2024 Prospect Highlight: Alex Sarr

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Need to get him on a muscle building regime.

and some southern cooking.

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How deep are we ready to go into the A Sarr rabbit hole?

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Alex Sarr vs G-League Ignite kids last Fall:

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He will be our pick.

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[atlantabbq99]

I'm still worried this could be a Oden/Durant situation or Ayton/Luka situation, but the more i think about it, if Sarr can just be a 7'1 John Collins with better defense, then this should work

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I mention this on another board, but with Sarr now, the Hawks don't need to trade Okongwu. OO and Sarr would be a perfect pair

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You guys expect that Alex Sarr could give this same type of contribution off the bench next season...in Atlanta?

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Preach!!!

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[jayu70]

Preach!!!

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Exactly.
Whether we picked at 1, 5 or 10....it still required making changes to improve the existing roster.
Lucking into 1 should be looked as a found 'money'

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John Hollinger’s Top 20 prospects list



5. Alex Sarr

The National Basketball League is improving every year, but it’s still weak sauce compared to most of the European leagues, so I’m slowing my roll a bit on the Sarr enthusiasm relative to most of my colleagues. He had a good, but not dominant year for Perth, and watching him in person before the season raised questions regarding his offensive level.

That said, Sarr is a switchable defender on the perimeter for day one. His defense might be the most bankable skill set in this whole draft. He flies up and down the court, slides his feet to contain guards on the perimeter, gets his hands on balls and can protect the rim. In his first year Down Under, he led the NBL in block rate. He did it with a remarkably low foul rate for a big man, too, with just 41 personals in 30 games.

If you’re looking for physicality on top of that package, you have perhaps come to the wrong place. Sarr will undoubtedly improve in this phase as his body fills out, and the extreme physicality of the NBL may have highlighted this weakness a bit more than other environments. However, a 13.3 percent rebound rate from a 7-1 center is sad-trombone stuff and a good indication of his deficits here. (By comparison, Ariel Hukporti, a meh 7-footer who will likely be picked late in the second round, had a 21.6 percent rebound rate in the same league.)

Sarr’s lack of physicality arrives over the offensive end, where he has no post game to speak of. He tries to make up for it with 3-point shooting and play from the elbows, but he’s still not NBA-caliber in these realms. He tends to dribble himself into trouble when he puts it on the floor more than once, and his 3-point shot has a sidespin on it that makes it difficult to trust. (He shot 27.6 percent from 3 and 70.7 percent from the line in Australia.)

He could perhaps contribute more profitably as a rim runner, especially since he already seems to make decent decisions out of short-roll situations — an even assist-turnover rate from an 18-year-old center is nothing to sneeze at.

However, that takes us to another issue that has me a bit lower on Sarr than consensus: I don’t totally trust his hands. His rebound rate isn’t low just from a lack of physicality; he also was phenomenally unable to pull down contested boards in traffic, especially with one hand. Sarr’s defense alone makes him a notable prospect in this draft, but his offensive shortcomings are too limiting for me to place him at the top of the board.

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John Hollinger’s Top 20 prospects list



5. Alex Sarr

The National Basketball League is improving every year, but it’s still weak sauce compared to most of the European leagues, so I’m slowing my roll a bit on the Sarr enthusiasm relative to most of my colleagues. He had a good, but not dominant year for Perth, and watching him in person before the season raised questions regarding his offensive level.

That said, Sarr is a switchable defender on the perimeter for day one. His defense might be the most bankable skill set in this whole draft. He flies up and down the court, slides his feet to contain guards on the perimeter, gets his hands on balls and can protect the rim. In his first year Down Under, he led the NBL in block rate. He did it with a remarkably low foul rate for a big man, too, with just 41 personals in 30 games.

If you’re looking for physicality on top of that package, you have perhaps come to the wrong place. Sarr will undoubtedly improve in this phase as his body fills out, and the extreme physicality of the NBL may have highlighted this weakness a bit more than other environments. However, a 13.3 percent rebound rate from a 7-1 center is sad-trombone stuff and a good indication of his deficits here. (By comparison, Ariel Hukporti, a meh 7-footer who will likely be picked late in the second round, had a 21.6 percent rebound rate in the same league.)

Sarr’s lack of physicality arrives over the offensive end, where he has no post game to speak of. He tries to make up for it with 3-point shooting and play from the elbows, but he’s still not NBA-caliber in these realms. He tends to dribble himself into trouble when he puts it on the floor more than once, and his 3-point shot has a sidespin on it that makes it difficult to trust. (He shot 27.6 percent from 3 and 70.7 percent from the line in Australia.)

He could perhaps contribute more profitably as a rim runner, especially since he already seems to make decent decisions out of short-roll situations — an even assist-turnover rate from an 18-year-old center is nothing to sneeze at.

However, that takes us to another issue that has me a bit lower on Sarr than consensus: I don’t totally trust his hands. His rebound rate isn’t low just from a lack of physicality; he also was phenomenally unable to pull down contested boards in traffic, especially with one hand. Sarr’s defense alone makes him a notable prospect in this draft, but his offensive shortcomings are too limiting for me to place him at the top of the board.

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Hollinger: "I don't like Sarr because he is weak offensively"
Also, Hollinger: "My #1 is a wing who can't hit the 3-ball".

[jayu70]

Can Sarr be our Tyson Chandler (prev #2 pick). Focus on his defensive strengths to start while working on his offense.

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You guys expect that Alex Sarr could give this same type of contribution off the bench next season...in Atlanta?

My expectations are much higher.
I expect any #1 pick to be top 2 in rookie of the year.

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