The nineteen year old shooting guard from Turkey’s Anadolu Efes basketball team has three major weaknesses when projecting his skillset to the NBA. He’s young, having just turned 19 years of age on July 24, 2016. He’s inexperienced, having spent the majority of his time on the bench for Anadolu Efes before that team made a coaching change. And he’s still growing physically, so he will likely be unable to withstand the grueling demands of the 82 game schedule of the NBA.
Once that is fixed, you have a Euroleague version of Brandon Ingram. You see, Furkan Korkmaz was selected at 26 in the 2016 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers, a far sight later than the lottery range many had projected the youngster at.