It's as if people have forgotten Manute Bol. He was never good or someone you wanted on your team. And that was in a league where Patrick Ewing and Dikembe Mutumbo were desirable players.

Bol is already a better player than his dad. Bol appears to be a good shooter and he has length.

did you even read the article? It compares him to Draymond Green.

Bol Bol will never average more then 6ppg.

Draymond Green is basically the modern equivalent of a slight improvement on Nate McMillan. He'll probably not be quite as good as a coach.

Jordan Poole going round 1 is probably the most ridiculous pick to me after Johnson of course

Romeo tho

Come on man, it said his scoring ability is better than Green's. That's not saying much or even worth mentioning since Green has never primarily been a scorer. Your guy is undersized with a mid range game; The 1994 draft just called, they took Williams 22nd.

Some comparison:

Still Williams was one of the best players in all of college basketball last year and is very gifted offensively. He's decent on defense (in college- he might have trouble guarding a position in the pros so he will most likely be a rotation player)and a great rebounder. Obviously he may have trouble adapting and the odds he develops into Draymond are insanely slim(I never compared him, the article did). Still for the 22nd pick in a weak draft the Celtics got a player that will see minutes in the rotation his rookie season. If teams switch a wing onto him in the post he will eat them, force double teams and is capable of making passes out of the doubles/drawing fouls really well. He also scored in the post on Centres who were 5 inches taller than him all the time. He can also pull up in mid range well, is a terrific free throw shooter so may develop a three in the league as is capable of putting the ball on the floor on the perimeter and attacking closeouts and is excellent at finishing at the rim in traffic

Fyp

So was Adam Morrison

Why do you think he will be a great rebounder as an undersized pf in the NBA?

But why not take someone with a much higher ceiling there? Bazley went one pick later,... and then they traded Ty Jerome. Awful.

Tacko,

How dare you!!

And it's not close. Bol Bol was playing like the second best player ITL before he went down. DX has him as a 44% 3 point shooter and 80% FT shooter in their database.

He was a monster the first 9 games despite having nearly as many lowlights as highlights.

You cant have your first round pick ending up on Shaqtin A Fool every week. That’s just embarrassing

i don't think the fathers of Jordan, Bird, and Magic were people you wanted on your team either.

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i'm starting a petition to change his name to loB loB.

Manute hit 6 3s in a game vs. the Suns.

https://www.basketball-reference.com...303030PHO.html

In a half apparently:

Why do those huge dudes break so easily?

Imagine a team stacked with Lonzo Ball, Bol Bol, and Melo. They could call it the Dream Team.

Nute had that Curry range too.

That game had to be one of the all-time sports anomalies. In 3 years, he was 11/55 in a Sixers uniform from 3 but happens the have 1 half where he goes 6/10?

The only reason I knew that is because I watched that game as a kid. That Suns teams was obviously my childhood. **** the bulls.

I remember playing basketball in the driveway while listening to games on the radio.

I don't really project Williams to be anything but a rotation player on a championship-level team, and I think this draft was actually pretty strong from ~20-60. But, there is no denying he has instantly translatable skills on the court; he also happens to be an incredible teammate and a great attitude that will hopefully shift the Celtics' dysfunction a bit. His and Schofield's interviews at Tennessee were incredible how positive and graceful and humble they were.

In fact, it's so impressive how many of these guys are already so media-savvy; the post-pick interviews were almost all great.

williams seems like he has a good chance of playing productive regular season minutes.

have a hard time believing he ever sees the court in a deep playoff run.

that seems more valuable to a team like LA or Toronto that wants to preserve its stars than a team like boston that has a 2nd round playoff ceiling at the moment and wants its younger players getting minutes.

but good coaching / systems have a way of getting value out of a guy like williams and maybe he looks respectable and gets packaged as part of a deal

Williams reminds me of Hansbrough