Whoever drafts Andrew Bogut is gonna be a lucky team!

does anybody have a clip of this Bogut? i have never seen him play.

 

There is no way Chris Taft is a lottery pick. I live in Pittsburgh and see every Pitt game. Taft is very athletic, and fairly intelligent, but he needs to work on his offensive game. In the low post, he goes over his left shoulder every time. Hes a bad free throw shooter, and has little range on his jumper. Hes only a sophmore, so he has a lot of time to improve, but he is nowhere close to a lottery pick.

 

Marvin Williams will be better. Hopefully, he doesn't come out..

 

its amazing, i played with boges for a few years here in sandy, and im blown away by how far he has gone... he has always been a natural passer tho, i remember back in u16's, he was about 6'6 and would try to play point... he was the tallest guy out there lol

 

Why?


Yeah Beck I agree with you - I have to wonder why any sane GM will pick Taft in the lottery range.

 

Would Walton be a top center today?

 

1. I'm a Carolina fan. Why would I want to see someone with his potential leave early?

2. I don't think he's ready. He'd be a top 10 pick this year, but he still has a lot of work to do on his game.

3. Players leaving early or not going to college at all are killing the game. Why would you want him or anyone to leave early?

 

damn he looked good against UTEP this morning

been able to get his last 5 games on tv downunder

he is awesome, the passing, the vision, the rebouding, the ability to use both hands and then ability to combine scoring and being the ultimate team player is amazing, he is also very cerevral and gets up the floor real quick for a 7fter

go AUSSIE go

 

Utah's Bogut is best
player in tourney

Center, future lottery pick
carries Utes into Sweet 16

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7260289/

There are times when he acts like the tallest point guard in the country, and other times when he’s merely the most dominating inside presence in the NCAA tournament.

NBA executives salivate when his name is mentioned, though you’d be hard-pressed to find many basketball fans east of the Rockies who knew much about him only a few weeks ago.

Without Andrew Bogut, Utah wouldn’t even be playing this time of year, much less have an outside chance of making the Final Four. He’s a superstar who just happens to need four other players on the court with him, much like Gladys Knight needed the Pips or Tom Petty the Heartbreakers.

“I think all his teammates understand they’re probably very fortunate to be playing with him,” Utah coach Ray Giacoletti said during a telephone interview Monday.

They should, because if Bogut isn’t everybody’s player of the year, something is wrong with the balloting. If he’s not the first pick in the NBA draft in June, some general manager is sleeping.

This is a 7-footer so gifted that even his coach isn’t telling him to come back for his junior and senior years.

“He’s going to make a lot of money for a lot of years,” Giacoletti said.

Bogut will make that money because he’s one of those players who can dominate in different ways without having much in the way of a supporting cast. That’s so rare in college basketball that you’d have to go back to 1988 when Danny Manning led Kansas to a national title to see the similarities.

It showed on Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., when Bogut tied his season low with 10 points yet still managed to lead the Utes to a win over Oklahoma and a berth in the regional semifinals Friday against Kentucky.

The Sooners wanted to push Bogut around and beat him up in the low post, so Bogut switched to the high post and acted like a point guard, dishing off passes to appreciative teammates for easy baskets. He was credited with seven assists, and he also managed to grab 11 rebounds.

“Bogut made a lot of good passes,” Oklahoma’s Johnnie Gilbert said after the game. “I thought a lot of times we would pick it off, but somehow it got through.”

Think about it. When is the last time you heard an opponent praising a 7-foot center’s passing ability?

“He really has operated as a point guard all year,” Giacoletti said. “Sometimes people just see he leads the country in double doubles. But every time he touches the ball something good happens for our team.”

On Monday, Bogut was just another sophomore on his way to another class. That is, if big, tall sophomores with thick Australian accents and shaggy haircuts are the norm in Salt Lake City.

Up in the Huntsman Center, Giacoletti and his assistants were working up a game plan for Kentucky, but Bogut didn’t seem very concerned.

“We haven’t watched any film yet,” Bogut said when reached by cell phone between classes. “But we’re jelling as a team and it’s certainly the right time of the year for us to be doing that.”

Bogut made his way to Utah after former coach Rick Majerus recruited him from a distance. He had a decent freshman year, then blossomed on the Australian national team in the Olympics when he matched up well against the USA’s Tim Duncan.

He was entertaining some pro offers from European teams when Giacoletti flew to Australia to talk him into playing with the Utes at least one more year.

Bogut says he’ll wait until the season ends to discuss leaving for the NBA. But, with possible top-pick money awaiting, it’s a foregone conclusion he has only a few games left with the Utes.

Whether that last game comes on Friday will likely depend on how much Bogut can involve his teammates in the offense once again. The Wildcats have a pair of 7-footers themselves who come off the bench and they can afford to give away some fouls inside.

That means Bogut will likely be out on the high post again, hoping his supporting cast can play a good game of catch and shoot.

“I really like to find guys in the open,” Bogut said. “I get a thrill out of throwing a good pass to a guy that scores.”

Bogut’s fans back home in Melbourne aren’t exactly studying their NCAA brackets to see who Utah would play if it beats Kentucky. It could be Duke, of course, with a Final Four spot to the winner.

“It’s not that big in Australia,” Bogut said. “Every now and then I’ll be in the paper, but that’s about it.”

But what if an Australian 7-footer is the top pick in the NBA draft?

“Now that would really be big,” Bogut said.

 

I am sorry but I can't source this exactly. I was listening to one of the ESPN's out of one ear while I worked in my home office and I heard one of the commentators either compare Bogut to Walton or quoted someone else comparing him to Bill Walton. This was to Walton's face tonite!! There is just a possibility that he will be the second coming of Walton. I might be tempted to trade Yao for his rights, but I don't know.