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2024 NBA DRAFT THREAD 5

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Post#681 » by ArthurVandelay » Thu Jun 6, 2024 10:58 pm

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gonna disagree, Edey doesn't need a deep ball to be a good player, he just needs his current game to scale up. everything else is icing on the cake. if his TS% scales you want him as a high usage player. he has proven he can handle a huge workload on O. if he can establish himself as that good of a scoring threat inside the doubles will come and the passing reads he will need to make will be limited and easy enough to execute. take him to the film room and run drills with him nonstop to improve his processing speed on passes out of the double team and he'll be fine.

the guy has a fantastic TS% on primary/secondary option volume. if he can jack up 2 three's a game and hit at avg rate or get his FT% consistently beyond 75% he's easily an elite scorer.


Why would you want a 7’4” 300 pound guy shooting 3’s?
On offense I want him close to the basket all the time.


I mean kind of, but you can't have him play the way he did in college, unless you are committed to dumping the ball into him on most possessions and him occupying the middle of the floor on offence. He is going to be used more like a JV, so him being able to shoot the ball when he's not trying to bang and post down low is definitely an advantage in openning up space for guys like Scottie. Don't know how it can seen as a good thing, unless you think he's going to be as dominant as Shaq was, which I don't.



Eddy will be setting way more screens in the nba
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Post#682 » by DreamTeam09 » Thu Jun 6, 2024 11:02 pm

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I love high release forms on jumpers. lol makes me sad cuz I'm so not a shooter. I'll run the offense tho & make some flashy passes.
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Post#684 » by C_Money » Thu Jun 6, 2024 11:13 pm

WuTang_OG wrote:Top 10

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This would be my guy if we had the 8th pick. But sadly we don’t.
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Post#685 » by BoyzNTheHood » Thu Jun 6, 2024 11:14 pm

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deeps6x wrote:I guarantee you that (Jaylen) Brown and (Kris) Dunn are drafted OUT of the top 5.
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Post#686 » by REJECTEDBYCLARK » Fri Jun 7, 2024 12:29 am

Scheierman has a better chance of being a great role player than Knecht does of being a great 2nd/3rd option IMO. He'd need to be insane on offense to compensate for how little he brings on D, as facilitator and rebounder.

Thing with Knecht is if you scale him down to a role player his overall inefficiency in other areas will hurt you. He either better be one of the better scorers in the entire NBA or he'll be useless for winning big games like Bojan Bogdanovic. Bojan had a .642 TS% in his '21 playoff run with Utah shooting 46% from downtown on 7 ATT/36 and only put up a 0.5 BPM as the 2nd option as a starter.

Knecht just doesn't do enough.
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Post#687 » by Dalek » Fri Jun 7, 2024 12:38 am

I think if Ajay Mitchell is available at 31 he is the steal of the draft. Look at how this man finishes and creates for himself. So slippery and crafty.

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Post#688 » by BoyzNTheHood » Fri Jun 7, 2024 12:39 am

Dalek wrote:I think if Ajay Mitchell is available at 31 he is the steal of the draft. Look at how this man finishes and creates for himself. So slippery and crafty.

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deeps6x wrote:I guarantee you that (Jaylen) Brown and (Kris) Dunn are drafted OUT of the top 5.
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Post#689 » by Mr.Raptorsingh » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:09 am

Dalek wrote:I think if Ajay Mitchell is available at 31 he is the steal of the draft. Look at how this man finishes and creates for himself. So slippery and crafty.

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Post#690 » by SpezNc » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:11 am

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OakleyDokely wrote:Current Mocks:

Ringer: Walter (19) / Filipowski (31)
Tankathon: Carter (19) / Dunn (31)
Nbadraft.net: Missi (19) / Alexander (31)
Yahoo: Walter (19) / Shannon Jr (31)
Sam Vecenie: Missi (19) / George (31)
Espn: George (19) / Smith (31)
Hoopshype: Missi (19) / McCullar (31)
Cbs: Ware (19)
Bleacher: George (19)


Too many mocks have us taking Missi. It feels like that's the smokescreen being fed out, like when all of the mocks had us taking Suggs over Scottie.

These guys also don't really know a damn thing and fall into group think.

That is why every mock is pretty similar to each other.


It’s very difficult to project picks the more we advance in the draft because teams don’t know who will be available

Like a team can have a player that they like very much and think that if he is available that he is the pick . But then someone unexpected fall down and he is not the pick .

In the NHL Bob Mackenzie often explain how it’s very easy for a player to fall in a draft despite being love by many teams . A player can be the #2 guy pick after pick .

He also explain how sometimes a player “player A” get information that that he will be selected by a certain team if Player B is not available . The draft come , player B is not available and the team draft player C instead .

To come back to your original point.

Group think is definitely a thing .
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Post#691 » by SpezNc » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:16 am

Seems like we are in a “lull” in regard to draft content .

It’s been quiet since the combine
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Post#692 » by PhilBlackson » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:27 am

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OakleyDokely wrote:Current Mocks:

Ringer: Walter (19) / Filipowski (31)
Tankathon: Carter (19) / Dunn (31)
Nbadraft.net: Missi (19) / Alexander (31)
Yahoo: Walter (19) / Shannon Jr (31)
Sam Vecenie: Missi (19) / George (31)
Espn: George (19) / Smith (31)
Hoopshype: Missi (19) / McCullar (31)
Cbs: Ware (19)
Bleacher: George (19)


Too many mocks have us taking Missi. It feels like that's the smokescreen being fed out, like when all of the mocks had us taking Suggs over Scottie.


I'm actually a little surprised to see George mocked to us that much.

I don't feel like he has much buzz. It felt like to me that TDS, Tyson & Smith were all being projected ahead of him. I'm split on George, I don't have him in my top 5 desired prospects at 19. Obviously there's some nice glimpses of skill but he'd have to become PG or Cade (who are both prob quicker) like with his lack of speed and I obviously don't see that happening but who knows how he's been looking in these workouts.

I'd be really surprised if we took Walter but I still kinda like him as a prospect. But I hate the Missi pick. It's obvious we need players to spread the floor. Its obvious with Yak the defence looks better but the offence is still clunky at best when we have a big congesting tfo the paint. Again the only C that I'd use the 19th on is Ware. Either we draft the long term solution at C or don't waste it on unnecessary depth, there's already depth there. Either get a player that can combine most of the best attributes as Ware can, if not that pick can be of much better use at pretty much every other position on the court.
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Post#693 » by Psubs » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:27 am

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Dalek wrote:I think if Ajay Mitchell is available at 31 he is the steal of the draft. Look at how this man finishes and creates for himself. So slippery and crafty.

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https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/conferences/big-west/men/2024.html

This is the guy that plays in the weak conference with all the UC and Cal State colleges in it. He's like playing interfaculty basketball. :lol: It's like he's playing against U of T Scarborough and U of T Mississauga.

Oh and in that weak conference his team was still under .500. He might be this year's Malaki Branham.
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Post#694 » by PhilBlackson » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:29 am

SpezNc wrote:Seems like we are in a “lull” in regard to draft content .

It’s been quiet since the combine


I'm still waiting on Grange to be fed trash so he can tell us who the franchise is "locked in on" lol I swear Masai hates Grange for confronting him with tough questions.
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Post#695 » by DreamTeam09 » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:37 am

Apparently the #31 pick will be in demand for sure. Teams looking to trade up & target a specific player on the 2nd day of the draft. The draft being 2 days now have GM's taking a different approach to the 2nd round.

Also players might fall due to agents angeling their players to certain teams. Teams not getting everyone into workouts.

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Post#696 » by DG88 » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:42 am

SpezNc wrote:Seems like we are in a “lull” in regard to draft content .

It’s been quiet since the combine

Everyone is in Treviso Italy for the Euro Combine of the draft right now. Been only get some info from there right now. More info should come next week.
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Post#697 » by NotMyKawhi » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:49 am

Ron Holland is the guy to trade up for
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Post#698 » by Psubs » Fri Jun 7, 2024 1:59 am

DreamTeam09 wrote:Apparently the #31 pick will be in demand for sure. Teams looking to trade up & target a specific player on the 2nd day of the draft. The draft being 2 days now have GM's taking a different approach to the 2nd round.

Also players might fall due to agents angeling their players to certain teams. Teams not getting everyone into workouts.

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Trade #31 to move down a bit plus another 2nd pick in this or 2025 draft.

Ah, they have Carrington at #17. :( @ 40:55 mark

Fookin' guy echoed my sentiment that I would take him in the top 10. :banghead: Too much hype!!! :cry: Like why can't he be better than say a Cason Wallace or Scoot Henderson? I think he's like a Coby White.

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Post#699 » by Rapsfan07 » Fri Jun 7, 2024 2:00 am

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Dalek wrote:I think if Ajay Mitchell is available at 31 he is the steal of the draft. Look at how this man finishes and creates for himself. So slippery and crafty.

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I like Ajay Mitchell, I really do.

My concerns about him are he seems really unathletic and I'm not sure he's a full time PG.
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Post#700 » by Rapsfan07 » Fri Jun 7, 2024 2:07 am

NotMyKawhi wrote:Ron Holland is the guy to trade up for


Agreed. I think he has a serious chance to be stud. Masai won't do it but I think Memphis is going to miss out on Clingan so we should be dangling Poeltl.
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