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[omahen]

I went to the Mav's/Pelican's game a couple weeks ago.  He's the real deal.

Of course he is still very young and can improve a lot, but I was not so impressed. He is definitely gifted offensively, but he can't shoot threes (11% on less than 1 attempt per game) and is undersized for a center (plays PF). He is also a bad defender, I think both at C (not big enough) and PF (not quick enough) position. 

NO has several "issues" with him now. On a positive side. He is very similar profile as Zion - scoring PF who can't/doesn't shoot and is iffy on defense. While Zion is better offensively, he is also constantly injured. Quinn enables them to close the Zion chapter. Based on the assets they paid for him, it makes little sense to play him behind Zion. 

On the downside, thinking about building a contender with Quinn as one of the pieces. While he is gifted offensively, I doubt he can be so good to be a franchise offensive cornerstone (for a contender). Can he be a beta? I think this is a minimum for teams to accept his iffy defense. Otherwise, he is sixth man or less, imho. Thinking of him, he gives me a lot of John Collins vibes (he also couln't shoot in his rookie season). He can put up great numbers on bad teams, but can't really be a part of a contender level team. These kind of players (basically undersized non-shooting centers) are so difficult to build around, imho. You would need to find him a rim protecting big on defense, who shoots threes on offense.