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Originally Posted by quietsavant
Found this curious and obviously had to read way into it because, it's of course a while until FA is upon us it seems it. But Jake Layman mentioned the Mavs interviewing him at the combine and asking him a peculiar question.
http://espn.go.com/espn/now?nowId=21...844588252211-4
This is interesting to me enough to look up the 6'9 sf out of Maryland and this is obviously fun speculation but his game is a raw version of another Tall SF with the ability to handle the ball and shoot the three and athletic. Chandler parsons
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Osqbx7qviyY |
Some good stuff in here-
http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Jake-Layman-7125/
Considering how the NBA is currently so focused on these 6'8-6'10 type players who can have position flex and play on the perimeter I was a bit surprised to see he is left off mocks entirely on many places. But I'd be shocked if he wasn't drafted, even if he was passive and inconsistent there just seems to be too much there to ignore. Maybe in Maryland offense he wasn't asked to do too much so he was passive and let the game come to him. If someone can get him to use that athleticism aggressively and maybe help develop him as a playmaker or improve his rebounding/defense he could be very very solid. He could rebound better in the NBA though just like Anderson did. Anderson as a starter only grabbed 4 rebs a game for UVA his junior year. So it's possible that when Layman gets to the NBA, if he has the same kind of "want to" that JA has, he could be a better rebounder than his stats indicate. He certainly looks like he will rebound better in some of these videos.