Re: NBA DRAFT 98 = NBA DRAFT 86

[troyhash@eagleweb.net (Hash, Troy)]

Ryan Lee wrote:
> 
>      With the departure of all the underclassmen in college and high school
>      seniors to the NBA, the upcoming NBA draft looks very bleak if Raef
>      Lafrentz is the projected #1 player.  I've been watching college ball
>      and reading scouting magazines for years and I've never seen a draft
>      so thin.  Raef Lafrentz is a good player but he is not anywhere in the
>      same class as Tim Duncan was in college.  Someone in the discussion
>      group compared Raef to Laetner which in my opinion is horribly wrong.
>      If anything Raef is much less smoother version than Laetner.  Laetner
>      had a much better shooting touch than Raef and had better ballhandling
>      skills.  The rest of the projected draft is filled with more smaller
>      conference players than in recent years which is good in a way because
>      it gives those conferences more national exposure.  Other than Raef
>      though, can anyone possibly name any other dominating collegiate
>      players going into the draft?  The really funny thing I found was that
>      a majority of the players listed in the projected draft were no names
>      last year.  They were mainly complementary players or role players
>      (case in point Todd Burgan, Syracuse - don't tell me he was as
>      dominating a presence as John Wallace or Lawrence Moten).  My NBA
>      draft sleeper (someone who may have a great NBA career) is Eastern
>      Michigan's 5'5 point guard Earl Boykins.  He's basically Mugsy Bogues
>      with a shooting touch.  That's my two cents of the day.
> 
>      R

Amen to your sentiments.  Not high on Raef for NBA player at all.  Very
week over all draft unless some no-names pop up in the tourney or
combines before draft.  Troy