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Not a huge fan of LeVert. Though Uthoff, Gbinije, Bentil, Layman -I think they're all talented enough to carve out roles; I don't know what Melo Trimble is yet.
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As far as the MD guys go, Layman is basically another version of Sam Dekker. My biggest gripe with him was that he sometimes isn't aggressive enough....Trimble is really a wild card to me. If he shoots like he did his freshman year, I liken him to a taller Ty Lawson sans the personal issues and he can certainly play a role in the league. May never be a starter, but could be a very solid backup for many years. If he shoots 31% from 3 like he did this year, he will be in Europe...Not a huge fan of LeVert. Though Uthoff, Gbinije, Bentil, Layman -I think they're all talented enough to carve out roles; I don't know what Melo Trimble is yet.
If Caris was healthy I would have taken him in the first round, I think he's everything you want in a modern complementary guard.
Can shoot 40% from 3, defend all 3 positions, 2 of them well. and make plays off the dribble as a passer or as a scorer if he gets ran of the line. I'd love to see him with GSW, or the Spurs.
I need the Nuggets to not f up these 3 picks in the top 20
Interesting, the way you've framed it here. And maybe you're right. I never really saw the drive to take over, and beyond that- consistently, he seemed to fade into the background in a lot of Michigan games I've watched in the last two years (he was hurt for a lot of this season granted). I guess my concern is when you've framed it like that you've sort of tied in my concerns - why can he be the package of all of that and fail to make an impact or become a relatively known name outside of us? There's something not right there, I don't know.
I'm a little concerned that he broke his left foot as a sophomore, broke his left foot again as a junior, and sat out the entire conference season as a senior (played 11 min in 1 game) and last Tuesday he had surgery. Why so long? Three huge injuries to the same foot in three years?
The injuries are what make him a 2nd round pick, but if you draft him and you find a way to keep him healthy no doubt he's a 1st round calibler talent, especially in this draft.
fail to make an impact? He was the second best player on an elite 8 squad and he got hurt the other two years.
The Trey Burke 12-13 Michigan team doesn't go to the F4 without his length at the front of their zone, and he had great games at Kohl, Breslin and Cameron Indoor the following season, but he wasn't the second-best player on that team.
Two of his teammates Jordan Morgan and GRIII have top-10 career field goal percentages of all time in the Big Ten and that was the last season for both. GRIII finished third in 2pt FGs and only 9th in attempts so there's the efficiency, and he didn't shoot threes well but they also had Stauskas and Z.Irvin (btw Zak made more threes than LeVert that season).
Morgan's defense and rebounding were far more important than Levert's length on the perimeter in that season even as critical as that length was to the F4 team the yea prior, and his 3-point acumen. He also went 2-7 from deep over UM's 4gms in that 2013-14 tournament (averaging 33 minutes per game). So hardly leaned on that (arguably his best strength) in favor of others. You can say it was because he was a sophomore but he definitely wasn't the second-best player on that team, probably fourth.
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All that said... he's not terrible, not saying that, there are sample sizes though in those two seasons he's gone down with injuries since that you mentioned where there's not a healthy dearth of games but not like 4-5 either.
We have somewhat of a handful of games in the double-digits that you can be active in trying to draw conclusions from & feel like you can glean a dose of what he is... Per-40 him in terms of totals but averages aren't dependable, at least observable... and when looking at those, his numbers extrapolated seem to remain the same when he's the man and when he's not. Again, just drawing off of those meager sample sizes so I'm not being overly aggressive in saying he can't work out, just don't have much to go off of for me to say he will or that he's first-round caliber.
Daniel Orton, Jeryl Sasser and Christian Eyenga are just some of the irrelevant names that have gone in round one so obviously I won't be surprised if he goes because he's obviously not worse than those & most GMs have no idea what they're doing after pick 5.
2016 NBA Mock Draft 2.0: Ingram unseats Simmons for No. 12016 NBA Mock Draft 1.0: Pre-tourney
http://www.si.com/nba/2016/03/11/nba-mock-draft-ncaa-tournament-ben-simmons-brandon-ingram
Some of the commentary is ridiculous in this2016 NBA Mock Draft 2.0: Ingram unseats Simmons for No. 1
http://www.si.com/nba/2016/04/01/nba-mock-draft-brandon-ingram-ben-simmons-dragan-bender
So Thon Maker is entering the NBA Draft.