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One month some distance from the 2021 NBA draft, skill No. 1 overall resolve Cade Cunningham believes his kind of play is paying homage to one of many league’s very top younger gamers.
Displaying on The Ragged Man and the Three podcast, Cunningham explained why his game compares favorably with Luka Doncic (starts at 5: 40 stamp).
“Our body kinds likely resemble each diversified primarily the most, up to now as who I glimpse treasure in the NBA,” he mentioned. “[Luka’s] feature. He’s a indispensable ball-handler. He’s the one kinda making the performs, so that is why I exclaim Luka a bunch.”
Doncic has been a most fashioned player comparison for Cunningham in pre-draft opinions of the Oklahoma Assert superstar.
ESPN NBA draft analyst Mike Schmitz mentioned on The Bounce in March that Cunningham can attain in the case of the whole lot on the offensive cessation that Doncic does:
“Whenever you treasure step-aid threes, 6’8 point guards, 40-point video games, game-winner after game-winner, (Cade is) your guy. He’s the Luka Doncic of faculty basketball while you discuss his positional size, his skill to salvage to his spots. He can rating at all three ranges, he makes everybody around him better.”
B/R’s Jonathan Wasserman has Cunningham ranked as the head prospect in the 2021 draft class, citing his “versatility and positional interchangeability” as his excellent strengths.
Expectations for Cunningham had been off the charts dating aid to his time in excessive college at Montverde Academy. He used to be a 5-superstar recruit and prime-ranked prospect in the 2020 college class by 247Sports composite rankings.
Cunningham absolutely lived as much as the hype in the course of his one season with the Cowboys. He used to be named Gigantic 12 Player of the 365 days after averaging 20.1 components on 40 p.c taking pictures from three-point range, 6.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game in 27 appearances.
