<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">There always seems to be a late bloomer in NBA drafts, and we have one this year in soon-to-be 19-year-old Peter John Ramos from Puerto Rico. He's 7 feet 3 inches, weighs around 275 pounds, and plays in Puerto Rico's Superior League for Caguas Criollos.</div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">But before that, there's the NBA draft, and this guy is rising faster than Fantasia on "American Idol." Ramos already has declared for the draft and one NBA executive, who has seen him only on film, suggested Ramos would be a top-five pick. Half a dozen NBA scouts were in Puerto Rico Friday night to see the kid in the flesh. "I'm getting incredible feedback," said Andrew Vye, who represents Ramos through Steve Kauffman's group. "If the draft were tomorrow, he'd probably be a mid first-round pick. But the draft is not tomorrow."</div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Bayno is with the kid in Puerto Rico and has told Kauffman that he thinks Ramos is a superior candidate to 7-5 Russian hulk Pavel Podkolzine, whom Bayno worked out in Chicago last year and some feel is a lottery pick this year. Most NBA scouts got a look at Ramos last summer at the World Junior Games in Athens, where he averaged 11 points, 11.5 rebounds, and 2.3 blocks a game. But Vye said Ramos is a completely different player now (read: much better) and that "everything the kid can't do is teachable. He's coordinated. He's fast</div> He's fanatic about Philly
I can't think of a draft that has had this many high risk/high reward big men that could potentially be taken in the top 15 picks. Podkolzine Perovic Ramos and potentially Samardzski are all well over 7 feet, very young, very raw, and all potetentially dominant. I can't see all of them being successful, my guess is that 2 pan out and 2 don't, but still, when was the last time two great centers came out of the same draft. Then you have a bunch of kids that can grow an inch or two and become dominant 7 footers as well: Howard Biedrins Splitter This may go down (but probably won't for at least 5 years) as one of the greatest big man drafts of all time. As for Ramos specifically, who knows, the majority of the lottery picks are going to be taken on potential, not productivity, and a player's potential is really in the eye of the beholder. The one thing he's got on every other big man but Podkolzine is the mass to be an immovable object down low, even though he isn't supposed to be as strong as Podkolzine yet. I'm really getting hyped for this draft.
Draftcity has him going to the Celtics at #15. He's kinda scary in that he's 7'4" and 280 plus and has only been playing organized basketball for about 4-5 years now. I'd say Potential is the earmark on this guy.
^ReRun, are you saying with complete authority that Dwight Howard, the 18 year old kid who is 6-11 right now is incapable of ever growing another inch? okay...uhh...could you give me next week's lotto numbers?
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">^ReRun, are you saying with complete authority that Dwight Howard, the 18 year old kid who is 6-11 right now is incapable of ever growing another inch? okay...uhh...could you give me next week's lotto numbers? </div>
this is a good fella this is a potencial good NBa center PETER JOHN RAMOS y arriba latinoamerica brothers
