notion. but if AJ's allegedly in the top percentile of bball athletes then he should have been able to rely on his athleticism alone in order to make a noticeable impact. i brought up tyrus thomas because he had the bare minimum of requisite bball skill (as opposed to kwintin) but still played himself into the lotto as a frosh.

3) pointing out "the fact that winslow was playing with multiple pros" was meant to contrast their circumstances even further. while winslow was obviously the better all around player, imo his single best attribute as a frosh was still his athleticism, per my first point. similarly, AJs best attribute is undoubtedly his athleticism. yet while winslow was a starter on a champ team, AJ could barely muster 8 mpg on a borderline tourney team. per my second point, if AJ's as freaky as we thought it's inexplicable that he could barley crack the rotation competing against martin and polley. for as you said, it's not like he was competing with quinn cook, grayson allen, semi ojelye etc. because being benched behind them would be understandable.

i hope AJ turns out to be the freak we thought we were getting as much as anyone but i need to see something, anything, before i agree that his athleticism is hard to compare to any nba players.
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I don't know nothing about nothing, and I don't have a position on this argument. I do have a thought that might be relevant, though:

Perhaps Jackson's meager playing time has to do with some of Hurley's lines in the sand. For example, I believe I recall reading quotes from Hurley indicating that Jackson is lost on defense. Maybe he is sending a message along the lines of, "I don't care if you're the most athletic human on the planet and can do all kinds of positive things with that. If you don't do X, Y and Z, you're sitting."

All this is to say that it is not necessarily the case that his lack of playing time means he is not an überathletic freak.
 
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