If a team is willing to draft Dunn in the first round, then they’re answering the question: They think he’ll develop in the NBA.
If they’re willing to take that chance, why would you turn it down? If he’s projected as, say, the 20th pick in this year’s draft, what do you think an extra year in college will get him? The 17th pick in the following year? The 12th? You’re gonna turn down the opportunity to go pro for the possible chance to move up a few spots?
I think there’s at least as good a chance that his draft stock will fall with an extra year in college. Why not take the opportunity when it presents itself? It may not always be there.
Article on ESPN insider saying that the writer thinks this draft is much stronger than is being advertised. Didn’t really back it up that great but we will have to see as it gets closer.
They take Dunn at 11 for the Bulls (about 1 hr 1 min on the video):
Just scrubbed around to find it, so haven’t fully listened yet.
Listened to most of it, nothing surprising, but good if you wanna bask in the feel-goods about our guy:
Sam V calls him the best wing defender he has ever scouted (I think he’s been doing this like since mid-late 2010s?).
Lower on Sam V’s board than Bryce’s, but both make the case that the immediate defensive impact makes investing in a multi year offensive project worth it.
Sam V plants his flag even stronger somehow in the Dunn is DPOY camp. Says he can do everything on defense.
Calls the hard hedge a “goofy scheme” presumably to please @Hooandtrue (the context is that he’s good at that too).
@haney I think Bryce is an American U alum, because he mentions “my old assistant coach is associate HC [at UVA]” which has to be JWilly, right?
Watched Ausar play a number of times this season. He may be much better defensively right now but he is light years ahead of RD offensively. The warriors couldn’t get Klay Thompson out of the game fast enough in the first quarter when he couldn’t defend Ausar.
Go watch GG jackson play for Memphis and compare to RD. No comparison offensively. Not remotely close. And GG is 19 who was on a two way contract until last week. The current talent level in the nba is at an all time high. These kids coming in can play and they are expected to contribute almost immediately or they get labeled a bust—unfairly imo—within a couple of years. So imo Dunn would be better off staying at uva another year and work to develop his game to delay the start of the clock on his nba development. I think these kids deserve more time to develop with the respective teams and coaching staffs but it is just the business of the nba and reality that they have a very short window to develop and contribute.
The issue with this take is that he has someone on his team that has done exactly that and he may not get drafted in the second round… Reece has been here for 4 years and is amazing in his 4th year so far. If Reece was playing like this in his first year then we would all want him to go because he would likely be lottery.
However because Reece didn’t leave early and waited until atleast this year, UVa had to compensate him for the money lost of him potentially getting selected in the top 40 last draft, and for him to stay even later into his career at Uva.
If Ryan is a first rounder he has got to leave no matter what. Filipowski could have left as a lottery pick last year, but decided to stay and I’m not sure if that was a good decision for him as his numbers aren’t better. However both Filipowski and Ryan will benefit from a potentially weaker draft *this off season.
Folks here are saying RD is not ready for the NBA … and yet there apparently are NBA teams who feel otherwise. If you were RD, which one would you listen to? Random posters on a message board? Or the guys who actually can draft you?
I was about to say the same thing. Pistons are my NBA team. Ausar struggles shooting but he’s a fantastic passer and has a great feel for cutting and finding the open spot close to the basket. Not that Dunn can’t do that, but Ausar is exceptional at that.
I don’t know if that picture was intended to refute my contention that the ball rolls off his palm when he shoots free throws or not, but if you paid attention to the two he missed tonight, they most definitely came off his palm. Haven’t watched the replay so don’t know if it was that obvious on camera, but from my angle at JPJ, there was no doubt.
I wonder if he should try standing sideways (facing more toward the sideline rather than baseline). Almost any change may help.
I remember when First Union Bank bought Wachovia and changed the Sixers/Flyers arena from the Wachovia Center to the First Union Center… the Philly press & fans immediately started calling it the FU Center.
What a trip down memory lane! I very much remember you, and your buddy “Fries Hoo” posting on The Sabre/ VirginiaFootball.com/HOOpsOnline coming up on 30 or so years ago. You guys were 2 of the better sources of recruiting info at the time. Didn’t you have an inside connection at Oak Hill? I seem to recall your posts on the Jules Camara recruitment among others.
