Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Champ or chump?

One more thing about the NBA draft. I don't believe Andrew Bogut is the answer to the next great center in the traditional sense. From everything I have heard, he is slow, both in speed and agility. From the few clips on ESPN I saw, he is always throwing layup after layup even though he always got great positions and was wide open under the baskets. You cannot dominate the paint in today's NBA if you don't destroy the basket with dunks anytime you are near the basket in college. Lack of foot speed and agility will make him a defensive liability, whether it's guarding a Garnett or Stoudamire, or helping out from the weakside against a Bibby or Kobe. Comparison to Divac may be accurate, but that's not No.1 pick pedigree now is it?

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