The Athletic has posted their NBA draft board - Dunn is #10, despite the narrative below saying #11-
Virginia wing Ryan Dunn is running away with the National Defensive Player of the Year award at this early stage, dominating games with his length, anticipation, switchability and intelligence on that end. He rotates in a timely way and is constantly disruptive as a team defender. He’s slotted onto guards, bigs and wings in college hoops with minimal issue and is putting up historic block and steal numbers – 2.8 swats and 2.8 steals per game – on top of countless other deflections. His offense is a work in progress across the board, but scouts compare him favorably on defense to Herb Jones, an early second-round pick who would have gone in the lottery in a 2021 re-draft. I’ve moved Dunn up to No. 11 because of that, even if his jumper is going to need some real seasoning.
It’s Vecenie’s board and he loves himself some Dunn. Interesting that he notes any of the top 9 players could be drafted #1, so Dunn at 10 must mean a tier break there. Also listed as a W, not even a W/F.
Reece will need to start banging down jumpers at a decent % to move that ranking. A heroic ACCT and NCAAT run could convert some doubters too. Wonder if the injury prone/brittleness stuff with his wheels is also coming into play here.
Reece at 78… I don’t like it, but I get it. Last spring he was maybe late second round, and that was when he was a 35% shooter from three. Now he’s shooting 28%. The concern has to be that his ceiling as a jump shooter isn’t that high.
His breakout was just the last week whereas Sheppard’s was basically all of November. If Isaac keeps it up he’ll start showing up somewhere on the boards in January
And, he will get lots sightings in person by the NBA guys since they will be looking at Dunn pretty closely. There were 6 teams represented at the A&M game.
I could be off base but I tend to pay the most attention to the Draft Express (now ESPN) guy. Seems to me he tries to get an accurate snapshot of where players would be drafted at the moment whereas Vecenie and most others in that niche I think rely more on their personal opinions of players.
Yeah, there’s a subtle difference between draft intel and draft scouting. I think DraftExpress started off more as a pure scouting service but has kinda entered the “sources”-world of NBA intel collection, especially since moving to ESPN.
Hmmm…but he LITERALLY does everything else. Leading in assists, steals, blocks, AND they want him to be 35% shooter, JUST to get drafted in the top 60? Who else is doing ANYTHING like that? I mean 78 is malpractice.
I’m not really bitching at you, but just am annoyed for Beeks (and yes I know that this analysis is from a bunch of blowhards).
You generally need to be able to score as a PG in the modern NBA. And you generally need to be able to shoot. There are spots for athletic freak defenders in the league, but those tend to be wings and bigs. If you’re a PG and that’s your calling card, you better at least be insanely quick or have insane athleticism. Neither of those are really defining Reece traits either.
At the end of the day, if he can get his three point shooting up to a respectable level, he can move up because he does so many things so well. But NBA teams are going to wary of an older PG whose shot is suspect - they don’t want a guy who other teams are just going to sag off of.
Calling all shot doctors: Diagnose the issue (h/t Riffs for the clip) –
I think he’s too geeked up and needs to settle a bit, but that edge is what makes the rest of his game so good. Seems long when he misses. Form seems fine (?). Just needs to learn to harness his energy
Also- per Brady Manek (and his Mom), Ryan Dunn isn’t “reaching on top of the fridge and in to the cookie jar”…He also needs to hold his pose for 1-2 full seconds longer.
Yep! I’m trying to find the video/audio interview but he explained that he was taught that process by his parentes in order to consistently shoot that well.
