Hunter looks about right if you figure he’s a little ahead of say an Oturu or Tillman but worse NBA fit, but Franz at 36 is silly, everyone needs wings who can shoot it and actually be useful in team D schemes in the NBA, and he should be able to be okay on guards once he’s 25 or so he works hard and seems to pick up skills well. Off the top of my head I’d say he’s a classic 15-20th pick guy but this is a strong class so 20-25 or something range makes sense.
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I would be surprised if Franz isn’t a 1st round pick. If I had a late first round pick, I’d be happy with a guy like that.
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Unless he just blows up further still, 15-25 is what makes sense to me as well.
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No, keep mocking them in R2 range…dampen the NBA talk so they come back next season 
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2nd round pick doesn’t dampen much anything these days. I have a hard time imagining he’d ever become a first round pick. But I still think there’s a decent chance he comes back for a 2nd season.
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I think if Hunter can extend his range next season and refine his post moves, a contender might be willing to spend a late first on him for some instant scoring punch off the bench. Might be the best pitch to get him to come back next year if a second round mock is enough to push him to the league.
I don’t know his family circumstances, or how much he’s burning to embrace the rigors of pro ball, but he does look like he’s having fun. And next year may prove rewarding for Michigan basketball. Hadn’t thought about it, but the rest of incoming recruits fit pretty nicely around him, don’t they? Don’t think he’s dueling anyone for minutes. . .
It’s said sometimes that players would rather be an early second than a late first, since you have more contract flexibility. But I could in general easily believe that Dickinson might value another year at Michigan and under the wing of Juwan. Assuming all that talk about how much he wants to be coached and values Juwan’s NBA experience is only partially media-cliche stuff. I assume it’s certainly true on some level.
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I get the contract flexibility part with the second round, but wonder whether it isn’t better to be late first round because you would likely be on a better team? I know the goal is to get to the league and stay, period. I keep thinking it would be a more fulfilling experience with possibly better player development to be with a good franchise / winning team.
I think the saying is that sometimes it’s better to be undrafted than to be a late second (like Duncan got to choose the Heat over a couple other options). Not sure I’ve heard that it’s better to be a 2nd than a first in any circumstance. The guaranteed money is vastly different.
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That’s my understanding as well.
That’s quite possibly irrelevant to HD, but the idea I see re 1st/2nd is that you get to your second contrast faster.
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That sounds depedent on the player. Certainly I thought it might help Jordan Poole to be in GSW.
Just remind Dickinson that he can’t beat Mark Turgeon in the NBA and he’ll stay 4 years.
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I’m a Raptors fan and we badly need halfcourt scoring in general and minutes at the center position so the fit is there, but I don’t see them spending a late 1st on a guy like Hunter.
For conference only stats, Torvik’s big 2 advanced stats are PRPG and BPM. Last year’s pick Malachi Flynn was 6th and 10th in the country in and those types of stats, along with scouting stuff obviously (great pick and roll numbers and defensive eye test stuff) probably led to him being picked) has Hunter behind other likely to be drafted non-lotto centers like Queta and Huff and basically identical to Cockburn.
So yeah, I think he’s a 2nd rounder this year for some team looking for a cheap backup center that loves his touch enough to project him as a Brook Lopez type shooting 3s in a few years. And because you can get decent centers for the mid level (Ibaka or Tristan Thompson say this past off season) but wings cost 18-20M (Jerami Grant or Malik Beasley similar level players to those above centers), yeah it all points to somewhere in the 40s or 50s.
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Hunter is getting 73% of his 2pt attempt, unless he is 50% at 3pt attempts, he should not try. He can always develop his range in NBA as Brook Lopez did, who hardly attempted any three at Stanford. Hunter has a good mid-range jumper and there is no reason that he can not extend his range. He however, can use an extra year to develop his off-hand and his defense, which has already improved a lot over the course of 10 games. Whether or not he will leave or come back really depend on how he will progress the rest of the season. A lot of eyes will be on his show-down with Garza on 3/4.
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Why is an article about Ryan Young relevant to us?
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After this recent run of games I’m both really nervous and really excited for next year. Nervous because I love how balanced and focused the team is at the moment and I’m not sure we’ll be able to play like that next year with a ton of inexperience guys who still need to work on their skills and learn the system. Excited because we’ll have a lot of raw talent and I think it will be fun to watch them develop over the course of a season. Either way, next year might be the year we find out if Juwan is an elite coach or merely a good coach.
Yeah, it is pretty likely that Michigan goes from one of the oldest teams in college hoops this year to one of the youngest next year.
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