WEBVTT - 2026 NBA Draft Recap & Reaction 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.360 What these young bloods have to understand at this game 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.800 has always been it will always be about buckets. 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:36.520 Attack the basket stuff, my old. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.199 Spoking to buggets. The NBA Draft is concluded, and we're 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:42.880 here to give you some Rookie of the Year bets 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:44.839 and breakdown what happened on what was. 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.680 A really interesting night in the It was not very interesting. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.320 Everything kind of happened as Chob brand and I are 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.880 on the same page of that joint means Brandon Anderson, 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:55.960 NBA Futures Analyst. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.040 You know him, uh as the AJ Devonsa. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:00:59.360 Of r O. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:00.440 I hopefully that a good thing. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.320 I don't know, he's the He's the AJ Debonsa or 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.759 Darren Peterson or Cam Boozer, depending on your perspective of ROI. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.319 You can check out his bets in the Action networkap 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.680 at Wheaton Brando to BH E A t O N 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.040 B R A N D O here for you after 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.640 the NBA Draft on Tuesday night. Second round is going 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.040 to start tonight. We will not have a recap shot 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.520 for the second round. There's nothing actionable to do with 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.480 the second round. If there are emergency podcast based off 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.600 of trades, et cetera, we'll have you set here on buckets. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.280 Want to let you know everything we talked about can 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.360 be found the award winning Action Network app Best way 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:36.480 for you to track your pick, so you have the 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.480 second information where the bets and money you are coming 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.199 in on. You got stuff if you read the article 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.560 and the Action Network about stuff like hey, Mickael Brown, 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.800 no for top five. That one worked out for us. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.200 Had some other bets that came in on the draft 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.440 hit some hits, some misses, as usual for me, Brandon, 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:53.800 how is your draft night betting? 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.760 Yeah, it was not a great night to bet against certainty, Matt, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.120 It was a really good night to have bet on 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.080 certainty because it's did like how deep into the draft 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.640 before we got anything that really caught us off guard. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.799 I guess probably Moris at that nine to Dallas was 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.320 the first, and even that was like, oh, the other 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:16.320 Michigan guy to the new Michigan coach team. So yeah, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.160 you know, I kind of said going in like I'm 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.360 doing pizza bats on long shots here, and it's kind 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.040 of betting against certainty and intel. Well, the Intel was 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.600 bull's eye on everything. And it does seem like, I know, 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.760 we all kind of freaked out about the how many 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.600 years has it been since the Polo draft? Is that 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.240 like three years ago and now four years ago when 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.359 everything kept flipping around like the last twenty four hours, 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.239 and I feel like maybe we've reacted too much to that, 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.119 and it sort of seems like we've read a couple 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.799 chalky ish drafts in a row now where I don't know, 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.880 maybe the intel is actually right and we kind of 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.000 know what we're doing here, so we ain't gain a 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.080 huge trades, we get a huge movement, no real big 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.280 player trades or anything. I don't if we got any 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.560 player trade off the top of my head from last night. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.880 So yeah, it wasn't my best. We got the Nate 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.639 Aman call right, no top ten, I was right directionally 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.040 on YAXA. Lenderberg got the under but missed the top 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.280 ten by a spot, had a Cory top twenty but 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.200 missed the top fifteen by a couple of spots. So, 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.040 you know, not my finest decent overall. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.840 I'm staying away from number two bets overall from now on. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.079 I have missed so many times on this number two pick. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:28.600 I think it's that I can always be like, oh, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.600 I see why the number one guy is going number one, 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.600 and the number two is always where I always have 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.760 question marks. I'm like, really, you're gonna take chet Holgrind 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.600 really really really, And because he's like absolutely, we're taking 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.720 Chee Holgrid with the jazz, I was like, you're gonna 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.520 pass on Camera Mooser when your dad worked there, and 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.000 like like he's such a great fit and like he's 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:46.920 the better player. Yeah, no, we're gonna pass on him. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:48.680 We're gonna Takedarn Peterson. We want to guard that average 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:50.080 one point five assist per game is what we want. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.000 Everyone's gonna praise us and think that we did awesome. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:59.080 I like you mentioned, I am just I think it's 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.680 funny the drafts hype cycle because it's like, oh, this 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.080 draft is so amazing. That was what we heard, Like, 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.400 oh it's so amazing. Like yeah, last year was just 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.000 like the Cooper Flag Draft, and I like a lot 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:09.920 of those guys. I think better than a lot of 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:14.400 these guys, and this year was like, oh, there's like 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.600 so much talent all the way through, and I'm just 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.240 you know, I I'm I'm not gonna like make Brold 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.520 proclamations because like these guys that I'm not high on 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.440 could be awesome. I have never a lotted myself as 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.560 a draft expert. I don't see the things that I 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.400 think a lot of people see. I'm also way more 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.520 concerned with like the off court stuff, Like that's always 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:32.920 where I wan was, like, do you fit the culture? 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:34.920 Are you about the things that your team wants you 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.520 to be about? Like, if you're a team that's like 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.719 we're super professional, you need to be focused on basketball 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.000 and basketball only. Are you, Oh, we're a family atmosphere, 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:43.640 you need to really be into like bonding and like 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.680 emotional maturity, right, like these types of things. And then 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.400 like I guess if you're a Utah, you're just like 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:51.440 dribble dribble, dribble, dribble. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:51.719 Shoot. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.600 So I'm sorry, we gotta stop making take a shots 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.560 to Darren Peterson. But like, you know, there's just these 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.240 different things that I care about. Like I'm just not 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.080 I'm not like, oh, man, the has got Kingston Flemings. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:02.400 But I may say him in summer league or in 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:03.960 the first week of the season and be like, oh, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:09.080 Kingston Flemings entirely possible. But like, I don't see this 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.560 as a transformational draft. You were already on this like 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.520 you just are not. You do not view this draft 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:16.880 as one that we were going to talk about for 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.799 years to come as man, can you believe that draft? 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:20.240 Right? 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:21.279 Yeah? 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.400 I think I'm just kind of in between on it. 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.560 Like I don't think it's a bad draft by any stretch. 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.240 I feel like when we talk about what makes a 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.160 great draft, usually it's one of two things. Either it's 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.960 that there is this like collection of a few absolute 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.880 stars at the top, or it's that it's this really 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.680 deep draft and there's just so many guys, so many 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.320 impactful dudes. And I think that the perception of this 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.360 draft is the former. I think it's that we have 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.000 these three potentially four guys at the top that he's 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.680 absolute stars, and you and I both are just like 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.880 it's a little bit lower on them, Like I we 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.360 just have some concerns about them. I'm not even sure 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.160 I feel like there's a clear number one guy in 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.280 the draft, number one on a team. I think it's 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.240 a lot of like second and third guys. Well, look 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.000 you look around the league, who are our best players 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.000 right now? Like Wemby of course is number one pick, 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.000 but Shae. No one thought Shaye was number one coming out. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.120 No one thought Jokic was a number one coming out. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.280 No one thought Janis was a number one coming out. Like, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.599 we don't know, but of these guys at the top, 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.760 I'm not quite there. And I just didn't love the 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.080 depth of the draft. Even by the end of the 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.840 first round, I was already kind of like half zoning out, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.360 paying more attention to the Columbia match by them. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.719 So, yeah, I think it's a fine draft. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.200 I think it wouldn't surprise me to see, you know, 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:41.240 we've got like what seven eight nine point guards that 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.120 are that are like really talented and have a lot 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:43.680 of potential. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:45.280 It's it's a fun draft. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.280 Like I'm excited to see some of these dudes play 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.560 in Summer League and like, as someone that does pay 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.200 attention in March Madness and a little bit into the 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.279 high school and McDonald's All Star or whatever, it's always 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.920 kind of a fun feeling in summer league and in 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.280 preseason when it's like, oh my gosh, you know Flemings, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.240 have you seen this? I'm like, yeah, man, for like 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:06.560 two years, he's pretty good. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:07.040 Welcome. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.680 So it's exciting to see some of those names and 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:11.360 some of that and to be on the other side too. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.160 I don't as much draft time anymore, so I get 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:14.840 to do that now with some of the guys as well. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.080 And so yeah, I think it's not too dump on 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.360 the field if you're if you're here to be like, yeah, 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.120 I'm fired up my team drafted this guy, Like we're 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.080 not trying to dump on that. I just I don't 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.440 know that this is a change the league draft. But 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.520 I don't know that we ever know that in a 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.440 draft until it's you know, five. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:32.200 And ten years later. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.200 So I think it's a good drafting. It's not a 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:38.680 great draft. You're traveling, I think tonight during the second round, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.880 I'm not. But I have like three other things on 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:43.960 my to do calendar list, Like I don't know that 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.119 I will watch one minute of the second round tonight. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.040 And we are the NBA analysts, so like that's not 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.160 being lazy at our jobs. Just there's there are not 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.480 names we need to find out about tonight. Well, we'll 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:55.600 send me the email afterward. 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.800 No, and like there will be good players selected, Like 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.520 there will be a good player there's that are chosen tonight. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.640 There have been MVPs that have been chosen in the 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.520 second round there have been Hall of famers chosen in 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.120 the second round, but I am not. I will just 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:10.960 say like, I am not good enough and do not 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.800 have the capacity to be able to provide meaningful analysis 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:15.480 off of it. There's guys I like in the second 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.160 round because I've done a cursory glance at him, but 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.360 I'm not. It is not a matter of not caring 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.600 about the second round. It is a matter of well 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.560 for me, it's like I am, by the way, just 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.240 as like a thing that the viewers, I am taking 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.600 my son to a thing called vig Con this weekend. 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:29.520 By the way, CJ. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.760 Miles is going to be there, so is Victor Oladipo. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.760 I found out I had no intention of doing that. 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.320 That's your order on those two CJ. Miles and Victor Oladipo, and. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:37.960 Not the other way. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.360 That is the order that my wife described them to me. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.679 She told me that they were there. My son wants 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.440 to be a streamer. He wants to stream like he's 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.160 a video game. He's a gamer, and so he wants 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.920 to stream, and so we're going to a big con 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.120 for him to learn more about streaming. And every time 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.040 I have been like, hey, you know, like he's like, 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.079 I want to learn how to be a great on 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.880 camera streamer. And I'm like, you know, like I like, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.439 that's what I And he's like, no, not like what 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.480 you do like and like he doesn't say it, but 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.800 I can tell he's like, you know, like good popular ones. 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:14.800 And I'm like, Okay, that's fine, it's fine kid. Anyway, 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:16.800 let's talk about riock of the Year. Let's get to 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.040 some bets off the top and talk about this what 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.520 I will go over the market. I'm surprised I can't. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.640 It's not up at Calshi, which is very surprised. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.360 That's surprising. Yeah, it's not up. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.959 It's only been up at like three books that I've 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.359 seen so far too. I believe I've seen it at DraftKings, 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.160 FanDuel and maybe about three six five, and I think 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:37.760 that's about it. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:38.560 So I'll get the. 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.320 DK since the most popular, I'll give their their board here. 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.760 Cameron Boozer is the favorite of plus two forty. A. J. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.959 Debonca comes in at plus three hundred number one pick, 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.760 and Darren Peterson at plus three thirty. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:48.640 Darius A. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.679 Cuff Woop Pig is at plus five fifty. Kale Wilson 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.640 at twelve to one, Michael Brown at fourteen to one, 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.000 Keaton Waggler at twenty Woggler, Keaton Woggler, There you Go 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.880 at twenty five to one, and Yaxel Lindenborg at thirty 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.440 to one. Brandon sends me pronunciation corrections after the show 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.440 because he doesn't want to be impolite during the show. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.400 And I'm always like, just correct me in show because 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.680 I feel this way about the way I do about 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.480 There's an old joke about this where you're not a 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.600 person until you're in the phone book. That's no longer 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.480 a things. Phone books don't exist. You're not you're I 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.480 don't care about your name U till you're announced on 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.240 starting night, that's the opening night. That's how I feel 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:25.680 about the children in college. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.920 Give me your read on the Rookie of the Year. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.360 Yeah, so, let me just do the usual profile, but 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.840 the very rapid fire bullet point thing, you know how 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.160 I do so Rookie of the Year fifteen points a 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.640 game or more, twenty five per or more, usually pushing thirty. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.400 Since the nineteen fifties, only four Rookie of the year 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.679 outside the top ten draft picks. Sorry Jack Selenderberg, you're 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.760 number eleven, you're out. Eighty percent of all rookies of 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.000 the year top five picks, almost half are just the 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.400 number one pick. Just look just last year when everyone 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.319 thought all he's long, it was kan Kin Nipple, and 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.559 then it was just Cooper Flag and number one guy. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.559 Because people want to have the legacy pick, they want 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.160 to be on the right side of history. They want 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:05.680 to vote for the. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.200 Guy they think is best. 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.959 Eleven of the last eighteen rookies of the year, we're 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:15.080 top three picks. Three more we're number four. Three more 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.120 were rookies that won when Mobili was hurt and Blake 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.480 was hurt and Ebiid was hurt. So that's seventeen out 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.080 of eighteen years that it was just a top four 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.079 pick or should have been a top four pick. That's 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.960 what we're looking at. The board is not deep and long. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.559 Here this was a four player draftmat I think it's 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.959 like all the data says, look at four names and 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.360 that's the end of this. And he usually also says 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.680 things like winning in defense and advanced metrics don't matter. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.760 But in the last decade or so, that seems to 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.120 be trending differently to where we kind of care about 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.120 that stuff. And then the last thing all was I 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:52.800 think is important. And this is why I was on 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.839 Cooper last year. Among you know, he's pretty good, pretty 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.880 easy choice. Seven of the last ten rookies of the 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.640 year were what you or I would call an offensive engine, 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.520 the guy with the ball in his hands, the guy's 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.520 doing stuff for the team. So that's just kind of 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.040 a good baseline Rookie of the year. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:10.000 I think two. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.559 You don't have to go bet it right now. It 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.000 is a long season ahead. You're on to listen to 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.839 a betting show the day after. I know you want 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.800 to bet it right now. But for reference, Cooper Flagg 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.000 last year, who I told you is who should win 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.920 Rookie of the Year was minus four hundred Rookie of 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.839 the Year on Draft Night and the opener when I 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:30.800 told you to bet him in the podcast show we did, 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.120 he was minus one seventy. He's gonna like Boozer was 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.400 plus two eighty last night, Matt DraftKings. That's what I 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.079 have in my notes. He's already down to plus two 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.040 to forty. Boozer is the right pick. Boozer is who 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:41.480 you want to pick for Rookie of the year. He's 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.400 the right guy, but it's already getting steamed down. So 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:49.960 I think it's Boozer and Debanza. I like shocking news 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.960 here to come in with these two names. I think 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.760 it's one of those two. I think that's the right order. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.280 I think A Cuff is third, but I wouldn't want 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.280 to pick him yet because he's gonna have to you know, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.640 you got lev and tomorrow, Keegans, the Bonds. I don't 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.199 know who all will be there, but you're gonna have 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.640 to get some shots later. Boozer and the Bonds are 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:06.560 gonna get their numbers. 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.880 I like Boozer. The whole thing with Cam. 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.240 Boozer is he's productive, he's got a floor. He's gonna 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.599 get the points and the rebounds, and he's he's a 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.760 good passer. I think he's like looking at I don't know, JJ. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.880 Last year was nineteen six and two. I think Boozer 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.600 is a better rebounder, He's a better passer. How about 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.880 like eighteen eight and three or something like that. I 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.480 think that's Rookie of the Year numbers that's gonna be 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.880 in the mix. AJ is not necessarily going to add, 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.800 you know, I love it, Matt not just points, points, rebounds, assists. Yeah, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.720 you're not going to fill it up on those two. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.480 And Darren Peters is not going to fill it up 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.599 on those two. In Capabileson's just not gonna get the 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:43.240 numbers yet. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:43.920 He's raw. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.400 I think it's just Boozer, and I know that's boring, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.520 but I think that's where we have to start. I 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:49.960 still know if you have to bet it yet right now? 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.520 Okay, I want to bet it right now, right now. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.959 So a couple of things I think are interesting about this. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.440 Let's start here. Uh, you're right when you look at 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.199 the Memphis profile, I worry a little bit about with 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.679 their offensive system, about Boozer getting lost. This is a 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.600 lot of what my concern is. Like as a Memphis guy, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.679 I was ecstatic that they got Boozer. He's the guy 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.320 that I thought was number one. I think he should 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.400 have been number one, clearly. I talked about this repeatedly. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.640 So like my favorite team, I don't worry different Nuggets 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.560 hat got the best player I think of the draft 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:33.680 that's really exciting. Their system is not like I don't 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.320 view them as like we're going to clear the decks 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:41.160 and make Cam Boozer the guy. They love love, love, 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.320 love love the love Zach Edy. Like I really can't 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.680 express express how much I've heard, Like this is just 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.120 stuff I've heard from sources of how much they love 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.560 Zach Edy, and I worry about that taking away from 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.080 Boozer's availability. Ceter Coward's really good. This is going to 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.200 be more of a centric Coward team. I think Ty 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.120 Jerome gets promoted to the starting unit next year, with 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.920 John Morant likely being dealt with some second rounders. So 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.280 it's like Ty Jerome and Jalen Wells and Cedric Coward 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.720 and Cam Boozer and Zach Edy. Now I love that lineup, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.600 but I'm like, God, that's so fun and awesome, and 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.680 if you had the right coach, I would believe in 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:20.760 that absolutely, But they have Twelmas silo, and so I 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.160 am very worried about that. I will think on this, 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:28.080 I think you're I don't think you're wrong. I understand 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:29.600 why you view it, because you're just like, look, he's 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.080 just gonna get the points in the rebounds and assist, 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.360 and Brandon is right about the rebounds and assists, Like 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.040 I've argued about that with him and before, and he's 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.520 just right, Like it does help. What's funny is like 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.160 Cooper won last year not because of the rebounds and assists. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:42.840 He won because of the scoring. That was the big 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.200 thing that he did last year, which was surprising to us. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:46.960 We were all like, he's gonna be this guy that 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.920 does a lot of different things, and instead it was like, no, 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.360 he's like a scorer who also happens to rebound and 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.720 assists really well. I think as his career progresses, he'll 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.920 get better at those other categories. I actually worried more 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.200 about his scoring efficiency, but I do think it matters 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.240 just from the perspective of if you can't impact the 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.080 game in other ways, like Con was a score that's 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.040 what he was, and Con probably got screwed because of 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.000 the playing tournament and the way that they did the 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:15.920 entire thing, which is nonsense, but still I do think 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.000 that the contributions that Flag made otherwise stuck in people's 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:20.760 heads to the point where even if you're like we 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.160 wasn't as good of a rebounder or passer as we 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.160 thought he was. No, but he was still a rebounder 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:25.680 and a sister. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.280 So let me ask this then, as a response to that, 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.160 as you're processing I think those are all good points. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.480 I really agree with all of it. I think that's 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.760 a good point about the Boozer fit. I do you know, 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.000 like it or not, Zach Edy, you kind of have 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.240 to assume like forty games at this point or something. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.760 So maybe that's like a wait for when Edy inevitably 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.560 gets hurt and then Boozer suddenly like doubles his rebounding 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:54.600 after that, how many Let's assume I'm directionally right on 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.520 aj Debonsa is not going to fill it up on rebounds, 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.120 and assess he's going to get some rebounds. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:16:59.840 He's a big dude. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.160 Let's say like four or five rebounds a game and 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.360 like one or two assess non meaningful numbers. Boozers got 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.640 him in those categories. But I said on the show 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:10.879 we just did the other day, I think the bounds 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.600 that can win the scoring title someday. I think you 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.719 could average thirty points a game, and the Wizard's got 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.840 plenty of scoring to go around. Like Trey's gonna get 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.320 his shots up. Anthony Davis, if he's there, is gonna 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.399 get some points. But like they got a lot of 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.159 defensive dudes, the bounds is gonna get chances to score, 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.359 and he's already a pretty lethal scorer, and he's gonna 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.360 have some big games. He's gonna have a forty point 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.400 game this year. You know he'd have a fifty point 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:36.640 game if I told you X number of points, five 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.320 rebounds to assess, one and a half, assess whatever. How 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.520 many points does Age have to do to beat the 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.639 A boozer eighteen eight and three in a Rookie of 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.359 the Year race as the number one pick on the 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.240 Wizards is it is the magic number twenty because we 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:50.520 love twenty in round numbers. 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:54.240