The all-time Big East NBA mock draft

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Sleepy Floyd

PG, Georgetown

No. 13 overall pick in 1982

1981-82 Georgetown stats (Senior): 16.7 points, 3.4 rebounds, 2.7 assists per game (Lost national championship to UNC)

Floyd is a tantalizing player whose skill set potentially translates better today than it did in the 1980s. Primarily, this is because Floyd had one of college basketball’s more aesthetically pleasing and deadly mid-range jumpers in the early 80s, when the college game still hadn’t adopted the 3-point line. A brilliant catch-and-shoot option and off-the-dribble scorer, it’s really interesting to ponder how having today’s fully weaponized 3-point line from the jump might have changed the calculus of his career. As it stands he hit 32.7 percent from 3 for his NBA career (including 37.6 percent on over 500 attempts in 1989 and 1990).

Floyd could have gone either way as a prospect, which is somewhat how his career played out. He was very streaky for the Hoyas, delivering stretches of lights-out shooting and mixing that with stretches of disappearances. He didn’t get to the rim often, mostly due to his lack of a strong quick first step. This made him somewhat over-reliant on his jumper. He also was known to coast defensively, although his physical tools did set the bar at a relatively high level. Put Floyd in today’s game and he could be a Damian Lillard/Jeff Teague hybrid, a solid pull-up creator with decent vision and foul-drawing capacity. However, it’s also easy to see him going the way of Trey Burke, a shot-maker who can’t make shots consistently and doesn’t bring much else.