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[khaled1987]

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.

His draft measurements is 6'9.25 barefoot, 6'10.5 in shoes, 7'0.5 wingspan, 9'1.5 standing reach while being almost 250 lb, those are Jokic and AD numbers with identical height to AD entering the draft, 0.5 inch shorter than Jokic, shorter wingspan than both with higher standing reach. 

It will come down to talent and improvements, as always. Turning into the Batman or even a Rubin in contender is always the outlier, considering the amount of talents in the NBA, but he surely has a lot of talent

[Chicagojk]

His draft measurements is 6'9.25 barefoot, 6'10.5 in shoes, 7'0.5 wingspan, 9'1.5 standing reach while being almost 250 lb, those are Jokic and AD numbers with identical height to AD entering the draft, 0.5 inch shorter than Jokic, shorter wingspan than both with higher standing reach. 

It will come down to talent and improvements, as always. Turning into the Batman or even a Rubin in contender is always the outlier, considering the amount of talents in the NBA, but he surely has a lot of talent

I think Queen is really fun.  I think he has been good too.  I do agree that his match is tricky for good teams.    It can be done but it is not a plug and play as a lot of players.   You really need the right front court players to hide his weaknesses and play to his strengths.    I think especially in a playoff series.   I had some similar thoughts of Senguin though.  Senguin grew a little but he made himself into a much more well rounded player while keeping his strengths.    We will see.