2024-25 NBA Draft Talk

[vvoland]

How much bigger is podz than nico? He plays much bigger but I'm thinking they're actually very similarly sized.

[whatisacenter]

Compare Nico Mannion and PBJ.

If you squint Nico equals podz

Haha

Curly hair and all.

It's funny, I remember going into that 2020 draft that I didn't like two PG's who had been hyped up, one of them was Nico, who I think had a negative wingspan, and the other was Tyrese Maxey....I didn't think he could shoot, was undersized and didn't play enough D. LOL.

[Onus]

If you squint Nico equals podz

Haha

Curly hair and all.

It's funny, I remember going into that 2020 draft that I didn't like two PG's who had been hyped up, one of them was Nico, who I think had a negative wingspan, and the other was Tyrese Maxey....I didn't think he could shoot, was undersized and didn't play enough D. LOL.

I don’t remember who I liked in that draft but I did not like Nico at all. The only reason anyone liked him was because he was hyped coming out of high school but he showed nothing that was at an nba level.

[vvoland]

Haha

Curly hair and all.

It's funny, I remember going into that 2020 draft that I didn't like two PG's who had been hyped up, one of them was Nico, who I think had a negative wingspan, and the other was Tyrese Maxey....I didn't think he could shoot, was undersized and didn't play enough D. LOL.

I don’t remember who I liked in that draft but I did not like Nico at all. The only reason anyone liked him was because he was hyped coming out of high school but he showed nothing that was at an nba level.

I remember Cole Anthony taking it personally and destroying nico in the all-american game. It was like he couldn't believe he and Nico were the top 2 PGs in that class and some folks had nico over cole.

[EvanZ]

Yaxel going back

[Onus]

Yaxel going back

Crazy to me. He's going to be 24 next year. How much more does he expect his stock to improve. Maybe he's a mid 1st end of lottery guy rather than a late 1st guy? I would think trying to get to the 2nd contract is more important

[EvanZ]

Yaxel going back

Crazy to me. He's going to be 24 next year. How much more does he expect his stock to improve. Maybe he's a mid 1st end of lottery guy rather than a late 1st guy? I would think trying to get to the 2nd contract is more important

NIL has changed the equation for a lot of these guys. He probably makes $2M next season at Michigan.

[Onus]

Yaxel going back

Crazy to me. He's going to be 24 next year. How much more does he expect his stock to improve. Maybe he's a mid 1st end of lottery guy rather than a late 1st guy? I would think trying to get to the 2nd contract is more important

NIL has changed the equation for a lot of these guys. He probably makes $2M next season at Michigan.

Yea but he'd make 2.5M his first year as long as he's a 1st rd pick.

[vvoland]

Crazy to me. He's going to be 24 next year. How much more does he expect his stock to improve. Maybe he's a mid 1st end of lottery guy rather than a late 1st guy? I would think trying to get to the 2nd contract is more important

NIL has changed the equation for a lot of these guys. He probably makes $2M next season at Michigan.

Yea but he'd make 2.5M his first year as long as he's a 1st rd pick.

Probably getting intel he's not going in the 1st. Otherwise, you'd need a real NIL commitment to go back to school.

[EvanZ]

Crazy to me. He's going to be 24 next year. How much more does he expect his stock to improve. Maybe he's a mid 1st end of lottery guy rather than a late 1st guy? I would think trying to get to the 2nd contract is more important

NIL has changed the equation for a lot of these guys. He probably makes $2M next season at Michigan.

Yea but he'd make 2.5M his first year as long as he's a 1st rd pick.

$2M in the hand > $2.5M in the bush

[Onus]

Tahaad going back as well.

[wco81]

NIL may sound nice but is it guaranteed? If those players get injured and can’t play most of the season, do they get all of it?

If they get a serious injury, they may not even get drafted.

[EvanZ]

Tahaad going back as well.

Where we draft is going to be terrible. This is basically a one round draft.

[Onus]

Tahaad going back as well.

Where we draft is going to be terrible. This is basically a one round draft.

We'll see, but it looks like it.

[vvoland]

Hopefully someone will still see value in that pick and we can attach it to our mid-sized contracts to get Cobi White. Moody + 41 + future 2nd for Cobi ?

[Onus]

Damn Byrd going back as well.

[whatisacenter]

Damn Byrd going back as well.

He was one of the last interesting prospects on my list...

[Onus]

Damn Byrd going back as well.

He was one of the last interesting prospects on my list...

I still like Alijah Martin, Kobe Johnson, Tyrese Proctor, Drake Powell, Markovic.

I'd be interested in Rocco, maybe Yang, maybe Kalkbrenner, maybe Broome, Izan Almansa.

You can talk me into Micah Peavy, Arthur Kaluma, Koby Brea and Alex Toohey (might be a slight upgrade to Gui), Thierro (though if we select him it would be hilarious because this would be what we want from JK).

[EvanZ]

Honestly the more I think about it, if Thiero isn't there, Hansen Yang feels like by far the most interesting guy to take a shot at.

[EvanZ]

Until I met Bogoljub Marković. Someone told me he's a rich man's Poku, so I'm immediately sold. LMAO