Can Doug McDermott crack the top 10??

[Clyde]

From the sounds of it he's should win the POY award and keeps getting better.

At 6'7 225lbs, he may be a bit of a tweener, but with 4 years of college expirience he should be able to step in and start producing.

I like the kid. Maybe not to go in the top 10....unless he goes bananas in the tourney.

Thoughts?

[the mesiah]

very slow , not Athletic, I could see him being a poor man's Kyle Korver.he won't go top unless if lot of the freshman don't declare then maybe .i could see him being in that 17-23 range depending on draft order and of course who comes out.

[Thorpesaurous]

I would guess a little higher than that, like 12 to 15, but that's all pretty much the same at this point. I doubt he'll crack the top ten. But I'm pretty certain he'll have a better career than a guy or two that goes ahead of him. Just because he has a definable talent that the league needs. He can make shots. He may not have a solid position, but with the league defenses going more zone-ish, what he can provide in spacing could keep him in the league for 10 years. He's probably not the pure shooter Korver is. But something like what Matt Harpring did in Utah for so long might be the explanation.

[Clyde]

I would guess a little higher than that, like 12 to 15, but that's all pretty much the same at this point. I doubt he'll crack the top ten. But I'm pretty certain he'll have a better career than a guy or two that goes ahead of him. Just because he has a definable talent that the league needs. He can make shots. He may not have a solid position, but with the league defenses going more zone-ish, what he can provide in spacing could keep him in the league for 10 years. He's probably not the pure shooter Korver is. But something like what Matt Harpring did in Utah for so long might be the explanation.

i like the comparison to Harpring.

[kNicKz]

I'm intrigued with his draft stock. He's going to get overlooked for his lack of explosiveness but he's a true gamer and has crazy skill/instinct.

[EnoughSaid]

He could be a legit 20/8/3 guy. He's very very skilled and has a great shot. Already has an established post game better than a lot of current NBA players.

[Clyde]

I've managed to watch a few Creighton games via live stream, it's quite obvious the kid can score.

My only concern is his size, not quite a 3 not quite a 4....though in today's NBA I'm not sure that matters anymore.

If he leads Creighton to the sweet 16, I think someone will roll the dice on him earlier then expected.

[absalom]

What if the Horncats drafted him w/ the Det Pick and he turned out to be AMMO 2.0?

[Thorpesaurous]

I posted this in the college forum as a couple paragraphs in a recap of my trip to the Big East that actually took two posts. I was really impressed.

Game three we skipped gambling on. It was an awfull Depaul team vs. Creighton, but the number was a huge 16.5. Anyone who knows college basketball knows a blowout could be 10 points, so I didn't want to lay that much. It was my first experience seeing Doug McDermott live, and was incredibly impressed. This isn't just a shooter. He's much bigger than I expected. I believe he's listed at 6-8, and I was expecting 6-6, but I would say he appeared closer to 6-10. And his movement skills were remarkable. He's not explosive or fast, but he's incredibly smooth and balanced. He ran off curls a ton, and his ability to change direction coming off them was noticable. And he took the ball in transition more than once. Dropping off one handed touch passes, and once throwing a cross court lefty skip pass right off the bounce directly in front of us, that I'm sure didn't look like much on TV, but was no small deal seeing it. The kid can flat out play. He competes on the boards. His post game is totally playable. He'll throw that Dirk knee up shot at you in a flash. And the ball handling was better than I expected. And the jumper is as pure as I'd imagined. You could tell especially in warm ups, when the misses came off so incredibly soft. He set a Big East first half record with 27, and just seemed like he could do whatever he wanted. They won and covered, although there were moments I was thrilled I didn't bet on them. You don't want to be up 20 all game and win by 15 because the last five minutes didn't matter and you choked up a cover.

The team was good but not great. They have a bunch of smart guys. But they never got to the free throw line. Way to dependent on face up shots. But McDermott will be a really good pro. He's a much better player than Kyle Korver. I had thrown out Matt Harpring somewhere, but he's much better than that. If he goes 12, he'll outplay three or four of the guys taken ahead of him. The jumper will keep him from busting, and gun to my head right now, I'd take him over Marcus Smart. Won't happen, but he's just got so much fitt-ability, I think he's more plug and play than a guy who I'm not sure how good he is without the ball, and not sure he's good enough I want to build my franchise around him having it. McDermott was bad defensively. And not because he couldn't move his feet or anything. He just noticably got lost more than once, which is a little scary for a guy that instinctive, but I'd rather try to drill that out of him. More than once he had his back facing up court, which is just like an amatuerish mistake. Lost his guy behind him a few times. Just real problems unrelated to his limited athleticism, and when the athleticism is limited, you can't have those mistakes.