DJO goes into combine near top of physical charts, Crowder not far behind

This has to the greatest day of Marquette basketball on TV since the season ended.  All three remaining NBA teams have a former NBA player, with Doc Rivers' Celtics about to try to put away Dwyane Wade's Heat to play Lazar Hayward's Thunder.  And while waiting for that, watch the ESPNUcoverage of DJO and Jae on the opening day of the NBA Combine in Chicago, as they make their case for joining the league.

While the prospects have been a roller coaster for both, each took a nice step with excellent physical showings as indicated on the table below.  Prior to the combine, both benched 185-pounds 17 times, tying for 2nd behind Stanford Josh Owen's, who is not expected to be drafted, to place in the 98th percentile.  In the agility drill Crowder was in the 91st percentile, just ahead of DJO's 88th percentile.  In speed, DJO was 86th percentile and he was in the 99th percentile in his verticle, while Crowder was just below 50th percentile of all players.

I've given personnel with all 30 NBA teams the table below that shows the percentages in the six key measurements for the 61 players who tested out BEFORE today's combine.  Despite both players being hurt by height and wingspan, overall DJO is the 4th best across the table and Crowder is 11th.

The only guys ahead of him is the dominant Division II star Travis Hyman and Stanford's Josh Owens, and Alabama's JaMychal Green.  Keep in mind, the players who believe they are going in the first round do NOT participate prior to today's combine, so we will see how Crowder and DJO stack up against those players once tested.  Only the few likely top picks like Bradley Beal, Andre Drummond,Harrison Barnes, Anthony Davis and Dion Waiters will not participate at the combine, so this weekend will show if both Marquette players are still near the top of the physical measurements.

Rnk	Name	School	Pos	Ht	WS	Vert	Str	Agil	Sp	Tot
1	Travis Hyman	Bowie State	C	91	86	85	88	45	74	78
2	Josh Owens	Stanford	PF	79	81	100	100	40	57	76
3	JaMychal Green	Alabama	PF	76	91	70	50	89	59	73
4	Darius Johnson-Odom	Marquette	SG	23	32	99	98	88	86	71
5	Kent Bazemore	Old Dominion	SF	48	73	71	50	86	96	71
6	Rakim Sanders	Fairfield	SF	43	61	76	88	53	89	68
7	Cameron Moore	UAB	PF	87	85	74	40	49	68	67
8	Terrance Henry	Mississippi	SF	84	74	82	50	74	36	67
9	Alex Young	IUPUI	SF	59	69	62	40	85	65	63
10	Casper Ware	Long Beach State	PG	5	4	91	78	99	98	62
11	Jae Crowder	Marquette	SF	49	49	44	98	91	43	62
12	Marcus Denmon	Missouri	PG	26	24	87	45	93	97	62
13	Orlando Johnson	UC Santa Barbara	SG	36	67	98	66	66	37	62
14	Tony Mitchell	Alabama	SF	56	55	97	54	56	51	61
15	Chris Johnson	St. Bonaventure	SF	44	68	93	50	25	88	61
16	Kim English	Missouri	SG	47	41	77	14	97	82	60
17	Robert Sacre	Gonzaga	C	98	82	16	98	29	32	59
18	Drew Gordon	New Mexico	PF	78	75	68	78	16	35	58
19	Eric Griffin	Campbell	SF	67	79	60	50	18	73	58
20	Herb Pope	Seton Hall	PF	71	76	46	50	68	31	57
21	Kyle Kuric	Louisville	SG	37	23	67	50	71	91	57
22	Mike Glover	Iona	SF	63	52	84	59	21	60	57
23	Kyle Weems	Missouri State	SF	60	58	94	50	35	41	56
24	Charlie Westbrook	South Dakota	SG	34	34	80	50	79	55	55
25	Chace Stanback	UNLV	SF	72	40	23	50	82	64	55
26	Gerald Robinson	Georgia	PG	15	14	69	50	96	87	55
27	Yancy Gates	Cincinnati	PF	83	93	32	50	42	27	55
28	Maalik Wayns	Villanova	PG	14	11	75	88	75	63	54
29	Wesley Witherspoon	Memphis	SF	73	63	72	6	67	42	54
30	Ricardo Ratliffe	Missouri	SF	69	80	33	78	12	49	54
31	Mitchell Watt	Buffalo	PF	80	77	53	21	44	46	53
32	Carlon Brown	Colorado	SG	41	36	79	50	73	38	53
33	Zack Rosen	Pennsylvania	PG	13	6	54	66	78	100	53
34	Jordan Taylor	Wisconsin	PG	20	13	65	50	92	71	52
35	Gus Gilchrist	South Florida	PF	90	92	8	50	47	20	51
36	Kyle O'Quinn	Norfolk State	PF	86	100	15	45	48	12	51
37	Jason Clark	Georgetown	PG	25	45	18	50	98	67	51
38	Dee Bost	Mississippi St	SG	28	16	83	33	46	92	50
39	Garrett Stutz	Wichita State	C	99	94	10		32	7	48
40	Jarrod Jones	Ball State	PF	81	60	51		20	30	48
41	Scott Machado	Iona	PG	16	12	59	98	23	79	48
42	Jorge Gutierrez	California	SG	30	27	40	28	77	85	48
43	Devoe Joseph	Oregon	PF	33	33	28		54	90	47
44	Ken Horton	Central Connecticut State	SF	61	70	47		36	18	46
45	Xavier Gibson	Florida State	PF	94	95	6	28	15	40	46
46	Julian Mavunga	Miami	PF	70	84	36		31	11	46
47	Eli Holman	Detroit	PF	77	98	14	33	24	29	46
48	Bradford Burgess	Virginia Commonwealth	SF	57	26	26		60	53	45
49	Henry Sims	Georgetown	C	96	97	3		8	13	43
50	Reggie Hamilton	Oakland	PG	10	21	39		95	47	42
51	Greg Mangano	Yale	PF	89	66	5		37	14	42
52	Kevin Murphy	Tennessee Tech	SG	64	42	37		19	48	42
53	Jesse Sanders	Liberty	SG	31	10	63		62	44	42
54	J'Covan Brown	Texas	PG	17	22	13	28	64	95	40
55	Wendell McKines	New Mexico State	SF	51	50	61		9	21	38
56	Dominique Morrison	Oral Roberts	SF	54	54	29		33	10	36
57	Juan Fernandez	Temple	SG	38	17	19		65	22	32
58	Jordan Theodore	Seton Hall	PG	8	18	30		70	25	30
59	Ashton Gibbs	Pittsburgh	SG	18	31	22	21	43	45	30
60	Tu Holloway	Xavier	PG	7	20	41	40	38	15	27
61	Darryl Bryant	West Virginia	PG	12	25	9		34	33	23