Bruce Pearl is concerned about how Chet Holmgren will hold up in the NBA
Jabari Smith and Chet Holmgren are widely projected to be the top-two picks in the NBA draft tonight, but one of those players’s coaches doesn’t think the choice is close.
Auburn coach Bruce Pearl, who coached Smith this year, is concerned about how Holmgren will hold up in the NBA. TheErik Hall of the Montgomery Advertiser . “And that body scares me. It just does. He goes knee-to-knee with the wrong guy, and he could get broken in half. Therefore at the very top of the draft, I think I got to go with what I know, not what could potentially could maybe someday be.”
Pearl compared Holmgren to former NBA center Shawn Bradley, who was a solid NBA player but never an All-Star selection.
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