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NBA Draft perspectives compare with current players: from Kawhi to Harden

NBA Draft perspectives compare with current players: from Kawhi to Harden

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Every year there is an NBA draft compared to one or two players in the league. It is like most of us understand the design and the dozens of players in it. It may be a little lazy, but it can also be educational. It enables us to create models in our heads how to think of players and who can ultimately become. This can be based on playing style, size or similar skills.

But here is the great unveiling: NBA scouts and managers do it too. So also the players. It can ensure an interesting point of action.

The teams occasionally also ask prospects for NBA player comparisons in the interviews during the design combine or during the preliminary design process. The answers can occasionally be instructive. Sometimes they are defeated themselves. But they also indicate which players are or could be models in the league for younger athletes who want to imitate parts of their game

This month, The athlete Speeched or stood in interviews with 13 design prospects to find out which NBA player (or players) they compared. The answers were pretty interesting.

“I don't really compare myself to anyone. I have the feeling that I just try to be myself all the time when I'm on the pitch. I don't try to be someone else that I can't do. I just try to be myself. I will have other people compared.”

Dylan Harper, 6-4 Wache, Rutgers, No. 2

“There are probably big guards like Cade Cunningham, James Harden, Shai (Gilgeous-Alexander). Only big guards that control the game, check the pace and only know when you have to score if you don't have to score. Then you know that if you have to give someone a touch.

Carter Bryant, 6-7 Wing, Arizona, No. 12

“I see that I describe it as almost like a progression. At the beginning of the league, I have the feeling that I can be a guy who can protect several positions. Obviously I want to be able to protect one to five. I have the feeling that I can now protect one with four. I have to be a bit stronger now, but finally I see a guy who looked all five positions.

Liam McNeeley, 6-7 wings, Connecticut, No. 21

“The one I used more often is Gordon Hayward, mainly before the injury, but even after that he is such a great player.

Cedric Coward, 6-5 Wache, State of Washington, No. 22

“I think there is a lot. Kawhi (Leonard) is one, Mikal Bridges is different. We are both long and lanky. Jalen Williams from the thunder-sie know, mid-major type. But I think what all these people have in common, at least in my game. At least it is the ability to do the ability. Missing players in the world.

Walter Clayton Jr., 6-2 Wache, Florida, No. 25

“I have no direct comp. I only speak of taking parts from other players' games. You have (Jalen) Brunson, only with his patience in color. He comes down there, plays two feet, uses his entire room, the hop steps and the footwork that get to this floater.”

Labaron Philon, 6-3 Wache, Alabama, No. 28

“Jrue Holiday. I just have to hit my chest as he does, and the arms and things like that. The physical aspect. I saw a lot (Andrew) Nembhard how he uses his shoulders, and Shai (Gilgeous-Aalexander), how he uses his drive applications.

Ryan Kalkbrenner, 7-1 Center, Creighton, No. 30

“I tell you I don't try to be someone outside. Obviously you can take small parts of people, but I want to be. I don't want to be someone else. I want to be.”

Tahaad Pettiford, 6-0 Wache, Auburn, No. 32

“I want to say a lot about de'aaron Fox. I try to take some things from Darius Garland and James Harden, some parts of their game. But I would probably say that De'aaron fox is someone I play how much.”

John Tonje, 6-5 Wache, Wisconsin, No. 41

“I don't compare too much with other people and don't have a NBA comparison. But if I had to give an answer, I would say like a Desmond Bane or Quentin Grimes. Only two names out there that I am quite similar.

Chaz Lanier, 6-4 Wache, Tennessee, No. 49

“I like Devin Booker's game very much. In this season in Tennessee, I have his footwork and his ability to create space and pick up his shots, and only the fast readings he does. So I say Devin Booker. And I steal a lot of bumps bootwork and I admire how he keeps his shot so quickly and how easily the game.”

Hunter Sallis, 6-4 Wache, Wake Forest, No. 56

“I say Tim Hardaway Jr. (Nickeil) Alexander-Walker, he is a good one as he defends himself. I like (Donte) Divincenzo. There are a lot of people who try to take small pieces from their games and things.

Jalon Moore, 6-6 Wing, Oklahoma, and berry

“I feel like a PJ Washington, Jonathan Kuminga. A person who can get out and stretch out the ground. I became a capable knockdown 3 point shooter, so I said, people like you who can achieve the game without the ball and only recover the next property. I feel that this is an important role in every NBA team.”

(Dylan Harper Pop Photos: Michael Reaves / Getty Images)

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