Hakeem Highlights on the Kansas/Baylor Game Last Night

I am in no way to blame for not having had the channel programmed to the Rockets game at the time this occurred. I am pleading innocent to being accused of being a non-Rockets fan. It is a lie and had I been in control, I would not have been watching the Baylor/Kansas game that was playing parallel to the Rockets/Portland game on TNT last night. Due to circumstances that were beyond my control, I was force to watch Kansas/Baylor at a 15 degree angle to the flatscreen from where I was seated in the restaurant.

Now that that is out of the way:

Last night during the Kansas/Baylor game, they were going thru highlights of a player and comparing him move to move with Olajuwon. Like I said, I had a bad angle on the TV, so I could not see who they were comparing him to, but the player had Olajuwon moves. Tons of them. They probably mirrored 5 or 6 different clips of the two players back to back. Olajuwon spins and hits a jumper, kid does the same. Fade away > kid fade away. Shake and pop, then the kid shakes and pops. It was uncanny, but I couldn't pick the guy out of a lineup if I had to.

My question: Did anyone else get forced to watch non-Rocket basketball last night and catch the player that was being compared? Who was it? I'll be keeping my eye out for said player.


Extra note: I did get home in time to watch Portland make that run to cut the lead towards the beginning of the fourth. I also watched Dwight and Harden answer those sons of BENCHES like a couple of champs. Go Rox!

 

And minimum research and I found my answer. Joel Embiid. So, now the discussion, does he have what it takes to be anything like the great Hakeem Olajuwon?

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I know it's just one game, but I haven't seen that ability in a big man in 15 years. He plays both ways with energy. He has a very natural looking post game. He's my number one pick in the draft the year he comes out.

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I think Akeem picked up basketball at the same age. Maybe 15. They mention it in that documentary called "Dream", I believe.