Rating the Top Points Guards in the Upcoming NBA Draft

Now that the NBA season is over and there’s no more NBA basketball betting to be done, it’s time to switch our focus to the NBA draft. If you’ve been following the lead-up to the NBA draft, you’ve probably figured out that there is quite a point guard battle brewing between Brandon Jennings, Jonny Flynn, Stephen Curry, Jrue Holiday and Ricky Rubio. While Jennings, Flynn, Holiday and Curry actually battle each other on the court, Ricky Rubio chooses to do individual workouts and let absolutely no one know how good he would be against NBA caliber guards. (Brandon Jennings has an idea)

The Angry T’s scouting staff has seen each of these players play and it’s time we broke down their respective games.  Of course, we won’t do this in the traditional sense, because it just isn’t as exciting.  We are going to compare these players to equally fit, trim and explosive athletes. Yes, you guessed correctly, we’re comparing them to the hot chicks on the recently finished Real World / Road Rules Challege: The Duel.

Brandon Jennings – Jennings is a great athlete with great quickness and passing ability. He’s also solid on the defensive end, despite being very thin. Jennings traveled to Italy after college to get in a year of seasoning before declaring for the NBA draft.  The jury is out on whether that was a good decision or not because he struggled in a system that didn’t compliment his abilities at Virtus Roma.

Real World Counterpart: Kimberly – Also slight, also athletic.  Jennings, like Kimberly, is a raw talent.

Stephen Curry - The polished scorer is a questionable point guard prospect at this point in his career.  He racked up a lot of assists in his junior season with Davidson, but it’s hard to not atrribute  many of those dimes to the amount of time he had the ball in his hands and how much attention the opposing defenses were paying to him.

Real World Counterpart: By far, the most questionable of the females was Jenn.  No one was quite sure whether she was a lesbian or not when she was on the Real World and I’m still a bit confused after this duel.  I imagine she shares my confusion.

Jrue Holiday – Another great athlete who excels on the defensive end.  He’s also more combo than point with his ability to score and developing jump shot.

Real World Counterpart - Paula – Paula attempted to play defense the entire time she was on the show by hanging all over Dunbar.  Unfortunately for her, the dude ended up making out with a very lesbian and very unattractive Aneesa and Kimberly ahead of her.

Jonny Flynn- Flynn has just about everything you could want in a point guard, except for size.  He’s probably closer to 5′10″ than he is to 6′ and while he is strong, he’ll need to get stronger in the league.  He’s still my favorite prospect in this entire draft because of his rare athleticism at the PG position.

Real World Counterpart: Diem – She couldn’t match the bulk of the eventual winner, Rachel.  Her litheness helped her until the final duel, where she was overwhelmed by a stronger Brittini.

Ricky Rubio - Ricky’s the belle of the ball in terms of point guard talent in this draft according to NBA scouts.  He’s a big point guard with great passing ability. He’s an adequate shooter from 2 and 3 and at 18, he obviously has a lot of time to improve. Most impressive to me was the fact that  he never looked overwhelmed or intimidated in the gold medal game against the United States.

Real World Counterpart – Rachel – She won The Duel, similar to how Ricky will probably win the race off the draft board among these talented guards.  She also made out a bunch with Jenn, and I’m not sure how that translates to Ricky, but it was kind of hot.

Analysis with capital A baby.

The Angry T

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