NY Knicks Draft: NY Works out Vrenz Bleijenbergh ahead of 2021 NBA Draft
By Avishai Sol
What is Vrenz Bleijenbergh’s ceiling at the NBA Level?
“He’s not going to give you 30 points every night…” explains Bleijenbergh’s agent Yannick Kizito, “but he can give you ten, ten, and ten.”
It’s that kind of across-the-board impact that will help the Knicks in the playoffs.
The playmaking for Vrenz is NBA-ready, which will only help the team’s top two scorers (Barrett and Randle) as well as the Knicks rolling bigs (Robinson, Noel).
In the Draft and in free agency, you can find guys to fill up the PTS column. Spark-plug guards who give you ten points in as many minutes, but a triple-double threat from the forward position?
You can count the NBA players who do that on one hand.
I see Bleijenbergh being a bit like Danilo Gallinari. A big, smart, offensive hub on the wing, that can play on or off-ball.
The only question with Vrenz is can he gain enough weight to play the forward? Or become a strong enough shooter to stay as a wing. Although, if his workout at the NBA’s Minnesota Draft Combine is any indication, we may have our answer.
“I think he went 80 for 100 from the field.” Recalls Kizito. So…there we go.
This all sounds great, right? The skills, the body, the mentality, bla bla bla bla bla.
Why should the Knicks Draft Vrenz Bleijenbergh?
Because the Knicks are a winning team now. they need rookies who can come in and complement our stars, be versatile, be stars who don’t give 30 every night.
Barrett and Randle can give us 30. I want the 10-10-10 from Bleijenbergh because that means that the man next to him got 15 instead of 11, or Mitchell Robinson had 8 points on 4 open dunks instead of 7 on 4 trips to the line.
This man helps the Knicks win now, while still swinging around that “foreign unicorn” potential.
That’s why he’s a first-round pick, and that’s why we need him on the Knicks.