Offensive rebounding takes a certain mindset not necessarily vertical ability,it takes the willingness to absorb a pounding and awareness of angles.
Zizic is only 20 and offensive rebounding one of his strengths in a mans league.
The Eastern Europeans do put out some tough ,hungry big men.
David Blatt has used Zizic as an example of a tough young kid at 16 that kept getting up after being knocked down by the best older experienced big man star.
.Blatt knew he was special then.
Makes sense. Historically, there have always been a lot of hungry people in Eastern Europe (sarcasm) 
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I could see him being a Gortat at the very best, but I have tempered expectations. 2nd round stashes tend to not amount to much, so obviously his floor would be bench-warmer.
If he can reach that Gortat potential though, it would be yuuuuge for the Celtics
Luckily he isn't a second round stash.
Heh, I completely forgot that he was drafted in the 20's of round 1. Still, my point remains; guys drafted outside of the lottery are pretty prone to hardly ever showing up. I don't think it is unfair to say that his floor is to be a complete nonfactor
So what do you think about the multiple reports suggesting he'd be ~10 if he had entered the draft this year?
In this draft? 
No way. That sounds like propaganda to me.
Kieth smith and Kevin O'Connor have said it.
Also he was seen as a bit of a steal at #23 last year and has certainly upped his stock substantially this year
No idea who Kieth Smith is, and while I do enjoy his draft guide even if I don't always agree with his assessments, isn't Kevin really just a glorified blogger? I'm not knocking him or anything, as it's great to see what he's accomplished, but last time I checked he wasn't a scout.
You can google their resumes for yourself.
And if you can find more credible reporters putting Zizic later in this first round I'd love to see it
So they're both bloggers. Woo 
. If you can find more credible reporters putting Zizic at 10 or so I'd love to see it 
. He just doesn't do anything for me 
, but I'm missing something, as usual .
Way to stomp at the hardwork people go through just because they are "bloggers"
Excuse me, but I did nothing of the sort. What I said was, "while I do enjoy his draft guide even if I don't always agree with his assessments, isn't Kevin really just a glorified blogger? I'm not knocking him or anything, as it's great to see what he's accomplished, but last time I checked he wasn't a scout." All I was trying to say was that Kevin isn't on the level of a professional scout, even though I do enjoy his work and think it's awesome to see what he's been able to accomplish, but then again you've always found some way to pick a fight with me although I have no idea why since I've never done anything to you at all, but whatever
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Offensive rebounding takes a certain mindset not necessarily vertical ability,it takes the willingness to absorb a pounding and awareness of angles.
Zizic is only 20 and offensive rebounding one of his strengths in a mans league.
The Eastern Europeans do put out some tough ,hungry big men.
David Blatt has used Zizic as an example of a tough young kid at 16 that kept getting up after being knocked down by the best older experienced big man star.
.Blatt knew he was special then.
Makes sense. Historically, there have always been a lot of hungry people in Eastern Europe (sarcasm) .
I could see him being a Gortat at the very best, but I have tempered expectations. 2nd round stashes tend to not amount to much, so obviously his floor would be bench-warmer.
If he can reach that Gortat potential though, it would be yuuuuge for the Celtics
Luckily he isn't a second round stash.
Heh, I completely forgot that he was drafted in the 20's of round 1. Still, my point remains; guys drafted outside of the lottery are pretty prone to hardly ever showing up. I don't think it is unfair to say that his floor is to be a complete nonfactor
So what do you think about the multiple reports suggesting he'd be ~10 if he had entered the draft this year?
In this draft? No way. That sounds like propaganda to me.
Kieth smith and Kevin O'Connor have said it.
Also he was seen as a bit of a steal at #23 last year and has certainly upped his stock substantially this year
No idea who Kieth Smith is, and while I do enjoy his draft guide even if I don't always agree with his assessments, isn't Kevin really just a glorified blogger? I'm not knocking him or anything, as it's great to see what he's accomplished, but last time I checked he wasn't a scout.
You can google their resumes for yourself.
And if you can find more credible reporters putting Zizic later in this first round I'd love to see it
So they're both bloggers. Woo . If you can find more credible reporters putting Zizic at 10 or so I'd love to see it . He just doesn't do anything for me , but I'm missing something, as usual .
That's okay. He's still smarting from his prediction that Jaylen Brown was a lousy pick. So when Zizic proves him wrong, he'll clam up about him just like he did about Jaylen.
Actually I'm not. I've readily admitted that I was wrong (and have no problem doing so, for the record) to this point regarding Kris Dunn over Brown and Demetrius Jackson and have even made fun of myself for it. You should try it sometime
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Admittedly, I don't know much of anything about international basketball as I don't watch it, and if Zizic turns out to be a good player, all the better
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I'm still not there on Brown yet, though, btw. So are we okay, now? I'm terribly sorry if I've bothered you or something, as that was certainly never my intent
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