Zach Edey is not a bad defender. He moves his feet well and uses his length well. He doesn't switch much, but he holds up pretty well given his size. There are times when he gets out of position and gets beat by the lob, and you can attack him with pick and pop action, but Edey can close out better than I thought, though he is usually conservative with his closeouts to avoid getting attacked off the dribble. He's way more mobile and switchable than the likes of Brook Lopez, who the Bucks were able to build a championship-level defense with, so I don't get how foot speed is going to be such a crippling flaw for him where he's gonna get played off the floor in the playoffs. Yeah, he is going to primarily be a drop coverage big, and a team is going to need to put quality perimeter defenders around him to fight over screens, but that was also true for the Bucks and Nuggets to win their titles with primarily drop coverage bigs. And that's not even counting all the other things he does well offensively and as a rebounder. I don't see any reason why he shouldn't go in the lottery.
Get this man a quality NBA point guard. Purdue didn't run a whole lot of PnR, but when they did with Edey and the opposition played anything other than drop coverage(often a deep drop more focused on not letting Edey push them under the basket than actually stopping the guard) Edey consistently got easy dunks off rimruns because the center hedged away from the basket and the wing coming over to defend the roll was hilariously outclassed in terms of size. NBA players might be bigger, but most teams don't run 2 true bigs anymore(those that do almost always have a non-shooter Edey can sag off of, making life easier for him defensively) and an NBA wing giving up 8 inches and 80 pounds won't be able to defend him straight up, and will have to resort to gambling for steals/fouling in that situation. Purdue didn't have guards that scare you the same way, but an elite NBA PG who can force opposing bigs out of the paint could make life very easy for him.
Zach Edey is not a bad defender. He moves his feet well and uses his length well. He doesn't switch much, but he holds up pretty well given his size. There are times when he gets out of position and gets beat by the lob, and you can attack him with pick and pop action, but Edey can close out better than I thought, though he is usually conservative with his closeouts to avoid getting attacked off the dribble. He's way more mobile and switchable than the likes of Brook Lopez, who the Bucks were able to build a championship-level defense with, so I don't get how foot speed is going to be such a crippling flaw for him where he's gonna get played off the floor in the playoffs. Yeah, he is going to primarily be a drop coverage big, and a team is going to need to put quality perimeter defenders around him to fight over screens, but that was also true for the Bucks and Nuggets to win their titles with primarily drop coverage bigs. And that's not even counting all the other things he does well offensively and as a rebounder. I don't see any reason why he shouldn't go in the lottery.
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This guy is gonna do just fine in the nba.
Get this man a quality NBA point guard. Purdue didn't run a whole lot of PnR, but when they did with Edey and the opposition played anything other than drop coverage(often a deep drop more focused on not letting Edey push them under the basket than actually stopping the guard) Edey consistently got easy dunks off rimruns because the center hedged away from the basket and the wing coming over to defend the roll was hilariously outclassed in terms of size. NBA players might be bigger, but most teams don't run 2 true bigs anymore(those that do almost always have a non-shooter Edey can sag off of, making life easier for him defensively) and an NBA wing giving up 8 inches and 80 pounds won't be able to defend him straight up, and will have to resort to gambling for steals/fouling in that situation. Purdue didn't have guards that scare you the same way, but an elite NBA PG who can force opposing bigs out of the paint could make life very easy for him.
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