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High-tech Basketball Could Help You Handle Like The Pros

There's no doubt in Wednesday's game you'll see some incredible shooting, but if you look closely, you'll also see something else -- ball handling. Now there's a smart basketball that'll teach you to dribble like the pros.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- There's no doubt in Wednesday's game you'll see some incredible shooting, but if you look closely, you'll also see something else -- ball handling. Now there's a smart basketball that'll teach you to dribble like the pros.

It seems like Steph Curry can shoot from anywhere and get nothing but net, but what he does before the shot is just as impressive.

"You can't go anywhere, you can't create any type of space between yourself and a defender if you can't handle the basketball," said Britnea Moore, a basketball skills mentor.

That's why when Moore coaches young athletes, she begins every workout with ball handling. And now she has some high-tech help from a smart basketball called Dribble-Up.

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Dribble Handoff: Picking The Best Senior College Basketball Players In ...

The NBA Draft is coming up next week, and as always, the event will result in the extraction of some elite young talent from college basketball as a fresh crop of one-and-done stars like Cade Cunningham and Jalen Suggs hear their names called by NBA commissioner Adam Silver. However, there might be a few college players selected who will actually be able to (legally) raise a glass of champagne in celebration.

It's rare that players with four years of college experience sneak into the lottery, but there are usually a handful of seniors who end up getting drafted and making an impact in the NBA. One of those recent impact seniors has been showcasing his game this month with Suns forward Cam Johnson playing a key role for Phoenix during its run to the NBA Finals in just his second year as a pro after a five-year college career. 

More recently, Desmond Bane of the Grizzlies and Payton Pritchard of the Celtics turned in solid rookie seasons this year after playing four seasons of college ball. So who is the four-year (or more) college player from this season's draft class who will have the best NBA career? Our writers weighed in on the topic for this week's edition of the dribble handoff.

Chris Duarte, Oregon

I'm not certain where Duarte will be selected next week -- maybe the late lottery, perhaps just outside of that, possibly in the 20s. But here's my prediction: he'll be one of the 10 best rookies next season and, yes, he'll have the best career of any four-year college player from the 2021 NBA Draft. The 6-6 guard was the National Junior College Player of the Year before enrolling at Oregon, where he led Dana Altman's program to back-to-back outright Pac-12 titles. As a senior, Duarte averaged 17.1 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.7 assists while shooting 53.2% from the field, 42.4% from 3 and 81.0% from the free throw line. I know some front offices might be bothered by the fact that he's already 24 years old, which is more than four years older than presumed No. 1 overall pick Cade Cunningham, but I'm genuinely not because all that suggests is that Duarte is ready to plug-and-play from the jump. If I'm a contender looking for a piece who can help immediately, this is somebody I'm targeting and happy to add to my franchise. -- Gary Parrish

Corey Kispert, Gonzaga

Our Dribble Handoff normally has us providing four different answers for the question at hand, but as you'll see in this edition, we had to double up. Kispert seems obviously best-positioned to have the most successful and long-lasting NBA career of any senior entering the draft. He improved as a basketball player with each season while at Gonzaga -- you know, the way this sort of thing used to happen 25 years ago -- and was part of a program that posted a 127-12 record during his time there. His career numbers: 82.4% foul shooter, 58.5% from 2-point range, 40.8% beyond the arc on a collective 1,399 attempts. 

We have ample evidence to suggest that the 6-6 Kispert is good enough to stick in the league as a spot-up shooter. He has the size, the form, is great off the catch and will have the range. His floor is among the very best of any prospect in this draft, and I expect him to play at least 10 years in the NBA. -- Matt Norlander

Corey Kispert, Gonzaga

I scanned the list of seniors in the draft and couldn't prevent from echoing Norlander's response. Kispert's an NBA-ready shooter primed for a long career. He made 43.8% of his 3s two seasons ago at Gonzaga on 178 then backed up the outside shooting prowess again by making 44% of his 3s on 207 attempts as a senior on a Gonzaga team that lost once all season. 

His ability to take a high volume of outside shots and make them at an elite clip makes him one of the most coveted seniors in this draft class, and he is the one I feel most confident projecting to have the best career among the peers in his same classification. -- Kyle Boone

M.J. Walker, Florida State

After a promising second season in the NBA, former four-year Florida State guard Terance Mann looks like a solid building block for the Clippers, but you might not have predicted that outcome when he was drafted 48th overall in 2019. Mann shot just 32.7% from 3-point range for his career at FSU, and although he raised that mark to 39% as a senior, he flew under the radar partially because of the system from which he came.

Florida State rarely produces flashy superstars with gaudy statistics or over-the-top personalities. Instead, the Seminoles have become one of college basketball's top programs under Leonard Hamilton by prioritizing defense, hustle and unselfishness on the offensive end. That's why M.J. Walker has staying power in the NBA, despite landing at just No. 56 on the latest CBS Sports NBA Draft Big Board. At 6-foot-5, he aligns with Mann both in terms of frame and game.

While his offensive game inside the arc is less efficient than Mann's, Walker shot it better from the outside (42.3% in 2020-21) at FSU and has a better wingspan. Like Mann, Walker is defensively indoctrinated by Hamilton and has a high floor on that end. Mann has managed to become a solid 3-and-D wing at the next level, and Walker looks like he could do it just as well, if not better. -- David Cobb

Dribble Handoff: How Successful Will The 2020-21 College Basketball ...

Now that we know college basketball will start on Nov. 25, we can turn our attention to what it will actually look like. It's unlikely that a COVID-19 vaccine will be widely available by then, but perhaps testing advancements will be in place that can allow the sport to avoid the disruptions that have plagued the beginning of college football season.

If not, the complications that stem from contract-tracing could begin to wreak havoc on the hopes of the sport staging a somewhat normal nonconference slate that includes multi-team events. Speaking of testing, will lower-tier programs and leagues be able to afford the thousands of tests that will likely be necessary to complete a season? A potential lack of uniformity in health regulations is one reason why there is chatter about some power conferences staging league-only seasons. It's been recommended by the NCAA Tournament committee that teams play a minimum of four nonconference games. But that's not a requirement. 

So will some conferences wind up taking a reclusive route and punt on nonconference games altogether? We'll see. It's one possibility that our writers weighed as they responded to the prompt for this week's dribble handoff: "How successful will the college basketball season be?"

Matt Norlander

OK, so we've got our start date. Dan Gavitt told me Wednesday that it's an "aspirational" goal. We also discussed the inherent challenges this season will bring, including the certainty -- not likelihood, certainty -- that college basketball will face a rash of delays and postponements just the way college football has. That sport has far fewer games but we've already seen more than a dozen matchups affected in the first three weekends of play. So let's calibrate our expectations for college hoops and understand that it's going to be a situation where we lose games on a weekly basis.

The question is how many. 

And if the season can truly start Nov. 25. 

I remain optimistic on that front. I think we're going to get there, but as Gavitt noted, if the testing affordability and availability is not as such a point come November where most of the small-conference schools can afford it, we could have the season pushed back. The maximum number of games is 27. The minimum allowed for eligibility for the NCAA Tournament is 13. So here's my level of expectation: I don't think we'll see one team play 27 regular season games. There are 357 Division I teams, and my estimate is that the average team plays 21 or 22 games next season. And to be clear, that's the objective and hope and goal for college basketball's powers-that-be as well. By no means is anyone thinking that most teams are going to complete their schedules. Nonconference scheduling in and of itself is already a quagmire. But I do think we'll have a season and that it will start on Nov. 25 with some patchwork efforts. League play should be much more reliable -- and flexible -- and I'll throw one more guess out here: in a normal college basketball season we have about 2,000 nonconference games. In 2020-21, I'm setting the over/under at 1,000. 

Kyle Boone

I expect this season will be moderately successful in terms of how it will be conducted and how many fits and starts it may go through. It won't be an impenetrable season virus-free like the NBA's bubble -- I expect some disruptions along the way -- but I also don't think it will crash to a screeching halt and meet the same fate as last year's college basketball season. Even if there are disruptions, postponements and cancellations, it won't entirely derail the season. As we've already seen with college football, those who test positive are quarantined, contact tracing is conducted, and a lengthy process is enacted to ensure outbreaks are kept to a minimum. And because it is on a much smaller scale, college hoops has a chance to be far more successful, I'd argue, than college football. Games played will vary dependent upon outbreaks, but if the maximum is 27 and the minimum is 13, I'd handicap it right in the middle and say, on average, teams will play about 20 games this season.

David Cobb

College basketball can hobble through a disjointed schedule and make it through OK as long as the NCAA Tournament goes well. Given how much is as stake with this year's tournament from a financial standpoint, you can bet it will be a well-done event -- with or without fans. If anything, the potential lack of uniformity during the regular season will make the Big Dance even more unpredictable, which will make it especially memorable.

The NCAA Tournament selection committee's job will be especially perilous, however, as the nonconference slate could devolve into a disjointed mess. But if that happens, it doesn't necessarily mean the sport will be in a crisis. Sports fans will be distracted by college football, the NFL, an NBA season that is starting later than usual and the aftermath of a presidential election that is sure to bring controversy. So as long as the powerful conferences are able to regroup and play normal-ish league slates -- and they should be able to with testing advancements -- and the other leagues can at least hold conference tournaments to determine who receives at-large bids, the NCAA Tournament should proceed with some degree of normalcy. If a champion is crowned and One Shining Moment is played after a 64 or 68-team NCAA Tournament, that will mean college basketball staged a successful 2020-21 season.

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