Few thoughts where I disagree.
1. I believe this is good for college hoops to have a recognizable player back for another season.
2. The NBA and college game couldn't be more different. In the pros, it's all about space whether through creating space on offense via ball movement, 3 point shooting or attacking matchups in space. Edey occupies a ton of space but his game does not translate to an entire league built on capitalizing on beating people in space.
3. Unless you're an absurdly gifted athlete, you've got no shot in today's NBA being that tall and immobile. They'd run him out of the league like they have nearly every other non-insanely mobile big man. If he were in a playoff game, the opponent would run pick and roll every single possession until they got Edey against the matchup they wanted. If they don't switch, they get burned on a wide open 3. If they do switch, he's gonna get beat in a 1 on 1 matchup a large majority of the time. Barring a drastic improvement in foot speed, he's unplayable the second it comes time to the playoffs.
4. He'll probably play a lot of years overseas and may stick on a roster as an end of bench guy if he's a good teammate. I'd be stunned if he did anything of substance at the next level, it's just an entirely different game that relentlessly attacks big guys off the floor.
5. Currently, Jokic, Kevon Looney (Warriors), and Robert Williams (Celtics) are about the only playable centers in the league at this point for the playoffs. Anthony Davis is a reluctant playoff center but spends the majority of his time at power forward so I don't really count him. There just aren't that many guys so teams are going to prioritize trying to develop guys that can be playable in the postseason. Edey's limitations are entirely physical and I don't think he's a good enough offensive player to overcome the weakness of his defense in space.
