re: Thon Maker declares for the NBA.

no, he's not going to be the next kevin durant or the next KAT. He's not number 1 prospect overall good. but he's still an extremely good prospect.

let's put his athletic ability in it's proper prospective


here is a list of all the active players in the NBA that are 7'0

Kristaps Porzingis 7'3
Tibor Pleiss 7'3
Boban Marjanovic 7'3
Meyers Leonard 7'1
Tyson Chandler 7'1 \
Roy Hibbert 7'2
Spencer Hawes 7'1
Timofey Mozgov 7'1
Alexis Ajinca 7'0
Edy Tavares 7'3
Alex Len 7'1
Dirk Nowitzki 7'0
Salah Mejri 7'2
KG - listed as 6'11 but everyone knows is 7'1

12 out of 32 teams.. a little bit more than 1/3rd of all teams in the NBA have a 7 footer on their roster at all and only 2 teams (Mavs and the Suns) have 2. ' People act like 7 footers grow on trees lol being 7 foot means something, even today. i don't care if he has one leg, he's probably going to play, and be half arse successful, in the nba if he's 7'0. People want 7'0's so bad, Greg Oden, who can't move still has people coming to watch him work out in the hopes that they can throw money at him.


8 out of the 14 players that are currently in the NBA over 7'0 tall.. or 57% were drafted in the lottery.


so he's 7 foot tall. that means something. of the 7 footers, how many of them can move like this


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in their prime, i'd say 4. I'm including Dirk, and he's probably a better pure athlete than dirk is / was. Porzingis is a given, as is / was KG. Chandler in his prime,. and even now is pretty freaking athletic. Really more than anyone else.. this is the best comparison i can come up with. Tyson Chandler. ; People cdall maker raw but he's no rawer than Chanlder was coming out of high school and he was the 2nd pick in the draft. Chandler, who i played against in AAU, was RAW. he was a thoroughbred athletically but raw, had no offensive game and had no defensive fundamentals. he was 7'0 and could run like a gazelle. it took tyson chandler.. every bit of 5 years to really catch on in the NBA. Chicago gave up on him.


in short, people are looking at the fact that he isn't as good as he looks on his mix tapes and saying he's gonna suck and he's raw, and over looking the fact that he's 7'1 and if you put him in the league next year, he'd be one of the most athletic 7'0s in the NBA, no worse than 2nd or 3rd. his floor is a defensive/ rebounding power foward. his ceiling is tyson chandler with 3 point range.