Our Sam Vecenie expert project and the initiate of the Front Office John Hollinger analyze each choice of the project:
Vecenie classification: 11
The size, the length, the lateral capacity and the ethics of Maluach are extremely attractive tools for the NBA teams. If you look through the league, the NBA prefers to enter their systems when they are quite young. It is rare to meet a departure center for the NBA which has played more than two years in college or two years as a player eligible for the project abroad. Indeed, the tools are important, and coaches staff have become good enough to teach big to use them. Since Maluach is receptive to learning and coachable, there are teams that will buy his game and believe that they can work with what he has at his disposal.
In the end, its advantage is the question. For me, Maluach is more a great use of Mitchell Robinson or Nic Claxton with high efficiency and high efficiency, as opposed to some of the most productive high -efficiency rollers such as Jarrett Allen or Ivica Zubac. Its center of upper gravity worries me in terms of capacity to add a functional force of basketball and to roll with a descent force towards the edge. He will be great about offensive glass like most of these players. I am more skeptical than some of the horsemen turning into something functional, but it would be a bonus. However, these players almost always end up turning around if they can defend, and although Maluach has things to repair there, I think he will defend himself well. I see it as something in the stadium of an average league departure center. This is worth a choice of subsequent lottery, but I am not on board either with some who see Maluach as a swing for fences.
Hollinger analysis: Houston made this choice, but the Rockets will exchange it to the Suns once Kevin’s trade during July 6. The Suns of the Short Cauch had been presented as a destination of Maluach for a while, but he is a development player going to a win-plus system. I am a little worried about the adjustment if he is not able to take minutes of rotation immediately and could have gone to Thomas Sorber from Georgetown instead. That said, if Maluach cannot beat Nick Richards and Oso Ighodaro, he should probably not be the 10th choice of draft.
