Official NBA General Discussion 2025-26 V2.0

[Agimat]

I wanted Derik Queen.

Love CMB but this kid is exactly what we needed man. His offensive game would have been perfect beside Barnes and would have filled the backup C role for the short term too.

Didn't Masai scouted Queen 3x I think, but yeh hopefully CMB can make some noise at some point, he's been pretty quiet so far this season.

[HiJiNX]

I wanted Derik Queen.

Love CMB but this kid is exactly what we needed man. His offensive game would have been perfect beside Barnes and would have filled the backup C role for the short term too.

Didn't Masai scouted Queen 3x I think, but yeh hopefully CMB can make some noise at some point, he's been pretty quiet so far this season.

CMB will be a good player. But Derik Queen has multiple allstar selections ahead of him.

Derik Queen exemplifies what I hate about what NBA scouting has become since the 2000s — too much focus on physical characteristics and not enough emphasis on if someone can simply play. Watching the kid in college it was easy to see he could just play.

[PhilBlackson]

I honestly love CMB but it never made sense to me why we would use a top 10 pick in a loaded draft on a player that plays the same position as our best player, that also plays a pretty similar style.

With Masai stating multiple times he wanted a young big to develop, I thought for sure we're drafting one, Queen made so much sense when he could do everything Yak does offensively and obviously so much more. No he's not great defensively but he's nowhere near as bad as some make him out to be. His biggest issue on that end is consistency (because he does actually pressure the ball well at times and contest - just not often enough - so obv he needs to improve conditioning) which would be my 2nd part was I thought we'd help him develop his body, diet etc that I said before if I had to pick one kid to be a potential all-star outside of the top 6, it would be him.

And even if we didn't take him, obv there's Coward too. I understand that we have a ton of SGs but there is no all-star caliber one and he still has the size to play backup SF to supplement his minutes. It's not like his buzz was a secret as a potential steal. I'll admit he wasn't the top of my board (but still on it). But all of this is where our FO should not only have the intel, they're the ones who actually got to see BOTH Queen and Coward up close & personal, we worked both out multiple times. I still really like CMB that I won't call it a "mistake" because he will be a solid player but it feels like a "missed opportunity" to put it very kindly and it kinda sucks because the FO should've know this (should be) was their last top 10 pick for awhile, so why not go for upside and especially at one of the positions that could use one?!?! Anyways it is what it is...

[TheRaptor!]

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