Possibly.
Dunn’s athleticism and defensive skills seem fairly set.
His offensive improvement could follow a very wide trajectory from zero (and he was awful on O this year) to massive (let’s say 2018 Dre). Most likely he’ll be somewhere in between. That said, I’d lay at least 7:1 odds against him being drafted in 2024.
Dunn with a summer of weight training and practicing 1,000 3s a day will be scary stuff
But also the big question for Dunn is does he want to be a guard or a big.
Agreed. He is likely to get to the NBA but he is a good ways from there right now.
Whether it is guard or big, he will need to work hard on the ball handling skills. Guys his size in the NBA need to be able to move it. If he could shoot it like Trey, maybe not as much as others, but even he appears to have improved that part of his game.
Agree, his handle is key to whether he can play a guard role. No matter what offense we are in, our perimeter players aren’t often just spotting up with no other responsibilities; even the wing players in the middle triangle offense are responsible for making a pass into the triangle, driving closeouts.
To oversimplify things, if he’s playing a guard role, he’ll need to be able to run the occasional ball screen, make a play out of a curl towards the basket (e.g. the two man game that can happen when we are running Blocker-Mover), and be able to drive closeouts. He doesn’t need to do these at super high volumes, but just enough and well enough to keep pressure on the defense when he has the ball.
For all we know, Dre could’ve looked a lot like Dunn if he’d played his freshman year
Really? Have you seen his HS tape?
I haven’t. So for all I know, Dre could have looked a lot like Dunn on his HS tape.
Here ya go:
Brevin Galloway said he hates playing disciplined/physical teams like UVA/VT but loved playing NC State because they play AAU ball.
DeAndre Hunter was WAY more skilled than Dunn out of high school.
Dunn might have more raw athleticism and length than Hunter. Hunter was by no means raw. He just had that ankle injury.
I had friends of friends close to the program at the time who thought he could have been a one and done the summer he arrived on grounds (which reflects him dominating those 5 stars his last aau go around).
Gotta love Pack Insider sharing this with an approving message, reflecting the awareness that there is an optimal amount of State-fan self-loathing that must be maintained in the fanbase.
GMs agreed with thaf
It’s wild to think now that he came back for that 3rd year.
The wrist break that ruined our tournament run in 2018 allowed for the 2019 miracle to happen.
Yeah because I don’t think they beat Nova anyways. That team was different
https://twitter.com/UVaHoopsRiffs/status/1641085199063580672
this dude is an idiot. It took us 6 years and two coaches to get $25M for a football facility. VAF practically has to beg for donations and we have teams in trailers
Eh, we beat Nova that season. Carolina, too.
We were peaking at the right time, until that stupid press, and the missed fast break bunnies that would have put away that game.
EDIT: Thought you were referring to 2016! Yeah, 2018 was all Villanova.
That kid’s got big balls. (at some point maybe this joke will get old for me, but it won’t be for a while)
I think he’s closer to the mark on than your response indicates. The moneyed alums made a conscious decision to invest in basketball in the 00’s. How we got JPJ. How we got Tony. Those same people have never cared about football. Unless their priorities have changed they’ll make sure we are competitive with the rest of the ACC NIL wise. Just a question of how much middle of the pack in the ACC NIL will lag behind the SEC, Big 12, and B1G