Davante Gardner vs. Robert "Tractor" Traylor

[willie warrior]

Even as a rookie, still with his "baby fat," Barkley averaged 14 and 9. By the next year, he was at 20 and 13 en route to being one of the best players ever.

Blair was and still is a dynamic dunker who is deceptively quick.

Traylor is by far the best comparison to Garnder but, again, Traylor could play above the rim when he had to and was much more athletic than Davante. I mean, really, Davante has trouble dunking without getting blocked by the rim itself.

So yes, Davante's "story is still being written," but unless he makes one of the great physical metamorphoses of all time, he has only a slightly better shot at an NBA career than Dylan Flood.

And definitely not as good a shot as Otule=Hibbert