Idiosyncratic wrote:jezzerinho wrote:GelbeWand09 wrote:
If Miami contends it will have nothing to do with Clayton. Rookies are almost always negatives in the first year. Even top 15 players like Durant.
After years and years of Orlando drafting high, you'd have thought people would notice this fact. Rookies are terrible. The only archetype that really provides anything of use at all are the very occasional upperclassman shooters with some defence, who can come in and provide some bench firepower on a contending roster.
In general though, rookies suck and they dont help at all. They're development projects for future seasons.
Yeah this is mostly true, but I will add that quite a few young bigs have been coming in pretty productive lately as well. Rookie Kessler and Lively were monsters. Edey, Clingan solid rotation guys. Ware, Filipowski, Missi, Post, Mark Williams and TJD were playable. All of those within the last 3 years, not many super high picks in the bunch.
100% agreed. Unless we see serious BPA into 6MOTY or All Star with these undersized guards, we need to get a Big at #25, give or take trading up or down a little maybe, and nothing else.
I am smashing my head into the table looking at NBA bigs and not finding any who are clear upgrades over Wendell except for maybe Porzingis. But KP might need a trade package that is too much and its also a “only if we go hardcore on not playing our injury-prone label guys as much minutes”, 2-8 regular season wins be damned by it. Instead of playing the starters too much for those 2-8 extra regular season wins.
I think Kalkbrenner has maybe no perimeter switching defense, but has great defensive presence in the paint and some 3 point shooting range. He is still taller, more wingspan, and lighter than both Wendell/Mo which means maybe he can find his ways to defend perimeter switches better and better over time. For reference, Nic Claxton has had seasons with a rating of elite perimeter defense from a Big, and he does it at 6’11 with 7’3 wingspan and 215 lbs weight only. Same thing with Jonathan Isaac at 6’11 or 7’0 with 7’2 wingspan and 230 lbs weight only
Kalkbrenner is 7’1 with 7’6 wingspan and 235 lbs weight only. I’m getting to the point of let’s trade for BRK’s #19 for Kalkbrenner since they have to pick four players in the 1st as it is. Maybe we can flip them Goga or Jett for mostly cap relief too.
Then Maxime Raynaud in the same #20’s area of the draft has a complete offensive package with even more 3 point confidence. The pseudo-scouting I’ve found and seen so far says he has elite level passing and offensive IQ that people are not seeing from the boxscore sheet. He weighs less than Wendell/Mo again, is taller than Wendell but his wingspan falls short to Wendell’s.
Maxime is 7’1 with 7’1 wingspan and 236 lbs weight only.
