just adding to the good points above.
the guy looks really thin in the video. would he be able to battle for rebounds in the nba? or would larger, stronger pf and c simply push him aside?
i am not saying this eliminates him as a nba player, only that it may define his role a particular way.
I wouldn't say rail thin. Austin and JJJ are rail thin. Dieng is actually thicker than Noel and Anthoney Davis. He is wiry strong like KG, but def could add 5 to 10 more pounds of muscle. In today's nba he will be fine as either pf/c. If Sully is on the court, he will be more of a pf, and he has enough quickness and length to be able to guard them.
Watching him since the tourney started, he has been very efficient and focusing in helping his team win vs taking over. I guess this is hard to do when you got a Russ Smith that takes a ton of shot for your team. But when he has had to ball , he is making the safe plays and the ball is going in. Also blocking /altering shots, rebounding, and taking charges. He has tremendous and deceptive foot speed to recover or challenge block shots. The way he changes speed is similiar to the way AB does it. Conserve but agressively accelerate in a blink of an eye. Different than a guy like Mitch Macgary who looks like his motor will burn out, running around like a headless chicken.
Overall, i'm a fan of Withey and Dieng and would be ok drafting either if we are going for a big. But in the nba bc of the three 3nd rule inside the paint , i'd have to give an edge to dieng in terms of not parking in the paint, helping out on the weakside, but still able to recover and handle his own man or block other players shots.
If we draft Dieng i would trade Melo in a second, even for a top 2013/2014 2nd round pick. I see Dieng having a higher bbiq and not parked in nbdl forever.