Just watched his highlights. He moves a bit like Draymond. When I watch Draymond it feels like he’s wearing incredibly heavy shoes with magnets in them. Like he plods around a lot of the time. But the magnets can connect to something in the floorboards, and he has a switch in his brain to control them, so, whenever he feels like it, he can turn them on and make himself unmovable in the post. But the magnets can also generate momentum over very short distances so he also uses them to randomly start flying across the lane or to get a little extra zip on a fast break.
Good read. I'm also a huge CMB fan. Have him 5th on my big board right now. When's your full big board come out? I see a lot of people doing the Draymond comparison, but don't like it as much on the offensive end. Draymond as a 22.3 year old senior shot only 0.473 on 2P%, while CMB was really efficient from 2P% as a 19 year old freshman (0.613) and 20 year old sophmore (0.622). I have another DPOY big as a comparison for CMB, Evan Mobley. I used machine learning to map out predraft neighbours for each prospect and Mobley was one of CMB's. CMB as a sophomore was the same age as Mobley as a freshman and they had similar offensive output in the NCAA (2P%, ast/tov, ftr). They even had similar distance shooting markers (FT%, 3pa/100, 3P% slight edge to Mobley). Now Mobley is C size while CMB is wing sized, but Mobley is able to win DPOY as a starting PF next to a non shooting C, Jarrett Allen, so I like CMB as a starting PF in the NBA.
CMB has much better strength than Mobley did as a prospect and is less of a high post passing hub compared to Mobley as a prospect, but you could say there are similarities in terms of being very defensively oriented but also having underrated passing skill. The devil is always in the details in terms of what data is going into any nearest neighbor algorithm.
Great stuff, have really enjoyed all of these! What are your thoughts on Rasheer Fleming? Feel like lots of people are saying he’s a wing — what about a stretch/small-ball 5? Saw he has a 97.1 similarity score to Jarrett Allen physically.
Full big board should come out tomorrow, including a few paragraphs on Fleming, but I agree that he should be thought of as a versatile 4/5 as opposed to being a true wing.
Just watched his highlights. He moves a bit like Draymond. When I watch Draymond it feels like he’s wearing incredibly heavy shoes with magnets in them. Like he plods around a lot of the time. But the magnets can connect to something in the floorboards, and he has a switch in his brain to control them, so, whenever he feels like it, he can turn them on and make himself unmovable in the post. But the magnets can also generate momentum over very short distances so he also uses them to randomly start flying across the lane or to get a little extra zip on a fast break.
Good read. I'm also a huge CMB fan. Have him 5th on my big board right now. When's your full big board come out? I see a lot of people doing the Draymond comparison, but don't like it as much on the offensive end. Draymond as a 22.3 year old senior shot only 0.473 on 2P%, while CMB was really efficient from 2P% as a 19 year old freshman (0.613) and 20 year old sophmore (0.622). I have another DPOY big as a comparison for CMB, Evan Mobley. I used machine learning to map out predraft neighbours for each prospect and Mobley was one of CMB's. CMB as a sophomore was the same age as Mobley as a freshman and they had similar offensive output in the NCAA (2P%, ast/tov, ftr). They even had similar distance shooting markers (FT%, 3pa/100, 3P% slight edge to Mobley). Now Mobley is C size while CMB is wing sized, but Mobley is able to win DPOY as a starting PF next to a non shooting C, Jarrett Allen, so I like CMB as a starting PF in the NBA.
Full big board should come out tomorrow!
CMB has much better strength than Mobley did as a prospect and is less of a high post passing hub compared to Mobley as a prospect, but you could say there are similarities in terms of being very defensively oriented but also having underrated passing skill. The devil is always in the details in terms of what data is going into any nearest neighbor algorithm.
Great stuff, have really enjoyed all of these! What are your thoughts on Rasheer Fleming? Feel like lots of people are saying he’s a wing — what about a stretch/small-ball 5? Saw he has a 97.1 similarity score to Jarrett Allen physically.
Full big board should come out tomorrow, including a few paragraphs on Fleming, but I agree that he should be thought of as a versatile 4/5 as opposed to being a true wing.