2025 Draft Thread

[Kanyewest]

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[Frichuela]

The tank race is going to be fierce…

[ogmagicfan]

This draft is looking like there be one big winner with Cooper Flagg, and 4 other prospects with star potential.

If the Wizards finish with the worst record in the NBA, they'll be guarenteed to get one of those 5 players.

Lets hope

[wewillnevertank]

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[wewillnevertank]

This draft is looking like there be one big winner with Cooper Flagg, and 4 other prospects with star potential.

If the Wizards finish with the worst record in the NBA, they'll be guarenteed to get one of those 5 players.

Lets hope

Feels more like a big 4 (Flagg, Bailey, Traore, Harper) than a big 5, but I'm open to the possibility Maluach or Edgecombe getting into that tier.

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Kinda feels like Coop's going all out here while the A team just gets in some cardio, but he definitely looks like he belongs here.

[Rafael122]

I would trade Kuzma for second round picks at this point.

[pcbothwel]

I would trade Kuzma for second round picks at this point.

Not a chance in hell.
Are you not seeing the contracts handed out to Siakam, PG13, Quickley, and Hartenstein?

I hate to keep repeating this point, but with the new CBA the "3rd star" is all but gone. It comes down to getting your 3rd-5th options on below market, cost controlled contracts.
Derrick White, KP, Aaron Gordon, Mike Conley, Al Horford, etc.

[Rafael122]

I would trade Kuzma for second round picks at this point.

Not a chance in hell.
Are you not seeing the contracts handed out to Siakam, PG13, Quickley, and Hartenstein?

I hate to keep repeating this point, but with the new CBA the "3rd star" is all but gone. It comes down to getting your 3rd-5th options on below market, cost controlled contracts.
Derrick White, KP, Aaron Gordon, Mike Conley, Al Horford, etc.

I'm just going by what I saw of the Flagg clips. If we're driving this off a cliff, drive it off a cliff, make sure to put a bus and an airplane on top of the tank as well, then kick it down another cliff. From there, you add another bus and plane and kick it off a cliff again.

[doclinkin]

I would trade Kuzma for second round picks at this point.

Not a chance in hell.
Are you not seeing the contracts handed out to Siakam, PG13, Quickley, and Hartenstein?

I hate to keep repeating this point, but with the new CBA the "3rd star" is all but gone. It comes down to getting your 3rd-5th options on below market, cost controlled contracts.
Derrick White, KP, Aaron Gordon, Mike Conley, Al Horford, etc.

I'm just going by what I saw of the Flagg clips. If we're driving this off a cliff, drive it off a cliff, make sure to put a bus and an airplane on top of the tank as well, then kick it down another cliff. From there, you add another bus and plane and kick it off a cliff again.

True but having a high usage inefficient gunner is one of the things that makes it look like you're trying to save the bus while secretly changing all the road signs to point to that canyon. Kuz' +/- and the Wizards record while he has been our 'star' player suggest that he helps us tank. If he gets some highlight reel nights that also helps us sell him to another team. The success of Gafford or KCP or Rui and many other Wizards castoffs tells other front offices that Kuz might shine if he was in a different organization. Sure. He might. But until then the safe money is that Kuz does just enough to help you lose if you rely on him as your primary guy.

[doclinkin]

I still have eyes on Cooper Flagg's Duke teammate Khaman Maluach:

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7'2" nimble, able to use left and right hand playing down low. Soccer player as a kid so he has good balance and footwork. Raw but competitive and developing swiftly, high energy and aggressive, he wants all the smoke. Reads to me as the sort of competitive arrogance that drives a player to succeed. Only been playing for 4 years in the developmental African leagues, but for a player with limited experience and so young (he will still be 18 on draft day) his upside is skyhigh.

[nate33]

The more I think about it, the more our tank will helped a great deal by Sarr and his desire to play PF. As the #2 overall pick in the draft, we sort of have to start him. And we probably are going to try hard to start Coulibaly too. That's two starting forwards who are long term projects that currently lack a reliable shot, reliable ball handling, or reliable decision-making. It's going to be hard to run an offense with those 2 on the floor together. And while their defense will be good, no doubt, they will still make young player mistakes on that side of the ball too.

It'll be interesting to see who starts if Kuzma is still on the roster. Do they bench Coulibaly, Kuzma or Sarr? Or do they start all 3 with Coulibaly as the nominal SG? I guess they have to start Kuzma if the ultimate goal is to move him by the Trade Deadline.

[NatP4]

Sarr and Coulibaly will be the only reasons this team is slightly competitive at times throughout the year.

[nate33]

Sarr and Coulibaly will be the only reasons this team is slightly competitive at times throughout the year.

Somebody has to put the ball in the basket, and it ain't gonna be Sarr and Coulibaly.

And with Sarr and Coulibaly's defenders cheating off of them to pack the paint, it'll be that much harder for our mediocre primary option scorers (Poole, Brogdon, JV, maybe Kuz) to score with efficiency. No doubt you will bash the ineffectiveness of our scorers without factoring how Coulibaly's and Sarr's inept offense are playing a big role.

Note, I'm not saying Coulibaly and Sarr will be bad players. I have high hopes, particularly for Coulibaly. I'm just saying that, right now, they are liabilities on offense, which is understandable for a couple of teenagers.

[Mizerooskie]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5580289/2024/07/10/2025-nba-mock-draft-cooper-flagg-dylan-harper-prospects/

Flagg is the ultimate winner and competitor, and the exact kind of player I’d want to join my organization. He’s the first in a group of at least five players who clearly would have gone No. 1 in the 2024 NBA Draft.

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[NatP4]

The French national team electing to go with Nando de Colo and Frank Ntilikina over this guy is nasty work.

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People are understandably going crazy over a few team USA scrimmage clips of Cooper Flagg. Traore should be the starting PG for France. Already played in 7 top French league games, and 2 playoff games at 17.

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[AFM]

That's future Wizard Cooper Flagg btw

[Rafael122]

We're due, we were one ping pong away from Wemby and the 2024 1st pick.

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...7'3" Rocco Zikarsky (17yo in the NBL last year, projected top 10 in this year's draft).

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Wow, this Rocco kid is shown stuffing Alex Sarr several times on the highlights, he moves really well.
Side comment: The small arena is full, hoops are popular down under.