He has showcased surprisingly strong passing skills, as well. But he’s been among the more disruptive perimeter defenders in college basketball and a load to stop in transition. He was a five-star recruit and a known quantity coming out of high school, so this isn’t all that surprising. The Kings are heavy on guards, need defensive backbone and could be a realistic landing spot for Duren in the lottery.īrown’s emergence as an immediate-impact addition for Baylor has created some early buzz around the NBA, and he looks very much like a one-and-done talent with the way he impacts both sides of the ball. If you believe in Duren’s skill potential, he’s an easier sell early in the draft, and after reclassifying to enter college early, he’ll be one of the youngest prospects in this class. On the offensive end, Duren plays a simple catch-and-finish style right now, but is a promising passer and has shown some flashes of ability to space the floor (though there’s a reason Memphis isn’t asking him to shoot threes at the moment).ĭuren is a relatively safe choice and a good bet to land in the lottery, but a lot will hinge on how each team values centers, and which ones have long-term needs up front. He’s long, mobile and explosive, he has huge potential defensively, and his frame is already well-suited for the NBA. Predictably, Duren has been feasting against lesser competition to start the season, with elite physical tools and strength that belies his age. Holmgren has to start defining his own narrative this week, and Friday’s matchup against Banchero and Duke should be the most heavily scouted game of the season. Gonzaga plays only a handful of quality regular-season opponents, leaving less opportunity to impress NBA teams in meaningful settings. Being big and blocking shots is a start, but manufacturing points without designed touches is crucial.
But he has to find ways to produce when the play isn’t flowing through him. Gonzaga will play heavily through Drew Timme this season, and Holmgren should actually benefit from a less focal role more akin to what he’ll do in the NBA. Gonzaga plays two massive games this week- UCLA on Tuesday and Duke on Friday-that have major implications for Holmgren’s draft stock, on the heels of a forgettable showing against Texas in which he scored just two points and attempted three shots. 1, but is being graded by scouts on a somewhat heightened curve early in the season. If these two techs face off, though, there's a clear winner.Holmgren comfortably rounds out the top three at the moment and is in the mix at No. You can pile two techs together and allow you to perform 20 actions during frozen time instead of just 10. But both can still exist together for the reason I've described above. That Speed Gear is inferior to Time Stopper itself makes sense, as the later tech can easily outperform the preceding tech.
The Gears were invented long before Wily became bad, which means long before 1 and 2. Originally posted by River Victor:The existence of the Gears doesn't contradict the causality of Time Stopper though. alright so both equips function slightly differently with similar outcomes, but I think time stopper would beat speed gear in an even battle, cause speed gear is basically useless if you can't even move in the first place, so really I don't see how double gear could feasibly exist in a time stopper world, if we imagine quick man has some form of speed gear tech then it'd be clear time stopper completely nulls his existence Suppose that your personal time runs for 10 seconds during Time Stopper, during which you can do 10 actions, when combined with Speed Gear, your personal time passes 10 seconds all the same, but instead of being able to do 10 actions, you can do maybe 20 before the time resumes. You speed up and can perform more actions per second.īoth can exist without nullifying each other. Speed Gear, however, is not time slower equipment. Time Stopper freezes time, but your personal time still passes for some seconds. Originally posted by River Victor:I can see why not.