Noa Essengue Could Be a Future STAR for the Miami Heat | 2025 NBA Draft Prospect

Noa Essengue Could Be a Future STAR for the Miami Heat | 2025 NBA Draft Prospect

Noah Asen is a future allaren told. So we’re continuing our Miami Heat draft series by talking about Noah Asen. So far we’ve talked about Leam McNeely and Rashier Fleming. Two guys that definitely still have potential, but I think they’re more ready to play now prospects where Noah Asenge is definitely more of a project, which at number 20 I’m completely cool with for the Miami Heat. I mean, the Heat aren’t such a great team right now, and if they’re not able to get a whale and Giannis or Kevin or Anthony, you’re not going to be great next year either. So, why get a win now player? Definitely makes sense to get a guy that has a lot more potential, and that is definitely Noah Asen because he is 6’10”, 200 lb. He’s a power forward who’s only 18 years old, born in 2006. When I saw that he was born in 2006 and he was already 18, I was like, “What the hell?” To me, somebody born in 2006 is like nine. It’s just a sign of how old we’re getting. But anyways, he obviously has decent size to him with regards to height, but he’s still very skinny given that he’s 18. He’ll obviously grow into that frame a bit more. Now, he did play overseas in for a team that I kid you not is called Ratio Farm. Ratio Farm. Uh I’m 99% sure that’s not how it’s actually pronounced, but it’s spelled Ratio Farm. That’s how it kind of looks to me. Uh, but it’s a city in M, Germany. And actually on that team, he played with Ben Sif, who is another guy that has been linked to the Miami Heat a lot. He might be available in the 20s. Pretty decent point guard. And we’ll have a video out about him eventually as well, as well as pretty much every other possible prospect Miami Heat can take. So, if y’all are interested in that and other Miami Heat content, make sure to subscribe to the channel. The support is greatly appreciated. but he played for that team with Ben Sif and another guy named Isaiah Roby who NBA fans might be familiar with. Played about 150 games in the NBA, mostly with OKC. So, there is grown men in that league that uh that Noah is playing with. And I’ve kind of always liked that about overseas prospects is yes, a lot of times they come into the league pretty young, but they seem to be able to adapt more quickly just because they’ve been used to playing with grown men for quite a long time now. I don’t want to act like this league or or this team is something spectacular. I mean, I looked into the history of that team and there’s been definitely a handful of lower level NBA players. Uh maybe the uh one of the most known is our guy Zoron Dragic. So, that just kind of tells you the level of competition that’s been over there historically. But that doesn’t mean that they can have they can’t have someone really great come out of that program. Now, obviously with these overseas guys, it’s kind of hard to find actual statistics because they playing all kinds of tournaments and stuff, but Basketball Reference did have his Euro Cup stats for the last two years, and they don’t jump off the page at you. Uh, but in this most recent season, he had 12 points per game, five rebounds, and one assist on 56% from the floor, which is excellent. And then 29% from three, which is not so good. Uh, but he was about a 73% free throw shooter. So, that’s that’s pretty much average right there. Now, obviously, I know a lot of people will say, “Oh, well, this was against some random city in Germany. Yes, there’s some lower level NBA players, but the competition wasn’t that high.” And yes, that’s very true. That’s why it would definitely be a risk taking him. But for what it’s worth, he does technically have some NBA experience. That team ratio actually played in a preseason game just a year ago versus the Portland Trailblazers. And in that game, yes, it was preseason, but he got real minutes versus real players. He dropped 20 points. So, for what it’s worth, we have seen him play against NBA level defenders at I guess he was probably 17 at the time. And yeah, he was he was pretty good. So, kind of this is one of the guys that has had a wide range of where he might get selected just because he’s such an unknown prospect at this point. Obviously, if a team wants a project, they might reach a little bit higher for him. If they want someone to win now, it’ll probably fall. Uh, that’s why, for example, CBS did have him coming to us at number 20, which is kind of how I’m going in order of doing all these draft videos. I’m going through the mock drafts of all the major publications and whoever they have the heat taken. We’ll do a video about them and then circle around to all the surrounding players later. So, CBS did have him coming to us at 20, but NBA Draft.net had him go going all the way at 13. Bleacher Report had him going all the way at number nine. So they had him very high, top 10 pick, but then the opposite of that, the ringer had him going number 30. Literally the last pick in the in the first round. That’s how big this guy’s ranges. Uh and then Yahoo had him at 13. Tangan had him at number 14. So nobody really knows. Uh just to give you an idea of some of the player comps that I’ve seen. I’ve seen Alfukaminu to a higher extent. I’ve seen Jeremy Grant to an even higher extent. I’ve seen Taan Prince. Now I did also see Nick Batum who would be great. Obviously, I’m not a big Nick Batum fan. That’s because he killed the Miami Heats in that plane game what, a year or two ago now. But that means that he’s good. But truthfully, I’m not sure that Noah will ever be a great enough shooter to be a Nick Batum level. But if you look at all the other guys, Aminu, Jeremy Grant, Taan Prince, those are all guys who have been vers versatile defenders in the league who are capable of being a a three-point shooter. They’re not a knockdown shooter, but they’re certainly capable. Uh, and obviously if he can become Taan Prince, that would be an absolute home run. So, now let’s get into some of his strengths and weaknesses. A lot of these are from Kevin Oconor on Yahoo. So, shout out to him, but I’ll mix in my own opinion as well based off the research I did. Now, the first strength that they have is athleticism. Says that he’s graceful when running. And if you’re watching these highlights behind me, you can definitely see that, which is really impressive considering he is 610. He moves so fluid. And I guess that’s a positive. It actually kind of reminds me, it was kind of funny when Miles Turner was coming into the league and I was doing my draft research back then. I think that’s the year that he actually took Bam at a bio, uh, if I’m correct. So, it ended up working out for the Heat. But, one of the things they said about Miles Turner coming out of Texas is that he can’t run. He runs awkwardly. And I’m like, I’ve never heard that in a scouting report for a player that he has bad running mechanics. I was like, I don’t want to draft that guy. That guy’s going to suck in the league. And here we are like 10 years later and Miles Turner is one of the best centers in the league on one of the best teams in the league as they just advance to the conference finals for the second year in a row. But anyways, uh Noah Aseni is not that. He he can run. Uh he’s also very good running off offball screens uh uh sprinting in transition. Two things that would definitely help the Miami Heat offense a ton. One, because they like to run a lot of guys off ball. They like to set a lot of offball screens to get guys open because that’s just the right way to play basketball. I think that’s how you generate easy looks and for him to be able to do that at such a young age is very smart. It shows that a high level basketball IQ and then also the Heat need to continue adding guys who can run in transition because the Miami Heat have been the worst fast break team in the league for many years now. I’m sure there’s statistics to to back that up. But if you’re watching these games, nine times out of 10 it seems like they can’t finish a fast break, which is one of the first things that you practice in like middle school. A basic threeman weave, but for some reason he can’t do it. This guy can do it though because he runs really really well. And I do think that with a guy like him and obviously we saw Nicole Yoic get some more run last year. The Heat obviously drafted Kaware, they’re starting to add some more quicker guys that can help the Heat pick up the pace because they’ve also been one of the slowest paced teams in the league. And a guy like Noah Sen would help push the heat in the right direction that they’re currently in. Now he also has a great drive game since he’s natural with the ball in his hands. Has a plethora of moves. You see the spin moves, you see the euro steps, uh other fluid maneuvers to get into paints. He’s also very good at finishing with both hands, which is something that I harp on a lot when we look at these uh film analysis videos I was doing in the regular season. We saw Tyler Herro, one of the ways that he was able to improve his drive game this season is by going to that left hand, which trust me, as a someone who plays a lot of pickup basketball myself, I’ve spent many many years working on that left hand. And it’s just it does wonders in terms of opening up your game because it really makes the defense impossible to cut you off in any direction if you can go both directions. And especially for a guy like Noah Sen who’s 610 and has good handle to get to the rim. If he can finish with both hands and he has the moves to to get there as well on either side of the hoop, that’s just something that that shows super uh promise with him. Uh this is something I do want to note is kind of unlike Rashier Fleming because I kind of I loved Rashier Fleming when we did our research on him. Again, that was the last video. Go check it out. But Rashir Fleming was more of a guy that was going to be maybe like a rim runner on offense, a pick and roll guy, a pick and lob guy. and when he’s not in the paints, you know, or sitting in the dunker spot. He might be stretching the floor, sitting at the three-point line because he also has a lot of potential because of his athleticism and 75 wingspan, but he wasn’t great with the ball in his hands. He wasn’t necessarily a great dribbler. Only was shot like 36% on drives to the rim. And when you’re not great in isolation or with the ball in your hands, there’s always going to be a cap on what your potential is. But where a guy like Noah Sen who is actually very good at getting to the rim, you you never know what his potential could be. One of the things I read about him is that he can finish inside with Giannisesque layups. And as much as I wanted to get excited about that and say, “Oh, they compared him to Giannis.” I think that was just a bit fluff. I’m not going to say he’s ever going to be Giannis one day. But who knows? If he’s 610 and can get to the rim like that and finish, he can be a mismatch nightmare for a lot of guys. Uh, this also shows though his drive of game shows that he has a lot of face up scoring potential because obviously he can blow past guys. He’s he’s quick with the ball, but he will need to develop that jumper or else guys are just going to pack the paint. This is the same thing we’ve been saying about Jame Hawz all of last year. I think Jame can still be very effective in the paint. We just didn’t see it last year because now that he was no longer a rookie, there was an actual scattering report on him. Guys knew to sag off him and Jame really didn’t hit the jump right at a big clip. But I think if Jame gets in the gym and works on that jumper by next season, he can get back to the driving game. And I am hopeful Jame will have a nice bounceback year next season. Another one of the strengths that we saw about Noah is his shooting progress. Uh I thought this was a bit weird they had this listed as a strength because he literally was a 24% threep or I guess he went from a 25% three-point shooter in Euro League to a 29% three-point shooter. I guess that’s technically progress. Uh, I I I suppose I’m not too uh pessimistic on him becoming a shooter just because his form does look solid. I think he has pretty great followthrough, although it’s a bit slower than I would like, but he’s still young. You know, I think he has a good base for his mechanics and once he gets in the league, he he’ll get with the right coaches to to really nail that down. So, I wouldn’t say it’s a strength yet. Uh, but he does have good touch on floaters at least. So once he gets into the paint, uh, he does have a nice soft touch just like Khalil wear we talk about, which for a guy who’s 7 foot like Wear or 610 like Noah, it’s difficult. You know, a lot of times we see big man clank those floaters off the rim. Noah Senate does at least have great touch. It also lists his passing as a strength. It says he plays within the flow of the offense, has creative wraparound passes, over the head passes out of the post. It’s just very important obviously in a Heat offense with a guy like Tyler Herro Bam. Those are going to be the guys that you want taking the most shots. So, you don’t want a rookie to come in and take away the ball from those guys or make the offense stagnant. Now, probably his most important strength at it list is his defensive versatility. It says that he’s multi-positional, quick enough to guard small guards and can hold his his own against larger defenders. Now, I’m not so sure about the larger defenders part, at least not right now. Maybe in Germany the guys aren’t as big, although maybe they are, though. I don’t I feel like Germany has some big dudes, but like I don’t know like Daniel Ty that’s really and Durk, right? Those guys are pretty big, but they’re more finesse. Either way, I’m not so sure that Noah can really hold his own against bigs in the NBA right now because he’s listed at 200. I also saw him slightly under 200 on a lot of websites and that’s just a bit too skinny at the moment. But he does compete hard and he is 610. So eventually when he gets that muscle frame on him, which I have no doubt that he would do, especially if he was in the Heat’s development staff, I’m very excited to see what Khal Wear comes in Wayne next season, but he will put on that muscle and I do think he will be able to guard larger players and we’re already seeing him guard smaller players. We’re seeing him use his his width and his l and his length and his wingspan to guard those smaller players and is pretty quick laterally. So that positional versatility is critical because the Heat like to switch everything. So same thing we said about Rashir Fleming. I do think that Noah Asenge would work in the Heat’s defense the same way. And it also says he uh he’s great at help defense, uh running out to contest shooters, but at the same time, he can be uh an interior presence in the paints or play off ball in the passing lanes. He can really just do everything on defense based off what I’ve seen and especially once he get more gets more muscle. So, that’s the part that gets me most excited. I just think he has extreme two-way player potential. If you’re watching this video, then you are an elite ball knower. So why not take advantage of it with my bookie? Listen y’all, throughout the NBA playoffs, I’ll be using their live betting feature to smash the DaVon Mitchell overs and smash the Rudy Goar unders and then using their early cash out option to stack up the profits. If you want to do the same, make sure to sign up for my bookie using promo code MM50, which will instantly boost your first deposit. And then once the games wrap up, you can check out their casino which has blackjack and slots and roulette. You name it, bet on anything, anytime, anywhere. Only with my bookie. Now, let’s get back into the video. Now, some of his weaknesses, obviously, you got shooting. You know, we talked about his progressions a little bit, but I think it’ll get there. A lot of guys coming into the league that young are not great shooters. Uh, I remember I just heard today, I think it was on the OG’s podcast with with Mike Miller, Donis Hasslam, they were talking about how Kawhai was an 18% free uh three-point shooter one of his seasons in college at San Diego State. I didn’t know that. I assumed Kawhai was always an efficiency monster. He wasn’t, but he worked on his game and if he had the right work ethic, anything is possible. As cliche as that sounds, but obviously his shooting, obviously his strength, which I don’t want to harp on too much more because he’s only 18 years old. And then it also says he needs to work on his fundamentals a little bit. Drives into traffic traffic a bit too often, but that’s common for young guys. You know, he’ll learn and he’s probably one of the best players on his team right now. When he gets to the NBA, he have a completely different role. And I’m not really worried about that. So, truthfully, the the list of weaknesses is is short. That’s it. It’s really just a guy who’s a bit of a raw prospect. And if if the Heat aren’t ready to take that on right now, they won’t draft him. But to me, unless you get a whale, get the project. Maybe this guy does have all-star potential and he could completely change the direction of your franchise, you know, five years from now. So, as far as his fit on the Miami Heat, I’m not sure he would play much as a rookie just because he is so young and spo hates young big men. We saw it took Khalil months to even sniff the court. Uh, but I do think he’d be a backup forward, maybe a potential Highmith replacement since Highmith is a expiring contract this year. So, similar thing we said, you know, with Rashir Fleming, except I do think Fleming’s fit with Nicoolola Yoic off the bench is a bit cleaner because Yovic’s finesse. Rashir Fleming’s more power. Uh, but in this case, Noah Asen is similar to Yoic in a lot of ways. Noah likes to have the ball in his hands and he’s not a great shooter off ball. So, we know Yovic will ball handle, be a point guard or a point forward in some spots and a guy like Rashir Fleming could space the floor for him, sit in the corner where a guy like Noah is not going to really do that right away. So that fit is a little bit questionable uh at least for the first season. But like if you’re in the Miami Heat, you’re probably not drafting a player for next season. So I’m not really worried about fit. Just draft, you know, best player available. Uh and also I guess there’s the upside that let’s say you do draft him and you don’t have a trade in place yet. Well, then maybe one day a team is interested in him because he has so much potential. You know, let’s say you have the draft and then after the draft Giannis asks for a trade. Well, if the Heat draft a win now guy who fits their system, Milwaukeekey’s not going to want that guy. But if the Heat draft Noah Asen, maybe Milwaukee says, “Hey, give us three first round picks. Tyler Herro, Yoich, Clearware, everyone.” And we’ll also take Noah Asen. That’s the little sweetener for us because this is a guy that could maybe be the next Jiannis for us. I don’t know. Who knows? You know, it’s just another tip in his cap for why the M Heat might want to draft him is just because I think more teams will be interested in a potential trade. But really, that’s all I got to say for this video. So, let me know y’all thoughts down below on Noah Asen. 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