Didn't seem like he tried that hard to get past him. He tried to cross him up and get him leaning hard one way or the other and Seraphin kept his balance and thus it didn't work. Booker has had his struggles getting by some big guys as well, but when he does blow by them it is because he gains some speed first and then can use a pretty simple dribble move to get by them. Trying to dribble around a good athlete without starting on the run is not easy and the only guys that tend to do it well are extremely quick guys like Kyrie, Iverson, Francis. Guys that are quick and have great ball handling.
You used one draft sites opinion of him to make your point. There are mock drafts right now that have Bagley going as low as 5th in the draft.
Uhhh no I didn't. I said he would be ahead of Bagley and I stand by that. I personally have Bagley somewhere between 3-4 in this draft. I like Ayton and Doncic more, but am on the fence with putting JJJ ahead of him as well. The question with JJJ is if his lack of numbers (similar to that of Towns and Embiid) were because of being on a stacked team that didn't ask too much of him (they were pretty stacked) or because he just didn't have the talent to take over games? I tend to lean more towards the former as he appears to have all of the talent needed to be a great player, but just didn't seem to be asked to play a big role on offense and also played low minutes. All of which is very similar to the situation of Town and Embiid in college.
Which is why I wouldn't dare take him over Ayton. Ayton to me is probably the most sure fire game changer in this draft. His combination of size, skill, strength, athleticism and production would be impossible to pass on. I just don't feel as strongly about the other bigs in this draft to feel much pressure taking Doncic over them. If I had a higher opinion of Bagley than I might agree that he should go over Doncic.
Towns was the consensus #1 pick on all of the draft sites and according to all of the experts. Here is a link that actually lists a whole bunch of draft sites mock drafts and also has consensus listings as well. I can't find one that suggested that Okafor should go ahead of Towns.
And yet there is plenty of split between Bagley, JJJ, Doncic by experts right now. Not everyone is as high as you are on Bagley and that includes some of the experts too. He seems to be somewhat of a love/hate prospect. Some think he will be great and should go top two and some have him as low as 5th or 6th in the draft. If he is such a can't miss prospect than why isn't he consistently listed next to Ayton at the top of draft boards? Are you suggesting that all of the top 5 in this draft were better prospects than Towns? Because Bagley goes as low as 5th in some of the mock drafts. Towns was a two way prospect coming out of college and Bagley's struggles on defense are well noted at this point.
I think Towns would be consistently be ahead of Bagley in this draft. He was the better two way prospect and thus I suspect that would have had teams consistently putting him with Ayton at the top of the draft.
And you complain about me taking your comments out of context...
