There was a time when we didn\u2019t talk a lot about freshmen and the NBA, but that time is long gone. Players who can leave after their freshman years usually do so and so we start talking about the NBA in high school. For a relatively small number of players, there\u2019s little to no question that they have an NBA future.<\/p>\n
You can safely count Cameron Boozer in that tier and of course, people are talking about his NBA future and have been for a few years now.<\/p>\n
Boozer, as noted, is almost a lock to go in the top five, most likely the top three and possibly first overall, but he\u2019s going to have to answer some questions: can he play aggressively enough to push back against aggressive defenders? Will his shooting success in high school translate into college? And can he show enough versatility to play either forward position?<\/p>\n
The article suggests that his draft chances will rest to a large extent on answering these questions, but those aren\u2019t the only things of course.<\/p>\n
A big season from Duke will help his case – winning always helps. And the sense that he has a complete game will make a big difference as well. In all the analysis we\u2019ve seen of Boozer\u2019s strengths and weaknesses, we have yet to see his defense discussed much if at all. Jon Scheyer is going to insist on that at Duke and total effort, so that will factor in as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time when we didn\u2019t talk a lot about freshmen and the NBA, but that time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[6320,355,99],"class_list":["post-174010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-main","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}