Originally Posted by Gazoo
Yeah, 6'9" helps, but there are a LOT of 6'9" guys. How many?
There were 822 guys 6'9" or taller in the college ranks as of a couple years ago. That's just D1.
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If you are going to be fair about it, then you need to count Kostas as 6'10" at least. The stats you are quoting are off the college rosters and those heights are with shoes (and sometimes exaggerated). The 6'9" for Kostas is a combine measurement without shoes. So there are a lot fewer college players at his height. And from that group there are very few that can move like him. The ones that can are 1st round picks if they have average skills to go with it. His skills are...not average.
You (and some of the others) can hate on him and tell all of us about how terrible he is and how he will never amount to anything. That's fine. The rest of us hope an NBA team sees potential and can help him reach it.
Originally Posted by Gazoo
Just because my daughter has the potential to get a college soccer scholarship, do you really think that means I EXPECT her to captain the women's national team someday??
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Not sure why you put an emphasis on "expect". I don't think any of us actually expect anything. We are hopeful. And we understand why an NBA team might want to take a look. And the post by THirt seems to back that up. That may end up being in the G-League...but at the very least teams want to take a look at him.