that wingspan pretty much guarantees he'll have an nba career. May be worth the reach at #8
Edey at 8 is a stretch. If the spurs were to trade back into the first round for a player like Edey that wouldn't be a bad investment but a lottery pick seems excessive.
I think Edey is a talented player but not at 4 or 8.
Who ever picks him gets a player who should have a player with a higher floor. We'll see how individual workouts work for him and that will tell a lot.
True. Hashem Thabeet had a great wingspan and he had a great career.
nowhere near as good and he would have if he didn't foul all the time.
I don't like Edey any higher than like a an early 20s pick because he seems pretty limited to me especially in a playoff setting, but I'm willing to go down this thought exercise because I'm bored. Edey's big advantage is that he's potentially a very efficient post scorer who can beat basically anyone 1 on 1 in the low post. He has a questionable jumper. On the other side of the ball, he's incredibly limited because even though he's more mobile than a guy like Boban, his size still makes his lateral quickness a liability, however he would probably do ok in drop. So in order to provide value, he has to punish smaller bigs on offense more than modern offenses can punish him on defense.
So far, the best example I can think of of a limited defensive archetype who forces you to adjust to his prolific post scoring is Alperen Sengun, so there is a precedent for this kind of player succeeding. I guess if you believe in Edey's passing chops improving down the line (still a negative AST:TO as a senior) then you have an argument especially if your team didn't have Wemby on it. I personally think though that if you're going to play a guy who can't space with Wemby, he really has to be a better interior passer with better vision than what Edey has shown. I'd certainly take him as a late first rounder to be one of the best backup bigs in the league, but probably not as a starter.
Giannis isn’t a big, he’s a wing, so that leaves one guy who has ungodly passing and shooting skills, and one oft injured guy who can shoot like a guard. Does Edey do any of these things? No.
He’s Boban,minus the shooting and passing.
quite likely.. which could be worth this years #8 imo
Boban was an unsigned FA who hit the league at age 28, has never played 15 minutes per game, and has eight seasons where he didn’t play double digit minutes. Someone who lacks several of his major skills shouldn’t be a lottery pick.
A fit for Edey that I think would make a lot of sense, if the Pelicans opt to wait until next year for their pick, is the Lakers at 17
Prior to the NCAA tourney most mocks had Edey as a 2nd rounder. Yeah, but lets drop #4 on him because he punked Clingan one night and ran fast and loud at the combine.
Twin towers tho
I thought people swore Vic and KP couldn't work because porzingis can't stay healthy.
KP is a completely different player than Edey. He has actual perimeter skills, shooting, ball handling and such. Comparing them because they’re both tall is the laziest kind of analysis possible.
we have a lot of dumb here
Spurs absolutely need to find a good backup C but you don't waste a lottery pick on one when you have a generational one starting tbh.
In theory at least, Sarr would be a much better fit with Vic than either Clingan or Edey. That's really just because he at least fancies himself as a jump shooter. Since the Spurs are very unlikely to be in position to draft Sarr, we end up with posts like this. Also, the better Minnesota does playing tall ball, the more we'll probably see this opinion.
But Wemby's advantage is not his size, it's his mobility. Nobody that tall has ever been able to move like him, and this is why playing him at C is such an unfair advantage. If you ask him to play as essentially a jumbo wing like KAT next to a plodding C like Clingan or Edey, you're putting a lower ceiling on what this team is eventually capable of.
The goal should be a hyper-versatile team on both ends, which means guys like these plodding dinosaurs should be limited to bench roles (playing behind Vic and only occasionally/situationallly beside him). And using a lottery pick on a guy who you can't imagine starting for your team is just not a good idea, especially when Victor should be playing 36mpg or more for the foreseeable future
Just don’t let okc get him….. there will be a lot history being re-wrote in here
True, stats don’t lie.
https://www.espn.com/nba/team/stats/...-antonio-spurs
When Sochan and Johnson rebound average is higher than Collins and Mamu, there is a problem.
Through trade or draft, Spurs need serviceable centers to help backup Wemby.
Unfortunately Collins contract kind of locks up the ability to do a lot at the position, at least until such time he is traded (but I wouldn't look to pay significant assets to trade him at this point). Bassey, if he can stay healthy, is an ideal fit both on the court and contract wise.
I’ll bump that thread to refresh thy memory
Couple that with no humility and you got yourself a damn clown show!
Don't the Spurs have about 20 million in cap space? How does his contract affect anything?
How much do you want to invest in the backup center position? You ready to move a $17MM/yr guy to the third string?
At relying on counting stats without context in '24.
Sochan and Johnson average significantly more mpg than Collins and Mamukelashvili, so naturally they're going to average higher rpg.
Look at rebound % or rate and it's unsurprisingly a different story. Mamukealshvili = 17.6, Collins = 13.1., Sochan = 11.7, Johnson = 10.
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