Zach Edey is aware of the present NBA is all about facilities who can step out and shoot. Edey thinks he can try this too, however he is extra targeted on staying true to his sport.
“I believe it simply comes with sort of realizing who I’m,” Edey mentioned. “I’m by no means going to be the wiry seven-foot man who can — like Kevin Durant, that’s by no means going to be me, guys like that. I’m a 7-foot-4, 300-pound man. I’m constructed to be within the paint, to carve out area to guard my space. And that’s what I’m gonna maintain doing. I believe there’s lots of people within the NBA that do stuff like that. (Jonas) Valanciunas, (Ivica) Zubac, Steven Adams; guys who had a variety of success within the NBA being these paint presences. I’m going to stay to who I’m and I sort of know who I’m.”
The Purdue product measured in at practically 7-foot-4 with out sneakers on the NBA Draft Mix. He additionally ended up with a virtually 7-foot-11 wingspan. That measurement, mixed together with his ability and timing, made Edey certainly one of school basketball’s greatest shot-blockers final season.
That ability, plus his skill to manage the glass, is what Edey plans to carry initially into the NBA.
“A crew could be drafting me for who I’m,” Edey mentioned. “I believe I can get there however proper now they’re not drafting me for, like, pick-and-pop shoot 3s. Proper now, they’re drafting me to get within the paint, get rebounds, defend the paint. Clearly, you noticed in my capturing drills I can shoot. I can do stuff like that in case you ask me to.
“Nevertheless it all simply comes right down to what the crew asks me to do on the finish of the day.”
