Maybe he flew on Spirit?
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I challenge you all to beat this sublime retort.
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Hey I sat there for five minutes and came up with nothing, so just gave the man his LOL emoji and went on my way
Well this isnât right. He should have 30 likes by now.
So I am listening to Nate Duncan and John Hollinger doing a silly superlatives show and they are discussing âthe least athletic player in the NBAâ. After discussing a variety of statuesque centers, they then limited themselvs to â6â9â and under", and agreed that it is Caleb Houstan. (he takes 2.2% of his shots at the rim, 1.7% in mid-range, 1.7% from long twoâŚthe rest 3âs). His average shot distance is 23.9 feet. They agreed Caleb âwonâ the âhasnât gotten hurt or oldâ category.
Congratulations Caleb!
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Caleb and Moussa have to be some of the most unconventional OAD players of all timeâŚand they both are from Michigan and elected to be OAD second rounders instead of staying (though I understand the NIL challenges for both).
Caleb is an unathletic stand-still shooter who is mediocre at hitting threes but does nothing else and yet was ârewardedâ as a draft pick since heâs 6-8 even though he doesnât do much with that. If he were 6-4 is he getting drafted? I still think thereâs a good college player in there somewhere but I guess he got paid and is getting to play 10mpg for a playoff team despite how little impact he has for them so more power to him. Happy heâs getting a shotâŚeven if he hasnât developed beyond what we saw.
Moussa clearly didnât want to do the school part of being a college player and didnât have an easy path to NIL money to entice him to stay - but heâs the type of player that SHOULD benefit from college athletes being able to get paid. He would likely be a fun and talented college player that has an impactâŚinstead he looks to be a G-League lifer.
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The funny part of Caleb, as you say, is that the appeal of 6â8" was a big part of his draft, but it is essentially irrelevant to how he plays (to be fair, probably some defensive impact)
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He was one of the strangest âeliteâ shooting prospects I can remember. Basically couldnât shoot on the move at all, and couldnât shoot on the road for some reason either. Like, Duncan Robinson was a D3 recruit but is probably a better athlete?
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an elite shooter who didnât shoot at an elite level, yes
It reminds me of 5-star QB prospect Shane Morris, who kept putting up HS stat line like â9-23 for 110 yardsâ, and I kept wondering âif heâs so good at beign a QB, why doesnât he ever play well?â
the answer was that he could throw the ball through a brick wall, but had no control where it went.
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Being that tall means you can shoot over a lot of wings. Personally I think both of those guys were right to go when they went. Even though the system didnât do them any favors in terms of self-actualizing as basketball players, those were financial decisions and itâs hard to second guess them.
I feel like this is kind of ⌠ignoring the majority of one-and-done players?
Obviously we are more familiar with the one-and-done guys who are elite NBA players or whatever, but guys going to the NBA and not being good NBA players is ⌠pretty normal?
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I hope Moussa gets a look somewhere. It doesnât seem like itâs going to happen with the Clippers.
Bufkin is getting some minutes in this game against the Pistons. So far, Iâve seen him block Iveyâs shot and get his own shot blocked.
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Ooh- Kobe has 8!
He probably flew on a Boeing next to an emergency exit door
I had a backlog of âDuncâd Onâ pods built up, and Mo was brought up several times (across a few episodes) by Nate and John Hollinger and DannyâŚ.as Nate said âheâs just a very impressive offensive player, there really isnât anyone else who is as efficient at that high a volume without taking threes or being a dominant post playerâ
He even cracked Nateâs top 30 centers (ie, above some starters) on the premise that a quality backup has more value than a bad starter.
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Pretty cool! The stat does seem to lie by omission a bit, because those players mostly vastly exceeded those standards. Hereâs what everyone else did:
James:
Points: 6307
Rebounds: 1576
Assists: 1563
Paul:
Points: 4046
Rebounds: 1001
Assists: 2105
Westbrook:
Points: 4371
Rebounds: 1179
Assists: 1757
Doncic:
Points: 5115
Rebounds: 1663
Assists: 1534
Edwards:
Points: 4871
Rebounds: 1137
Assists: 836
Franz, for comparison:
Points: 4016
Rebounds: 1044
Assists: 783
So, all these guys pretty thoroughly beat every one of those measures except Paul, who was doing it in a very different offensive era (and absolutely obliterated the assist number); arguments to be made for Edwardsâ assist numbers and Westbrookâs rebounds. Franz just barely passed all of these measures (he reached points last night; he reached rebounds eleven games ago; he reached assists, idk, probably twenty games ago, so a little less âbarelyâ there). It reads as a measure of these guys - âwell, if Franz is in the same breath as those guys, he must be really good!â but in fact itâs more like âFranz is the leader of a pack that is behind these guys.â Unfortunately I donât know how to search to see who else is close to this - like, if there was a big group of guys who barely hit one or two of the three numbers and fell just short on the others, that would prove my point, that thereâs a clear second tier (or third tier, because the first tier is just LeBron) that Franz is a leader of. I guess itâs good I donât know how to look this up because I would risk disproving my own thesis and we canât have that.
Still, itâs interesting to say that by this very specific measure, those are the only guys whoâve done markedly better than him!
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Second team all big ten defense tho
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Who knows if he would have even been second team. They only do one All-Defensive team and he was absent.
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