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2025 NBA Draft

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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#461 » by KillMonger » Thu Apr 3, 2025 12:32 pm

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KillMonger wrote:A Center with no jumpshot in 2025 isn't that appealing to me, all it does it clog up the paint


Well.... There aren't too many of those either. Would love for him to be able to do so too. But if he makes our defense the ultimate wall... In for it.

And on offense.... If thar pick and role is as good as they say.... And we actually utilize the lob threat, and he offensive rebounds and puts back.... Then he will have his offensive value as well.

But yeah ... We would see if he can learn to shoot too. Haha

yeah.....but have you watched him play though? for someone with that much length you would think he would be dominating the paint....currently he's just fine but every time i watch him i can't help but feel maybe a bit underwhelmed for his physicals when you look at his numbers....but on the other hand i have to remind myself this is a kid....and maybe that free throw percentage shows some promise down the line....i feel he's very raw, understandable since he started playing ball late but nonetheless still very raw....more of a project than someone i feel that can come in right away and contribute.....like i feel he's more lumbering than someone like yves missi at the same point coming out of college, missi was more coordinated....with that being said though, i won't rule him out maluach is a mountain of potential
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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#462 » by VFX » Thu Apr 3, 2025 1:31 pm

Maluach isn’t even an option. Not sure why he’s being discussed here in detail. Hes a top 8 pick.
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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#463 » by basketballRob » Thu Apr 3, 2025 1:41 pm

Weltman will try to prove he's the smartest guy in the room again by picking players who weren't projected that high. Then, the players will go on to prove why they weren't projected that high.

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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#464 » by T-Cat » Thu Apr 3, 2025 11:53 pm

VFX wrote:Maluach isn’t even an option. Not sure why he’s being discussed here in detail. Hes a top 8 pick.


Depending who's in our front office, we could always trade up for a player we like! :D
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Post#465 » by T-Cat » Thu Apr 3, 2025 11:56 pm

Jeremiah Fears and Joan Beringer are my favorite draft prospects!
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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#466 » by KillMonger » Fri Apr 4, 2025 1:08 am

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VFX wrote:Maluach isn’t even an option. Not sure why he’s being discussed here in detail. Hes a top 8 pick.


Depending who's in our front office, we could always trade up for a player we like! :D

yeah....if the planets align and for once we consider moving up then maluach is a prospect worth moving up for but mo bamba has me wary of project big men...however we might need some big man depth because i don't know whats in the cards for WCJ and moe wagner shouldn't be going anywhere but who knows
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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#467 » by MasterGMer » Fri Apr 4, 2025 2:06 am

What about Duke's Kon Knueppel? Dude looks like mini Franz Wagner. Got to the foul line 7 times against Alabama in the regional finals while shot 2 for 4 from 3, got 5 assists also. Dude is 6'7 so he should have good size for our SG spot, could be a great replacement for KCP and Gary Harris.

But he is out of our range. He is mocked to go Top 10. With his shooting and size plus skill set. He could be very interesting.
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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#468 » by basketballRob » Fri Apr 4, 2025 2:32 am

MasterGMer wrote:What about Duke's Kon Knueppel? Dude looks like mini Franz Wagner. Got to the foul line 7 times against Alabama in the regional finals while shot 2 for 4 from 3, got 5 assists also. Dude is 6'7 so he should have good size for our SG spot, could be a great replacement for KCP and Gary Harris.

But he is out of our range. He is mocked to go Top 10. With his shooting and size plus skill set. He could be very interesting.
Someone floated Desmond Bane as a comparison.

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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#469 » by GelbeWand09 » Fri Apr 4, 2025 6:52 am

basketballRob wrote:Weltman will try to prove he's the smartest guy in the room again by picking players who weren't projected that high. Then, the players will go on to prove why they weren't projected that high.

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Worst thing about it is, he really makes high risk low reward picks in those cases. He always takes bad athletes way before they are mocked. So those guys are not skilled enough to be mocked earlier and not athletic enough to be mocked earlier. Result are Chuma or Jett(maybe TDS)
One of the main reason Houston is much better and deeper than us now. They always gone high upside. Either skill (Sengun, Sheppard) or athletic/length combo (Thompson, Eason, Whitmore)
The only time they went lack of highly skilled and athletic ability, they failed too (Jabari) :lol:
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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#470 » by Bensational » Fri Apr 4, 2025 7:19 am

GelbeWand09 wrote:
basketballRob wrote:Weltman will try to prove he's the smartest guy in the room again by picking players who weren't projected that high. Then, the players will go on to prove why they weren't projected that high.

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Worst thing about it is, he really makes high risk low reward picks in those cases. He always takes bad athletes way before they are mocked. So those guys are not skilled enough to be mocked earlier and not athletic enough to be mocked earlier. Result are Chuma or Jett(maybe TDS)
One of the main reason Houston is much better and deeper than us now. They always gone high upside. Either skill (Sengun, Sheppard) or athletic/length combo (Thompson, Eason, Whitmore)
The only time they went lack of highly skilled and athletic ability, they failed too (Jabari) :lol:


Jabari looked to be a highly skilled 3&D guy as his floor, I don’t think they departed their MO too much on that pick.

Danny Wolf just feels like he’s a Weltman pick in waiting. Satisfies their Michigan quota. Adds a stretch 5 to the deep bench. Older so a little more ‘ready’, maybe.
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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#471 » by GelbeWand09 » Fri Apr 4, 2025 7:40 am

Bensational wrote:
GelbeWand09 wrote:
basketballRob wrote:Weltman will try to prove he's the smartest guy in the room again by picking players who weren't projected that high. Then, the players will go on to prove why they weren't projected that high.

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Worst thing about it is, he really makes high risk low reward picks in those cases. He always takes bad athletes way before they are mocked. So those guys are not skilled enough to be mocked earlier and not athletic enough to be mocked earlier. Result are Chuma or Jett(maybe TDS)
One of the main reason Houston is much better and deeper than us now. They always gone high upside. Either skill (Sengun, Sheppard) or athletic/length combo (Thompson, Eason, Whitmore)
The only time they went lack of highly skilled and athletic ability, they failed too (Jabari) :lol:


Jabari looked to be a highly skilled 3&D guy as his floor, I don’t think they departed their MO too much on that pick.

Danny Wolf just feels like he’s a Weltman pick in waiting. Satisfies their Michigan quota. Adds a stretch 5 to the deep bench. Older so a little more ‘ready’, maybe.


Personally, as someone who was always against Jabari as our pick, he wasn't highly skilled for me. He could shoot but couldn't make more than one dribble and couldn't finish or pass. He was a black whole possession ender with only 1 skill to end the possession (shoot). As a athlete he was only very functional at defense but to robotic on offense. But yea he is not a good example for picked before he was mocked. He was more a example for a player Houston took, that was not highly skilled or highly athletic.
He is still a solid / good roleplayer. He is not a bust but not the result you want with the 3rd pick but it gets worse.

Have to check Wolf but haven't seen any prospects yet. Having a hard time motivating myself for anything basketball related at the moment with the way the season has gone.
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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#472 » by pepe1991 » Fri Apr 4, 2025 8:01 am

Bensational wrote:
GelbeWand09 wrote:
basketballRob wrote:Weltman will try to prove he's the smartest guy in the room again by picking players who weren't projected that high. Then, the players will go on to prove why they weren't projected that high.

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Worst thing about it is, he really makes high risk low reward picks in those cases. He always takes bad athletes way before they are mocked. So those guys are not skilled enough to be mocked earlier and not athletic enough to be mocked earlier. Result are Chuma or Jett(maybe TDS)
One of the main reason Houston is much better and deeper than us now. They always gone high upside. Either skill (Sengun, Sheppard) or athletic/length combo (Thompson, Eason, Whitmore)
The only time they went lack of highly skilled and athletic ability, they failed too (Jabari) :lol:


Jabari looked to be a highly skilled 3&D guy as his floor, I don’t think they departed their MO too much on that pick.

Danny Wolf just feels like he’s a Weltman pick in waiting. Satisfies their Michigan quota. Adds a stretch 5 to the deep bench. Older so a little more ‘ready’, maybe.


That was always my anti Jabari argument. Guy was sold as some next lite Durant while playing like Danilo Galinari/PJ Washington.

Guy shot, at 6'10 in college 43% FG overall, averaged below 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 block, on 2 TO/g & 17 ppg on 57% TS.

Whole "high skill" for him was ability to shoot from various pindowns & curls but aside from better positional defense, at college, he wasn't even better than Lauri ( Lauri's problem was defense).
They also oversold Jabari's defense.

Imagine if Houston got Chet :o Perfect fit next to Segun + Amen Thompson, defense for days.
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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#473 » by RookieStar » Fri Apr 4, 2025 9:14 pm

Bensational wrote:
GelbeWand09 wrote:
basketballRob wrote:Weltman will try to prove he's the smartest guy in the room again by picking players who weren't projected that high. Then, the players will go on to prove why they weren't projected that high.

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Worst thing about it is, he really makes high risk low reward picks in those cases. He always takes bad athletes way before they are mocked. So those guys are not skilled enough to be mocked earlier and not athletic enough to be mocked earlier. Result are Chuma or Jett(maybe TDS)
One of the main reason Houston is much better and deeper than us now. They always gone high upside. Either skill (Sengun, Sheppard) or athletic/length combo (Thompson, Eason, Whitmore)
The only time they went lack of highly skilled and athletic ability, they failed too (Jabari) :lol:


Jabari looked to be a highly skilled 3&D guy as his floor, I don’t think they departed their MO too much on that pick.

Danny Wolf just feels like he’s a Weltman pick in waiting. Satisfies their Michigan quota. Adds a stretch 5 to the deep bench. Older so a little more ‘ready’, maybe.


If you listen to NIL rumours, Wolf still has 1-2 years of eligibility left and MICH is offering him 3.5m to stay for 1 more year. If that was you, a projected late lotto, you earn more or less the same but you only play less than 30 games without travel and all the college coeds you can bring to your dorm. lol
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Re: 2025 NBA Draft 

Post#474 » by basketballRob » Sat Apr 5, 2025 12:33 am

Bianchi did an article in the Orlando Sentinel about Walter Clayton. I think he was suggesting the Magic draft him.

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Post#475 » by KillMonger » Sat Apr 5, 2025 10:52 am

basketballRob wrote:Bianchi did an article in the Orlando Sentinel about Walter Clayton. I think he was suggesting the Magic draft him.

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the chances he'll be there at our first pick is extremely high, don't play any games or overthink it.....if he's the guy go get him
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Post#476 » by Skybox » Sat Apr 5, 2025 11:07 am

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basketballRob wrote:Bianchi did an article in the Orlando Sentinel about Walter Clayton. I think he was suggesting the Magic draft him.

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the chances he'll be there at our first pick is extremely high, don't play any games or overthink it.....if he's the guy go get him


Every mock has him well into the second round. In a one team town, Bianchi was never that invested or knowledgeable about basketball, imo.

Pandering to Gator fans
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Post#477 » by basketballRob » Sat Apr 5, 2025 11:33 am

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KillMonger wrote:
basketballRob wrote:Bianchi did an article in the Orlando Sentinel about Walter Clayton. I think he was suggesting the Magic draft him.

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the chances he'll be there at our first pick is extremely high, don't play any games or overthink it.....if he's the guy go get him


Every mock has him well into the second round. In a one team town, Bianchi was never that invested or knowledgeable about basketball, imo.

Pandering to Gator fans
I think we should draft him with Denver's pick. He'll likely start climbing the draft boards in the next couple of months. Players his age and size always go late first or second round, but a lot of them end up being good players. Like CoJo, Brunson, Pritchard, and FVV.

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Post#478 » by ucfmay2000 » Sat Apr 5, 2025 11:51 am

DANNY WOLF, 6’11, from Michigan looks really good. He has size and has Franz’s game. He is much better with rebound and block shot than Franz. Really good ball handling, basketball IQ and run the floor like a guard. He could be one of the player Magic likes
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Post#479 » by basketballRob » Sat Apr 5, 2025 9:50 pm

Clayton Jr. was a star QB in high school and had a bunch of offers. He also has mixed parents like Suggs, Black, and Paolo. Paolo and Suggs were HS QBs. AB was a star wide receiver.

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Post#480 » by T-Cat » Sat Apr 5, 2025 9:54 pm

KillMonger wrote:A Center with no jumpshot in 2025 isn't that appealing to me, all it does it clog up the paint


Even if he plays like Giannis?

To me this current Orlando Magic team should have EVERYONE on the trade market minus Paolo Banchero!

I'll have more faith in an team overhaul with a new front office and coach!

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