NBA Draft Entrants
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So far… I’m sure there’s others so add them when you see them.
Kentucky- Clarke, Jackson, Boston
Florida- Tre Mann
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Day’Ron Sharpe. He gone
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Kai Jones declared, expected to be a lottery pick.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in NBA Draft Entrants:
Kai Jones declared, expected to be a lottery pick.
that was pretty perdicted - -saw that one coming - pretty decent , nice length good hops think he has a real shot - Sorry Shaka, lose him and Jericho both
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Congrats to Jones. He and his circle get paid again. Really intriguing talent for the NBA
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DJ Steward dook
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Unsurprising but Cade Cunningham also declared today officially.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in NBA Draft Entrants:
Unsurprising but Cade Cunningham also declared today officially.
WHOA. They might make a big step back now. He was good.
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The young supporting cast might return though. Anderson was becoming a dude
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@BeddieKU23 said in NBA Draft Entrants:
The young supporting cast might return though. Anderson was becoming a dude
Cunningham helped several of those guys develop by taking the pressure off them this year with his talent. OSU may have taken two steps forward even by having him for one year.
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Agree Cade was big time for them. Really young team that grew up and followed in his lead. Anderson & Boone especially really got good as the season went on
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Quentin Grimes declared for the draft again today.
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Pippen Jr testing the waters
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@justanotherfan question here. Why was this the case w Cade where Trae Young seemed to have the opposite effect on teammates?
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Cade made the rest of the team better. Blame it on coach too. Trae was only about Trae!
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Trae Young has a specific skillset that doesn’t necessarily help his teammates develop even though he can make them better. Trae Young can stretch the defense in weird ways with his shooting, giving teammates more room to operate than normal. He also is a very talented passer, which, combined with how he bends and twists defenses with his range, makes for some abnormal situations for his teammates on the offensive end. And of course, Trae Young was a below average defender, which meant that his teammates had to manipulate the floor in certain ways on that end to cover for him sometimes.
Cunningham, on the other hand, is a very well rounded player. He’s a good defender. He handles, shoots, rebounds and scores well. He can play on or off the ball. He can play inside or out on both ends. That means that teammates can play their normal role with him, as opposed to having to play the role best suited to play around Young, who was really an on ball player, and couldn’t really play multiple positions because of his size.
So with Young, if you were a player that really needed to have the ball in your hands to develop, well, too bad, because Young needs the ball in his hands and he’s better. Cunningham slides off ball and you keep rolling.
If you’re a guy that needs someone to facilitate for you in order for you to play well, Cunningham takes over on ball and gets you the ball where you need it.
You’re a big that needs interior space to operate. Cunningham can open up the floor. You’re a wing player? Cunningham can slide in at the 4 and play a stretch role, or the high post against a zone. Young couldn’t move into any of those roles because of his size. He was strictly a PG.
Basically, Cunningham could change his game to let his teammates do whatever they did best, so they were able to develop their game. Young couldn’t because he didn’t have the size to move around to different spots and take on different roles on either end of the floor.
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Having Cade for one year will have an impact beyond one year in terms of the development of the OSU players imo. Very big positive.
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@justanotherfan nice break down! Thank you.
