Zach Edey is overrated

I gotta update my list of places to disparage and the reason(s). Talk about FOMO. Edmonton = lazy. Got it.

Edey is the only remotely good player on purdue roster. there aren't any good college teams anymore because top players go to NBA

purdue are bottom quartile without edey

Clingan will do absolutely nothing in the NBA, almost no skills

Edey is not another big stiff with no chance in the NBA. He had 37 and 10 yesterday against the supposed #5 pick in the draft and it was no contest. I thought his footwork around the basket was excellent and he was very good at sealing off the defender. So, his lack of jumping ability doesn't mean that he will get his shots blocked by tall athletes in the NBA all the time. I think that, like Jokic, he will use his size to score a lot, though he certainly lacks the range or handle or passing ability that Jokic has. When people go with the fad of the 3 pt shot to the degree of thinking everyone has to shoot it or guard it, they're forgetting that big men still have an outsize importance in the game in pts, rebs, blocks, fg %, opp fg %. Edey is mobile enough to do well. I put him as a 20/10/2 guy potentially in the pros, Brook Lopez with more scoring.

Edey scored 37 pts, the rest of the Purdue roster had 23 pts. He was 15/25 from the field; they made just nine shots from the field. That was supposed to be a deeper team this year with multiple 3 pt threats but UConn took all of them away, leaving a one man team.

1. Clingan has a higher ceiling which is why he's projected to be a higher pick even though Edey babied him. Picks are based on potential.

2. Jokic can shoot, Edey doesn't shoot.

3. Lopez is a better defender and Lopez could shoot from the outside.

Roy Hibbert,a better defender, had no place in today's NBA. Boogie Cousins had some goid years but has no place in today's game. Andre Drummond plays few minutes, Edey will be a bench player, better than Boban, but still a bench player.

Today's players need to spread the floor on offense, nobody is guarding Edey out on the perimeter like they need to do with Lopez. Today's bigs need to be able to switch and guard on the perimeter, Edey hasn't shown that ability yet. He's a project.

His post game is better than Lopez' but he's not a 20/10/2. A better version of Boban.

Overrated at the college level? Absolutely not.

Dude is a dominant low post player...offensively and defensively. He gets away with this at the college level just due to pure height and size and very few teams have 1 NBA-caliber player that can match up against him.

Will his height and overall size make him a star at the NBA? I have no idea. He's going to have develop other parts of his game in order to really be a regular player at the NBA level. He doesn't have great mobility. He has virtually no shooting touch from what I've seen outside of about 8 feet. He's not super athletic. He's not a great passer (although he has improved this).

There really isn't a place for him in the modern NBA as he currently is, ie a total low post player. The days of Patrick, Hakeem, Shaq, et all are gone. Look at the "dominant" big men in today's game. Embiid, Jokic, Anthony Davis, the Greek Freak and others I can't remember. They literally can play almost any position on the floor. They all step outside the paint and shoot, they all can play well near the rim (offensively and defensively) They are all big enough and strong enough to actually being able to stop Edey when he gets the ball and cause him fits when they have the ball.

I will say, there are a number of teams that have a need for a backup big who can score on the interior and protect the rim. Guys like Daniel Theis and Mason Plumlee are not the most valuable players in the NBA but they provide a tangible benefit to their team in limited minutes. Also, Boban is still in the league.

So to me at least, he's a rotational guy in the NBA. OKC has a need for a backup big and/or someone who could play with Chet in jumbo lineups. Edey could play that role. Is that what we'd expect out of a 2x NPOY? Probably not, but it just goes to reiterate there is a place for him in the league. Maybe not a huge, substantial place, but a place nonetheless.

Okay, yes, I would agree with this. He's a rotation guy. Not a starter, I don't believe.

As most players, he will also have to continue improving to have a place in the league. I would also project him as a backup center (e.g Boban, Mason Plumlee, Daniel Theis) with the potential to move into a lower end starting role (similar to Zubac, Steve Adams, Poeltl, Looney, Valanciunas), but unlikely to be a high end starter.

yes. if he doesn’t have mo farah’s endruance and run a 2:01 marathon in his debut then he’s garbage at basketball

There's a misconception about Edey's game. He played within the system, and that system was to take high-percentage shots from down low in the paint. He didn't take mid range or 3-pt shots because that's not his job. BTW, he shot 50% from 3-pt range on the season.

OK, statistically he's better than Curry.

Appropriately rated. No way Purdue gets to the final w/o him.

He turned the ball over in costly moments and was not able to score when UCONN started getting things together offensively. He went 10 minutes without scoring 15 minutes in -> 25 minutes which is where uconn developed that 15 point lead.

you don't watch basketball

Guys like Shaq, Hakeem, Ewing would still dominate today's game. The core of the revolution in today's basketball is not simply shoot the 3 40% of the time and get five players who can play or defend on the perimeter. It is take high percentage shots and defend, which means get a true shooting percentage of 60% or better, and the best in the league are around .630 to .650 right now, which includes a lot of post players. A guy like Edey, I believe, will be valuable because he will shoot a high percentage from the field and he will prevent a lot of layups and dunks. Ten out of the top twenty current players in PER are centers, including the top three, Embiid, Jokic, Giannis (who hasn't been able to shoot 3's most of his career), and Andre Drummond at 14th. Five of the top ten in Player Impact Ratings, including Drummond at 10th, are centers. Nine out of the top twelve in WS/48 are centers. 12 out of the top 17 in defensive win shares are centers.

The point is that all the hype notwithstanding, the NBA is still a game in which big guys dominate.

He'll have the same value as Drummond, DeAndre Jordan, and Boban in today's NBA- a back up center.

And there's nothing wrong with that for a guy that was a project in HS and his first 2 years in college. He's played his way into the NBA. Kudos to him and Painter who had other 7'2" guys who didn't make it into the NBA.