He is, without question, one of the best players in the world. His size and overall skill dictate that. But mentally, nope...he isn't close to being a guy that wills his teams to titles. And I'm not sure he'll ever be that guy?? He's always come across as someone that isn't truly comfortable with the Alpha role. Even saying what he said in that interview, felt forced and maybe even rehearsed.
Wasn’t it Shawn Bradley that Bob & Tom did a spoof on him being so tall and always hitting his head on doorways and other things?
Sad to say…yes. Shawn had a nasty accident a few years back and is now paralyzed.
I completely forgot about that. Got hit by a car while riding a bike. Ann then was paralyzed. Maybe that’s when B & T stopped running their spoof. Wasn’t he still in the NBA?
I think Edey won’t trade a seven figure contract … and a year of NBA development… for another year in Mackey
I don't see it either, unless he's just told he's not getting drafted. Hard for me to imagine his stock being any higher only to risk injury and a year of his game being picked apart.
He averaged 30, 9, and 5???
Sure but his overall skill isn’t translated by those numbers. He was still taken big advantage of. Overall skill means more to me than just stats. If his overall skill is valuable then why TF is he not being put in most mock drafts? Why was he missed on the recruiting trail?
I think @IUNorth is talking about Tatum being skilled but not comfortable as the Alpha.
Shite! How did I miss that. I think I looked at the post talking about Edey. Sorry @IUNorth. 🤦🏻
You are right, I just happened across someone else's info on Celtics site and maybe meant currently playing?
Just off the top of my head, guys that are still in the league and have been able to stick around for multiple seasons with similar post-oriented skills: Nikola Vucevic, Jonas Valanciunas, Alex Len, Andre Drummond, Robin Lopez (not Brook), Steven Adams, Rudy Gobert (not, repeat, not implying that Edey will ever have his career, but similar size and offensive/defensive range), Nurkic on the Blazers; even Boban has stuck around for almost a decade.
I know the Tebow story but let’s not pretend he was a successful pro QB. Sure he won a home playoff game in OT on a fluke play for his 8-8 team, Denver reached to pick him where he floundered and bounced around three other teams to no avail. My point is he was a phenomenal college player -the most accomplished QB of all in my subjective opinion. But he was flop as a pro…
And we still were lost against the 2-3 with a week to prepare. SMH
I mean the majority of those guys on that list are well past their prime but all those guys with the exception of Boban and maybe Len either are or at one point were elite defenders or have offensive games away from the basket. The only back to the basket player that is also a defensive liability on that list is Boban and he averages less than 10 mpg for his career.
That might be the single worst coached game I've ever seen. In terms of preparation, adjustments, all of it. I was already wary of Crean well before that. There were a handful of flashing warning sign games before that one. Heck the Temple game we almost lost. Minnesota game in the barn that year...Crean's manic style and substitution patterns lost a game for us that we should have won easily. Wisconsin abusing us in the B10 tourney...Butler...at Illinois...
pains me every time to look back at the Cuse game. I think the warning sign was when that IU team once again laid down against the fighting Bo Buckies in the tourney. A real, true #1 seed, B1G champ would have slapped them, and at the very least made it to a very hard fought B1G championship game. That IU team looked spent against WIsky and never got back on track. And yes, we did all we could to lose against Temple. The Cuse game was over before the first TV timeout....as was CTC's long term future at IU. Yogi bought him one more year by being superman his Sr yr.
Yeah and just think. If OG wouldn’t have gotten hurt it might’ve bought him more time and we wouldn’t(maybe) have gotten Ryan. 😉
I can't play the what if game....if Cody doesn't commit, maybe CTC doesn't last past 3-4 yrs...and then, just maybe, he who shall not be named leaves Butler and comes to Bloomington. Too many scenarios.
Its all Cody's fault! He should have just went to Carolina like his brother.
this article is a little dated (2 months) and honestly I have no interest in paying attention to CAM's career now....but this doesn't paint a rosy picture at R Island.
don't worry... when he gets "his" players I'm sure they'll excel
Somebody who has some decent connections to Purdue told me Edey is coming back for his senior year, but a thread over on Purdue's board makes it sound like he is gone thanks to a good performance at the combine. We'll find out in a few days.
I hope he goes, but something tells me he stays. I don't know which mock drafts to trust and he's been all over the place from mid 2nd to undrafted, although I haven't paid much attention since he dominated the lane shuttle drill.
I would guess he'll be back.
He did well at the combine and his pro-day and his measurables and agility drills were better than people anticipated. Really, his stock is as high as it is ever going to be as an NBA prospect.
I've said all along I can't imagine him not being drafted in 2 rounds, and don't see how his stock gets any higher. I think he'd be foolish to come back and risk injury or falling as his game is picked apart, even if he were to get an NIL deal that's more lucrative than his first year. The real key is to make a roster and then get a second contract I would think, and his best shot at that would be to leave now it seems.
Probably right and not to be morbid but he looks like one of those really big people not destined for retirement age so might want to get moving on with life. Then again he may enjoy college life and playing 35 games vs 82+ and stay another year.
“Zach Edey is working on getting a new visa that would allow him to profit through NIL more easily than he could last season as a Canadian citizen playing in the United States.”
Edey can't play pick and roll defense at an NBA level, this is obvious to anyone who watched that abomination in the NCAAs.
