Zach Edey (Godzilla) vs. Donovan Clingan (King Kong) [PURDUE v UCONN game thread]

[Manny98]

This year's draft is looking terrible

[eliteballer]

Edey pretty much scored at will on Clingan.

How many players will be able to guard him in the NBA with all the spacing and shooters?

[Kblaze8855]

More than could guard Boban who is even taller and more skilled. He only played 30 minutes one game this whole season(2020) and he put up 31/17 vs Jokic.





Giant guys with some touch can bully their way to production in a small ball league. Any real big is going to dominate statistically in stretches Against the right matchup. The league not being suited to prevent it is why Andre Drummond‘s rebound percentage is like Wilt Chamberlain’s in the 60s. Hell Drummond is washed and averages 18 points 19 rebounds per 36 this year. You can’t stop a true old school big vs these soft lineups.

Difference between those days and now is while the league isnt equipped to stop big ass players from getting a few layups and all the rebounds it is entirely equipped to let them slow the game down score 2 points at a time get cooked on defense and get pulled out of the game because threes for twos doesn’t work.

And coaches aren’t going to stop playing modern offense to suit a specialist throwback who will get played off the floor if the games mattered and other team drug him out to 26 feet by playing all shooters and his slow ass couldn’t recover into the paint.

It would be a layup line and a shelling from 3 at the same time. All to get a few extra offensive rebounds and two point jump hooks the other team is happy to concede while they get unlimited threes or shots at the basket because this guy is useless guarding a shooter and hands off perimeter rules let star guards get to the basket easily, and he can’t recover to the paint to stop the dunk, and if he even tried, he would leave his man for shooting practice.


even active mobile defense focused giants like Rudy Gobert win defensive player of the years and get picked on in the playoffs. What the hell is somebody like this gonna do?

When Horford and KP are shooting 40% from 3 and Tatum is at the 4 how does this guy get in the game and not have you give up 160?

When it’s Embiid at the 5 and Tobias Harris at the 4.

Even Vucevic and Williams.

Teams will just throw the right combo of bigs and pseudo bigs out there for him to get his 22/14 and lose to.

unless he is a secretly incredible defender, choosing to keep it under wraps until he gets to the NBA? He just isn’t playable versus a team that decides to take advantage of him.

He’s exactly the type who in regular season games teams don’t care to make adjustments for could put up a Foolsgold stat line while losing close games to make you think something might be there. But any good coaching staff would be begging you to play him in a series they had time to prepare for. The players would be lining up like:




It would be a buffet.

[tontoz]

Edey pretty much scored at will on Clingan.

How many players will be able to guard him in the NBA with all the spacing and shooters?

Not sure what game you were watching. He was 8-17 from the field when Clingan got a cheap 4th foul, and that was with a couple of putback dunks and alley oops.

Edey ran up his numbers in garbage time, scoring 17 in the last 10 minutes when the game was over

In the NBA edey won't be able to camp in the lane 5+ seconds while he loads up for a jump hook.

[GimmeThat]

as long as he pays his taxes and there's no evasion, I'm sure it's all good

[eliteballer]

More than could guard Boban who is even taller and more skilled. He only played 30 minutes one game this whole season(2020) and he put up 31/17 vs Jokic.





Giant guys with some touch can bully their way to production in a small ball league. Any real big is going to dominate statistically in stretches Against the right matchup. The league not being suited to prevent it is why Andre Drummond‘s rebound percentage is like Wilt Chamberlain’s in the 60s. Hell Drummond is washed and averages 18 points 19 rebounds per 36 this year. You can’t stop a true old school big vs these soft lineups.

Difference between those days and now is while the league isnt equipped to stop big ass players from getting a few layups and all the rebounds it is entirely equipped to let them slow the game down score 2 points at a time get cooked on defense and get pulled out of the game because threes for twos doesn’t work.

And coaches aren’t going to stop playing modern offense to suit a specialist throwback who will get played off the floor if the games mattered and other team drug him out to 26 feet by playing all shooters and his slow ass couldn’t recover into the paint.

It would be a layup line and a shelling from 3 at the same time. All to get a few extra offensive rebounds and two point jump hooks the other team is happy to concede while they get unlimited threes or shots at the basket because this guy is useless guarding a shooter and hands off perimeter rules let star guards get to the basket easily, and he can’t recover to the paint to stop the dunk, and if he even tried, he would leave his man for shooting practice.


even active mobile defense focused giants like Rudy Gobert win defensive player of the years and get picked on in the playoffs. What the hell is somebody like this gonna do?

When Horford and KP are shooting 40% from 3 and Tatum is at the 4 how does this guy get in the game and not have you give up 160?

When it’s Embiid at the 5 and Tobias Harris at the 4.

Even Vucevic and Williams.

Teams will just throw the right combo of bigs and pseudo bigs out there for him to get his 22/14 and lose to.

unless he is a secretly incredible defender, choosing to keep it under wraps until he gets to the NBA? He just isn’t playable versus a team that decides to take advantage of him.

He’s exactly the type who in regular season games teams don’t care to make adjustments for could put up a Foolsgold stat line while losing close games to make you think something might be there. But any good coaching staff would be begging you to play him in a series they had time to prepare for. The players would be lining up like:




It would be a buffet.

How you can compare Boban to Edey. Boban moves like a 55 year old weekend rec playing father of 5 blown up to 7-4 or whatever he is while Edey at least resembles an actual athlete.

Not sure what game you were watching. He was 8-17 from the field when Clingan got a cheap 4th foul, and that was with a couple of putback dunks and alley oops.

Edey ran up his numbers in garbage time, scoring 17 in the last 10 minutes when the game was over

In the NBA edey won't be able to camp in the lane 5+ seconds while he loads up for a jump hook.

Edey was dominating the whole season and carried the 2nd best college team through the tournament.

[GimmeThat]

Edey was dominating the whole season and carried the 2nd best college team through the tournament.

what you so concerned about then, clearly his political and social influence will take care of his status