Kansas rode a big first half run to a victory Tuesday against Richmond at home. Jeff Withey, Ben McLemore and Elijah Johnson all played pivotal roles in the win. All three are Kansas’ top draft prospects for this upcoming summer. All have pros and cons to their games. McLemore, though, has the[...]
Cody Zeller (18 pts/5 rebs): Zeller didn’t look like a lottery pick. He didn’t assert himself enough late in the game, he wore out and he couldn’t finish at the rim as he was being fouled. Zeller was exposed on the perimeter of the defensive end. Butler figured out that Zeller[...]
Rasheed Sulaimon is the first player on my features who doesn’t have any college playing time to his name as a true freshman at Duke this season, but that could quickly change if he earns a starting spot over Seth Curry — something that’s getting a lot of talk. On[...]
The Indiana Hoosiers are officially the preseason college basketball No. 1 team, as released, and thus will have plenty of opportunities to be on national television. For Victor Oladipo, this could be a good thing or a bad thing. What he’ll have to prove in these nationally televised games, let[...]
Russian Dmitry Kulagin is the lowest rated international player on my 65-man big board to start off the college basketball and international basketball season, and for good reason — he has a lot of issues, beginning with his physical characteristics as a point guard. Kulagin is in that 6-foot-5/6 range[...]
A friend commented recently that Creighton’s Doug McDermott is the most underrated player in this year’s NBA Draft class. I say, you can’t overrate somebody if you don’t rate him too highly in the first place — and so you see McDermott as my 65th-rated player in the class. McDermott[...]
When spiteful old man Greg Oden woke up Monday morning, hopped on his Twitter (which is steadily decreasing its followers) and saw Yahoo! Sports reporting that Anthony Davis “severely sprained his ankle” in a Hornets workout, he thought the following: HAHA! SURE THING, MY ASS! … SEE, JAY BILAS, THERE’S NO[...]
**Post was started prior to when players began to withdraw their names from the draft, so those included who have withdrawn will have asterisk next to their names** 1. Charlotte Bobcats | Anthony Davis/Kentucky Davis is definitely the best shot blocker since Patrick Ewing (ignoring Hassan Whiteside, a 2010 draft pick from[...]