One Shining Podcast: Reevaluating the best freshmen in college basketball
Which top recruits in the class of 2015 have lived up to the hype? Which haven’t? We take a look back at the 5-star prospects in the last recruiting class and discuss their current and future outlooks.
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Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.
The SB Nation College Basketball podcast is back -- now with a new name. In the debut edition of One Shining Podcast, NBC Sports’ Scott Phillips and I reevaluate the recruiting class of 2015. Who has lived up to the hype and who hasn’t? Whose NBA future is the brightest? We run through about 10 of the top prospects and discuss their current and future outlooks.
Topics include:
- Is Ben Simmons the no-brainer No. 1 pick? Can he still be a great NBA player without a jump shot?
- Brandon Ingram is coming on strong at Duke. Could he leap Simmons for the No. 1 pick and exactly how high is his ceiling?
- Why has Skal Labissière struggled? Can the Kentucky big man be better in the NBA than he is in college?
- Is Jaylen Brown a top five pick? Is he everything the NBA is looking for out of a wing if he can develop a jumper?
We also discussed:
- Kansas big man Cheick Diallo
- Maryland center Diamond Stone
- Marquette power forward Henry Ellenson
- Mississippi State shooting guard Malik Newman
- Cal forward Ivan Rabb
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