Defensively...Thatbeet is very similar to Mobley... Many centers look like stud defenders in college and are flops in the NBA. Mobley's thin frame is going to cause him to struggle and get out muscled. He struggled against physical players in college...what's going to happen in the NBA. If he had a wide frame like Embiid or AD...i'd be all for drafting him. Capela is 250 and he struggled in the playoffs. You're telling me a 7ft stick center that's 215 pounds is going to dominate? I don't see it. I guess you could make him a pf...but that would reduce his effectiveness. I don't think his thin frame can handle the weight he needs to be at to be effective and will just cause him to get injured.
No. No he is not. Also, what physical players did he struggle against in college? Any names? I don't think it's a good time to be bringing up Capela right now struggling in the playoffs... You're also ignoring WHY Capela struggled for the Rockets. I feel like you're just saying things to say them.
" Skip..8:30 When he plays against physical players he's going to have problems. If Mobley could be Capela with a 3pt shot..I'd be thrilled. But Mobley plays much softer than Capela and doesn't like contact. Capela has done well...but Trae Young is carrying the Hawks...That's why we need to draft a star guard with #2 pick.
https://www.si.com/nba/2021/06/30/rockets-options-no-2-draft-pick The Case for Mobley: The NBA remains a league of guards, but a truly special big can change a team’s ceiling in a major way. And all signs point to USC’s Mobley being such a player. The 7-footer could very well contend for All-Defense honors with a 7’4” wingspan and quick feet, able to both battle behemoths down low and slide along with guards and wings on the perimeter. Mobley’s jump shot is a work in progress, though he’s an impressive athlete with a surprisingly solid handle, and his passing ability is quite advanced for a player of his age. Mobley could theoretically grow as a fulcrum in Houston’s offense, serving as an oversized version of Bam Adebayo. There’s legitimate upside here and a bankable floor, giving Kevin Porter Jr. a big man running mate of the future. Mobley is a special enough player to dismiss any positional value concerns. Regardless of fit concerns, I’m not so sure Wood’s presence should impact Houston’s decision with its pick. Wood only has two years left on his deal, and his relatively cheap contract could make for an easy trade. The Rockets could use Wood in a package that would bring back a guard or wing (perhaps Buddy Hield in Sacramento, Malik Beasley in Minnesota or Marcus Smart in Boston), allowing Mobley to flourish without any crowding in the frontcourt. Drafting Mobley doesn’t necessitate a Wood trade—though it’s not out of the question for Stone to be proactive and swap Wood for more natural fit. The Case for Green: I’d be quick to assume Green is the Rockets’ choice if Morey was still running the show. Houston’s former architect prioritized dynamic ball handlers above all else, and by all indications, Green is just that. He has elite burst to the rim and a dynamic first step, and he creates space on his jump shot with relative ease. Add in an impressive showing against G League competition, and it’s not hard to see why Green is now in the conversation for the No. 1 pick. Landing Green would create an interesting experiment in Houston. Green and Kevin Porter Jr. make for an intriguing backcourt combination, pairing two dynamic young scorers who have some real questions as playmakers. Houston may quickly lead the league in step-back threes, and on the right night, this could look like the Rockets’ duo for a decade. It won’t always be so easy. Porter is raw as a leading man in his own right, and John Wall’s presence only complicates matters. Garland and Sexton can combine for 60 points in a given evening, though their scoring ability doesn’t exactly equate to winning basketball. There are no guarantees in this league, but if Stone believes Green is the better prospect, he’ll worry about Porter’s development at a later date.
From the Pistons website… https://www.nba.com/pistons/feature...-could-pistons-go-another-unique-big-man-no-1 Pistons.com today starts a five-part series looking at the consensus top-five prospects in the draft with an examination of Southern Cal freshman Evan Mobley. Here’s the lowdown on Mobley: NO. 1 PICK CANDIDATE: Evan Mobley ID CARD: 7-foot-0 center/forward, Southern Cal, 20 years old DRAFT RANGE: Ranked 3rd by The Athletic, 2nd by ESPN.com, 3rd by Bleacher Report, 2nd by The Ringer, 2nd by SI.com SCOUTS LOVE: There’s a lot to like about Mobley, an incredibly lithe 7-footer with the feet and hips of a guard and the ballhandling ability of a wing. Mobley’s ability to get the ball off the backboards and lead the fast break is a rare trait for a legitimate 7-footer. There’s a world in which whole offensive sets start with Mobley at the top of the key with the ball in his hands to play off the dribble – and if he gets to the point where he can do that efficiently, good luck matching up with him. Mobley didn’t play with an especially gifted group of teammates at Southern California so his assist numbers (2.4 per game) don’t accurately reflect his playmaking potential, but the glimpses of his vision and passing skills indicate he could be used in a broad playmaking role. Mobley didn’t shoot a ton of 3-pointers (40 in 33 college games, making 30 percent), but the tools are there to develop a reliable 3-point shot in short order. As a defender, Mobley projects to have an Anthony Davis-like impact with his wingspan and lateral agility. Mobley only took 10 shots a game for the Trojans to average his 16.4 points a game. In the faster-paced NBA game with more possessions and far more spacing, his scoring should come more easily. Like Davis, Mobley became the first player from a major conference to sweep his league’s Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards since Davis did it for Kentucky in 2012. SCOUTS WONDER: Mobley’s frame is about the only long-term concern on his profile. He was listed at 210 pounds and while natural physical maturity combined with a sophisticated NBA training regimen surely will help him gain functional strength, he’s a naturally slender player who’ll always be limited in his ability to withstand physicality. It’s not nearly the liability it might have been a generation ago, but it still matters. Look, Mobley is going to have a slew of physical advantages over 98 percent of his matchups, but he’s going to be challenged to be an average rebounder in the NBA at least early in his career until he makes incremental strength gains and learns how to compensate for what he’ll give away in that department. And while Mobley’s ballhandling and skills level is well advanced for a big man, it remains to be seen whether he can tie it all together well enough to be trusted to be something more than an occasional playmaker. If the 3-point shot doesn’t come around, his ceiling will be lowered a few floors. At Southern Cal, Mobley was head and shoulders the most talented player on a roster that also included his brother – Isaiah Mobley, 6-foot-10, is a borderline NBA prospect – but he seemed hesitant to assert himself more forcefully. NUMBER TO NOTE: 10.2 – That’s how many rebounds Mobley averaged per 40 minutes – 8.7 per game – in college where his physical advantages were even more pronounced than they’ll be in the NBA and his strength limitations were less of a hindrance. It’s not a bad number, necessarily, but it’s far from the dominance one might expect from a player with elite athleticism, length and quickness. MONEY QUOTE: “He’s more passive than I like from a top-three pick. He’s extraordinarily gifted. He’s a top-three pick because of those gifts. There’s just something there where I feel like he can take over every game at the college level and he doesn’t.” – An anonymous NBA assistant general manager as told to Sam Vecenie of The Athletic BOTTOM LINE: Mobley’s rare physical gifts give him an elevated floor for what he can be in the NBA even if he doesn’t develop a strong 3-point threat or add enough strength to become more dominant near the rim. His rim protection (2.9 blocks per game) and lateral agility will make Mobley the rare big man who can’t be played off the floor when teams go small. He can pair with a more traditional big man if his team wants to gain a size advantage without sacrificing defensive integrity or versatility. The X factor for Mobley will be how skilled and efficient he can become as a ballhandler/playmaker as it could take years for the NBA to catch up to a 7-foot pick-and-roll operator. He’s a viable candidate to be the No. 1 overall pick and extremely unlikely to make it past No. 3.
https://www.nba.com/pistons/feature...and-desire-will-give-pistons-plenty-mull-no-1 Pistons.com today continues a five-part series looking at the consensus top-five prospects in the draft with an examination of the G League Ignite’s Jalen Green. Before he turned 15, Jalen Green was collecting Division I scholarship offers the way his peers might clamor for basketball cards of their NBA idols. At 16, he was MVP of the FIBA U-17 Basketball World Cup while leading the United States national team to the gold medal. At 18, he signed to play in the G League for a reported $500,000, becoming the first player to bypass college to join the NBA’s newly launched Ignite franchise set up to groom teen phenoms. He’s been compared to a young Kobe Bryant, an analogy his G League coach – and former Bryant teammate Brian Shaw – doesn’t run from. There are always cautionary tales of prodigies whose stars burn out before taking their anticipated places in the firmament, but Green has kept the blinders on and stayed on course for years now. Playing with longtime NBA players like Amir Johnson and Jarrett Jack and against an especially strong G League contingent in a season where rosters were condensed, Green put up numbers that would have been eye opening had they come in college games against significantly lesser competition. Cade Cunningham emerged over a standout freshman season at Oklahoma State to become the presumptive No. 1 pick, but the charge for Pistons general manager Troy Weaver and his staff in the four weeks remaining before the July 29 draft will be to determine how much of that perception is valid. Had Green gone to Oklahoma State and Cunningham chosen the G League, what then? Here’s a look at Green: FIRST-ROUND CANDIDATE: Jalen Green ID CARD: 6-foot-6 wing, G League Ignite, 19 years old DRAFT RANGE: Ranked 4th by The Athletic, 3rd by ESPN.com, 2nd by Bleacher Report, 4th by The Ringer, 4th by SI.com SCOUTS LOVE: If you were to poll NBA scouts as to which player in this draft class is the most likely to one day lead the league in scoring, Green might be the unanimous pick. That’s where any and all discussions of Green start. He’s a walking bucket. At 6-foot-6 with explosive athleticism, deep shooting range and enough ballhandling skills to exploit his athletic gifts, Green can score from deep and from off the dribble. As one of the youngest players in the G League bubble (only teammates Jonathan Kuminga and Daishen Nix were younger), Green scored 17.9 points a game and shot 36.5 percent from the 3-point arc and got progressively better, an especially encouraging acclimation to the speed, length and physicality he went up against. His free-throw accuracy of 83 percent speaks to his shooting touch. As Green becomes an even more polished ballhandler and continues to hone his 3-point shot, he’ll become that much more difficult to contain. As he learns to play off the ball and harness his speed and athleticism, he’ll command undue attention to create seams and space for teammates. Green has been on the radar for several years without letting the outsized attention and adulation that’s come with the territory – he’s got 1.2 million Instagram followers – undermine his work ethic or discipline. SCOUTS WONDER: Green’s frame is the biggest concern as the exercise of projecting Green into the world of the NBA plays out. He’s wiry and how much functional strength Green can add without coming at the expense of his phenomenal explosiveness is a guessing game to some degree. Whether that will affect Green’s durability in a league increasingly hounded by soft-tissue injuries is something to ponder. Green also has a long way to go to get to adequate defensively, though that doesn’t put him in unique company among teen scoring prodigies who’ve never been charged with defensive responsibilities. Green did average 1.5 steals per game for the G League Ignite and his quickness and length give him a toolkit to be a disruptive defender. As scoring has come relatively easily for Green against high school and AAU competition, his vision and playmaking for others are relatively unknown quantities at the moment though he appears a willing passer. NUMBER TO NOTE: 2.6 – That’s how many free throws per 36 minutes Green averaged for the G League Ignite, a paltry number for a player with the athletic traits and driving instincts of Green. For comparison’s sake, two NBA players to whom Green is often compared, Zach LaVine and Bradley Beal, averaged 5.3 and 7.7 free throws per 36 minutes in the NBA last season. MONEY QUOTE: “He comes every day with that attitude that I’ve seen in some of the special young players that I’ve coached that get it right away. It’s like they don’t want to just make it to the league, they want to impact the team and make a place for themselves and be special. So he’s always wanting to work. I had to tell him after I cut practice a little short, he said, ‘Coach, I want to be great.’ And I said, ‘You will be great. You keep that attitude, but you also have to let your body rest sometimes and recover.’ He has that NBA bounce. He has that ‘it’ factor that when you see it, you say, ‘OK, I’m keeping an eye on this guy because he has a chance to be really special.’ ” – Brian Shaw, coach of the G League Ignite, as told to Marc Spears for The Undefeated BOTTOM LINE: Packages that contain the size, elite skill level, elite athleticism and burning desire to be great that those close to Green consistently say he possesses don’t come around that often. It’s why Green is legitimately thought to be a candidate to go No. 1 overall. As defenses become increasingly sophisticated and scouting reports more precise and analytics-based, pure scorers like Green become increasingly valuable. Most mock drafts that have come out since the June 22 draft lottery have Green going No. 2 to Houston should the Pistons take Cade Cunningham at No. 1. Green would give any team landing the top pick a lot to ponder in the four weeks remaining before the July 29 draft.
I'd be very happy with this draft. Green vs. Mobley, i'm happy with either. Also get an "immediate contributor" with Murphy III, and a high upside project in Williams.
If the Rockets are interested in Suggs, they need to be trading down to 4, and just take whomever is left.
I voted for Green. I like his drive and determination. Mobley is more well rounded. I too, expected more from him. Suggs is the safer pick. I hope all of these players will have excellent workouts and interviews with the Rockets. Best luck to the winner.
Nice mock. Any combination of Trey Murphy III/Tre Mann/JT Thor/Josh Christopher/Brandon Boston or Jalen Johnson at 23 and 24 would be sweet. Trey might be gone, it seems his stock is rising. I wonder if Alperen Sengun could fall to us, seems like an intriguing foreign big man.
