What kind of pro will Tyler Hansbrough become ?

Last night in the 'Dean Dome', Tyler Hansbrough eclipsed Phil Ford as the Univ. of North Carolina's all-time leader in scoring for men's basketball. He's scored more points than M. Jordan, S. Perkins, J. Worthy, B. Cunningham, and the list goes on and on...

But what kind of pro will he become ? Is that 'Psycho T' energy going to translate at the next level.

Joakim Noah, from the Univ. of Florida was a high lottery pick based on being a high energy player. But is that enough with the big boys ???

What do you think ?

 

Hansbrough's got some game. I imagine he could be a double-double guy, 15-20 ppg. and 10 rpg

 

That's interesting. I am expecting his first two or three years to be 10-15 points and 6-8 rebs a game.

 

An undersized power forward with little athleticism to compensate for it.

BUST.

 

Barely mediocre, c'mon EeeQ you know that playboy!
I'm not hatin either because I am a huge Duke fan. He puts of sick numbers for a college player but he's too small for the NBA.
For all his hard collegiate work he'll make some NBA paper for a minute though....

 

I haven't cared for nor watched any NBA game since the brawl in Detroit several years ago. Hansbrough is a great college player and teammate, let's leave it at that.

 

Yeah. Even if he's not an All-Star, I think he'd be a pretty decent sixth man

 

Nick Collison

 

He is a good, high energy basketball player. Unfortunately this is basketball.

In football...there are so many players and so much specialization that a "high effort" guy with great skills and marginal athletic ability can thrive and even become a borderline star. In the NBA you are either a great shooter, great dunker/slasher/scorer, great defender or a primo distributor of the rock. Hansborough isn't a particularly great sharpshooter (if he was he could maybe be a Chris Mullin type...maybe Hubert Davis). He is most definitely not a slasher...take it to the hole type guy......and I'm not sure about his defense...defense is mostly effort which helps his cause but most All-NBA type defenders are also the best athletes on their teams. He doesn't have the ball handling skills to be a point-forward type a la Antoine Walker back in the day.


The pro game is one of matchups which makes it tough but not impossible. At his size..he isn't quick enough to guard the Carmelo Anthony's, LeBron James', Shawn Marion's or Tracy McGrady's of the world at the small forward spot...nor is he going to light any one of them up unless he develops a great outside shot. Beacuse of his bulk...he may have to play power forward despite being shorter than most PF's. In that case..he's in for a round of Tim Duncan, Amare Stoudemire, Kevin Garnett, Chris Bosh, Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol, Carlos Boozer (when he's healthy)..among other elite PF's in the league. All of the guys except Stoudemire and Boozer are '7-0" and Amare Stoudemire is '6-10" or '6-11" anyway. He doesn't appear to have Tayshun Prince type arms so it's going to be tough for him to alter the shot of a sweet shooting Dirk Nowitzki at the top of the key or a grinding Tim Duncan in the low post.

He is throughly capable of being a serviceable 6th man or a starter on a contender (i.e., New Orleans, Utah, Los Angeles, Boston etc.) but he isn't the type of guy that you take with the number one pick thinking that he is going to be Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaquille O' Neal, Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan or LeBron James.

 

He'll be a bust...just like Leinert...

 

He's not winning any awards or titles (unless he's got a superstar on his team), but he'll be sufficient. Probably a 10-15 (ppg) and 5-8 (rebs.) guy. He's going to have to get quicker on his feet if he hopes to play in the NBA, which has players that are just as big as him, but much faster and stronger. I'm a Duke fan, but I'm hoping the best for the kid.

 

15 ppg 8 rpg for the first 3 or 4 years.

Once he hits about 26-27 I think he'll be good for 20 and 10. If he gets involved in the right system. He wont be a Christian Laettner.

 

he plays hard, but the physical ain't there;

maybe a journeyman like Wally Sczerbiak or Laetner; Whiteboys sell tickets, what can i say?