2025 NBA Draft Discussion Part 6

Lord_Zedd · Post #1341 » by **Lord_Zedd** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:28 pm

Tears for Fears

Brinbe · Post #1342 » by **Brinbe** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:28 pm

carter bryant time!!!

Post #1343 » by **Duffman100** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:30 pm

Man Malauch isn't going to be there at 9. Hmm.

S.W.A.N · Post #1344 » by **S.W.A.N** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:31 pm

Duffman100 wrote:Man Malauch isn't going to be there at 9. Hmm.

Sorber just enter the conversation

WuTang_CMB · Post #1345 » by **WuTang_CMB** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:31 pm

So elephant in room is Spurs trading #2 in a package for Giannis?

WuTang_CMB · Post #1346 » by **WuTang_CMB** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:32 pm

Duffman100 wrote:Man Malauch isn't going to be there at 9. Hmm.

I think he is

WetLikeWater · Post #1347 » by **WetLikeWater** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:32 pm

well that looks rigged... dallas at 1

UnbelievablyRAW · Post #1348 » by **UnbelievablyRAW** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:32 pm

We drafting Carter Bryant

WuTang_CMB · Post #1349 » by **WuTang_CMB** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:33 pm

Read on Twitter

Appostis · Post #1350 » by **Appostis** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:33 pm

Duffman100 wrote:Man Malauch isn't going to be there at 9. Hmm.

Sadly.

Can't see our big man rotation being fixed up via the draft. Here's hoping UC sees.gr3at progress over the summer.

Spragga · Post #1351 » by **Spragga** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:33 pm

Bryant vs Koneppel who u got?

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Appostis · Post #1352 » by **Appostis** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:33 pm

WuTang_OG wrote:So elephant in room is Spurs trading #2 in a package for Giannis?

Christ...that's going to happen.

Post #1353 » by **DG88** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:35 pm

So Asa Newell anyone

WuTang_CMB · Post #1354 » by **WuTang_CMB** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:35 pm

also elephant in room - Utah is fked lol

BoyzNTheHood · Post #1355 » by **BoyzNTheHood** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:36 pm

I don’t want to hear people talking negatively about conspiracy theorists anymore. The Mavs getting that pick after trading Luka for a crappy package is as rigged as rigged gets.

Raptaurus · Post #1356 » by **Raptaurus** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:36 pm

Duffman100 wrote:Man Malauch isn't going to be there at 9. Hmm.

Probably will still be there. I can see dropping further unless the Raptora grab him.

Indeed · Post #1357 » by **Indeed** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:36 pm

ciueli wrote:
Indeed wrote:
ciueli wrote:
Here's a scouting report from that time:

https://www.nbadraft.net/players/mohamed-bamba/

And this is a Reddit thread about why Mo didn't turn into a good NBA player:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OrlandoMagic/comments/1dgbcy1/what_went_wrong_with_mo_bamba/

There's a lot of good reasons here, sounds like he couldn't do the basic things you want a big man to be good at, not a screen setter, not willing to fight for rebounds around the basket, didn't care enough to develop into a player that could be an NBA starter as he didn't gain the weight and strength needed to match up well with the other top NBA centres (an area he needed to work at coming into the NBA).

The overall comparison is bad because you're comparing a player who already has NBA level size and strength in Maluach to a guy who was underweight to be an NBA centre at 225lbs when drafted. Maluach is a vastly superior finisher at the rim on lobs which is also a big weakness of Bamba's, and Maluach is already good at setting screens, has a high motor and plays aggressive defence, it's really just comparing two completely different prospects when you look more closely beyond "tall guy with long arms who was good in college".

Maluach has a pretty bad defensive rebounding rate at less than 20%
Mamba has a 28% defensive rebounding rate.

And your claim of Bamba is not as good finisher is false. Stats has Bamba with higher dunk percentage, and the around the same at rim percentage at 76% (their difference is just 0.5% FG)

This is the reason people has Maluach more red flag than Bamba, his stats is even worse.

Said it many times, showed these stats many times, people still don't want to believe, eh.
https://barttorvik.com/playerstat.php?year=2018&p=Mohamed%20Bamba&t=Texas
https://barttorvik.com/playerstat.php?year=2025&p=Khaman%20Maluach&t=Duke

And stop referencing that garabage nbadraft.net, just because it has the domain name and Google ranked it higher, it doesn't mean it has quality.

Your constant harping on NBADraft.net is just you scrounging for fringe reasons to **** on what I've said because you don't like me for some reason. But fine, here's another similar scouting report from another site, I'm sure you'll just find more reasons to **** on it too:

https://hoopsprospects.com/2018/06/mohamed-bamba-scouting-report/

Ultimately Bamba failed because he didn't gain the weight necessary to player centre in the NBA, he was supposed to be a guaranteed defensive player but he was only 225lbs coming out of college and that was never going to cut it as a starting C in the NBA guarding guys like Jokic and Embiid, both listed at 280lbs.

Is weight the only issue Bamba has? Nope.
More like a skill issue.

Basketball_Jones · Post #1358 » by **Basketball_Jones** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:37 pm

9!?????? Freakin hell. No Mal for sure. I mean, Carter or Rasheer would be a nice pick up so all is not lost but I was preparing for Mal

CazOnReal · Post #1359 » by **CazOnReal** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:38 pm

WetLikeWater wrote:well that looks rigged... dallas at 1

That's because it was

Brinbe · Post #1360 » by **Brinbe** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:39 pm

finally time for the real convo to start up.

assuming no trades
1. Mavericks - flagg
2. Spurs - harper
3. 76ers - tre
4. Hornets - bailey
5. Jazz - vj
6. Wizards - queen
7. Pelicans - kon
8. Nets - fears
9. Raptors - maluach/bryant
10. Rockets - cmb
11. Trail Blazers - jak
12. Bulls - sorber
13. Hawks - newell
14. Spurs - essengue

if they want maluach, i think they'll still have a chance to draft him. i doubt any other team in the lotto is gonna grab him as they have Cs. it was only really chicago that was a threat