Honestly, we’d never heard of Eddie Links before. Great name, but we hadn’t heard of him.
He advertises himself as a “High level Ball Knower,” and maybe he is. But what he says about Cayden Boozer seems really wrong.
There’s no question that Cameron and Cayden are on different tracks. Cameron is much taller, 6-9 to Cayden’s 6-4, and he’s a Top 3 pick, at a minimum, in the upcoming NBA Draft.
Cayden is coming off the bench as Duke’s backup point guard, and he’s become a key part of the team.
Eddie Links
says this about him: “Cayden Boozer should be at a D3 averaging 20 points per game.”
Well, no.
Boozer is getting 20.4 mpg for the #1 team in the nation. The suggestion that he should be in D3 is ridiculous on that basis alone.
His stats are modest: he’s getting 6.5 ppg, 2 rebounds, and 2.9 assists. Not everything is measured by stats, or at least not the easily available ones.
What we really like about Boozer is that he makes winning plays. Not only that, he tends to make them at the right time.
To be clear we’re not saying that he takes the final shot. That’s mostly going to fall to Cameron or Isaiah Evans.
What we’ve seen, though, is that when the pressure is on in a close game, Cayden is often on the floor. He’s trusted. And he makes the right pass. He gets a rebound. He hits a shot that blunts a rally.
Like Cameron, Cayden just understands winning.
You can recruit for a lot of things – rebounding, scoring, defense – whatever. And you can find guys who fit into a winning culture. But it’s pretty rare to find people who just understand winning.
Both Boozers get this, which is a big part of what makes them so valuable.
The idea that a guy who’s getting 20 minutes for the #1 team, who is consistently in the game at key moments, the idea that that guy is a D3 player…well, it makes it hard to take the “High-Level” stuff seriously.
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