Best defender in college last year by a lot. Elite big man size, length. Elite rim protector. Sets hard picks, easy to see him as a pick-and-roll asset. Also not just some raw big man out there— good passer, establishes post position well. Not yet a FT shooter, but I also don’t think it looks bad, and if you told me got to 65+%, I’d believe you.

Can’t move in space well, not an offensive threat. Feels like “less mobile Rudy Gobert” is the comparison— which sounds like an insult, but, like, Gobert’s a massive regular season asset in drop coverage. There’s a world in which Clingan makes All-Defense someday if he can get his conditioning to the point where he plays 27+ MPG.

He's exploitable enough defensively in the playoffs that, in a normal draft, you're taking him back half of the lottery... but in this draft, I get why teams might be looking top 5. He can change your defense for 82 games.