312player wrote:
Towns - decent , a superstar? Hell no ...kinda weak draft.
What? Towns grabbed 14 rebounds per 40 mins (12 for Okafor), 4.5 blocks a game to 2 per 40 for Okafor . Towns is a shut-down rim-protector on the defensive end. 14/4.5 are insane numbers in the 40 minute, 35 second shot clock college game.
College teams average about 50 shots per game to about 80 for NBA.
Okafor's game's almost entirely on-the-blocks post offense. Okafor's weak on the defensive end.
And Okafor's another Shaq/Dwight Howard situation--50% from the FT line to 81% for Towns.
Towns is what you want, a rim protector who you don't have to take off the floor in the 4th quarter because of hack-a-shaq.
Towns has the ability to handle the ball, pass and can even step outside the arc and shoot the 3 (he shot 46% from 3 prior to Duke). Something Okafor doesn't have.
Wasn't Towns also a pitcher in baseball? Multi-sport athletes (Russell Wilson), good guys to pick in the draft.
With everyone implementing Pop's Spurs spread out and pass, pass, pass until you hit the open guy for a shot offense as a response to Thibs defense, floor spacing's critical. You don't want a player who can only play from one spot on the floor (down on the blocks for Okafor) and who can't jump out and defend outside shooters. Towns seems much more capable of chasing guys around the floor or stepping outside and making guys defend him outside the paint/off the blocks.
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