The draft express scouting update was written just before Nicholson went off on an epic run for the rest of the year. Check the twitter updates in the left column on Nicholson's draftexpress page, and check his game logs.
He supposedly answered a lot of questions about toughness, and took his game to another level, adding a sick 3 point shot in the process. 19-25 3pt shooting last 10 games of the year. Pretty epic for a big man.
What I most like about him, besides his high intelligence, is that he could be a very good stretch 4, providing room for Rondo and Bradley to penetrate into an open lane.
He's pretty new to the game, and considering how far he's come, I think he'll get very very good at faking the outside shot and driving to the lane, or faking the drive and stroking the jumper.
He should be good in the pick and roll too.
He's already got 15-20 pounds on JJ. JJ might not ever weigh that much in his whole career. Nicholson is somewhere between 240-250 pounds. He started the season about 240, but by the end of the year looked like he lost a bit of it, maybe 230-235 at the end of the year.
I expect Nicholson to weigh 245ish right now. That's plenty big with his 7'4" wingspan.
He might not be a defensive monster in the NBA, but he's as versatile and skilled a big man as you could hope for beyond the lottery.
He's a Canadian from an intellectual family, and didn't know he was an NBA prospect until college. Very humble.
Compare that to another prospect I really, really like, Tony Wroten. He was getting hyped nationally as one of the best 8th graders, so he's got that annoying pampered/entitled thing that Quincy Miller and Dion Waiters also grew up with.
He's going to continue perfecting his game like a science experiment, as he's been doing for 4 years now. He says he has his college life time management down to the millisecond.
I bet he has his strengths and weaknesses down to a science also.
He's gonna pick up all the tricks, and learn how to best manipulate every big man in the league offensively. The big question is whether he's strong enough to get position down low on a regular basis.
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