NBA Draft: Utah's Bogut Turning Heads

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Andrew Bogut lets fly a three-pointer just before the shot-clock buzzer. As the ball goes through the net, NBA scouts begin writing down comments and whispering back and forth.

    One writes, "Nice touch." Another comments on his solid range.
    Of course, there is a dissenter in every group.

    "I don't like his shot," an NBA general manager says. "He's got a hitch."

    So does that mean the general manager is down on Bogut, a 7-foot Utah sophomore center who might be the top pick in June's NBA draft?

    Hardly.

    "I'd love to have him on my team so I can work on his shot," he says.

    That is the thing about scouts. They dissect prospects to no end. They find flaws even in players they really like.

    I spent Thursday at the Pepsi Center sitting in a row of seats with 10 NBA scouts. Two of them, the aforementioned general manager and a scout from another team, offered running commentary about Bogut during Utah's 62-49 win against Colorado State in the first round of the Mountain West Conference tournament. </div> Source
     

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