NBA Resemblances at UK

[3Goggles]

I got bored earlier this week and decided to make my best guess as to who each UK player best resembles in the NBA (play style/body type). Agree or disagree? Other suggestions?

 

Andrew Harrison - Kyle Lowry

Aaron Harrison - Aaron Afflalo / J.R. Smith

Trey Lyles - Paul Millsap

Willie Cauley-Stein - Giannis Antetokounmpo

Karl Towns - Al Jefferson

Dakari Johnson - Samuel Dalembert

Devin Booker - Klay Thompson

Tyler Ulis - Ty Lawson

Marcus Lee - Nikola Vucevic (best that I could think of)

Alex Poythress - Maurice Harkless

[Wireman]

Rupp Arena

[born2reign]

WCS is a Joakim Noah clone when he gets to the NBA, IMO.

 

Dakari won't have the defensive impact of a Dalembert. Going a bit old school, Dakari could be like a Stanley Roberts- type in the NBA.

 

The Harrison's lateral quickness doesn't match the comparisons given. Andrew would be lucky to be a Kirk Hinrich- type player. Aaron could find a hitch as a shooter off the bench that you worry about defensively- makes me think of the current version of Mike Miller.

[3Goggles]

WCS is a Joakim Noah clone when he gets to the NBA, IMO.

 

Dakari won't have the defensive impact of a Dalembert. Going a bit old school, Dakari could be like a Stanley Roberts- type in the NBA.

 

The Harrison's lateral quickness doesn't match the comparisons given. Andrew would be lucky to be a Kirk Hinrich- type player. Aaron could find a hitch as a shooter off the bench that you worry about defensively- makes me think of the current version of Mike Miller.

 

Not necessarily saying that they're exact replicas of those players at this point. Just saying I think they represent these players at the college level

[Harry Doyle]

I hope this quote comes back as a huge plate of crow some years down the road, but I don't see the Harrison twins being one bit productive in the NBA. Their hips/lateral quickness just isn't there for either side of the ball IMO.

[born2reign]

Not necessarily saying that they're exact replicas of those players at this point. Just saying I think they represent these players at the college level

 

Okay- that actual means that I have more suggestions of better fits, then.

 

WCS is the Tyson Chandler of college basketball. Aaron is more of a factor- maybe Ray Allen in his latter years? Heinrich is still a better comparison, IMO, for Andrew. Dakari is like a Shaq in Boston and Cleveland.

 

Booker is like Kyle Korver with the Hawks- this year's good version. Ulis is like Isaiah Thomas (current NBA player). Marcus Lee is like an Anderson Varejao. Poythress was looking like a Thabo Sefolosha type before his injury.

 

I think your Lyles and Towns references are fairly apt.