Speaker 1: The Volume. All right, welcome to hoops tonight here at
Speaker 1: the Volume. Happy Friday, everybody. I hope all of you
Speaker 1: guys had an incredible week. The NBA Draft was last night,
Speaker 1: and obviously, as you guys know, I don't have the
Speaker 1: time to hit on every single draft prospect, but I
Speaker 1: did target four in particular for some of our high
Speaker 1: profile teams and specifically guys that are going to need
Speaker 1: to play a lot next year for teams that have
Speaker 1: high expectations. For the Los Angeles Lakers, I've Jalen Hood
Speaker 1: Chafino and Maxwell Lewis for the Golden State Warriors, Brandon Podziemski,
Speaker 1: and last but not least, for the Dallas Mavericks, the
Speaker 1: number one high school recruit from twenty twenty two, a
Speaker 1: center who played sparingly for Duke Mister Derek Lively, is
Speaker 1: going to be a center and a very important piece
Speaker 1: for Dallas Mavericks team that desperately needs playable role players
Speaker 1: next seas. And so we're gonna do full scouting reports
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Speaker 1: let's talk some basketball. So starting with the Los Angeles Lakers,
Speaker 1: who have, in my opinion, the very best college scouting
Speaker 1: department in the NBA, just routinely hitting on players far
Speaker 1: back in the draft or even undrafted. Whether that's Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves or it's Alex Caruso or it's Kyle Kuzma. There
Speaker 1: is a long line of Laker draft picks, particularly ones
Speaker 1: that are outside of the lottery or outside of the obvious. Ironically,
Speaker 1: Lonzo Ball is probably the worst recent draft pick of theirs,
Speaker 1: and he was the number two overall pick. So when
Speaker 1: it comes to in most of Loonzo's issues were related
Speaker 1: to health. I actually thought he was a very very
Speaker 1: good player when he was healthy. But the Laker scouting
Speaker 1: department does a really, really good job, and so I'm
Speaker 1: excited to dive into these two picks, and I liked
Speaker 1: both of them a lot. After diving further into it,
Speaker 1: so Jalen Houchifino is your textbook pull up shooting guard.
Speaker 1: And remember, pull up shooting is a specific weakness for
Speaker 1: the Lakers, and I think that's a big part of
Speaker 1: why they targeted him. In particular, he's very big compared
Speaker 1: to most ball handling guards. He's six ' four point
Speaker 1: twenty five without shoes, so he's a little over six
Speaker 1: five with shoes, massive wingspan, six ' ten in a quarter.
Speaker 1: He weighs about two hundred and seventeen pounds. That's very
Speaker 1: big for a guard his size. So he's big and strong.
Speaker 1: To give you guys a comparison Bruce Brown, who obviously
Speaker 1: wasn't a ball handling guard, well, he did bring the
Speaker 1: ball be floor, but wasn't like a you know, a
Speaker 1: guy that would spam ball screens. But to give you
Speaker 1: an idea of size after you just watched the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: Bruce Brown is six three and a half without shoes
Speaker 1: and has a six to nine wingspan. Weighed one eighty
Speaker 1: seven in college and is up to two poh two now,
Speaker 1: So he's basically a slightly bigger version of Bruce Brown
Speaker 1: in terms of his physical profile, though he is not
Speaker 1: the same type of athlete that Bruce Brown is. He's
Speaker 1: not nearly as explosive. At Indiana averaged four eighteen, four
Speaker 1: and four on forty two percent from the field, thirty
Speaker 1: three percent from three seventy eight percent from the line,
Speaker 1: again as a freshman, so he's playing against older players
Speaker 1: often and in a pretty high usage role. Surprisingly, what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go over some of
Speaker 1: his play type data from Synergy and then tell you
Speaker 1: what I saw on film. So Indiana score three hundred
Speaker 1: and two points on three hundred and sixty six Jalen
Speaker 1: pick and rolls, including passes. He almost always ran his
Speaker 1: pick and rolls from the middle of the floor, and
Speaker 1: he almost always used the screens. He doesn't reject picks off,
Speaker 1: and that's something that I'd like to see him do
Speaker 1: a little bit more in the NBA. Almost always takes
Speaker 1: a pull up jumper. About fifty percent of the time
Speaker 1: when he comes off of the pick, he takes a
Speaker 1: pull up jump shot. He shot forty one percent on
Speaker 1: pull up jump shots last year forty six percent when
Speaker 1: you weigh it for three, so forty six percent in
Speaker 1: effective field goal percentage. Those are really good numbers for
Speaker 1: a young guard. The tons of young guards are super
Speaker 1: inefficient on pull up jump shots, and they take them
Speaker 1: and they look good every once in a while, but
Speaker 1: they miss a ton. Uh Jalen Rich if you know,
Speaker 1: I actually did a really nice job knocking down pull
Speaker 1: up jump shots last season. Got a really good floater
Speaker 1: as well. Forty one on floaters. Has a good mix
Speaker 1: of them as well. Like you take the traditional floaters
Speaker 1: that you see everyone else take, but he can also
Speaker 1: take these sweeping floaters as he's going lateral from the rim,
Speaker 1: he can make those as well. On tape, I was
Speaker 1: really impressed with his handle. I thought he had good
Speaker 1: control of the basketball, does a good job protecting the
Speaker 1: basketball too by turning his back. Obviously, still amounted a
Speaker 1: few turnovers, as you expect from young guards. That'll go
Speaker 1: away as he gets better at managing ball pressure with
Speaker 1: more reps, especially in the NBA. Very methodical in pick
Speaker 1: and roll play, slow, slowly works to his spots, which
Speaker 1: is the way you should play when you're a below
Speaker 1: average athlete who has good physical tools. He's big and strong,
Speaker 1: not the most explosive dude in the world. That has
Speaker 1: turned him into a slow and methodical ballscreen operator. He
Speaker 1: does a good job of not like kind of pre
Speaker 1: selecting or pre determining his moves. He just kind of
Speaker 1: makes reads. He doesn't try to go hunt his shot.
Speaker 1: He just tries to create the advantage for his offense.
Speaker 1: And that's where I think he's at his best. Particularly
Speaker 1: in that tournament game against Miami, they were trapping him
Speaker 1: and blitzing him on a lot of pick and rolls.
Speaker 1: Didn't try to do too much, just kind of pulled
Speaker 1: away and used his height in his long arms to
Speaker 1: dump the ball over the top to the big man.
Speaker 1: Every single time the screen defender engages with him, he
Speaker 1: just gets rid of the basketball, whether it's a pocket
Speaker 1: pass to the role man or that over the top pass,
Speaker 1: and it blitz very good at getting rid of the
Speaker 1: basketball to the rollman. Struggles a little bit with cross
Speaker 1: court reads to the weakside corner. He's a little slow
Speaker 1: to see it and a little inaccurate, but that'll come
Speaker 1: in time, and he's got big enough hands and long
Speaker 1: enough arms that I actually think he's going to be
Speaker 1: really good at that in the long run. Does take
Speaker 1: a lot of jump shots in the mid range and
Speaker 1: a lot of floaters, but he makes him at a
Speaker 1: good percentage. He's just your textbook big guard that can
Speaker 1: make plays off the bounce. With this Laker team that
Speaker 1: likes to use Lebron James and Anthony Davis as screeners
Speaker 1: a lot, they need guards who can run ball screens,
Speaker 1: and I don't think they're gonna bring back Lonnie Walker.
Speaker 1: It remains to be seen if they can bring back
Speaker 1: Dennis Schroeder if he stays on a minimum. I'm sure
Speaker 1: the Lakers would love to have him back. But Dennis
Speaker 1: played really well last year, so there's a good chance
Speaker 1: that he gets a mid level exception deal this year.
Speaker 1: That means that it's gonna be Austin and D'Angelo Russell
Speaker 1: in the front court or in the back court to start,
Speaker 1: and then off the bench, like maybe Malik Beasley if
Speaker 1: they even keep him, they could use him as trade
Speaker 1: ballasts as well. So, like it depends to see, it
Speaker 1: depends on what the Lakers do this offseason in terms
Speaker 1: of bringing in guards. I wouldn't be surprised if they
Speaker 1: brought in a one or two veteran minimum level guards.
Speaker 1: But Jalen Huchefino's gonna have a really good opportunity to
Speaker 1: earn that backup shot creator role and play off of
Speaker 1: the Lakers bench a couple other play types. He was
Speaker 1: only point seven to two points per possession in spot
Speaker 1: up situations. He shot much much better on pull up
Speaker 1: jumpers than catch and shoot jumpers. He shot forty one
Speaker 1: percent on pull up jump shots, thirty one percent on
Speaker 1: catch and shoot jump shots, thirty percent when he was unguarded. Now,
Speaker 1: this is somewhat common because has a lot to do
Speaker 1: with the way his role is structured. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: he took one hundred and ninety six pull up jump
Speaker 1: shots last year with Indiana only sixty four catch and
Speaker 1: shoot jump shots. So the post is always in his hands,
Speaker 1: and so there's a different rhythm and flow to shooting
Speaker 1: off the dribble than there is off the catch. And
Speaker 1: when you're constantly taking all of your shots off of
Speaker 1: the dribble, sometimes your catch and shoot situation just feels
Speaker 1: a little clunky to you because it's a completely different
Speaker 1: type of shot. But he's got really good touch, as
Speaker 1: you see on his float, as you see on his
Speaker 1: pull up jump shooting percentage, as you see on his
Speaker 1: free throws. He's seventy eight percent from free throws. Which
Speaker 1: is solid. So my thing is I tend to think
Speaker 1: that as a catch and shoot player, he will get
Speaker 1: much much better once he learns to construct a muscle
Speaker 1: memory that he can depend on in those situations so
Speaker 1: that he can utilize the great touch that he has
Speaker 1: when he's catching and shooting. Not only that, in spot
Speaker 1: up situations, he's got such a good handle and his
Speaker 1: gifted playmaker that he can't and he's got good size
Speaker 1: that he should be great attacking closeouts, which is something
Speaker 1: he didn't do very well last year. So I think
Speaker 1: he'll be better at that in the long run. But
Speaker 1: that's definitely a weakness for him right now is spot
Speaker 1: up situations. But again, if he's coming off the bench
Speaker 1: for the Lakers as a primary ball handler, it'll be
Speaker 1: more important for him to be able to make plays
Speaker 1: in pick and roll. He had nineteen points on sixteen
Speaker 1: ISOs and shot fifty percent in those situations. But that's
Speaker 1: really low volume, so not too much to take away there.
Speaker 1: Shots just fifty three percent at the rim on tape.
Speaker 1: What stood out to me took a lot of really
Speaker 1: difficult shots at the rim, trying to draw fouls, you know,
Speaker 1: just throwing shit up and falling on the floor. That's
Speaker 1: gonna hurt your percentages. Obviously not the most gifted athlete
Speaker 1: in the world, so a lot of times he's shooting
Speaker 1: over the top of people instead of just going through
Speaker 1: them or around them on defense. Not overly quick, but
Speaker 1: he does have really long arms, which helps gifted in
Speaker 1: help situations at kind of digging down and grabbing at
Speaker 1: the basketball and recovering. In the Miami game and the tournament,
Speaker 1: rough defensive game for him, really struggled containing the Miami guards,
Speaker 1: was getting beat off the dribble a lot, aureg going
Speaker 1: navigating over screens. But he did have better stretches of
Speaker 1: on ball defense during the regular season and on film.
Speaker 1: A lot of it was just bad technique, like reaching
Speaker 1: in instead of staying solid, giving up the driving lane
Speaker 1: or on the screen instead of prepping to step over
Speaker 1: the top, just kind of walking headlong into it because
Speaker 1: he's not doing his preps. So a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that I think he can get better at, I think
Speaker 1: is really good tools. And so he could certainly become
Speaker 1: a switchable guard that can guard bigger wings because he's
Speaker 1: got good size and the length to bother ball handlers
Speaker 1: at the point of attack. But he's gonna need to
Speaker 1: work on some of his technique stuff and some of
Speaker 1: his foot speed stuff to succeed in the NBA, especially
Speaker 1: as we all know NBA teams are gonna spam pick
Speaker 1: and roll with really good guards. Overall, I like to pick.
Speaker 1: I think it fills a specific need. They needed a
Speaker 1: backup guard that can run ball screens. The Lakers are
Speaker 1: actually pretty deep at forward right now with Ruyatcha, Murrage,
Speaker 1: Aired Vanderbilt, Lebron James, and Anthony Davis. He also played
Speaker 1: with a really gifted role man at Indiana with Tracy
Speaker 1: Jackson Davis and did a good job of utilizing him
Speaker 1: and getting in the basketball. That's a decent fit with
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. Whether or not he gets significant rotation minutes
Speaker 1: is going to come down to the types of players
Speaker 1: that the Lakers can get in free agency for the
Speaker 1: minimum and what he can contribute on the defensive end.
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Speaker 1: pick number forty. The Lakers trade it up and so
Speaker 1: That's why I wanted to cover Maxwell Lewis, because clearly
Speaker 1: the scouting department really liked this guy because they went
Speaker 1: out of their way to move up to get him
Speaker 1: by trading their pick and some cash. He's a textbook
Speaker 1: scoring forward. He's six ' six in a quarter without shoes,
Speaker 1: seven foot wingspans of super long arms, two hundred and
Speaker 1: seven pounds, little fin not bad though, softomware, you're Pepperdine.
Speaker 1: Seventeen point six rebounds and three assists, forty seven percent
Speaker 1: from the field, thirty five percent from three to seventy
Speaker 1: nine percent from the line. To me, he's your textbook
Speaker 1: tip of the spear scoring forward. So he's not the
Speaker 1: guy that's going to attack a set defense and consistently
Speaker 1: create great shots. But if God can consistently set him
Speaker 1: up with close out opportunities and mismatches, he's going to
Speaker 1: be able to score there because when the defender is
Speaker 1: coming at him or out of position, he's really good
Speaker 1: at playing that leverage game, getting them to lean one
Speaker 1: way and go the other, or if he has a
Speaker 1: size advantage, using his body with his back turn to
Speaker 1: get closer to the basket. And he is awesome at
Speaker 1: finishing plays when he is set up. He's a deadly
Speaker 1: spot up shooter sixty three percent effective field goal percentage
Speaker 1: in catch and shoot situations, eighty three percent effective field
Speaker 1: goal percentage in unguarded catch and shoot situation, so deadly.
Speaker 1: When he is catching the ball in the perimeter and
Speaker 1: shooting threes, teams treat him like a catch and shoot
Speaker 1: guy who's deadly, so they close out super hard. And
Speaker 1: that's where I was most impressed with Max. He's really
Speaker 1: good at identifying the angle the guy's closing out at
Speaker 1: and just quick ripping. So like, if the dude's closing
Speaker 1: out at his left shoulder, he's not gonna pump fake
Speaker 1: or wait, he's just gonna rip right on the catch
Speaker 1: or the other way. If he does have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to bait the guy into leaving his feet because he's
Speaker 1: further away, then he can utilize the pump fake. I
Speaker 1: actually posted a clip of one of his pump and
Speaker 1: rip dunks during a game this season. You can find
Speaker 1: that on my Twitter feed. Really really impressive play, multiple
Speaker 1: counter moves. Again, not gonna break you down off the
Speaker 1: dribble in a set situation, but when he makes let's
Speaker 1: say that a guy closed out to his left shoulder
Speaker 1: and he rips through, but the guy like recovers and
Speaker 1: beats into the spot. He's gonna spin back or hit
Speaker 1: it behind the back dribble to get back to the
Speaker 1: left to get all the way to the rim. He's
Speaker 1: always got a counter move ready, specifically turning his back
Speaker 1: to the basket and using his sizes as an advantage.
Speaker 1: And he's really good at shooting when he's got his
Speaker 1: back turn in the basket. He's fifty five percent on
Speaker 1: hook shots, sixty three percent at the rim. Had a
Speaker 1: lot of high flying dunks this Year's got really good
Speaker 1: physical tools to get up over the rim. He's also
Speaker 1: was a very successful post player, especially especially against mismatches.
Speaker 1: He's uh he scored seventy six points on seventy four
Speaker 1: post ups including passes, which is awesome at the college level.
Speaker 1: Really patient, just kind of keeps that dribble live when
Speaker 1: guys are digging at him and kind of waits for
Speaker 1: guys to go home, and once things kind of clear up,
Speaker 1: then he just hits it to the side to try
Speaker 1: to get to the rim. So again, in a back
Speaker 1: to back situation, guys guarding me back to back. The
Speaker 1: easiest way sometimes is just to go around him, and
Speaker 1: so he'll make a lateral move quick and try to
Speaker 1: get to the other side of the rim finishes there.
Speaker 1: Really well, that'll be an interesting thing for the Lakers
Speaker 1: to build out over the years, especially with Phil Handy.
Speaker 1: He saw a lot of people on Twitter comparing him
Speaker 1: to Trey Murphy, and I actually really really like that
Speaker 1: cump because he's like the three and D guy but
Speaker 1: with real scoring chops. But remember it, with Trey Murphy,
Speaker 1: the defensive end ended up being the issue for him.
Speaker 1: Primarily He's got great tools, but his instincts and his
Speaker 1: foot speed ended up being an issue. That's going to
Speaker 1: be the big thing for Max is is he going
Speaker 1: to be able to be playable defensively because he's not
Speaker 1: super quick, but he does have great tools, So a
Speaker 1: lot of it's going to come down to his basketball
Speaker 1: IQ on the defensive end of the flour. Overall, good
Speaker 1: forward depth for the Lakers, especially for future seasons or
Speaker 1: in the case that the Lakers have to move one
Speaker 1: of Ruey or Van Doh in a trade. So really
Speaker 1: good draft for the Lakers once again, at least from
Speaker 1: what I can tell up front. Obviously, time will tell
Speaker 1: as the guys play in the league, but I like
Speaker 1: both of these guys. Moving on to the Warriors, Brandon
Speaker 1: Podzamski's textbook lefty scoring guard. A little bit undersize, six
Speaker 1: three and three quarters without shoes, short arms, six five
Speaker 1: and a half wing span, weighs two hundred and four
Speaker 1: pounds tho, so he's built pretty well for his size.
Speaker 1: Didn't play much at Illinois, then transferred to Santa Clara
Speaker 1: and was awesome last year at Santa Clara. I averaged
Speaker 1: twenty points nine rebounds how about that and four assists.
Speaker 1: Shot forty eight percent from the field, forty four percent
Speaker 1: from three, seventy seven percent from the line, two point
Speaker 1: three stocks per game, a lot of steals. I think
Speaker 1: he was one in one point eight steals per game.
Speaker 1: They were doing a lot of pressing and he was
Speaker 1: really active in the press, getting steals for quick runout
Speaker 1: dunks and things like that. Playtype data awesome shooter, one
Speaker 1: point one to one points per possession in spot up situations,
Speaker 1: deadly knocking down shots and attacking clobe outs. Sixty six
Speaker 1: percent effective field goal percentage on catch and shoe jumpers
Speaker 1: eighty four percent effective field goal percentage on unguarded catch
Speaker 1: and shoe jumpers, so just a deadly shooter, very good
Speaker 1: off the dribble, forty percent on pull up jump shots,
Speaker 1: fifty three percent effective field goal percentage on pull up
Speaker 1: jump shots, and a good short game forty five percent
Speaker 1: on floaters, sixty seven percent on hook shots. Was a
Speaker 1: good pick and roll shot creators zero point eight nine
Speaker 1: points per possession, which is good for that level. Faced
Speaker 1: super aggressive coverages too. Teams were picking him up as
Speaker 1: soon as he passed half court, the defenders, all the
Speaker 1: screen defenders, all the way up at the level of
Speaker 1: the screen constantly He's getting bracketed. Had to work really
Speaker 1: hard to set up his man for ball screen, so
Speaker 1: he faced pretty intense defense throughout the season and still
Speaker 1: did really well. Just an outstanding passer, just makes these
Speaker 1: unbil There was this one where he threw a lob
Speaker 1: where he was going towards his left and he threw
Speaker 1: a hook lob from below his waist that was right
Speaker 1: on target above the rim for their big man to
Speaker 1: grab it and dunk it. Makes a lot of really
Speaker 1: impressive passes in pick and roll and is a great
Speaker 1: shot creator. He shot fifty percent effective field goal percentage
Speaker 1: when shooting out of pick and roll, a lot of
Speaker 1: like janky stuff, funky looking shots, a lot of like
Speaker 1: step through floaters, and weird looking high arching shots, but
Speaker 1: they just tend to go in, as you can see
Speaker 1: in the numbers. I actually think he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: really good fit in the Warriors motion offense. Why he's
Speaker 1: awesome in spot up situations. He had a fifty two
Speaker 1: percent effective field goal percentage coming off of screens, and
Speaker 1: he had a fifty four percent effective field goal percentage
Speaker 1: coming off of dribble handoffs in addition to all this
Speaker 1: stuff I was talking about in pick and roll. So again,
Speaker 1: he's another one of those guys kind of like the
Speaker 1: Tyler Harrow mold, where like he's really good when he
Speaker 1: gets separation naturally as part of the coverage, which is
Speaker 1: something I think he's gonna get a lot in the
Speaker 1: Warriors motion offense. So I really like the fit offensively,
Speaker 1: the defensive end is gonna be the issue. He's not
Speaker 1: overly tall, his short arms, very athletic, but he's not
Speaker 1: a good point of attack defender. So he's vertically athletic,
Speaker 1: not latterly athletic, but He is an outstanding rebounder, grab
Speaker 1: nine rebounds per game last year, which is amazing. Think
Speaker 1: about kind of like what Dante de Vincenzo did for
Speaker 1: the Warriors last year. Just kind of a super aggressive rebounder,
Speaker 1: especially on the offensive end. Dante's a better athlete, but
Speaker 1: not as good as a shooter. And Dante was a
Speaker 1: little definitely a better defensive player, good quick feet and
Speaker 1: was a good ball pressure guard for the Warriors. So
Speaker 1: I expect Dante to opt out. There's a lot of interest,
Speaker 1: specifically from the New York Knicks from what I've been
Speaker 1: hearing a reading. I should say so honestly, like if
Speaker 1: he can defend well enough, he can take that rotation spot.
Speaker 1: But that's the same thing I'm gonna say about everybody
Speaker 1: else on this list, all four of these guys. Again,
Speaker 1: this is something to keep in mind, like young players
Speaker 1: don't win in the NBA. Michael Porter Junior was the
Speaker 1: only guy below the age of twenty five who played
Speaker 1: over one hundred minutes in the NBA Finals, and he
Speaker 1: also was the guy who played the worst. Typically speaking,
Speaker 1: especially when you get the late playoff rounds, it's grown
Speaker 1: men that win in playoff games. And so none of
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna play much in all likelihood, and
Speaker 1: if they do play it like a Christian braun, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be because they can defend and their coach trusts
Speaker 1: them in those situations. So again, I like to pick
Speaker 1: great offensive fit. Whether or not he ends up being
Speaker 1: a useful player is gonna come down to the defensive end,
Speaker 1: and Steve Current particular is already not super high in
Speaker 1: playing young guys for the Mavericks. Derek Lively this was
Speaker 1: the number one prospect in the twenty twenty two class
Speaker 1: out of high school according to ESPN's College Basketball Recruiting Service.
Speaker 1: He's a center seven foot one, seven to seven wingspan,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen pounds, very thin, only played twenty
Speaker 1: one minutes per game at Duke. Averaged five points, five rebounds,
Speaker 1: and one assist per game, shot sixty six percent from
Speaker 1: the field, did average two point four blocks per game,
Speaker 1: and had an eight block game at one point during
Speaker 1: the season, So some real rim protection stuff there. He
Speaker 1: was an awesome roleman. He shot twenty four for twenty
Speaker 1: eight on rollman possessions this year with Duke. Just caught
Speaker 1: everything and dunked everything. Legit vertical spacing threat, easy target
Speaker 1: above the rim. That's going to be a great fit
Speaker 1: with Luka Doncicch Kyrie Irving. But this pick is all
Speaker 1: about rim protection. According to Synergy, players shot just thirty
Speaker 1: nine and a half percent at the rim against Lively,
Speaker 1: which is the eighty third percentile. So that's very good.
Speaker 1: Super mobile defender and pick and roll, very good at
Speaker 1: getting up to the level of the screen to dissuade
Speaker 1: the pull of jump shot sprinting back into the picture
Speaker 1: to contain at the rim. Has a really good recovery
Speaker 1: athleticism when he's out of position. A lot of like
Speaker 1: really impressive blocks on tape where you're like you feel
Speaker 1: like he's completely buried or completely out of position, yet
Speaker 1: somehow gets back there and makes a play. I thought
Speaker 1: he played with really good motor like it wasn't like
Speaker 1: he was lumbering around on defense. I thought he was
Speaker 1: moving around and playing hard. He does struggle a bit
Speaker 1: with bigger post players. There was this big center for
Speaker 1: NC State that was just barbecue and his ass with
Speaker 1: like his big kind of like chubby guy just barbecuing
Speaker 1: his ass with like quick pivots and getting him out
Speaker 1: of position with like a chicken wing to get all
Speaker 1: the way to the basket. I do really like this
Speaker 1: pick though. Do you guys remember the Brooklyn Nets team
Speaker 1: from last year that was really good before Kyrie Irving
Speaker 1: blew it up with a trade request and they had
Speaker 1: won like a like something crazy like twenty five I've
Speaker 1: out of twenty seven games or something like that. Nick
Speaker 1: Claxon was a big part of that. Just a skinny, lanky,
Speaker 1: hyper athletic rim protector that could be kind of the
Speaker 1: baseline for their defense. And this guy has theunity. Derek
Speaker 1: has the opportunity to be that type of a foundational
Speaker 1: rim protector for this Dallas team. He needs to improve
Speaker 1: in a bunch of areas and needs to improve in
Speaker 1: free throw shooting, needs to boke up a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I do think he could be the foundation of
Speaker 1: a credible defense next season. So Derek Lively for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks. I really liked that pick as well. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do a mailbag episode next week on Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: maybe I'll take one or two other prospects. If I
Speaker 1: get enough people asking about it, I'll hit a couple
Speaker 1: more prospects during the mailbag episode. Next week. Also, I'll
Speaker 1: tweet out a tweet asking for questions as well. But
Speaker 1: anything you guys want to talk about next Wednesday, I
Speaker 1: don't care if it has nothing to do with basketball.
Speaker 1: Drop it in the comments under this video and we'll
Speaker 1: be doing that mailbag episode next Wednesday. As always, I
Speaker 1: sincerely appreciate you guys. I will see you Monday as
Speaker 1: we break down all the news from the weekend. The
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