nba prospects

ive flagg mania mate

COOPER FLAGG AT THE BUZZER 🚨

HE SENDS IT TO OT 🤯

Watch NOW in the NBA App: https://t.co/rrdQfp9U4z pic.twitter.com/VV5lVo3LvU

— NBA (@NBA) August 20, 2023

he just reclassified and so will be in the nba in one more year

the defense is obvs insane hes a very big wing with elite shot blocking and stealing ability but the creative finishing/nose for the basket stand out too he has the scorers mindtype

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px9DwSGq8QE

he just reclassified and so will be in the nba in one more year

― lag∞n, Sunday, August 20, 2023 10:51 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

*two more years, on track for 2025 draft

just in time for when the spurs have 3 first rounders

flagg update

Cooper Flagg’s mom and Donovan Clingan’s mom were teammates at the University of Maine.

On Flagg’s official visit to UConn this weekend, they pair were able to do this photo shoot while each wearing their mom’s jersey.

▪️Stacey (Porrini) Clingan ranks 17th on Maine's all-time… pic.twitter.com/4SjDHdJxKg

— Jamie Shaw (@JamieShaw5) September 27, 2023

watching a video of cooper flaggs team montverde academy layup line and they were all dunking i was like whats going on here not even all nba players can dunk i looked and they have six players in espns top 50 prospects lol

copper flag

https://i.imgur.com/YnPfHLR.png

USC freshman Bronny James is declaring for the 2024 NBA Draft. James, 19, also is entering NCAA transfer portal to maintain flexibility. The combo guard will work out for and visit NBA teams and make a draft decision based on evaluation. pic.twitter.com/azJgWNNqmQ

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 5, 2024

congratulations to future laker lebron james jr

I can't see which team drafts him and then ransom-offers him to the Lakers

+"wait to" lol

would lebron really turn down $50m next season and leave the lakers to go play with his son, im dubious, would the lakers take bronny in the second round to please lebron yeah i think they would, doesnt seem like theres a deal in place tho considering he kept his college options open

seems like lebron could make bronny about as much money by making some endorsement deals in partnership with bronny under NIL provisions as bronny could make in guaranteed money as a mid-2nd round pick.

he wants to play on the same team as him tho, we dont know what bonny wants

imagine having GM lebron being the manager of your basketball career forever

GM durant vs GM bron: a hoops poll

our friend cooper wrecking the olympic team

Duke commit Cooper Flagg has taken over USA Basketball scrimmage: hits a three and then finishes a tough putback pic.twitter.com/SB3Y4fDpYt

— Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) July 8, 2024

the beautiful genius cooper flagg

Reporter: “Best NBA player of all time?”

Cooper Flagg: “Michael Jordan.”

Reporter: “Best NBA team of all time?”

CF: “1985-86 Celtics.”

Reporter: “Best defender of all time?”

CF: “Kawhi Leonard.”

(via @SLAMonline / TT)pic.twitter.com/GCxRIroCtB

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) July 9, 2024

pre game hype song: faneto
best jordans: 4s

this kid just gets it

NBA teams better be careful trading those unprotected 2026 draft picks 😬

( via @ADybantsa ) pic.twitter.com/HsYtQX5Yle

— ENJ🏀Y (@EnjoyBBall) September 26, 2024

i have heard this guy is the next next big thing

cant wait for that atl pick swap to cash in

that draft also has boozer jr

it's rare for a draft to lack a top pick or two that feel especially attractive and valuable. what's rare is a kareem, lebron, or wembanyama that feels like a generational talent.

just reading up on the draft

https://i.imgur.com/R3c4boG.png

boogie fland is nice

boogie fland is nice

so nice it posted twice

heard todd bonzalez is really impressing the scouts

lol

thinking dylan harper might go #1 obvs a ways to go but whoever has the pick has an interesting decision to make between the natural baller elite scorer big guard in harper and the all around game big wing cooper flagg

i’m still not used to the name “furphy”

makes more sense if you say it in an aus accent

me, an early 20th century immigrant coming to america with nothing but my fursuit and dropkick murphy collection: i wonder what i should put for my last name

America is the land of the Fursuit of Happ6.

Happiness. Thanks autocorrect.

COOPER FLAGG JUST WENT COAST-TO-COAST AND POSTERIZED THE DEFENDER 😱🔥

ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS 🤯 pic.twitter.com/Z5jcZ756ew

— ESPN (@espn) January 8, 2025

idk i think this guy might be good

Look at where Cooper Flagg just dunked from WITH NO DRIBBLE 🤯 pic.twitter.com/TIWOtH1Jr4

— Mark Jackson’s Burner (@casualtakeking) January 11, 2025

hooper flagg

dece

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Cooper Flagg in ACC conference play:

16 games
27.1 PPG
53.2% FG%
44.4% 3P% on 4.9 3PA/game
84.6% FT% on 8.1 FTA/game
8.9 RPG
5.0 APG
1.9 SPG
1.3 BPG
2.9 TOPG

consensus on him has been very good but not super elite prospect, those numbers however, hes one of the youngest players in college ball too

acc is pretty weak this year, but it is very clear that he is a super high iq guy, super athletic with no real weaknesses to his game on the college level. his handle and shot are not yet nba elite, but he's gonna be gooood

banannas

bandannas

high motor too physical huge frame scrappy gotta love it

seems like the only thing keeping him from the uppermost echelon of prospects is not being a super freak athlete, but perhaps that is slightly overrated anyway

his vertical is reported as 40", physically i think hes freak, all things considered he might be a super freak

id say the only thing maybe holding him back is that he tends more towards relying on hustle and physicality rather than being a super high level skill guy, maybe a little more siakam than tatum, but his ceiling is prob a more active athletic physical tatum which needless to say would be a perennial top guy

i guess we never got to see “michael beasley but not clinically insane” so maybe that’s what this is? is that a top 3 pick? maybe?

the one three he makes in that tennessee game looks good, if a team can get him shooting at some level of volume from out there then it becomes a different story. he is a decent passer. i also see tons of clips of him scoring at the rim in a way that just isn’t gonna happen at the NBA level, some angel reese esque possessions in those highlights. idk. he’s gonna have to completely change the way he scores imo, maybe the underlying skills are so good that he can do that, it just feels like a lot of projection for an undersized player for me, to be talking about top 3 or 5 in the draft

georges niang, michael beasley, angel reese, those are some wild comps did cam boozer kill your dog or something, anyway hes not undersized he is a shooter and he can score in all the ways, not sure where youre getting this stuff from

the thing we should be asking ourselves is can he play center in the nba, he has the size and skills to be a perfect 4 but if he can at least some of the time slide over to center and hold up on defense my god maybe he should go 1, hes super strong and has long arms so maybe

i don’t think michael beasley is an insulting comp, he was a historically dominant college player especially on the glass and a top 2 pick in a great draft. he didn’t work out prob mostly bcuz of mental/character stuff but i think that one is pretty fair. julius randle is good! (so people say)

sam vecenie wrote recently that to compensate for being short for his position boozer started working on his outside game, that’s the right impulse ofc and maybe that part of his game continues to grow and he becomes some super unique special player, his shot looks good. however the way he scores at the rim in college just isn’t gonna fly around NBA athletes idk what to say, he’s gonna have to become more creative in how he finishes or keep morphing from a center into like a big point forward. but idk if he can dribble like that

like a scenario where boozer is trying to work the post like this against idk bam, duren, jarrett allen etc real nba centers i’m not sure i think he’d score a single point? so the rest of his game really needs to flourish. if he can become a stretch 5 who can pump fake and then drive to the rim with the other team’s center out of the way then i can see the path for a good player but it still seems like a role player to me, even if he’s a good one. late lottery, sure

these will be interesting posts to look back to in a few years

i see what you're saying j0rd in so far as his low post moves are taking advantage of the far inferior man defense skills of the competition, but he's getting the buckets so he doesn't really have strong motivation to change his approach now. doesn't mean he won't be able to shift in the pros

is he big enough to play the 5 on defense? I’m seeing him listed at 6-9

the nba community will never know peace as long as there are tweener bigs with questionable outside shooting

hes shooting 38% from 3 on 4 attempts a game, obvs small sample could just be on a heater but the shot looks good and hes launching without hesitation

is he big enough to play the 5 on defense? I’m seeing him listed at 6-9

― comrade jhøsh (k3vin k.), Friday, November 28, 2025 12:09 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

hes def short but hes really strong and i cant find a wingspan measurement but his arms look long, could be a draymond type center, obvs you cant ask him to have draymond defensive talent but a just super strong mobile low center of gravity long arms making up for lack of height guy is a thing that could work, even if its only part time having that positional flexibility would be huge and having a guy with his offensive skills playing center would be very sick

i doubt boozer will be as low post focused in the league but hes got the rest of the game working too kinda doubt itll be too difficult for him to swap out some of those low post possessions for like elbow touches dribble hand offs and whatnot, could also see his post game being viable in the league if he can pass well from there but dont really have a sense if hes got that in his bag, he also just seems like a really opportunistic quick reader of the game so i suspect hell be able to find all sorts of shots

i think a favorable comp of a current player would be sengun, not hugely physically gifted but just amazing feel for the game and skill as a big. you see boozer make some nice functional cross court passes, sengun i think has more like savant level feel but boozer seems to be closer to the higher end of that spectrum than a lot of bigs. but the key thing w/ sengun is that he grew a few inches after being drafted which made him a much cleaner fit at the 5 than it looked like he’d be as a rookie

and even then the rockets basically have decided to play him with another 5, if the league’s trending back towards bigness is more than a momentary blip than perhaps boozer already has enough feel and shooting to play as a 4 next to another big without compromising the offense. have to imagine teams that really like him as a prospect have something like that in mind

thing about sengun that prevents him from being a 5 is hes not a good defender, he has the size but just doesnt have the stuff, if he could protect the rim hed be insanely good, still pretty good tho, id agree that teams are prob looking at boozer as a 4 where i think hes a pretty clean fit, but if he can play some 5 even if its just small ball looks that raises his ceiling a lot

Peterson played his first game for Kansas.

darryn peterson is a fascinating guy to watch. very unique athlete, aesthetically, he plays like he teleported here from 1987

jamal crawford coaching his son, and tyran stokes the #1 player in the country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSyeGk9hjV4

getting kawhi-ish vibes from darryn peterson this season (complimentary and derogatory)

just as long as he doesnt have any uncles

Was watching some clips of Peja's Stojakovic's kid Andrej who is playing for Illinois. Seems like pretty solid all-arounder

top four draft order already locked in??

probably not but also could be

dybantsa could still go 1 if he goes nuts and peterson keeps being injured but idk peterson is so good at everything to me he seems like the no brainer, caleb wilson prob not at all locked in at 4 either since hes just a straight athletic freak who doesnt really have basketball skills per se, but i think we can all agree that cam boozer is locked in at 3

indy would maybe take dybantsa 1 if they got the pick but dont think any of the other real bad teams have an on ball guard good enough to cause them to pass on peterson, guess if the hornets snuck into 1 theyd prob take dybantsa too not necessarily because theyre married to melo long term they just generally have a lot of backcourt guys

otoh peterson could just end up the consensus 1 too

think I might be “a peterson guy”

hes insanely good

was watching some tape of the major prospects last night. peterson looks like a version of shai with an even better outside shot. guy’s trigger is just insane and his shot looks smooth as hell. also has good positional size and in the limited stuff I’ve seen will prob be a good defender

boozer…I don’t know man. I’m sort of with jordan up thread. “angel reese type possessions” is a bit harsh considering he actually makes his shots but he seems to have some condition that prevents him from extending his arms fully around the rim. his shooting form in the paint is bizarre and needs to be fixed at the next level I think. also have some concerns about his defensive ability and lateral movement etc particularly since it doesn’t seem like he’s going to be a true 5. sort of reminds me of paolo a little tbh

dybantsa is really fun. athletic freak wings who can attack the rim and profile as good defenders are generally a good bet. you probably want to see more of an outside shot but that’s something that can be worked on. he’s not an awful FT shooter. he’ll probably add a few pounds over the years too

btw did you know this is the third CBB player in the last 30 years to be named cameron boozer kind of random

thing about boozer is theres never been a freshman whos putting up the numbers he is who didnt end up having all star level nba talent, i think he has some other stuff going for him too particularly hes just a very high feel player so i think he has a way better than average chance at navigating whatever obstacles may present themselves in the league, i must say it did give me pause when a scouting video i was watching described his defense as "a little KATish", but i think he ends up good nba player, tho being strong #1 option might be a stretch for him might be more of an all around guy, which i one reason i think hes clearly behind peterson and dybantsa, you gotta try to get a bigtime #1 guy if you can

could also be really bad tho. those big tweeners with bad defense can be incredible in college and suck in the nba

hes been so good in college these guys who are competing for player of the year as freshman just dont miss in the pros

and its def not any forgone conclusion that he grades out as a bad defender either

hes been so good in college these guys who are competing for player of the year as freshman just dont miss in the pros

― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 January 2026

i dont follow ncaa ball at all but i feel like this is not reliable

ok

lagoon is right that if you look at any sort of recent historical ranking of efficiency by college players especially true freshmen it’s going to tell you that boozer is an elite player and elite prospect, grouped together with players who were can’t miss prospects. at this point he would end up as a legendary statistical outlier if he flops

because of that i’ve come around to the idea that he’s definitely going to be good to really good. however, i still think he has physical limitations that are going to prevent him from being the best player on a great team. i don’t think he has top 10 player in the league ceiling, but if you had him as a number two with some size protection elsewhere in the line up paired with another star then i def see how his basketball skill could really play up in the way his biggest fans see

the thing that has me warming up to him is that his shot from NBA three distance has looked good, and if he can actually shoot the three for real then you have the kinda shooting + skill combo where im not sure the limitations come into play as much. it gets into i.e. kon knueppel territory

spurs move up in the lottery again and he becomes our starting 4, best place possible

omg greedy

what if boozer is kind of a cross between paolo and sabonis

omg greedy

― lag∞n, Saturday, January 17, 2026 9:57 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

getting my mf gordon gekko on, this is healthy for my spirit

lol

what if boozer is kind of a cross between paolo and sabonis

― comrade jhøsh (k3vin k.), Saturday, January 17, 2026 11:00 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

feel like hes more of a dynamic in flow player than those guys but yeah he could def end up in that range, still pretty good tho

yes imo it hinges on his outside shot. if he can shoot threes he will be good. if he cant he will be bad.

i mean everyone in the nba has to be able to shoot, unless theyre a center and even then its nice

boozer is definitely a better shooter than sabonis. i think he has the feel to play off the ball in a way that paolo maybe does not. i.e. — paolo shot 33% from three and had 3.2 APG to 2.4 TOV at duke; boozer is at 36% and 4.1 to 2.4, respectively

if a team drafts him and expects more of a super role player in the way that, like, evan mobley and chet are sorta the second or third or fourth best players on their teams depending on the night then that makes sense to me. idk if he’s quite as good as those guys cuz he’s shorter but i could see it being not too far off

cray thing about peterson is hes been dominating while injured hes a really good athlete who can get to the rim at will but hes been relying more on the jumper and playing a reserved game while his hammy heals and hes wrecking shit anyway

he’s crazy smooth, love watching him

his game is extremely easy on the eye