2023 NBA Draft Thread

Post #1 » by **ReasonablySober** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 1:41 am

Scoot Henderson vs Wembanyama about to go down on ESPN2.

Post #2 » by **ReasonablySober** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 2:09 am

Shut Wembanyama down. 90 seconds is it, put him in bubble wrap.

emunney · Post #3 » by **emunney** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 2:39 am

Scoot looks great, too.

emunney · Post #4 » by **emunney** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 2:40 am

It's not often you see a prospect that has obvious GOAT potential.

Post #5 » by **ReasonablySober** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 2:44 am

emunney wrote:It's not often you see a prospect that has obvious GOAT potential.

Yea I like Hugo too.

German Athens · Post #6 » by **German Athens** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 3:30 am

I feel metro should keep putting the ball in wemby’s hands, Jesus.

Guards looking him off reminds me of early Giannis on the bucks.

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Matches Malone · Post #7 » by **Matches Malone** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 4:26 am

Read on Twitter

WeekapaugGroove · Post #8 » by **WeekapaugGroove** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 4:47 am

He's ridiculous. Like I don't even have a good comp. Kevin Durant with an extra 4 inches? Ralph Sampson with even better perimeter skills? I don't know, he's like a create a player on a video game where you get silly with all the sliders.

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Matches Malone · Post #9 » by **Matches Malone** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 5:25 am

WeekapaugGroove wrote:He's ridiculous. Like I don't even have a good comp. Kevin Durant with an extra 4 inches? Ralph Sampson with even better perimeter skills? I don't know, he's like a create a player on a video game where you get silly with all the sliders[/url]

He's way more fluid in open space than I remembered. He's like Gobert on defense and on offense, he's somewhat like Kristaps, but way more athletic and less stiff.

German Athens · Post #10 » by **German Athens** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 5:26 am

Between the fluid movement, pure as heck outside shooting, and willingness/grit for shot-blocking, I think the best comp I can find is kristaps. But more of what people thought kristaps could become when he was in NY.

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LuessiT · Post #11 » by **LuessiT** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 11:13 am

The top of this year's draft is going to be great. Having two players that would go top in any other draft means there will be some really intriguing players available mid lottery. Good year to tank.

Badgerlander · Post #12 » by **Badgerlander** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 11:20 am

German Athens · Post #13 » by **German Athens** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 3:11 pm

What prospects from the past do you think are on wemby’s level?

LeBron, Kareem, wilt come to mind, but anyone else?

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Milbucks96 · Post #14 » by **Milbucks96** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 3:34 pm

AD and Zion had similar amounts of hype. Oden/KD were up there too. Me personally, AD is the only prospect that I’ve watched pre-nba that I knew was going to be a hof, I’m just a regular nba fan but I feel that even stronger with Wembenyama. If heathy of course, which is most likely a bigger concern than most other number 1 picks.

Turk Nowitzki · Post #15 » by **Turk Nowitzki** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 4:01 pm

Scoot Henderson gave me some young Eric Bledsoe vibes just purely from a physical standpoint. Obviously the potential is there to have a lot more to his game on offense than Bledsoe did.

SupremeHustle · Post #16 » by **SupremeHustle** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 4:19 pm

Turk Nowitzki wrote:Scoot Henderson gave me some young Eric Bledsoe vibes just purely from a physical standpoint. Obviously the potential is there to have a lot more to his game on offense than Bledsoe did.

Rich man's Collin Sexton is what I see.

WeekapaugGroove · Post #17 » by **WeekapaugGroove** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 10:45 pm

emunney wrote:
chonestown wrote:
German Athens wrote:What prospects from the past do you think are on wemby’s level?

LeBron, Kareem, wilt come to mind, but anyone else?

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Shaq.

Hard to remember but the Diesel was a terror running the court.

Yeah, for my time paying attention to the draft, it's really just LeBron and Shaq. Then like a half step back, Duncan, KD & Oden, Big Dog, Yao, Zion, AD.

ETA: Luka was in that 2nd group for me but was polarizing.

Luka would be very close to that top group for me, I was head over heels for him leading up to that draft and with the suns as my other team I root for it absolutely killed me they see it too.

Carmelo and even Wade were pretty can't miss types that got over shadowed by LeBron.

Of my lifetime it was LeBron and Shaq who really stood out as 'they might be all timers' and not just great Luka was right there but he didn't quite have the physical dominace of Shaq or LeBron. Wemby falls in that top category, like if he stays healthy it's hard to see him not be a hall of famer.

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machu46 · Post #18 » by **machu46** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 11:18 pm

I’ve been kinda skeptical of the idea that these two are worth tanking for based on how they played last year, but they were absolutely incredible last night. Very excited to see more.

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Post #19 » by **MickeyDavis** » Wed Oct 5, 2022 11:41 pm

They have a rematch tomorrow afternoon on ESPN2 at 2:00 CDT. Not long after the Bucks game.

Post #20 » by **paulpressey25** » Thu Oct 6, 2022 12:35 am

MickeyDavis wrote:They have a rematch tomorrow afternoon on ESPN2 at 2:00 CDT. Not long after the Bucks game.

Is there a good link to last nights game? Didn’t see it, but listening to the pods and KOC just said he thinks Victor is as good a prospect at LBJ was.