Everyone wants to go small until you get a 7 footer that can move like a guard. He (Bender) really moves his feet as well as any 7 footer I've seen in quite some time and that's really, besides his 3pt shot, his height, and he can block shots, what to me is what really makes him special. You can legitimately switch him on to a guard off of a pick and roll and he can hold his own. You can put him on a 6-7, 6-8 small ball PF and he's not going to get burned on the perimeter. So if he can develop physically he has a chance to give you the best of both worlds. Bender was pretty highly rated before the season started, so it's not as a result of Porzingis. Most people had him in the top 5 before the NBA season even started. What Porzingis did certainly will help a guy like Bender who is rail thin and needs to add a lot of strength and isn't playing very much. However, he's in a different situation than Porzingis. Porzingis was on a bad team in a tough league and they needed him to play. Whereas Bender's team is fighting for a post-season birth and he's on a deeper team. So he isn't getting that much time. He's getting 10-12 minutes rather than the 25 minutes Porzingis was getting.
His statistics do not bear it out. Good players play, period. I bet that guy gets paid to say the above.
We seen the highlights how about his weaknesses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhREj9q-UpM
Interesting. So you think Bodner gets paid to say that, yet he happens to work for draft express, who conicidentally made the "weaknesses" video you placed a link of.
College basketball scout for @DraftExpress. derek.bodner@draftexpress.comYou do realize that they make a strengths and weaknesses video of every prospect, right? So you simply posting half of the scouting report is only telling half the story.
Here is the strengths portion that you conveniently omitted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Epg_sBZq4&list=PLHYk_Vc1Z3cWkKJ9FfKNztfLsG2mgiLaxOh, and the strengths video happens to be roughly 3 minutes longer.