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Hard no on Hood-Schifino... High turnover rate, I don't like his shooting form, especially what he does with the lower part of his body. Is he masking that he shoots 3's with 2 hands? In his highlights he looks like he plays at his own speed, but if that's the case, why the turnovers?
My list is looking like:
Cason Wallace
Kobe Bufkin
Jordan Hawkins
Clowney as a stretch big off the bench wouldn't be too bad, but not at 13 or 14 in the draft.
Still High/ Curious about:
Keyonte George
Jett Howard
But I have some concerns with both. Everyone else I'm interested in should be drafted ahead of the Raps, or are second round/undrafted types.
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Still super early.. but if I had to rank my top 13 I'd go something like this right now:
1. Wembanyama
2. Miller
3. Henderson
4. Ausar. Thompson
5. Amen. Thompson
6. Dick
7. Hawkins
8. Sasser
9. Sensabaugh
10. Black
11. Bufkin
12. Wallace
13. Hendricks
With Leonard Miller and Bilal Coulibaly being guys I'd be fine with too and are pretty close to Hendricks.
I understand that my love for Sasser is irrational. But I think he's one of the best PG in this class. His size and age are the only detriments. Age I'm never worried about. The size thing is the bigger concern for me. You would immediately have to ship out Fred though which I think this board will be fine with
I'm not comfortable either with the Thompson twins but will put them in the top 5. They have good stats and all but I wish they played in college. We've had 905ers dominate in the G-league too, who can't make the team. I'd pick them and trade down with someone who really wants one (or both) of the kids.
Outside the top 4 though.. I like Dick the best. I think he'll be taken before we select at 13 though. If we don't take Sasser (and I doubt we will).. I'm looking at a guard that can shoot as a trait I really think we need to prioritize. Thus Bufkin over Wallace. And Bufkin isn't even a great shooter.. but he has far more potential at it than Wallace IMO.
Bilal Coulibaly is that wild outside the box pick. He looks like a Masai type of pick. Hard to rank Euro's but he's got a pretty interesting game from some video's I've seen of his.
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blackjitsu wrote: View PostHard no on Hood-Schifino... High turnover rate, I don't like his shooting form, especially what he does with the lower part of his body. Is he masking that he shoots 3's with 2 hands? In his highlights he looks like he plays at his own speed, but if that's the case, why the turnovers?
My list is looking like:
Cason Wallace
Kobe Bufkin
Jordan Hawkins
Clowney as a stretch big off the bench wouldn't be too bad, but not at 13 or 14 in the draft.
Still High/ Curious about:
Keyonte George
Jett Howard
But I have some concerns with both. Everyone else I'm interested in should be drafted ahead of the Raps, or are second round/undrafted types.
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planetmars wrote: View PostStill super early.. but if I had to rank my top 13 I'd go something like this right now:
1. Wembanyama
2. Miller
3. Henderson
4. Ausar. Thompson
5. Amen. Thompson
6. Dick
7. Hawkins
8. Sasser
9. Sensabaugh
10. Black
11. Bufkin
12. Wallace
13. Hendricks
With Leonard Miller and Bilal Coulibaly being guys I'd be fine with too and are pretty close to Hendricks.
I understand that my love for Sasser is irrational. But I think he's one of the best PG in this class. His size and age are the only detriments. Age I'm never worried about. The size thing is the bigger concern for me. You would immediately have to ship out Fred though which I think this board will be fine with
I'm not comfortable either with the Thompson twins but will put them in the top 5. They have good stats and all but I wish they played in college. We've had 905ers dominate in the G-league too, who can't make the team. I'd pick them and trade down with someone who really wants one (or both) of the kids.
Outside the top 4 though.. I like Dick the best. I think he'll be taken before we select at 13 though. If we don't take Sasser (and I doubt we will).. I'm looking at a guard that can shoot as a trait I really think we need to prioritize. Thus Bufkin over Wallace. And Bufkin isn't even a great shooter.. but he has far more potential at it than Wallace IMO.
Bilal Coulibaly is that wild outside the box pick. He looks like a Masai type of pick. Hard to rank Euro's but he's got a pretty interesting game from some video's I've seen of his.
Cason Wallace had a shoulder injury before that he was shooting 50% fomr the field he shoots 70% at the rim. only 10 % of his shots are asssisted in the mid range.
Bufkin Shot 55/45/88 splits since February so the suggestion that those two can't shoot is false.
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time to bring everyone back down to earth ….! bufkin is a point guard and all that space to go downhill was created by……..
the kid has talent but this is a SG draft and one of the SG in this draft will become a major piece. he doesnt fit at all and it would be a major mistake to draft him. unless all the SG are gone.
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The Great One wrote: View Post
Youngest player in the draft. Can create his own shot, adequate shooter, great athlete, same body type as Paul George. He's #1 on my list now.
1. Jackson
2. Bufkin
3. Rupert
4. Hawkins
He doesn't really "create his own shot." He dribbles a lot and takes shots, which is not the same thing: 42% on twos, 34% on threes, that's nothing to write home about. He's a poor passer and a horrible defender. His team was straight up garbage this year.
The case for him is that he is young and has an NBA body. Lots of players are young with an NBA body and most of them flame out, and he looks a lot more likely to flame out than average because he doesn't have one above-average NBA skill right now. He'd maybe be worth a late first/early second as a flyer but the risk/reward balance is just too extreme to waste a lotto pick on him.
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I'm just going to say this: our biggest weakness this year was shooting. It was not playmaking, it was not shot creation, it was shooting first and shooting last and shooting in between. If we had had league average shooting all year, Scottie, Pascal and Fred would all have been contending for the assists leadership.
Given that, I do not understand why people are looking at anybody other than Gradey Dick (well, Brandon Miller if we somehow get a top-four slot, but realistically etc). He is the best shooter in the draft, and I mean he is an elite shooter. He's a smart player with some playmaking and passing ability, so he's not just a volume chucker like Brice Sensabaugh is (and Sensabaugh is absolutely a one-dimensional scoring chucker). Assuming we let Gary go and trade one of Pascal or OG (which seems the most likely scenario right now), he fits into our starting five better than anybody else on the board. The defense isn't great, but that's more on him having weak lateral quicks rather than not having good defense IQ, so in a proper defense he shouldn't be a turnstile. And there's a good chance he's available in our pick range.
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