[don042488Participant]

I feel Miles Plumlee will make a great role player in the NBA…Very rarely you find a player as well coached and prepared from college, with his hops, and hard nosed gritty play…Plumlee reminds me of fomer longtime Net, Aaron “The A Train” Williams…Plumlee would make a good role player on the Heat

[The Scare Crow RisesParticipant]

His name was Kyle Plumtree and he actually has a chance at becoming a longterm rotational big, ublike Miles who probally go late 2nd or undrafted and be bounced out the league by the time his rookie deal expires… 

[TheMOSTHATEDoneParticipant]

Like Thunder´s Collison, Good rebounder and hustle for 15 minutes per game.(too bad his lenght is not good)

Mason will be a lot better, he is more polished offensively, maybe he becomes a starter in the league.

Lets see how their "Little bro Marshal" performs in Duke, he is said to be the biggest and more talented of the Three.

[TallmanNYCParticipant]

 I think Plumlee will make it as a rebounder in the league. Yes, that was pretty much all he could do in college. It depends on how well he defends the post. If his height and hops allow him to defend guys in the post and he continues to crash the offensive boards like he did in college, that will be enough to stick in the league. 

The Plumlees do less with more than just about anyone out there. I suspect there will always be coaches out there that think they will be able to unleash the potential.

I have not heard that Marshall is the most talented. He is a little taller, but I don’t think he is supposed to have gotten the hops that his brothers have. I certainly haven’t seen any dunk videos of him and the older Plumlees made a bunch of those.  

[AKOOParticipant]

Josh McRoberts at best. Mostly D Leaguer and small unknown overseas stops just as possible.

[B-ball fanParticipant]

 I doubt he makes a team.  Would be an offensive liabilty at the NBA level, as he can’t shoot well and is not quite the finisher at the rim that his size/athleticism would suggest.  Also, he isn’t a very good defender.  His only real NBA caliber skills are his ability to rebound and his ability to play within the offense, but I don’t think he has enough talent to make it in the NBA.  I don’t think he would be worthy of anything more than a late 2nd round pick, if that.

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 spurs?

 

[akhan786Participant]

I said this in another thread regarding Miles Plumlee and though I’d love to see him get drafted, I’d caution the team drafting him because Miles has always looked incredibly impressive in practice but when it comes to game time he becomes a different player.

Of course this really seems like a mental block, and if he can get over that hurdle than I think he could be a very serviceable role player and probably a fan favorite to whichever team he goes to.

[TallmanNYCParticipant]

 Just to throw it out there, but as I mentioned in another thread, Chad Ford and other’s tweeted that Miles put up a 41 inch vertical at a workout for the Timberwolves about a week ago. If we hadn’t all watched him accomplish very little in college games over many years, his height, his solid build and his elite hops would make him a first round pick, no question. 

[BothTeamsPlayedHardParticipant]

He had that size and athleticism at Duke too. He is a fringe guy. If he sticks with a team, you just cross your fingers when he gets into the game that he gets more offensive rebounds than fouls and fumbled passes.

[BleedingBlueParticipant]

 Like the others have said, Miles is a hustle guy like Jeff Foster of the Pacers. He plays hard all the time, rebounds and defends the post well, has elite athleticism and finishes strong around the rim. It’s his very limited offensive talent and repertoire that limit his ceiling, he’s an alright mid-range jump shooter (I’ve seen him making nine 15-footer in a row during the shoot-around before a game), but frankly can’t do anything else. He’ll make a roster and survive in the league as a 20min-per-game rotation player, very safe pick in mid second round IMO.

[TomShoeParticipant]

Projection	Second Round Pick/Undrafted
Positives	Physical forward Good athlete Runs the floor well Strong rebounder Excellent motor
Negatives	Raw offensively Inconsistent

 

Duke’s Miles Plumlee didn’t wow anyone in four years at Duke, but he’s generating significant buzz thanks to some great individual workouts and a strong performance in the Minnesota group workout last weekend. 



I see why NBA teams are intrigued. While Plumlee didn’t show particularly well at Duke, he looks terrific in the drills and 5-on-5 settings I saw in Chicago. He’s strong, physical and jumps out of the gym. Duke has been a very perimeter oriented team the past few years and Plumlee rarely had plays called for him. He did his work on the boards, but little else that stood out. 



Part of what is driving the interest is Plumlee’s physical abilities. He measured with a 41-inch vertical in the Minnesota workouts. 



I’ve been collecting pre-draft athletic testing numbers since 2001. The tallest player ever to hit 41 inches or higher was Jamario Moon (at 6-7 3/4). Plumlee measured 6-11 1/4 in Minnesota. 



The highest a player 6-11 or taller has ever jumped in the testing is 38 1/2 inches by Steven Hunter back in 2001. 



Clearly your vertical jump doesn’t determine whether you’ll be a great NBA player. But factor in Plumlee’s size, NBA body and toughness on the boards and a number of GMs are convinced he could be an athletic rebounder and shot blocker off the bench for them in the mold of Jeff Foster. 

 

[uknationParticipant]

Probably will get drafted. It still baffles me how scouts and fans go ga ga over players when they are great athletes but very little skills

[TallmanNYCParticipant]

 Bleeding Blue and TomShoe, very good points. I think it is funny for Hollinger to call Plumlee "raw" offensively, because that implies that he just needs more experience and training to learn those offensive moves. One would think that at after four years in a top D1 school playing for a top coach he has had every chance to learn skills. I think what we have seen is about what we get going forward. 

But another good point is that the 41 inch jump is off the charts. Anytime you can do a major athletic thing better than ANYONE has ever done it, that has to get people’s attention. No one Plumlee’s height has ever jumped as high as him (if that combine result is to be believed). 

I think Plumlee is a very safe second round pick. Despite the frustration of watching him do so very little in college games, I think he will be able to stick in the league because of his athleticism. Remember, you don’t really need your center to score. Perkins doesn’t score and the Thunder are in the finals. Udonis Haslem doesn’t have a post game and he will be matching up with Perkins. 

Most second rounders don’t stick in the league. If Plumlee can be a back up Center (with Center being hardest position to fill) that will more than satisfy a team drafting him in the second round. 

Remember, Kwame Brown got paid $10 million last year. Centers get graded on a different curve from the other positions. 

[Sewok15Participant]

He has got size and athleticism so he will at least get a chance. He reminds me of Lou Amoundson of the Pacers.

[JoeWolf1]

 He’s a low Bball IQ player, and I doubt he’ll ever have the impact of a smarter player like Collison, but I don’t doubt his physical ability will allow him to rebound at the next level.  Like BTPH said, though, he’s gonna foul because he doesn’t have a great grasp on the game.

I’d roll the dice on him at the end of the 2nd.  I’ve read articles where NBA execs see Jeff Foster in him and are hoping he can make that kind of impact, but even if he can’t, he’s a huge, physical athlete who works his butt off.  Guys like that can sit on the end of your bench, play at the end of blowouts, make your 1st and 2nd string big men better every day in practice and have a long career doing so.

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