Cook (6-6, 205 pounds), a 23-year-old redshirt senior who averaged 14.8 points, on 47.2 percent shooting, and 5.1 rebounds, will have to showcase his versatility and athleticism – and maybe a three-point shot – to even work his way into second-round consideration. Here are five things to know about this coming 2016 NBA Combine.
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Colangelo’s first combine with SixersPresident of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo and the Sixers’ staff will be among those in attendance.
Ford currently has Hield ranked sixth on his big board, noting he’s heard “enough scouts say that they think he might now be overrated” after his stock exploded in the NCAA tournament before the Villanova game. If he could continue to develop his midrange jump shot, it would be interesting to watch Zizic and Nikola Jokic grow together.
Jones’ disappointing junior season could cause him to drop a bit, but he has the kind of upside and defensive potential that a team like San Antonio could mold into a future contributor.
The combine physical will be the last time teams can evaluate players medically. Most college players leave early because they think they’re ready and they don’t want to get hurt before they cash in, but DeRozan’s mother has lupus, and having the ability to take care of her financial burdens from her health issues was just impossible to pass up. He wasn’t exactly the fireworks that many had hoped for, but he was, to his credit, a solid vet that could further the team’s improvement from last year’s strong finish. Other players who are now healthy but whose medicals could come back questionable: Stephen Zimmerman (elbow, knee), Jaron Blossomgame (leg), and the aforementioned Dunn (shoulder). That includes hand size, feet size, wingspan, height, weight and percentage of body fat.
So what numbers can we use to predict National Basketball Association success?
Obviously, not all of these questions can be answered in a ideal manner.
THIS week marks an important step on Buddy Hield’s path toward the National Basketball Association (NBA) as the top collegiate and worldwide prospects look to increase their stock ahead of next month’s Draft.
Watching the combine on TV can certainly be boring, but there is traditionally some interesting information about the worldwide players that aren’t even necessarily at the combine itself. We feel where we’ll be picking, we’ll have an opportunity to get a very good player.
It isn’t so much that the tests don’t adequately assess general athleticism. Sabonis is projected to go in the late teens, and Murray is a borderline first-round pick.
At 6’5 the United Kingdom prospect would likely play combo guard, meaning he’d be taking minutes away from one of these two players, a practice we thought was left behind when LA fired Byron Scott.
Those with experience of the combine agree that the value of the event may not lie with the athletic skills portion, rather with the anthropometrics and mental makeup of the athletes. He has more workouts scheduled for the week immediately following the combine. The information will then be conveyed to teams on a need-to-know basis.
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In all, eight players were unanimous selections for the lottery. One player that the Celtics surely have their eyes on is Toronto shooting guard DeMar DeRozan, who at 26 is part of that upper tier, and he’s just entering his prime. Sometimes it takes a player, especially one that comes into the league at 19, time to adjust to the pro game and become more assertive with their team, and that is exactly what occurred with DeRozan.
