#25: Welcome to Orlando, Jase Richardson!

[Knightro]

Jase was 15th on the consensus big board.

[fendilim]

Jase Richardson off-ball scoring.

42.9% on spot-up 3’s + 68.8% at the rim.

[basketballRob]

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OFFENSE

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DEFENSE

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Is he gonna return all those other hats? Can he send some of then to us? Id even wear a WAS or CHA hat

[Knightro]

Anything can happen of course, but I just can’t really envision a scenario where this kid completely busts given how well he shoots threes.

Like even in the worst case scenario where the on ball stuff just doesn’t translate at all and he’s just too small to hold up defensively. He’s still almost assuredly gonna be a high end catch-and-shoot player at the very least which means he can still give you minutes.

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OFFENSE

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DEFENSE

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The “His offensive game is built around economy and precision: he doesn’t waste dribbles, he plays under control, and his decision-making rarely compromises possessions” part reads like post-Cole poetry.

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I find this nice but not suspenseful. The guys at the background already have their phones out recording lol

[thelead]

Anything can happen of course, but I just can’t really envision a scenario where this kid completely busts given how well he shoots threes.

Like even in the worst case scenario where the on ball stuff just doesn’t translate at all and he’s just too small to hold up defensively. He’s still almost assuredly gonna be a high end catch-and-shoot player at the very least which means he can still give you minutes.

At worst, Duece McBride. He should be serviceable.

[dsg2021]

Jase Richardson will be the next Draft STEAL that Teams let pass by -

Spoiler:

First off, we had a ton of Jase Richardson love in the last couple days. We had some amazing, eye popping posts with advanced stats saying that Jase is HIM. I forgot who needs to take the bow for helping open our eyes on Jase if anyone wasn't checking him enough yet (Knightro made the most recent posts the past two days iirc?). I am excited to read through my fellow MagicRealGMers' older posts and newer posts showing the incredible value of Jase Richardson. Please insert copious amounts of clips and videos, haha.

In early May when I was finally looking at the draft, I actually spent a whole night constructing a 10+ filters study to produce brutally surgical top draft lists for the Magic.
One of those lists was "Guards whose Assist Rates suggest playing SG next to Suggs" and it was:

Kon Knueppel
V.J. Edgecombe
Tre Johnson
Brice Williams
Silas Demary Jr.
Chad Baker-Mazara

After I watched more tape to match the filters study, I catapulted Tre Johnson to a tier alone at #1 on that list, and then kept the rest of the list in the same order.

What I didn't tell anyone was how much it really sucked for me to eliminate Jase Richardson from that list. Jase was actually in a very close battle for #3 on that list. And I spent almost an hour trying to keep him on that list because even the defensive stats were pointing at someone who is a bit of a dog on defense. And the under hour tape looks were just not changing my mind to drop him either. The opposite. But, alas, the height was one of the most critical 10+ filters, and I had to remove him despite almost adding him and saying "height be damned, he's that good guys, sorry to completely ignore the filters after all."

People might be wary of another undersized combo type guard here, but have zero fear. He's 19, maybe there's a chance he's 6'2 or 6'3 in shoes within 3 seasons. His wingspan is 6'6, longer than Cole Anthony's and the same as Jalen Suggs, that All-NBA Defense team type of guy. Jase is a dog on defense. We are seeing some short guards still make great defensive impacts. The college stats are basically on Desmond Bane's level. And the only stat line that matters is those last 15 games when Jase started getting heavier minutes.

In 30 MPG for those final 15 games, he went 16.1 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 1.7 APG on 0.7 TO, and 1 SPG. With a RIDICULOUS efficiency line of 47 FG%, 42 3P% on 2.0 3PM per game, and 82 FT% on 4.0 FTM per game. He also had one common phenomenon as Tre Johnson. People said Tre was too weak to be a driver in the NBA, like Jase was too short to be a driver in the NBA. But both kept creeping their FTA up! You cannot ignore Jase having a certain physicality to his drives and getting to the line for 5.0 FTA per game. The whole 3P% shooting is also absolutely ridiculous to another level, I won't even cover it more in-depth because it was covered by others in the Draft Thread before and after Draft Night. His 3PT was so scary efficient that it was a wonder why he didn't shoot 3's quite as much as 2's (including drives), but that's how scary efficient he was at driving and midrange too.

He came in as a 19 year old freshman who was not even top 30 ranked out of high school over the likes of Tahaad Pettiford, a 2nd round pick probably. To compare him to other undersized scoring guards like Cole Anthony (whose rotation minutes can already be Jase's), Cole got in with a crazy high school ranking and more athleticism than most undersized guards. But Cole was 18 PPG on 38 FG% and 35 3P% with 4 APG to 3 TO. Similar story elsewhere, Walter Clayton 44 FG% and 37 3P% on 18 PPG. Kasparas (not short but still want to include him) was at 44 FG% and perennially 32 3P% even from his high school seasons while scoring 15 PPG and 5 APG to 4 TO.

Jase Richardson is in a tier above them and basically anyone else that wasn't Tre Johnson, Kon Knueppel, or VJ Edgecombe in my early May filters list study. He is a monster elite shooter. A dog on defense. He is ready to play. He won't pretend to play PG, he defends PG's on defense, and plays like a SG on offense. We were the most perfect roster to complement him, and him to complement us. And he was ESPN's Jay Bilas #1 target for the Magic too.
Guys, we just traded in KCP for Desmond Bane. And Cole Anthony for Jase Richardson. And Jase has some scary potential for being a top 5-10 player from this draft when it's all said and done in 3-5+ years.

Other Notes from Draft Night -

Spoiler:

- I actually valued Egor Demin around #8 as well. I mentioned it in May, that I would probably have had to pick him at #16 no matter what, shooting be damned.
- I actually valued Kasparas past #20 as well. In fact, I would have picked Jase over him. Probably (remember Kasparas' perennial 32 3P%). And for sure Jase over Walter Clayton. I would have also picked Jase over Nique Clifford despite my love for Nique, just because we needed that firepower and dog defense at the 1/2 area instead of someone who has to maybe defend the 3/4 areas more than 2/1. Nique also was a Usage hog, whereas Jase was fully embracing being a non-high Usage monster scorer.
- Yang Hansen was the biggest drama of the night for me. The public info of him meeting the Orlando Magic for two hours was, imho, the final nail in the coffin for POR to say screw it, we gotta secure him at #16. At least it gave the Magic like an hour to readjust, and have that longer look at trade down's, up's, and outs.

Moving Forward to the 2nd Round -

Spoiler:

I was on the train for Bigs at #25 after the Desmond Bane trade. But in the last 3 days, the free agency competition heated up a lot and the salary cap numbers crunching got more accurate for me, and all of it was making me feel a little delusional about a dreamy summer acquiring three quality tier names like NAW, GTJ, and Tyus Jones all at once in FA. It was more like, pick one, and you might get it.

So moments before #25 was called tonight, I had my top 3 Big Board as the small Jase Richardson next to towers in Ryan Kalkbrenner and Maxime Raynaud. And a few more names I would have still been content with like Fleming and McNeeley.

Suffice it to say, the armchair GM in me wants to trade #46 with the number of future 2nd's that gets us into a low #30's. Then bring in Ryan Kalkbrenner or Maxime Raynaud as the 3rd string Center with A LOT of potential to break into 2nd and 1st string (I have Kalkbrenner a tiny bit ahead of Maxime). ESPN says Maxime is BPA and should be #31, and Kalkbrenner #35. I also like ESPN's #32 BPA of Rasheer Fleming a lot, an Isaac-like PF for ORL.

There's a whole entire mess of guards, wings, and shooters in the 2nd round that I won't bother getting into. Except to say that I have a soft spot for Ryan Nembhard as a worst/middle case scenario #46 and best case scenario #57 pick that ORL has near the very end. I'm here at the Roulette table betting Ryan is a PG awfully similar to some of CP3's older seasons.

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[RookieStar]

What im sad about the Jase pick though is that Idint think wr gonna take Proctor anymore...

[fendilim]

Jase Richardson will be the next Draft STEAL that Teams let pass by -

Spoiler:

First off, we had a ton of Jase Richardson love in the last couple days. We had some amazing, eye popping posts with advanced stats saying Jase is HIM. I forgot who needs to take the bow for helping open our eyes on Jase if anyone wasn't checking him enough yet (Knightro made the most recent posts the past two days iirc?). I am excited to read through my fellow MagicRealGMers' older posts and newer posts showing the incredible value of Jase Richardson. Please insert copious amounts of clips and videos, haha.

In early May when I was finally looking at the draft, I actually spent a whole night constructing a 10+ filters study to produce brutally surgical top draft lists for the Magic.
One of those lists was "Guards whose Assist Rates suggest playing SG next to Suggs" and it was:

Kon Knueppel
V.J. Edgecombe
Tre Johnson
Brice Williams
Silas Demary Jr.
Chad Baker-Mazara

After I watched more tape to match the filters study, I catapulted Tre Johnson to a tier alone at #1 on that list, and then kept the rest of the list in the same order.

What I didn't tell anyone was how much it really sucked for me to eliminate Jase Richardson from that list. Jase was actually in a very close battle for #3 on that list. And I spent almost an hour trying to keep him on that list because even the defensive stats were pointing at someone who is bit of a dog on defense. And the under hour tape looks were just not changing my mind to drop him either. But, alas, the height was one of the most critical 10+ filters, and I had to remove him despite almost adding him and saying "height be damned, he's that good guys, sorry to completely ignore the filters after all."

People might be wary of another undersized combo type guard here, but have zero fear. He's 19, maybe there's a chance he's 6'2 or 6'3 in shoes within 3 seasons. His wingspan is 6'6, longer than Cole Anthony's and the same as Jalen Suggs, that All-NBA Defense team type of guy. Jase is a dog on defense. We are seeing some short guards still make great defensive impacts. The stats are basically on Desmond Bane's level. The only stat line that matters is the last 15 games when Jase started getting heavier minutes.

In 30 MPG for those final 15 games, he went 16.1 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 1.7 APG on 0.7 TO, and 1 SPG. With a RIDICULOUS efficiency line of 47 FG%, 42 3P% on 2.0 3PM per game, and 82 FT% on 4.0 FTM per game. He also had one common phenomenon as Tre Johnson. People said Tre was too weak to be a driver in the NBA, like Jase was too short to be a driver in the NBA. But both kept creeping their FTA up! You cannot ignore Jase having a certain physicality to his drives and getting to the line for 5.0 FTA per game. The whole 3P% shooting is also absolutely ridiculous to another level, I won't even cover it more in-depth because it was covered by others in the Draft Thread before and after Draft Night. His 3PT was so scary efficient that it was a wonder why he didn't shoot 3's quite as much as 2's (including drives), but that's how scary efficient he was at driving and midrange.

He came in as a 19 year old freshman who was not even top 30 ranked out of high school over the likes of Tahaad Pettiford, a 2nd round pick probably. To compare him to other undersized scoring guards like Cole Anthony whose rotation minutes can already be Jase's, Cole got in with a crazy high school ranking and more athleticism than most undersized guards. But Cole was 18 PPG on 38 FG% and 35 FT% on 4 APG to 3 TO. Similar story elsewhere, Walter Clayton 44 FG% and 37 3P% on 18 PPG. Kasparas (not so short) at 44 FG% and perennially 32 3P% even from his high school seasons while scoring 15 PPG and 5 APG to 4 TO.

Jase Richardson is in a tier above them and basically anyone else that wasn't Tre Johnson, VJ Edgecombe, or Kon Knueppel in my early May filters list study. He is a monster elite shooter. A dog on defense. He is ready to play. He won't pretend to play PG, he defends PG's on defense, and plays like a SG on offense. We were the most perfect roster to complement him, and him to complement us. And he was ESPN's Jay Bilas #1 target for the Magic too.
Guys, we just traded in KCP for Desmond Bane. And Cole Anthony for Jase Richardson. And Jase has some scary potential for being a top 5-10 player from this draft when it's all said and done in 3-5+ years.

Other Notes from Draft Night -

Spoiler:

- I actually valued Egor Demin around #8 as well. I mentioned it in May, I think I would have had to pick at #16 no matter what, shooting be damned.
- I actually valued Kasparas past #20 as well. In fact, I would have picked Jase over him. Probably (remember his perennial 32 3P%). And for sure Jase over Walter Clayton. I would have also picked Jase over Nique Clifford despite my love for Nique, just because we needed that firepower and dog defense at the 1/2 area instead of someone who has to maybe defend the 3/4 areas more than 2/1. Nique also was a Usage hog, whereas Jase was fully embracing being a non-high Usage monster scorer.
- Yang Hansen was the biggest drama of the night too. The public info of him meeting the Orlando Magic for two hours was, imho, the final nail in the coffin for POR to say screw it, we gotta secure him. At least it gave the Magic like an hour to readjust, maybe take a longer look at trade down's, up's, and outs.

Moving Forward to the 2nd Round -

Spoiler:

I was on the train for Bigs at #25 after the Desmond Bane trade. But in the last 3 days, the free agency competition heated up a lot and the salary cap numbers crunching got more accurate for me and showed I was starting to be delusional with a dreamy summer acquiring three quality tier names like NAW, GTJ, and Tyus Jones all at once in FA. And it was more like, pick one, and you might get it.

So moments before #25 was called tonight, I had my top 3 Big Board as small Jase Richardson next to towers in Ryan Kalkbrenner and Maxime Raynaud. And a few more names I would have still been content with like McNeeley.

Suffice it to say, the armchair GM in me wants to trade #46 and the number of future 2nd's that gets us into a low #30's. Then bring in Ryan Kalkbrenner or Maxime Raynaud as the 3rd string Center with A LOT of potential to break into 2nd and 1st string (I have Kalkbrenner a tiny bit ahead of Maxime). ESPN says Maxime is BPA and should be #31, and Kalkbrenner #35. I also love ESPN's #32 BPA of Rasheer Fleming, an Isaac-like PF a lot for ORL.

There's a whole entire mess of guards, wings, and shooters in the 2nd round that I won't get bother getting into. Except to say that I have a soft spot for Ryan Nembhard as a worst case scenario #46 and best case scenario #57 pick that ORL has near the very end. I'm here at the Roulette table betting Ryan is a PG awfully similar to some of CP3's older seasons.

You wrote this?

[dsg2021]

Anything can happen of course, but I just can’t really envision a scenario where this kid completely busts given how well he shoots threes.

Like even in the worst case scenario where the on ball stuff just doesn’t translate at all and he’s just too small to hold up defensively. He’s still almost assuredly gonna be a high end catch-and-shoot player at the very least which means he can still give you minutes.

At worst, Duece McBride. He should be serviceable.

No one on the Magic can shoot the ball like Jase can except Bane. In fact, nobody on the Magic shot better from 3 in a College freshman season than Jase did, period. Nor from most other NBA teams.

Miles McBride was 30 3P% in his Freshman year before he finally did 41 3P% in his sophomore season. Last 10-15 college games for McBride was around 38-41 3P% and with less tournament games than Jase went through. Back to Magic players now, Tristan Da Silva got to almost 40 3P% in his senior year, still not enough to match Jase's freshman year. Even Desmond Bane's freshman season could not match Jase Richardson's 3P%. Bane needed more seasons in College to do it. And the insane part is that Bane had to shoot 46 3P% one season and 44 3P% in his last college season to finally out-snipe a freshman Jase Richardson.

[dsg2021]

Jase Richardson will be the next Draft STEAL that Teams let pass by -

Spoiler:

First off, we had a ton of Jase Richardson love in the last couple days. We had some amazing, eye popping posts with advanced stats saying Jase is HIM. I forgot who needs to take the bow for helping open our eyes on Jase if anyone wasn't checking him enough yet (Knightro made the most recent posts the past two days iirc?). I am excited to read through my fellow MagicRealGMers' older posts and newer posts showing the incredible value of Jase Richardson. Please insert copious amounts of clips and videos, haha.

In early May when I was finally looking at the draft, I actually spent a whole night constructing a 10+ filters study to produce brutally surgical top draft lists for the Magic.
One of those lists was "Guards whose Assist Rates suggest playing SG next to Suggs" and it was:

Kon Knueppel
V.J. Edgecombe
Tre Johnson
Brice Williams
Silas Demary Jr.
Chad Baker-Mazara

After I watched more tape to match the filters study, I catapulted Tre Johnson to a tier alone at #1 on that list, and then kept the rest of the list in the same order.

What I didn't tell anyone was how much it really sucked for me to eliminate Jase Richardson from that list. Jase was actually in a very close battle for #3 on that list. And I spent almost an hour trying to keep him on that list because even the defensive stats were pointing at someone who is bit of a dog on defense. And the under hour tape looks were just not changing my mind to drop him either. But, alas, the height was one of the most critical 10+ filters, and I had to remove him despite almost adding him and saying "height be damned, he's that good guys, sorry to completely ignore the filters after all."

People might be wary of another undersized combo type guard here, but have zero fear. He's 19, maybe there's a chance he's 6'2 or 6'3 in shoes within 3 seasons. His wingspan is 6'6, longer than Cole Anthony's and the same as Jalen Suggs, that All-NBA Defense team type of guy. Jase is a dog on defense. We are seeing some short guards still make great defensive impacts. The stats are basically on Desmond Bane's level. The only stat line that matters is the last 15 games when Jase started getting heavier minutes.

In 30 MPG for those final 15 games, he went 16.1 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 1.7 APG on 0.7 TO, and 1 SPG. With a RIDICULOUS efficiency line of 47 FG%, 42 3P% on 2.0 3PM per game, and 82 FT% on 4.0 FTM per game. He also had one common phenomenon as Tre Johnson. People said Tre was too weak to be a driver in the NBA, like Jase was too short to be a driver in the NBA. But both kept creeping their FTA up! You cannot ignore Jase having a certain physicality to his drives and getting to the line for 5.0 FTA per game. The whole 3P% shooting is also absolutely ridiculous to another level, I won't even cover it more in-depth because it was covered by others in the Draft Thread before and after Draft Night. His 3PT was so scary efficient that it was a wonder why he didn't shoot 3's quite as much as 2's (including drives), but that's how scary efficient he was at driving and midrange.

He came in as a 19 year old freshman who was not even top 30 ranked out of high school over the likes of Tahaad Pettiford, a 2nd round pick probably. To compare him to other undersized scoring guards like Cole Anthony whose rotation minutes can already be Jase's, Cole got in with a crazy high school ranking and more athleticism than most undersized guards. But Cole was 18 PPG on 38 FG% and 35 FT% on 4 APG to 3 TO. Similar story elsewhere, Walter Clayton 44 FG% and 37 3P% on 18 PPG. Kasparas (not so short) at 44 FG% and perennially 32 3P% even from his high school seasons while scoring 15 PPG and 5 APG to 4 TO.

Jase Richardson is in a tier above them and basically anyone else that wasn't Tre Johnson, VJ Edgecombe, or Kon Knueppel in my early May filters list study. He is a monster elite shooter. A dog on defense. He is ready to play. He won't pretend to play PG, he defends PG's on defense, and plays like a SG on offense. We were the most perfect roster to complement him, and him to complement us. And he was ESPN's Jay Bilas #1 target for the Magic too.
Guys, we just traded in KCP for Desmond Bane. And Cole Anthony for Jase Richardson. And Jase has some scary potential for being a top 5-10 player from this draft when it's all said and done in 3-5+ years.

Other Notes from Draft Night -

Spoiler:

- I actually valued Egor Demin around #8 as well. I mentioned it in May, I think I would have had to pick at #16 no matter what, shooting be damned.
- I actually valued Kasparas past #20 as well. In fact, I would have picked Jase over him. Probably (remember his perennial 32 3P%). And for sure Jase over Walter Clayton. I would have also picked Jase over Nique Clifford despite my love for Nique, just because we needed that firepower and dog defense at the 1/2 area instead of someone who has to maybe defend the 3/4 areas more than 2/1. Nique also was a Usage hog, whereas Jase was fully embracing being a non-high Usage monster scorer.
- Yang Hansen was the biggest drama of the night too. The public info of him meeting the Orlando Magic for two hours was, imho, the final nail in the coffin for POR to say screw it, we gotta secure him. At least it gave the Magic like an hour to readjust, maybe take a longer look at trade down's, up's, and outs.

Moving Forward to the 2nd Round -

Spoiler:

I was on the train for Bigs at #25 after the Desmond Bane trade. But in the last 3 days, the free agency competition heated up a lot and the salary cap numbers crunching got more accurate for me and showed I was starting to be delusional with a dreamy summer acquiring three quality tier names like NAW, GTJ, and Tyus Jones all at once in FA. And it was more like, pick one, and you might get it.

So moments before #25 was called tonight, I had my top 3 Big Board as small Jase Richardson next to towers in Ryan Kalkbrenner and Maxime Raynaud. And a few more names I would have still been content with like McNeeley.

Suffice it to say, the armchair GM in me wants to trade #46 and the number of future 2nd's that gets us into a low #30's. Then bring in Ryan Kalkbrenner or Maxime Raynaud as the 3rd string Center with A LOT of potential to break into 2nd and 1st string (I have Kalkbrenner a tiny bit ahead of Maxime). ESPN says Maxime is BPA and should be #31, and Kalkbrenner #35. I also love ESPN's #32 BPA of Rasheer Fleming, an Isaac-like PF a lot for ORL.

There's a whole entire mess of guards, wings, and shooters in the 2nd round that I won't get bother getting into. Except to say that I have a soft spot for Ryan Nembhard as a worst case scenario #46 and best case scenario #57 pick that ORL has near the very end. I'm here at the Roulette table betting Ryan is a PG awfully similar to some of CP3's older seasons.

You wrote this?

Yes, I had to use the Spoilers feature because it was too long as usual :/ At least it might be my last long post for a long time. All we have left is the two 2nd's with all the odds against 2nd rounders, and hopefully a juicy MLE signing and that is less of a mystery player in the NBA.

[fendilim]

Fwiw, i think jase and tds’ 3fga rate are close.

[penny_nz]

Omg we really are in the new era of the Magic! Welcome Jase

[dsg2021]

Fwiw, i think jase and tds’ 3fga rate are close.

In TDS's Junior and Senior year with more than 30 MPG, he was .394 3P% on 3.9 3PA and .395 3P% on 4.8 3PA.

In Jase's Freshman year and in the last 15 games where he could finally just barely reach 30 MPG, he was .420 3P% on 4.6 3PA.
What about if Jase had a Junior and Senior year also?