Re: 2020 NBA Draft Big Board
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 10:14 am
monsterpile wrote:Camden0916 wrote:AbeVigodaLive wrote:I watched a video of Oturu's workout. He hit A LOT of three pointers in a row.
I know it's only a workout. And I know it was edited.
But I also know that I've been playing a lot of basketball for (xx) years... and I'd need A LOT of editing to look that good shooting. And he's not even considered a great shooter.
I just saw something about Markus Howard, the sharpshooter Jimmer Fredette type guy from Marquette. The guy averaged 28ppg and shot above 40% on high volume three pointers in college for all four years.
I've played with and against D1 guys a bit long in the tooth. And certainly not that caliber of athlete. I can't even imagine that a guy like that does in an open gym pickup game type of situation.
These people are not like us.
I've been fortunate -- or unfortunate, really -- enough to get some runs in against guys that were at the time suiting up for the Florida Gators men's basketball team. I'd consider myself a decent pickup basketball player -- one of those that has no glaring weakness besides being under 6'0" without superb athleticism. Dunking a basketball would be a dream.
But anyways, yeah, those guys are entirely different than those of us that play weekly pickup or whatever. Guys that don't shoot and make threes in actual games end up becoming Ray Allen in empty gyms and pickup games. One, they're in the gym a lot more than normal people are. Two, they're obviously more talented. Three, they've had professional coaching at a high level. It's one thing to watch those guys play in person, but it's entirely different when you're on the court having to defend one of them.
I work with a guy that played a handful of games in a division I program a number of years ago. Dude looks to be in incredible shape and looks more like a LB than a guard. It reminds me of years ago seeing Mateen Cleaves warming up before an NBA game and seeing how jacked that guy was. It was always hilarious (And super annoying) when some guys I went to college with thought they would have any chance of doing anything against the worst NBA basketball player. They didn't even make the our small college basketball team. Lol
I've never played with/against a STAR player. Just guys who earned D1 scholarships. But the very best one was a D2 kid who played vs. the Kansas national title team with Mario Chalmers and scored 20 vs. them. He was so fast. I literally tried to foul him at halfcourt and whiffed entirely. He was nearly a 90% foul shooter in college, too. But he was only 5'7" or 5'8" which had to be why he never advanced beyond D1.
So to have that type of speed AND length and strength would be insane.