Frank Kaminsky on comparisons to other 7-footers: 'Doesn't mean anything to me'

There's Dirk Nowitzki, there's Andrea Bargnani if you're being liberal with the definition, and maybe there's a Spencer Hawes or a Kelly Olynyk you can make a case for. That's the short list of 7-footers who can hit the 3-point shot in the NBA, a list that's set to grow by one for the 2015-16 season.

Wisconsin senior Frank Kaminsky stands 7-foot-1 with a 9-foot-2 standing reach and, all due respect to Devin Booker and Michael Frazier and other specialists in the draft, he may be the best shooter to be selected on June 25. That standing as perhaps the class' best shooter is why Kaminksy doesn't want to be thought of as a 3-point shooting 7-footer but as a shooter, period.

"I hear 'guys your size,' and that doesn't mean anything to me," Kaminsky told ESPN's Chad Ford after a workout Thursday. "I just play one way. I count on myself to make every shot."

Ford reports that Kaminsky has continued wowing executives in workouts, as if his 40-percent mark from outside on 199 attempts over the past two seasons wasn't enough.

Kaminsky has a well-developed outside game in part because he was a perimeter player until his junior year of high school, when a multi-year growth spurt forced him to the post. It may have slowed his overall development some, as Kaminsky was an afterthought in his freshman and sophomore seasons, and again took big strides between his junior and senior years.

Still just 22, Kaminsky told Ford he's frustrated by getting slighted for his age but understands the upside argument that favors other players ahead of him. He's still expected to land in the lottery - Ford has him ranked No. 14, DraftExpress ranks him No. 12, and he went No. 13 in theScore's early first-round mock draft - and the team that lands him should have a relatively sure thing, at least on the offensive end.

Despite size comparisons meaning nothing to him, Kaminsky admits to wanting to be the next Nowitzki:

I'm going to try. I see myself playing the 4. At least initially in my career, while I'm moving as well as possible. I feel like I'm shooting the ball well and moving well and I think that stuff translates just the way the NBA goes with pick-and-rolls, pick-and-pops, pick-and-fades ... there's a lot of room to operate. It's the trend and it's lucky for me that I play that way.

If he can knock down triples like he did in college and has in workouts, it's a pretty easy path to No. 2 behind Nowitzki as far as 7-foot shooters go: