Post by 👨🏼⚕️delapandemic🚑 on Feb 13, 2019 19:51:38 GMT
TMBSL 2014 Draft Combine and Camp
Monroe Square Garden – On June 1st all of the profile players, plus a select group of other invitees showed off their skills at the 2nd TMBSL Draft Combine and Camp, which mixes scrimmages, contests, and other skills events to give GMs a better idea of what kind of players are coming into the league this year.
Skills Contests:
Vertical Max: Standing jump, adjusted for height.
1. Baron Davis (43")
2. Tim James (41")
3. Shawn Marion (40")
4. Corey Maggette (39")
5. Steve Francis (39")
Shuttle-Run/Passing Drills: Agility test, players are sent through a 6-cone drill, then through the same cones with the ball in their hands, then have to complete 4 passes through rings (alternating chest and bounce passes). Good measure of speed, handling, passing.
1. Steve Francis (17.12")
2. Andre Miller (17.80")
3. Pablo Prigioni (19.51")
4. Jason Terry (19.55")
5. Many Ginobili (19.56")
The Scrimmages:
The Bigs: Elton Brand is clearly the star of the big class, and few were able to handle him during the scrimmages. He scored with relative ease and showed a nice understanding of the game, finding open teammates and avoiding costly turnovers. While he isn't the most athletic, his fundamentals led repeated success on both ends. Chris Andersen from Blinn College, relatively unknown, made the most of his opportunity to swat shots and crash the boards with reckless abandon. Due to a lack of real size in the class, Lamar Odom, Jonathan Bender, and Andrei Kirilenko all featured at the '4' during scrimmages, despite almost all scouts seeing them as small forwards in the league. None of them are strong enough to do it full-time, but each man acquitted himself well in the scrimmages. Kirilenko, in particular, used his speed advantage and made opposing bigs look silly as they bit on shot fakes and couldn't recover in time to stop him from dunks and easy lay-ins.
The Wings: This class is littered with long SFs who are raw, but could have HUGE upside. Besides the aforementioned Odom, Bender, and Kirilenko... you have Shawn Marion out of UNLV, who despite his unorthodox jumpshot, was a real star on both ends during the scrimmage. He can fit with any system and will be really hard to keep off the boards in the pros. In addition to the athletic freaks, you have a set of knock-down shooters in Jason Terry, Wally Szczerbiak, and Trajan Langdon who all showed off their goods on Saturday from range. They may ultimately be one-trick ponies, but that trick appears to be reliable and deadly from deep. Manu Ginobili out of Argentina is a real wildcard here, despite his slight frame. Some scouts see a future star, some see him as a scrub... time will tell. His herky-jerky moves were the only ones that seemed to faze Marion and Kirilenko on the wing, as they really played great defense on anyone else. Odom led his team in assists during each contest, which sounds great, but some in attendance saw it as reticence to shoot.
The Points: The PG pool in this class is shallow, but talented. Andre Miller, Baron Davis, and Steve Francis could all be starting PGs in the pros, depending on the style that fits you best. Francis is all offense and up-tempo and cares little for defense... and it showed in the scrimmage. Andre Miller is professional and methodical. He and Brand formed a great duo during the games as they played well off of each other with precision. Baron Davis is somewhere between the other two, caring a little on defense, but absolutely exploding at times past his defender and through any help that get in his way. The two foreign guards, Prigioni and Papaloukas, showed little against the Big 3, but scouts still see them as intriguing because of their mixture of size and skill, especially in Papaloukas.