NBA Mock Top Prospects: First Look(Updated).
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The Following Is A Continuation Of My Top prospects(updated).
The Prospects Of The 2021 NBA Draft Will Forever Fall In The frames Fragmented And juxtapose In A Scrapbook Collage Amongst The Photos of former Drafts Lootery Selections. Almost Immediately The Drafts Of 2013 or 2001 Fall Into focus. Drafts Such As Those Produced A Number Of credible role Players, Notable Names, Several of Whom Amongst Them Were Suspected of Being franchise Transformative Talents which Ultimately Translated To One or Maybe two stars at Best; in each draft Respectively. Slotting Them A Tier Below The Likes Of 2005 Or 2012, which Itself Would Be Below, 2006-09, Then Upperechleon, god-levels Likes of ’84, ’96, or 2018. This draft Features A Score Of Talented Player With Unhinged sporadic Production, Glaring Flaws, And Limitations, some of Whom May Need years To Become contributors to an NBA Roster. Whether Physical Tools Or Offensive Diffenncies’, 2021 Will be A year of Riding The waves Of The role Player. No Matter The Draft Selection Slot, Lottery Or Later, Well, Lottery, Mid-round Or Beyond. Few of These Players as far As I Can Prognosticate Are Expected To make a Marginal difference To Their Franchise. The NBA Draft Lottery Standings Are No Matter The event Of The Turn Of The Century. Someone Has To Be Drafted Top 10. A Bevy of Young Shoulders for NBA Franchises To Consider Saddling The Weight Of Their World’s On: Jalen Green Could Become The Basketball equivalent Of The Greek Titan Atlas. Still In Forays Of The Coronavirus Crisis Scouts and Evaluators Will Have To Be shrewd When Approaching Terminologies Like “Upside”, “Ceiling” Or “Raw”. On The Plus Side, Suspect Evaluations Can Lend To Lowered Expectations. I am No Scout, Executive, Beat Writer, Or Any Other of The sort. I Have, 3 credible years of journalism Studies, A Blog, YouTube, superlative Vocabulary, and Other Writing Skills. Honestly, that is What The Officials Scouts Use Anyway. Here Are My Top Prospects For This Year’s NBA Draft.
These Are Just BRIEFF Overviews And Profiles On Perspective Players.
1) Jalen Green-
The Coquettish California Kid Is A Hyper Athletic Scoring Guard with an unquestioned acumen And Prowess For Scoring Buckets. Green Is Slender Build At 6’5 Only weighing in At A Generous 165 lbs. His Wiry Frame Is Plus On The Scoresheet, Enabling Green To Complete Acrobatic Finishes When Him Near Or Around The Rim. A Fluent Technician At All Levels Of Offensive Play. Green Can Get Off Of The Ground With ease, not A Forceful Levitator, Who Transfuses Speed Into Power, bUt More than The Finesse, “hyperTwitchy” Athleticism That Avows Him In The Open Court or the Fast Break. Using Easy One-Two Step Lifts Towards THE RIM For Dunks. In One On One Scenarios, Green Gets to His Spots On The Floor For Pull-Up Jumpers, With Quick Dribble Moves. VeryDeceivee In His Moves. Recognizing Defensive Positioning And Wasting Little Movement Navigating The Floor. Natural Scorer With The Ball In His Hand, I Really Want To Underscore Taht Green Can GEt To the Rim at will. The Number 1 Player Coming Out Of High School In 2020, Green Skipped College, Opting To Spend His One Intermediating Year Amongst The G-League Ignite Select team. On The Negative Side, Green’s Slender Frame Means He Is Apt To Be Taking Advantage Of, Defensively On The Next Level. As Fluent as He Is With The Ball In His Hand Green Leaves Much To be desired Off The Ball. Very Right Hand Dominant Dominant. Averaged 17 points Play In The G- League.
Pro Comp: Tracy McGrady
2) Jalen Suggs-
The Gonzaga Product By Way Of Minnehaha Academy In Minnesota. Suggs Is A 6’3 204 lb With 6’5 Wing Span The CComboGuard Earned the Awe And Renowned Of the Fans March Madness After Banking In One of the More MMemorable Game Winners In the College basketball Tournaments History. Suggs Phenomenal Athlete, Who Uses His SStrengthAnd Excitabke Bursts Of Speed To Create Scoring opportunities Around The Paint. Played Both Football And Basketball In High School Ranking Top 15 In Both Positions Played On Hardwood and In Between The Hashes In 2020 Suggs Became the first person in Minnesota to win the Mr. Football and Mr. Basketball awards in the same year. Suggs Took Over Has The Premier Orchestrator Of The Bulldogs Offense s A Freshman Lead Guard Enabling Him to Show Case His Impressive Court Vision for One Of The NCAA’s More Efficient Offenses. Suggs Is More Of A Combo Than A True Point Guard. He Pushes The ball Ahead On The Break And Finds Open Teammates Like Corey Krispey For Spot Up Shots But He Doesn’t Have A Natural Feel for The Point Guard Offense Creator role. Most Of His Lead Guard Productive Came by way Of The System Implemented By A Well Coached Gonzaga team. Suggs Has Ideal Mechanics And A Effective Jumper, At Any P{point In the Game Capable Of Creating His Own Shot. In His LSeasoneson For The Bulldogs Suggs showed Himself A Natural Leader. He Took Command Of A Gonzaga Filled With Veterans AndLeadd Them To National Title Berth. Suggs Wasn’t A Terribly Good Shooters From Behind The Arch Or The Free Throw Line. Averaged Near 3 Turnovers A Game. He Showed Great Awareness Of Defense, plus 1 in That Department But Suum to Notucable LLapsesIn in Concentration Defending One On One. Averaged 15.6 points, 5.5 assists, and 5.2 rebounds. Pro Comp: Austin Rivers
3) Sharife Cooper- Sharifee Measured Out At 6’4 At The NBA Combine. That's Moments. Ita Not Allows TheCase That A Players Stature Is Substantial In Their Selection Status But Two Months Ago, Around This Time, in This Case, Coopper Was Considered a Lottery Level Talent With Major Question Marks Writing Around His Deminsiion How They would translate Into The Next. This Would Have Been Scouting Reports Heading Into April. With Those Concerns dismissed. The True Point Guard. A floor General In Style Of Other Diminutive Point Guards Before Him. Excellent vision, Couple with composed Court awareness… Cooper Never Misses His Mark When Aging And Setting The Grounds for His Teammates Collected ball Handler, His Mastery Of Crossovers, Downfall Misdirection Moves And Snake dribbles Enable Him. Impossible To Keep Out Of The Lane on Drives. Undersize but generously listed 6’. Struggles at times to finish around or under rim His slow release and stature. Provisions His struggles to shoot over taller defenders. Averaged 16.1 points, 3.2 rebounds, 6.1 assists,s, And 3.1 turnover. Pro Comp: Cp3
4) Jalen Johnson-
Celebarted Duke freshman. Excellent build Around 6’9 Can Play Post Or wing. Great athlete Runs The floor Like A gazelle with excellent Court. Strong finisher Around The Basket. A Tweener In The Sense of not having a definitive position but excellent for positionless oriented team. Strong athlete but not elite. The questionable upside, And with The Result That Most Tweeners Have Produced In The NBA There Is Reason To Be Suspect of How His Build And skill will Play Out. 10.6 points, 5.1 rebounds, 2.2. assists per game. Pro Comp: Jabari Parker
5) Cade Cunningham-
There Is So Much To Love OF Cade Cunningham’s Game. Excellent Ball Handler Adept At Creating Off The Dribble. Innate Ability To command An Offense Orchestrated The The Court Like Chess Board. Improved His jump shot Off The Dribble Late In The Season. Improved Doesmnt meant Consistent But respectable. Early Projections Listed His Jump Shot As A Major Cause For Concerned About Well His Shot Would Translate Against Advanced Competition. . Advertised As A Playmaking Forward Guard Who excels In Pick And Roll situation Its Surprising To Find That His Assist Number A Relatively weak At 3.6 A Game. At 6’8 Cunningham Uses His Size To Shoot, gaze And Overpower Smaller Guards. He Struggles To Create Consistent Separation On Drive s Even when against Larger, Presumed, Slower Players. Averaged 19.7 points, 6.1 rebounds, 3.2 assist Per Game. Pro Comp: Shaun Livingston
1. Scottie Barnes-
Multi-dimensional wing Who Played All Across The Floor At Florida State. Explosive, Well Build Athlete With Awe Inspiring End To end Speed And Agility. Point Guard Instincts With The Ball Is His Hand. Excellent Defender From Top To Bottom. Barnes Is Tall And Wide Bodied Which Inahiyts Him From Getting Low Enough In His Stance to follow guards with Lower Centers Of Gravity But excellent Recovery And Timing Instincts That Enable Him To Discourage Finishes at The Basket. Barnes Embraced The Point guard Position In High School After Transferring To Montverde Academy In Florida. The Famed Prep, Montverde Academy Was Also The Breeding Ground For Other Top Talents Such As Cade Cunningham And Moses Moody. Pragmatically, Barnes Most Certainly Won’t be A Point guard At The Next Level. As It Stands Barnes Is An Unstructured Combo-Forward. Offensively, Barnes Excelled In transition Using His Tremendous end-to-end Streamkine Speed To Get Ahead Of Other Player On The Break. Still, Raw Barnes Exceptional Physical Tools Have Yet To Translate Into Offensive Potency In The half Court. Still Very Much A Work In Progress Barnes Will Needs A Team ThatCallsl On Him on Day One. He Measure 6’7, 225 lbs with a 7’3 wingspan. Averaged 10.3 points, 4 rebounds And 4.1 Assist In His Freshman Year In Tallahassee. Pro Comp: Ron Artest
2. Jaden Springer-
You Are Not Going To Find Too Many NBA Draft “Experts” High On springer As I Am. Not Too Many Know What Vein To View Him In. The 6’5 Shooting Guard Tennesee Products Is A Sturdy, well Build Shooting Making Guard Who Is Excellent At Creating His Own Shot. Springer Has Exceptional Two Foot Leaping Ability. On The Permiter Springer Usus, His Space Creating Bulk To Move Defenders And Make moves Towards His Spots On The Floor. A Grand Portion of His Offensive Production Came By way Of Miod-range Shot 1, 2 Power Dribble Drives. In The NBA players Are Programmed to chase shooters off the 3-point line and protect the basket at all costs. The Mid Range Shot, Once Considered A Commodity Players Had Been Forced To “Settle” For In the Past, Saw An Uptick In Value As The Go-To Shot For The Bucks And Nets. Springer Most Effective Style Of Paly Is No Longer Negative Value. A Stong Vertical Leaper, Registering 38 Inches At The Draft Combine, Springer Is Still A Limited Athletic As Far As Quick with And Fluid Transitional Movements. Springer Converted His Balance And Lower Center Into An excellent shooting form, beguiling Defenders Before Dribbling Into Position Buckets. Springer’s Play Style is Similar to Other Grounded Guards Glen Rice Or A Gary Trent Jr. Because The Aforementioned Limited Athletics Springer Upside Is In Question. Springer can Create His Own Offense Off the dribble but with marginal efficiency from The Field, The Consistency on His Jump Shot Hasn’t Taken Form Yet. Only 18, Springer’s 19thh Birthday Being Sept 25th, There Is time for Him to Develop. Springer Averaged 12.9 Points, 44.4 % from Three, and 2.9 Assist. Pro Comp: Gary Trent Jr.
3. James Bouknight- James Bouknight Is a High-Level Athlete with excellent shot-making ability whether Inside The Painted area, Creating Scoring Opportunities in The Mid-range, Or Set Shot From Beyond The Arch. Excellent Without The Ball In His, especially when cutting To The Basket Or Finding Open Gaps In the Defense. Bouknight Launches Off of two feet Utilizing His Athleticism And Body Control To Move And Create Space around The rim. On Defense, The UConn Product, Innately Diagnosis Plays and Passing Lanes. He Disrupted and Intercepted Several Aggressors, Averaging Around 2 Steals A Game, Primarily Jumping Passing Lanes on defense. As A Two Guard Bouknight Doesn’t Have Advanced Repertoire Offensive Moves or dribble Packages. UConn Played A Limited Schedule Due To Covid-19 Protocols So There I Not Much To Judge As far As High-level Competition Is Concern. Bouknight is A High-Risk high reward Prospect. Averaged 19 Points, 30% From Three, and 1.9 assists. Pro Comp: Ben Mclemore, High Side Devin Booker.
4. Evan Mobley- Evan Mobley Is the Best Big In This draft filled Question Marks Amongst The Top Prospects at That Position. Elite Inside Finisher, The 7 footer Mobely finish His Lone season At USC Shooting 57.8% From The Field. With A 7 foot plus Wingspan, great form, Feel And Touch On His Jump Shot, Mobley Translates Well Into League High On Pick and Roll Big who Can Create Their Own Shot Given Space To And Time, in the vein Of A Joel Embiid And Damarcus Cousins. Mobley Is The Potential Prototypical Big For teams To Build Around If NBA Teams Still Did That. Exceptional and Instinctual when Contesting At The Rim, Mobley Has Excellent timing when Challenge Offensive Threat As well As quick Foot speed To recover On Pick and Roll Defense. Slight Build Excellent For Rim Running On The fast Break. Adversely His slender Frame Would Pose Considerable Trouble Defending The Post. Mobley Is A Streaky Shooter Who Needs To work On consistency In Hos Shot. Disappeared In Several Games Through Out The Season. Mobley Recorded back-to-back 26 Point Games in the Pac-12 Tournament, A 17 Point Game In the Opening Rounds Of The NCAA tournament, Followed Up By two back-to-back 10 Point Performances in The Second Round And round Of 16 respectively. Overall Averages 16.8 Points, 8.6 Rebounds, and 3.0 Blocks. Pro Comp: Jerami Grant
5. Moses Moody-
Universally Considered The Best Shooting Prospect In the draft. Prototypical Physical Profile At 6’6, 205lbs With a Massive 7’0 wingspan. Moody Raises To shoot Over Defender With Little Hindrance Or Interference From Detractors. Uses Pump Fakes And One Two Dribbles To create Scoring opportunities In the Mid-range As defenders Focus On Chasing Him Off Of the Three-Point Line. Average Athlete At Best. Not Shifty Or Equipped With A Arsenal Of Shake And bake Moves, Moody Doesn’t Separate from Defenders On The Perimeter Due To A Lack of Elusiveness. He Makes Amends For This Limitation By working well off the ball. A Plus Defender who Uses high Length and A “nose” for the ball To disrupt Plays. Excellent Rebounder For His Position. His Physical Profile Again Aides Him In this Aspect Of The Game His Uses. Frame And Length well When Positioning Under The rim. Shot An Average Of 35% From Three inn College On A Diet Of Contested Shots But His Free Throw Present 81% And His Mechanics Justify His title As This Draft Premier Shooter. averaged 16.8 points, 5.8, and 1.9 assist
Pro Comp: Trevor Ariza
