NBA Draft profiles: It is borderline impossible not to love Jalen Suggs' game and NBA ceiling (College Basketball 06/07)
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
There's still a chance Jalen Suggs could go No. 1 overall in July's NBA Draft. If that happens, it's going to be for the reasons detailed on this 25-minute podcast that evaluates Suggs' story, stats at Gonzaga and NBA projection. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander lay out the case for Suggs to be as immediately impactful as Ja Morant and potentially as valuable as Donovan Mitchell.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Pertius Monday, June 7, 2021. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome back to the CBS Sports Ion College basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss |
| 0:10.7 | camel fighting, Dota Birds and Leaky Black Matt Norlander is here with me and has previously |
| 0:16.0 | noted at least once a week in advance of the 2021 NBA draft. |
| 0:20.0 | That is scheduled for July 29th. |
| 0:21.9 | We're going to be dedicating an episode of the Ion College basketball podcast to a notable |
| 0:25.8 | prospect. |
| 0:26.8 | Same way we did in advance of last year's draft. |
| 0:29.1 | We started the series two weeks ago with a 22 minute profile of Kate Cunningham. |
| 0:33.6 | We follow that with 22 minutes on Evan Mowley and today we will turn our attention to another |
| 0:39.2 | consensus top five pick Gonzaga star Jalen Sucks. |
| 0:43.7 | He's a six foot four lead guard who averaged 14.4 points 5.3 rebounds 4.5 assists and 1.9 |
| 0:50.2 | steals in 28.9 minutes per game for a Gonzaga team that advanced to the title game of the |
| 0:56.4 | NCAA tournament and finished 31 and won a shot 50.3 percent from the field 33.7 percent |
| 1:03.9 | from three and 76.1 percent from the free throw line. |
| 1:06.8 | Every mock draft I've seen has Jalen Sucks in the top five. |
| 1:10.4 | I actually have him going second overall behind only Kate Cunningham team need a side. |
| 1:16.8 | Where are you taking Jalen Sucks in this draft? |
| 1:20.5 | First, second, third or somewhere else. |
| 1:23.9 | For me and I have not released a mock draft yet at CBS. |
| 1:28.3 | Right now this morning, I think I'm taking a second. |
| 1:34.2 | I think we agree. |
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