2025 NBA Draft: Early Pro Comparisons for Projected Lottery Picks
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NBA contrasts are utilized by searching departments to paint a photo for their front workplaces of how a possibility will search in the pros.
The objective is to discover a gamer who represents both a reasonable ceiling result and the most precise design or archetype.
Normally, it's challenging to recognize simply one contrast, especially for the 2025 draft when there are numerous distinct gamers. Sometimes, we utilized a mix of 2 gamers to cover all strengths and weak points at both ends.
Cooper Flagg (Duke, SF/PF, Freshman)
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Pro contrast: Andre Kirilenko/Paolo Banchero
Kirilenko has actually been a popular Cooper Flagg contrast for many years due to their unique shot-blocking impulses and protective adaptability at 6'9″. Flagg flies around, expects and gets to areas with impressive speed for a gamer his size.
Duke will have the ability to utilize its star freshman safeguarding the point of attack or securing the basket as a 5 guy.
The steady advancement and advancement of Flagg's on-ball ability have actually altered and raised the trajectory of his offending function and scoring prospective. He's enhanced his development and seclusion video game to the point where they now look like Paolo Banchero's.
Like Banchero, the only NBA power forward last season to log a minimum of 6 pick-and-roll ball-handling belongings per video game, Flagg might likewise start offense, drive, play-make or bring up. Both are outstanding passers, and though shooting isn't a strength, they've ended up being capable shotmakers from the mid-range out to the arc.
Quicker and more explosive than Banchero, Flagg will likewise score plenty around the basket off his size, athleticism, effort and improvisation. Aside from having All-Defensive Team physical capabilities and impulses, Flagg's elite play-finishing tools, budding border offense and secondary playmaking abilities produce among the most total hunting reports and greatest ceilings in current memory.
Dylan Harper (Rutgers, PG/SG, Freshman)
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Pro contrast: Coby White
Dylan Harper's positional size (6'6″), ball-handling and shotmaking imagination integrate to a type a scoring combination guard archetype like Coby White's, James Harden's or Jamal Murray's.
He might not be a standard death point player, however he's too efficient with the ball not to enable the offense to regularly go through him.
Harper might end up drawing contrasts to Jalen Brunson for his capability to utilize strength, footwork, impulses and shotmaking improvisation to make up for minimal athletic pop. Harper is likewise 6'6″, 215 pounds. With strong wing size, he gets to his areas off the dribble, guards protectors with his body, surfaces in various methods, establishes colleagues and continues to reveal development with his dive shot.
