If you were designing the perfect offensive big man for 2020, it'd be Toppin. 6'9, 6'11 wingspan. Terrific shooter, ball handler, and passer for his size. Essentially functioned as the chief playmaker out of the high post for Dayton a lot of the season, and it was a huge reason why they were so elite. He's also an absurd leaper and quick straight-line cutter, making him ideal for PnR, rim-running, baseline cuts, transition fast breaks, etc. Too skilled for bigger defenders to deal with, too big for smaller ones. It'd be easy to see why any team would fall in love with what he could do for any offense. Like, put a few shooters around him? That's deadly.

That said, the defense suuuuuucks. First, the physical problems: he's very top-heavy, so most bigger players-- and even smaller stronger ones-- could really push him around in the post. Also, as fast as he is straight line, he is slow footed laterally with the stiffest hips imaginable. He'll never be switchable without a serious overhaul of his body. And even then, even if he were able to magically lower his center of gravity, drastically loosen his hips, etc... his instincts just aren't good on that end. They never really asked him to do anything other than weak side shot blocking, so his rotations, his positioning, his helping, all of it is really bad.

Don't really know what the upside comparison is here... Boris Diaw with better offense and way worse defense? There's still tremendous value here, especially if you can get him to be even an okay-to-mediocre team defender, because he can do so many things for your offense, especially in today's style of play. I just worry about the floor, because we've seen offensive players drop out of the league if they can't stay on the court.