Piston GM Uses Hilarious Halle Berry Analogy To Sum Up Ausar Thompson’s Game

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In recent years, a number of notable basketball prospects have taken some historically unconventional routes while gearing up to enter the NBA.

The vast majority of players who end up taking their talents to the pros spend at least one year in college before making the leap, but there’s been an increase in the number of guys who opt to play overseas or go directly to the G League instead of dealing with the NCAA.

In 2021, Overtime Elite was formed to give rising stars the chance to land a guaranteed salary and other attractive benefits, and while the advent of the NIL Era undoubtedly threw a hitch into its long-term vision, the upstart league has managed to produce a handful of attractive prospects.

That includes Amen and Ausar Thompson, the twin brothers who were respectively selected by the Rockets and the Pistons with the fourth and fifth overall picks in the NBA Draft on Thursday night.

While both of those franchises obviously did their due diligence before scooping up the Thompson Bros, the nature of Overtime Elite means they largely lacked the kind of exposure most of the other guys in their draft class got in the lead-up to the event.

After the draft wrapped up, Pistons GM Troy Weaver chatted with the media about the decision to draft Thompson and fielded a question about potentially running into scouting issues thanks to his affiliation with Overtime.

However, Detroit’s head honcho made it very clear he wasn’t concerned about Thompson’s ability to rise to the occasion, as he opted to use an analogy involving Halle Berry while explaining why he was confident the decision would end up working out.

This is far from the first time Weaver has relied on metaphors to get his point across, and he leaned on them pretty heavily while outlining his philosophy a couple of years ago.