Yeah he's coming along quiet nicely. People crying about the state of the wizards now but honestly we are just waiting on guys like these and future picks to come into their own. I think Bilal was 6 foot 7 without shoes before the combine. 199 cms I think according to the video. So it was always funny that he was listed as 6 6... But now ESPN has him at 6 8. And you can see he's slightly shorter than Deni and Kuz.
I went down the rabbit whole of looking at this year's draft picks and then looking at former small forwards in the league and what they did their rookie year. Guys like Bron ,Tatum, KD and Luka were historic. But the rest of the guys like Tmac, Paul George, Kawhi, Middleton, Klay, mikal you name it were roughly worse or on the same level as Bilal..he's on course. Infact he's more than on course
His appeal was what you can get if you work on him but really his appeal was he improved so rapidly playing in the french league it was night and day between when they first laid eyes on him..
And here we are.. did not expect him to shoot so well from three right away. Most of the guys mentioned struggled. Look at the rookies this year. B Miller, Ausar, scoot.. all not good percentages from three though small sample size. So far he's in top five rookies this season with Wemby having an historic season, chet, Ausar who is amazing defender and rebounder averaging a double double , and B Miller averaging 13 points.
Scoot and Amen are hurt but didn't have good showing
All while being about a year and a half younger than these other dudes and still growing physically.
I love when he and Deni are playing together because that defense is really good and they are both becoming two way players and fit the model of the type of players we want.
Brian Keefe is gonna make him special.
I'm curious as to who we gonna draft next year.. and then also alot of players are expiring. So I'm curious what trades we'll make when the time comes.