Scholarship table
Blazers. McCollum is on the books at $30.9M and their PF situation is Covington/Larry Nance, neither of whom are a long term solution. If anyone is not interesting in a scoring guard in the lottery, it’s the Blazers
There is.a 0.000000% chance Johnny Davis will be back next year with the weasel/rodents. No question he's a lottery pick.
Johnny Davis made the biggest one year leap I can remember. Even bigger than Jimmy Butler's sophomore to junior year leap.After Wisconsin beat us, I predicted Davis would be a lottery pick. After tonight, he's top 10 with a legit chance to go top 5.Player comps: Devin Booker, Ron Harper, Allan Houston
Ill eat my hat if he goes top 5.
Ill eat my hat if he goes top 5. Harper was way more explosive as a college player than Davis is. Dude could fly.Booker was and is a better shooter. Davis doesn’t have a dangerous outside shot to speak of and I don’t see how a SG with decent but not great size and decent but not great overall athleticism goes that high without being a sniper from deep as well. Allan Houston isn’t a bad comp actually
Will be interesting to see how Davis fares in the NBA. He is not a great outside shooter, but can hit them at a decent clip. I wouldn't call his athleticism elite but his first step is so quick and he gets off the ground in a hurry when he jumps. At this level he has shown he can get to his spots whenever he wants. His midrange game is really, really good and his defense is outstanding.
Not quite as tall, but reminds me some of DeRozan. Quicker than he looks, plenty athletic enough, smooth, very reliable midrange game, good defender.And it's not like he's a brick-layer from 3 -- .389 last season on limited attempts but still .348 this year on 4.2 attempts per game. That's not eye-popping, but it's solid and it's something to work with at the next level. I wouldn't be surprised if Davis becomes a decent 3-point shooter. When Jae was BEast POY as a senior, he shot .345 on 5.1 attempts ... and now, one of the NBA's best teams uses him as a spot-up shooter.
At this level, he reminds me of Wade. He can get a bucket whenever he wants and he has the ability to be a game changer on both ends of the floor. He isn't the athlete Dwyane was, but he has size on him.As far as the NBA level and his shot, the other thing to look at is free throw percentage. Evaluators like to look at FT% as an indicator that even if a player isn't a great long-range shooter, they have the tools to learn it. Davis was a respectable 72.7% last year and is a strong 82.1% at the stripe this year. At this point, he's definite lottery and trending up. I think he's in the mix for top-5 and unless his stock slides, he won't last past 10.
I thought of Wade, but like you said Davis isn't that elite level of athlete. Wade also had a better handle, was a better passer, and was a very good shot blocker.But another Davis player comp I saw on line is Jeremy Lamb. I'd say that's probably his floor, with Allan Houston as a realistic ceiling, and an outside chance of being as good as Devin Booker.
The shot-blocking for Wade was other-worldly, and that's what I meant when I said Davis was a difference maker on that end of the floor. Different from Wade, but in terms of what they do I think they are similar, even if exactly how they do it is different. I also think their meaning to their teams is similar. Wade leaves Marquette and we go to back-to-back NITs. Not sure what will happen to UW without Davis, but right now they are a one-man team.