Workout 10: Tyger Campbell, Kihei Clark, Ed Croswell Jr., Keondre Kennedy, Kevin Obanor, Nikos Rogkavopoulos

5 Comments

1. Giddf 1 year ago

   Normally don’t rag on the workouts. But like why?

2. nojeanshere 1 year ago

   Yeesh there might not be one draft pick among these guys.

3. jaynay1 1 year ago

   Well, these are going to be short.

   1. Nikos Rogkavopoulos

   Autoeligible pure shooter from Greece. I haven’t gotten to his current tape in strong detail yet, but I remember watching him back in the 2019-20 cycle when he first entered and thinking that he wasn’t particularly close physically. That said, he’s gotten rave reviews from my Turkish league contacts. 15 a game in a major European league is nothing to scoff at when it’s done in a translatable way, which his appears to be, but there’s a reason he’s getting enough shots to actually do that. Despite being the clear best prospect in this group, Rogkavopoulos an E10 level player, and the only reason he has a small chance of being drafted is that everyone is going to be super desperate for draft and stashes this year.

   2. Kevin Obanor

   After having a huge year as the 1b to Max Abmas’ 1a at Oral Roberts, Obanor proceeded to transfer up to Texas Tech and be an acceptable quality player for the next two years. Except the thing that made him interesting — his shooting — tanked. Went from 42.5% over his first 3 years to back to back years of 33%. Part of that was that Mark Adams is a genuinely awful offensive coach, but also Obanor did struggle a little with the increased quality of competition. Still though, he’s a 6’8″ player with a real argument about shooting the 3 and acceptable quality defense. That’s a fine E10 guy, and I’d say that he’s probably the best candidate for a two-way in this class. The only reason I have Rogkavopoulos higher is the value of being able to stash him.

   3. Ed Croswell

   Croswell is 6’8″, a reasonable shot blocker and a reasonable athlete/finisher, but he doesn’t really provide much else outside of a high motor. Basically, if you remember Mathias Lessort, who was drafted by the 76ers a few years back, that’s the closest prospect analog I can remember, but Lessort’s motor was enough better that Lessort’s subsequent success in high level Euro competition (despite never coming over to the NBA nor really threatening to) isn’t really a major tell for Croswell. Ultimately, he’s an undersized, underskilled 5 that just doesn’t have enough to do more than a weak E10.

   4. Keondre Kennedy

   6’6″ wing, can shoot. The most interesting thing about him is that he appeared, in my quick watch of his tape, to be a fake righty, which you basically never see. In short, he’s more comfortable handling left but shoots right. This is unique, but not particularly important — it has some advantages and some disadvantages over being a true righty but is just worse than being a true lefty and better than being a fake lefty. But yeah, basically he’s a shooter with respectable size and no overwhelming deficiencies. He’s fine to put on the G League roster but probably not even an E10.

   5. Tyger Campbell

   5’11”, small guard, bad decision-maker. Has the Devonte Graham “can’t turn it over if the ball is a shot” mentality without the Devonte Graham exceptional shotmaking. Can’t shoot (though, to be completely fair to Campbell, he did shoot well in the season before last and he has reasonable floater touch), can’t defend, really just has no place on an NBA court, to the extent that I wouldn’t want him on the summer league roster. And yet…

   6. Kihei Clark

   If Campbell’s problem is that he’s a bad decision-maker, that still leaves him an advantage over Kihei Clark, who regularly seemed to actively seek out the worst possible decision on a regular basis. Even before his major flub against Furman, Clark had a reputation for major screwups on both ends, but because he was the hero who got them a national championship (as the 5th best player on that team) he was pretty immune to consequences for terrible play. He’s even smaller than Campbell, and while I do view him as a better shooter, that’s really about it. Similar to Campbell, I would not even be interested in having him on the summer league team, as I think he’s an actively detrimental player.

4. OrangeBuffalo8 1 year ago

   Terrible group lol

5. a_moniker 1 year ago

   We’ve worked out like 90% wings, right? Backup PG was an even bigger weakness for us last season, which makes me think their leaning towards Scoot over Miller, and want to find an upside wing later in the draft.