Erving: 10% body fat, (really high for a guard) and he didnt do the athletics. Why? is hiding something? Red flags here...The comparisons with Paul are plain absurd, just hype machine. He is nowhere near the athlete that Paul is or skilled.
Irving didn't do the trials because... well, why would he? He's guaranteed of going at #1, and as pointed out, this isn't a strong class. Any failure on the physical/skills testing would have been blown all out of proportion.
Derrick Williams: He did good (not great) on athletic/physical metrics, but is he an SF or PF? not sure if he is a franchise player anyway. For me best case scenario is Anton Jameson.
It's highly unlikely there's a single franchise player in this entire draft. Or even "close-to". Hell, if teams get "regular rotation players" outta this draft, they're doing well.
Kanter's interesting. On one hand, he's scary - because as you point out, he's hardly played and thus is a huge risk. On the other hand, there's mighty slim pickings in this draft, so why not swing for the fences and risk it on a guy who could be a very solid starter (which is more than I'll say about pretty much anyone in this draft).
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