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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 4693536, member: 1674"] Jackson definitely knows what he's doing. It's just insanely hard, maybe impossible, to make it in the NBA if you can't score at the rim, mid-range, or 3 point line. Draymond has kinda made it work, but Draymond is a significantly better shooter than Jackson and is doing it as a quasi-center so it doesn't matter as much. Re: the twins, Amen projects as a lead ball-handler in the NBA and can pretty much get to the rim at will. He also literally might be the best athlete in the NBA right now. Basically, Amen is a 1 level scorer right now that may never expand beyond that, but between being able to get to the rim at will and being a good passer while doing it, he has a chance to be an all-star caliber player IMO. Probably a pretty small chance; he essentially needs to be come Giannis/Zion levels of dominant around the rim, but it's a chance nonetheless. Jackson has no chance of becoming that kind of player. I'm not as high on Ausar personally; I viewed him as a late lottery/mid first round pick. He's a very good athlete in his own right but it isn't as functional as Amen's is. His jumper is much further along than Amen's (and Jackson's). I think the jumper needs to improve for him to really make it in the NBA but he's improved on it a lot over the last two years. Re: the fit with Giannis...I'm kinda nervous Jackson might simply not be able to play with anyone. I think the level of shooting you need on the floor with Giannis is generally overrated and it's entirely possible IMO that you can be effective with Giannis even if you're a bad three point shooter. The issue is that Jackson is a bad three point shooter in addition to being hopeless in the mid-range and essentially only effective at the rim as a lob threat. I don't really think any of the two-man game stuff Jackson did in college will work in the NBA, but then again, he was doing it there with Clingan and Sanogo, not exactly floor spacers themselves. [/QUOTE]

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