2025 NBA Draft Thread 2.0

fendilim · Post #1261 » by **fendilim** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:54 am

RookieStar wrote:Well project 6'10 is still in play i guess...

TDS and now Penda.... we love to be international

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Skybox · Post #1262 » by **Skybox** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:54 am

SOUL wrote:

that tracks...Suggs, Bane, Paolo...just beat teams up

RookieStar · Post #1263 » by **RookieStar** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:54 am

basketballRob wrote:
RookieStar wrote:
Knightro wrote:And if you're dying to get rid of Jonathan Isaac... now they can do it without much concern.

Isnt Penda even snaller than Flemming?
Yes, but it looks like Penda can play the wing.

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Flemming is also a wing defender. He is a JI clone

Post #1264 » by **Knightro** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:55 am

As of now...

Guards (5): Suggs, Bane, Black, Howard, Richardson
Wings/Forwards (6): Banchero, F. Wagner, Isaac, Da Silva, Houstan, Penda
Bigs (3): Carter, Bitadze, M. Wagner

thelead · Post #1265 » by **thelead** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:56 am

Dude moves like Georges Niang :lol:

Audi · Post #1266 » by **Audi** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:56 am

SOUL wrote:

That eastern conference executive: Meff Jeltman

J-Mezzy · Post #1267 » by **J-Mezzy** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:56 am

I guess we found our new JI

Steep price

VFX · Post #1268 » by **VFX** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:57 am

Oh cool Indiana gets another ball handling guard that can move an offense and play right away.

magicfan217 · Post #1269 » by **magicfan217** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:57 am

thelead wrote:
magicfan217 wrote:
thelead wrote:tbh, Fleming was the only guy I was remotely interested in with a 2nd rd pick. I wonder if Weltman made the move to get Fleming, only to be outbid by PHX a few minutes before.

That's not how this works. The trade only goes down if the guy we want is there.

We sure? Seems like they were announcing our trade right as PHX pick was being made. You're probably right but I'm not 100% sure.

The teams know the picks before they are announced. I promise you that we made the move knowing who we'd be taking.

Skybox · Post #1270 » by **Skybox** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:57 am

RookieStar wrote:Well project 6'10 is still in play i guess...

TDS and now Penda.... we love to be international

Is ORL pretty unique to have international players?

Magic_Johnny12 · Post #1271 » by **Magic_Johnny12** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:57 am

BlueBalls wrote:I’d have been satisfied enough with Penda at 46.
But where we took him, with all the capital the move required, I don’t like it. Yeah, I know… second round picks…but we’ve traded almost all of our draft capital for the next couple of years. And Penda is not some plug & play sure thing.

Dude, you can’t have it both ways.

We complain every single year about Weltman sitting on his a$$ and selling our SRP’s for cash considerations and the year he finally does what it takes to get his guy we’re now questioning the cost?!

46 and 57 are worthless in this draft. We gave up two future SRP’s to basically move up to a very low FRP.

Be happy we’re active and Weltman isn’t sleeping.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #1272 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:59 am

Our bench needs to be fleshed out. Going in with AB, Jett, TDS, Goga, JI, Caleb, Jase, and Mo just doesn’t seem like enough for next season. We have to hope that AB, Jett, Caleb, and TDS take a crazy leap.

YosemiteSam · Post #1273 » by **YosemiteSam** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:59 am

I just can’t with the “ they gave up 4 pics for this guy“ people. These were crappy second round pics that they never use. He could’ve traded eight second round picks for whoever he felt he wanted and I would’ve thought it was better than the last 10 years the second rounders.

thelead · Post #1274 » by **thelead** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:59 am

I refuse to believe that a dude that moves like Georges Niang will replace JI

magicfan217 · Post #1275 » by **magicfan217** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:59 am

fendilim wrote:
RookieStar wrote:Well project 6'10 is still in play i guess...

TDS and now Penda.... we love to be international

Read on Twitter
?s=46&t=iLAy6FEi9caa6E4C9teZYQ

This is an exciting scouting report to read.

RookieStar · Post #1276 » by **RookieStar** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:59 am

Skybox wrote:
RookieStar wrote:Well project 6'10 is still in play i guess...

TDS and now Penda.... we love to be international

Is ORL pretty unique to have international players?

Apologies... didnt complete it.

6'9ish intetnational wings

Franz
Caleb
TDS
Penda
(Wanted to incluee our italian stallion as well but might catch hate)

Post #1277 » by **Knightro** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:59 am

The 3 and the 4 are pretty interchangeable at this point, but I would consider Penda more of a 4 than a 3 if you're into that sort of thing.

I wonder if the clock is ticking on Isaac's time in Orlando.

MoMM · Post #1278 » by **MoMM** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 1:00 am

So we gave back Celtics 2nd round pick? Any final details about the future picks?

VFX · Post #1279 » by **VFX** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 1:00 am

I would like to think Isaac is gone.

But I can also absolutely see Weltman keeping him for another year just because

RookieStar · Post #1280 » by **RookieStar** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 1:01 am

Magic_Johnny12 wrote:
BlueBalls wrote:I’d have been satisfied enough with Penda at 46.
But where we took him, with all the capital the move required, I don’t like it. Yeah, I know… second round picks…but we’ve traded almost all of our draft capital for the next couple of years. And Penda is not some plug & play sure thing.

Dude, you can’t have it both ways.

We complain every single year about Weltman sitting on his a$$ and selling our SRP’s for cash considerations and the year he finally does what it takes to get his guy we’re now questioning the cost?!

46 and 57 are worthless in this draft. We gave up two future SRP’s to basically move up to a very low FRP.

Be happy we’re active and Weltman isn’t sleeping.

But we still dont know what pizza toppig theybordered now that we know hebis awake