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College: Kansas
Height: 6'-10"
Weight: 230
Class: Junior
Birth Date: September 24, 1981
Age: 28 years, 138 days old
HomeTown: El Cerrito, CA
NBA Comparison: Antawn Jamison
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| Clutchcity.net Notes on Drew Gooden |
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Drew Gooden is probably the top power forward prospect in the country, earning All American honors at Kansas and was runner-up to National Player of the Year (to Duke's Jason Williams). He improved his scoring average by about 5 points each of his three seasons at Kansas, averaging 19.8 points on 50.4% shooting, 11.4 rebounds, 1.8 steals and 1.5 blocks as a junior at KU. His 1.8 steals put him third in the Big 12, impressive for a big man.
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| Strengths of Drew Gooden |
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Very versatile, talented and athletic. Has a bread-and-butter hook shot and owns good range and a soft touch inside. Has great leaping ability and is an excellent rebounder. Works very hard on his game, as evidenced by his improvement at Kansas. Went from the low 60% mark at the free throw line as a freshman to 75% as a junior. If he bulks up, could become an impact power forward in the league.
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| Weaknesses of Drew Gooden |
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When Gooden came to Kansas he was nicknamed "Hurricane Drew" by coach Roy Williams because he was so unpredictable and undisciplined. While he has improved, he'll still have a game where he'll put up multiple threes. Some say he's cocky and immature, others say just confident. Another concern: Is he a tweener? May not be big enough to play the post and not skilled enough to work on the wing.
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| Gooden on the Rockets? |
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Carroll Dawson was recently quoted as praising Gooden highly, projecting him to be a very strong power forward in the league. Question is: Do the Rockets really need another power forward? Gooden is a good one, but would be in a rotation with Mo Taylor, Eddie Griffin and possibly Kenny Thomas (barring trade), and that wouldn't solve any of the Rockets glaring weaknesses at the three and five.
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| Current 2002 clutchcity.net Draft Profiles |
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Borchardt, Curtis
Butler, Caron
Dunleavy, Mike
Gooden, Drew
Hilario, Maybyner
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Jeffries, Jared
Ming, Yao
Nachbar, Bostjan
Rush, Kareem
Stoudemire, Amare
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Tskitishvili, Nickoloz
Wagner, Dajuan
Wilcox, Chris
Williams, Jay
Woods, Qyntel
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