The All-March Traffar Seam: Top NBA Draft prospects that were neglected at the NCAA tournament

March Madness should be winners, but for NBA scouts it is also about what we learn from the boys who go home early. Some flames. Others show flashes before their teams are neglected. But the tournament can come into the good and bad insights into what will come.

So let’s build an all-march travice team with five starters and two reserves. From microwave goal shooters with tunnels vision to lottery pushes, which we have learned through seven prospects on the largest stage of the college basketball.

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There is a moment in my brain that crystallizes the concern with Tre Johnson’s NBA. Late in Texas’ first four defeat against Xavier, still on the shooting clock with 17 seconds, Johnson closed his husband and started a highly competitive fall. Xavier grabbed his board, fired a sockets over Johnson’s head, and seconds later he fouled the Breakaway goalkeeper for one and one and one that had buried Texas. It was a trailer for all concerns that scouts had about Johnson: irregular firing selection, shaky decision -making and a fired defense engine.

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And yet I can’t forget the heights. Yes, he makes bad shots, but he makes many of them. When you come from screens, pull up, steps and 3 lean. It doesn’t matter. He is a microwave car that is trapped in Rodney Terry’s unfounded Texas offense. It is difficult to accuse a man that he tried to create his own spark when the system does not give him anything.

Johnson could be another shot-maker archetype-Büsten brochure such as The Oj Mayo, Shabazz Muhammad and Dion Waiter’s types that came in front of him. But then you see the flashes. The moments when he makes the right reading. The possessions in which he intervenes in defense. The emotional swings – his joy when things are going well, his frustration, if they don’t – indicate a player who takes care of it. And that could mean that there is more to use to make him a success story like Jamal Murray, Devin Booker or Jayson Tatum. But without a stable structure and good veterinarians, the habits that held him back in Texas could only be those who define him.

I can’t imagine what it was like to get in the mood for a Baylor game and to see VJ Edgecompbe for the first time. You would see how he hurts from a handover to the color and looks like an NBA all-star that was turned into a college team. But then they would see in the next 10 minutes and see how he stands in the corner and waiting for the ball to come to him and wonder what happened to this damn athlete you have just seen.

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However, this is the EDGOMBE experience. Too often, he does not assert himself and instead fades into the background. Will this be a trend that is developing? Or is this a good soldier who is in line behind a few teammates of the high school students? In any case, it is a bit worrying that Edgecompbe took no major control in the biggest games of the season or that his head coach was not even asked to be the man. We know so much about what Edgecomb can do, especially if his downhill attack, drawn fouls and some strong defensive stops against the state Mississippi. But his firing creation was limited all the season and he could not convey it to Duke in a 23-point defeat.

Perhaps things would have been different if Cooper Flag had decided to visit Connecticut instead of duke. Without him, McNeeley was forced into a role for the huskies. But he would be better to play in a role in the Klay Thompson style-other things, to give the ground and make quick decisions as a secondary option.

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But March wasn’t nice. He missed 18 of his last 21 3 points and only went 11 out of 28 to two. For a man charged as a shooter, the shots did not fall when the lights became brighter.

That means it was still a productive year. McNeeley showed a real value as a large wing with shooting, link and versatility. He moves the ball, he knows where to be and his shot mechanics are clean. But there is not the fact that many of these bricks came against the kind of athletes late season that he will see in the NBA every night. And that’s the part that lingers.

March Madness was a success for Clifford as an individual. He looked ready to step on an NBA floor today by showing his defense versatility, struggling through screens, turning from the ball and cutting two passes. And on the offensive, he had a positive effect by scoring on the edge and hurling the ball with 12 templates in two games around the floor.

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At the end of a game in the second round, he exaggerated a Bullseye pass that brought the state of Colorado in the lead before Derik Queen met the other end with a Summer Theater to win it for Maryland.