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2024 NBA Draft thread (Workouts, scouting, prospects)

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Post#81 » by Wizop » Thu Jun 27, 2024 12:26 am

Pacers Forever wrote:Did you see the Pacers qualifying offer to Obi ?

Shocked it’s 1 year for 7.74 million. Wow I hope they like him more than that ? Must be strategy to match someone else’s offer ?


They only needed to follow the rules to make him restricted. The bidding hasn't started.
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Post#82 » by Pacers Forever » Thu Jun 27, 2024 12:33 am

Wizop wrote:
Pacers Forever wrote:Did you see the Pacers qualifying offer to Obi ?

Shocked it’s 1 year for 7.74 million. Wow I hope they like him more than that ? Must be strategy to match someone else’s offer ?


They only needed to follow the rules to make him restricted. The bidding hasn't started.


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Post#83 » by Scoot McGroot » Thu Jun 27, 2024 1:36 am

Pacers Forever wrote:
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Pacers Forever wrote:Did you see the Pacers qualifying offer to Obi ?

Shocked it’s 1 year for 7.74 million. Wow I hope they like him more than that ? Must be strategy to match someone else’s offer ?


They only needed to follow the rules to make him restricted. The bidding hasn't started.


Ah okay


That’s not a negotiated price. It was contractually set when he was drafted.
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Post#85 » by Wizop » Thu Jun 27, 2024 2:31 am

Names on our radar have started to appear at the bottom of TV's best available list. We need some surprise picks.
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Post#86 » by Wizop » Thu Jun 27, 2024 3:03 am

Dadiet and Dillon Jones were on my wish list but someone on the best available list will be there at 36 and I have a few other targets

Edit Dunn gone as expected.
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Post#87 » by Pacers Forever » Thu Jun 27, 2024 3:08 am

Ryan Dunn didn’t fall enough and Suns got him.
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Post#88 » by Pacers Forever » Thu Jun 27, 2024 3:23 am

Projected first round picks not taken.

Johnny Furphy
Tyler Kolek
Kyle Filipowski

Best available for tomorrow 1-25 per ESPN

Johnny Furphy
Tyler Kolek
Kyle Filipowski
Bobi Klintman
Cam Christie
6) Adem Bona
Tyler Smith
Juan Nunez
Kevin McCullar Jr.
Justin Edwards
Johnathan Mogbo
Ajay Mitchell
Cam Spencer
Ulrich Chomche
Harrison Ingram
Pelle Larsson
Jamal Shead
Jaylen Wells
19) Melvin Ajinca
20) Keshad Johnson
Nikola Djurisic
K J Simpson
Jalen Bridges
Antonio Reeves
Bronny James

Pacers have pick # 6, 19, 20 tomorrow
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Post#89 » by Pacers Forever » Thu Jun 27, 2024 6:33 am

Pacers Forever wrote:Projected first round picks not taken.

Johnny Furphy
Tyler Kolek
Kyle Filipowski

Best available for tomorrow 1-25 per ESPN

Johnny Furphy
Tyler Kolek
Kyle Filipowski
Bobi Klintman
Cam Christie
6) Adem Bona
Tyler Smith
Juan Nunez
Kevin McCullar Jr.
Justin Edwards
Johnathan Mogbo
Ajay Mitchell
Cam Spencer
Ulrich Chomche
Harrison Ingram
Pelle Larsson
Jamal Shead
Jaylen Wells
19) Melvin Ajinca
20) Keshad Johnson
Nikola Djurisic
K J Simpson
Jalen Bridges
Antonio Reeves
Bronny James

Pacers have pick # 6, 19, 20 tomorrow



This being the case if the Pacers are set on making all 3 picks I’m still ok with in no certain order these project prospects

Kevin McCullar Jr.
Jalen Bridges

After further research would also consider these
Harrison Ingram
Keshad Johnson
Ulrich Chomche - as a euro stash

I’ve moved off of liking Adem Bona.


I’ve come to the point of believing that whomever is drafted will not be able to take minutes away from the bottom of our current roster. I just feel like drafting so late in this draft will net us developmental players similar to the uphill climb Kendall Brown has faced.

Last season pick #36 was ANDRE JACKSON JR. to the Bucks. He averaged 10 minutes and 2.2 points this year. We have pick #36 this draft.

Last season with the #47 pick the Pacers drafted Mojave King and with the #55 pick Isiah Wong. Woo frickin hoo. They both ended up in the G league :x contributing nothing to the organization.

I just don’t believe Chad can pull a solid rookie contributor out of the draft this year since the draft picks were so late. But I hope one of them has more potential than King and Wong.
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Post#90 » by JMaster5K » Thu Jun 27, 2024 10:19 am

Pacers Forever wrote:
Pacers Forever wrote:Projected first round picks not taken.

Johnny Furphy
Tyler Kolek
Kyle Filipowski

Best available for tomorrow 1-25 per ESPN

........

Pacers have pick # 6, 19, 20 tomorrow



This being the case if the Pacers are set on making all 3 picks I’m still ok with in no certain order these project prospects

Kevin McCullar Jr.
Jalen Bridges

After further research would also consider these
Harrison Ingram
Keshad Johnson
Ulrich Chomche - as a euro stash

I’ve moved off of liking Adem Bona.


I’ve come to the point of believing that whomever is drafted will not be able to take minutes away from the bottom of our current roster. I just feel like drafting so late in this draft will net us developmental players similar to the uphill climb Kendall Brown has faced.

Last season pick #36 was ANDRE JACKSON JR. to the Bucks. He averaged 10 minutes and 2.2 points this year. We have pick #36 this draft.

Last season with the #47 pick the Pacers drafted Mojave King and with the #55 pick Isiah Wong. Woo frickin hoo. They both ended up in the G league :x contributing nothing to the organization.

I just don’t believe Chad can pull a solid rookie contributor out of the draft this year since the draft picks were so late. But I hope one of them has more potential than King and Wong.


Yeah,.. I don't think we get an immediate contributor this year. This draft, at least to me, is about who is going to have potential in 2-3 years, when Pascal is in the last year or two, JJ is a coach, Myles has completed his next extension & we need someone to back him up?....

I like Tyler Smith,... didn't think he would be there. Could be a really good fit for the bigger, combo-forward. He's got a lot to learn on defense & needs a lot of seasoning,... but has the physical tools & basic skill set to develop into a legit player.

Still like Chomche as a draft & stash big to learn (during the summers) behind Myles. He's got Olajuwon athleticism, but makes Bol-bol seem like a developed, seasoned vet.

Like Enrique Freeman,... For me, he's got a bit of that Antonio Davis toughness to him?...But he's probably 3 years away from being a consistent rotation player even at 12-15 minutes a game?

Also like Oso Ighodaro,.. Heard an interview this week with one of the scouts that interviewed him. They played a game,.. where they would start a tape of an action, then stop it,... Oso would then tell the coach what the offense was trying to do and what would happen next. He was right like 80% of the time.....

If Chad manages to draft a rookie this year,.. that by the end of 24-25 is starting to see actual minutes,.... Then we need to lock him up for the next 40 years !! :lol: :D

P.S. - I don't think we are actually going to draft these guys,.. we didn't really work any of them out. Wouldn't fit the Pacers history to draft someone without spending time with them.
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Post#91 » by basketballwacko2 » Thu Jun 27, 2024 10:28 am

At 36 I'm for Kyle Filipowski, Tyler Smith or Bobi Klintman one of them should be there and then I'd try to trade up and combine the 2 later picks. Who would do it? IDK? Maybe the Clippers or the Heat?
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Post#92 » by JMaster5K » Thu Jun 27, 2024 11:00 am

From the Star on Freeman:

Freeman averaged a double-double in his last three seasons at Akron, earning All-MAC honors in each of those seasons and leading the Zips to a pair of MAC Tournament titles and NCAA Appearances. He was also named MAC All-Defense four times, MAC Defensive Player of the Year in 2021-22 and Player of the Year this year, averaging 18.6 points and 12.9 rebounds per game.

From the combine:
Enrique Freeman PF 6' 7.25' '9' 0.00'' 212.0 7' 2.00'' 10.99 3.04 3.26 30.5 35.0
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Post#93 » by Wizop » Thu Jun 27, 2024 12:34 pm

there are more than 6 players I'd be happy with. they'll probably surprise me and take someone else but I trust our scouts. the last two picks are two-ways at best and one could be stashed or sold. I wonder if any of our current two ways will get a regular contract and move up to create space for a new two way or just get waived. I suspect they'll all be brought to camp and get a shot in summer league.
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Post#95 » by Wizop » Thu Jun 27, 2024 8:47 pm

I'm hearing we traded up one spot and got Furphy
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Post#96 » by Wizop » Thu Jun 27, 2024 9:47 pm

I was telling my TV Chomche and Newton. I like Newton as third unit PG.
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Post#97 » by Wizop » Thu Jun 27, 2024 9:53 pm

Furphy was expected to go in the first but several posters had Newton and Freeman. Well done.
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Post#98 » by Pacers Forever » Thu Jun 27, 2024 10:34 pm

I’m hoping that the Pacers can get Keshad Johnson and Jalen Bridges to the Mad Ants for future development possibilities.
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Post#99 » by Wizop » Thu Jun 27, 2024 10:53 pm

I was hoping a big would go undrafted and we could offer a two way or exhibit ten but no such luck
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Post#100 » by Scoot McGroot » Thu Jun 27, 2024 10:58 pm

Pacers Forever wrote:I’m hoping that the Pacers can get Keshad Johnson and Jalen Bridges to the Mad Ants for future development possibilities.


Jalen Bridges just agreed to a two way with the Suns.

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