90 percent of American scouts are people who don’t understand anything about potential. They evaluate players based on stereotypical stereotypes such as wingspan, lateral speed, shooting percentage, PR defense, etc. and miss stars with potential. They become obsessively attached to the trends they create within themselves. If Europeans did well in one draft, they pick trash Europeans in the next draft, etc.
They don’t take into account things like hand speed, game intelligence, motor, killer instinct, star shooter instinct. The reason why they couldn’t analyze stars like Donovan Mitchel, Jokic, Doncic well was that they were too focused on physics. Now they are ignoring Alperen’s superstar instinct. Two years later they will say how we missed it. But I still think that OKC, which is the best team in sensing player potential, will withdraw from 6th place, or fall back in the rankings and choose Alperen from 9-10th place. It’s like they already made room for him.
I translated it directly with Google translate because the text was long, but it seemed like it was translated properly. This is a comment written on a reddit-like site in Turkey, users wrote before the 2021 Draft, it caught my attention and I wanted to share it, sometimes ordinary people see this game better than NBA scouts.
https://eksisozluk1999.com/entry/125083604
by Alarmed-Minute-5345
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OKC didn’t have room for Sengun. That’s why they traded him to the Rockets in the first place. Houston tried getting him earlier than 16
Ordinary people don’t see the game better and are not better evaluators. Period.
There will always be fans of different players that rate those players higher than what professional scouts do. Pro scouts get it wrong to.
Sam Bowie, Greg Oden, Olowakandi….
Just like sometimes stars come later in the draft.