In every draft class, there’s always a handful of international prospects who emerge out of the dark corners of the basketball scouting world, enticing bloggers and NBA personnel alike with their size and seemingly limitless potential. In 2015, Timothe Luwawu (minus the hyphen Cabarrot at the time) was one of those guys, a Draft Express dandy playing with the Antibes Sharks of France’s second division. He teased a potential entry in the 2015 NBA Draft before eventually withdrawing, and was whisked away to Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia in 2016 to don Mega Leks’ stunning hot pink and mint jerseys.
The Frenchman’s profile only grew during his time in the ABA Liga, and back in March of 2016, I decided to dig up some Mega Leks game film from the dark corners of the internet to better understand the pre-draft hype surrounding him.