The top 16 wings for the 2024-25 men's college basketball season, ranked by Andy Katz
Andy Katz ranks his top 16 wings heading into the 2024-25 men's college basketball season.
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To me it seems Katz is just putting anyone projected to start at the 3 or the 4 as a wing. I think Cooper is pretty objectively a wing though.Katz is usually pretty good, and very pro-Pikiell and RU.
I have just 2 very small quibbles (having nothing to do with bailey - well sort of):
1) Dawson Garcia is really a stretch 4, not a Wing.
2) Not as certain as Garcia, but Flagg, in my opinion, having seen him play quite a bit in the All Star circuit, is very likely a stretch 4 also, not a Wing. And this includes seeing Bailey and Flagg play against each other in the McDonalds game. I noticed in that game that though Bailey covered Flagg, Flagg did not cover Bailey most of the time (except on switches), but played more of an interior defensive position (not Center). As a stretch 4, defending other 4's it also maximizes Flagg's ability to make amazing defensive help plays. Just my opinion ... that Bailey and Flagg do not really play the same position, as Bailey is a pure Wing vs Flagg's stretch 4.
Yeah, I know that may be a little nit-picking, but ... that is how I see it. Of course, I could be totally wrong, I admit ... and also, positions really blur at the forward position sometimes.