It's Parker by a Landslide - Wilbon

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But Parker is the best player in basketball; not the best freshman, the best player. All the people who jumped off the Parker bandwagon when his foot was injured last year and his numbers plummeted and his weight (allegedly) soared need to apply for space back aboard the bandwagon. This isn't about the final score, that Kansas won the game, beating Duke 94-83. Not in November. It's about first impressions and wondering whether they'll be lasting impressions. There's nothing Parker doesn't do really, really well. He can play all the frontcourt positions and shoot the 3-ball like a 2-guard. He absolutely commands double-teams defensively, and finds teammates with ease. He can play way above the rim but has the fundamentals of a kid with lesser talent who's affixed to the floor. He scored 19 points in the first half against a Kansas team that's probably Final Four good. Hey, Andrew Wiggins is a highlight machine, and he'll get better playing for Bill Self, just the way he stepped it up Tuesday night after intermission. But if you're asking me off what we've seen so far whether its Wiggins or Parker, I'm going to tell you it's Parker in a landslide. And we'll delve further to Mr. Jabari Parker in a moment.

Randle's 27 points and 13 rebounds on most nights would have made him the biggest star. Not Tuesday night. Parker -- the way he's looked so far, anyway -- has a chance to be a transcendent player. For starters, he knows how to play, in the same sense that Steph Curry and Klay Thompson know how to play. What they have in common is that they're all sons of professional basketball players. I'll never forget the night nearly four years ago when Derrick Rose, who preceded Parker at Simeon High School in Chicago, told me I needed to go out to the South Side and watch Parker, "because he's better than I am," Rose said that night. I told Rose he was nuts, and the young Bulls guard said, "You have to see him. He can do everything."

He also compared Randle to Z-Bo. A more accurate depiction but not sexy enough for the homers and headlines.
 
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If I had the #1 pick I'd take Parker over Wiggins in a heart beat.

The way I see it, Wiggins most GLARING weakness is that his ball handling is suspect and he can't score off the dribble.

Almost all his points came from breakaway dunks, free throws, broken plays where he cut to the basket, or his one patent move the spinning layup after getting into the paint. Now compare that to what we saw from Parker. Parker has EVERYTHING you want in a dominant future wing player. He can handle the ball, he can shoot, he has a nice pull-up jumper from 3 or mid-range. He can take it to the basket. He's athletic enough to finish and also build strurdy enough to bang in the paint with 4s and 5s. Did ya'll see him guarding Embiid and the other bigs for Kansas. He was playing the 5 for Duke most of the game. :wow:

Parker has SUPERSTAR written all over him. He needs to just get in the weight room some more to become more cut and stop eating all them fatty foods. If he can remake his body even more, his floor will be Paul Pierce/Melo. With his ceiling being prime Grant Hill (minus the injuries). He's gonna be a true franchise player you can build a title contender around.

Wiggins on the other hand looks like a more athletic DeMar DeRozan. He'll get numbers in college because of his sheer athletic supremacy. But he won't in the NBA. At least LeBron could handle the rock and had incredible vision and awareness. Young LeBron masked his weaknesses because he could use the high pick and roll to get into the paint or find the open man because of his supreme ball handling and court vision. I have yet to see Wiggins show me that he can handle the rock from the top of the key and cut through an entire defense to get points in the paint. If you saw last night he got most of his paint points by posting up smaller player and then spinning into the paint. That alone won't work in the NBA.
 

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I don't understand your agenda. You say you have no bias. A person who truly has no bias states their opinion and keeps it moving. You are on a personal mission to tear down Wiggins and Randle and promote Parker. Again, if that's your opinion then that's fine, but you probably have 500 posts on the subject all saying the same thing. You've gone from having allegedly no bias to being on a crusade to prove your original point. Enough is enough.
 

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If I had the #1 pick I'd take Parker over Wiggins in a heart beat.

The way I see it, Wiggins most GLARING weakness is that his ball handling is suspect and he can't score off the dribble.

Almost all his points came from breakaway dunks, free throws, broken plays where he cut to the basket, or his one patent move the spinning layup after getting into the paint. Now compare that to what we saw from Parker. Parker has EVERYTHING you want in a dominant future wing player. He can handle the ball, he can shoot, he has a nice pull-up jumper from 3 or mid-range. He can take it to the basket. He's athletic enough to finish and also build strurdy enough to bang in the paint with 4s and 5s. Did ya'll see him guarding Embiid and the other bigs for Kansas. He was playing the 5 for Duke most of the game. :wow:

Parker has SUPERSTAR written all over him. He needs to just get in the weight room some more to become more cut and stop eating all them fatty foods. If he can remake his body even more, his floor will be Paul Pierce/Melo. With his ceiling being prime Grant Hill (minus the injuries). He's gonna be a true franchise player you can build a title contender around.

Wiggins on the other hand looks like a more athletic DeMar DeRozan. He'll get numbers in college because of his sheer athletic supremacy. But he won't in the NBA. At least LeBron could handle the rock and had incredible vision and awareness. Young LeBron masked his weaknesses because he could use the high pick and roll to get into the paint or find the open man because of his supreme ball handling and court vision. I have yet to see Wiggins show me that he can handle the rock from the top of the key and cut through an entire defense to get points in the paint. If you saw last night he got most of his paint points by posting up smaller player and then spinning into the paint. That alone won't work in the NBA.

If his ball handling is suspect why would you want him handling the ball from the top of the key? :heh:
 

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Yea after finally seeing all 3 play I gotta rank Parker #1.

Hes more athletic then people give him credit for and his game is polished

Wiggins was about what I expected. Elite athlete with a extremely high ceiling

As far as Randle, his lack of ups was really surprising but dude is tough and a baller...kinda reminds me of Zach Randolph
 
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