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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up,

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire Fan, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for

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Speaker 1: Thursday in June. It's Draft Day. Can't wait. Love it.

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Speaker 1: It's not as good as the NFL Draft, but I

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Speaker 1: do love me some NBA draft. That will be on

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Speaker 1: Cowherd Show later this morning. Talking about the draft. What

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Speaker 1: I think will happen. I did a mock draft for

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports. We had friend for Silla on Monday to

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Speaker 1: kind of set the table for the draft, and now

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop on you guys. I was gonna do

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Speaker 1: the entire first round because this is how much of

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Speaker 1: a draft geek I am. I was willing to dive

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Speaker 1: deep and go through every single pick that I like.

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Speaker 1: In the first round, I break every single one down,

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Speaker 1: like what is happening with Charlotte, And it's two picks

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Speaker 1: like do you care? No? Maybe fourteen people who listen care,

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe fourteen, But I'm gonna spare you that. And

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Speaker 1: we'll go through kind of the hot items and the

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Speaker 1: it down after that. But what I love about the

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Speaker 1: life at large when you compare it to the draft,

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Speaker 1: because when a lot of people see these prospects, and

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Speaker 1: we can start with Chet home grown, right, they see

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Speaker 1: Chet and see what he is not. And that's a

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Speaker 1: huge problem in the draft. Oh Chet, he doesn't post

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Speaker 1: He's too skinny, that's what they're saying when they see

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Speaker 1: him now. But that's not the mentality for drafting. And

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Speaker 1: it's the same thing when you look at people that

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Speaker 1: out with, perhaps people that you know you think would

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Speaker 1: fit in a certain role, and you're like, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, that's what they are now, but what

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Speaker 1: and they be? And that's why I think that a

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Speaker 1: lot of the NBA draft struggles. Now, the NFL has

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Speaker 1: draft struggles as well, but the NBA has massive wines.

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Speaker 1: There was an article by a guy Kevin Arnovitz wrote

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Speaker 1: about how basically the Phoenix Suns are just kind of

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Speaker 1: ignoring the draft. They think a lot of these players

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Speaker 1: are too young. And I'm not just talking about this year.

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Speaker 1: I'm just talking in general. They also there was a

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Speaker 1: being scouted, everybody was like, oh, there's no way this

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Speaker 1: guy could survive. He's eighteen, he's going to be away

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Speaker 1: like the fifth league in Greece. There's no way this

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Speaker 1: guy is gonna make it. And that's like the dumb

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Speaker 1: way to look at the draft. You know, I'll never

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Speaker 1: forget in the NFL, people look at a guy like

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Speaker 1: you know, he was getting to run off the n

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Speaker 1: finished five better. For like the first nine years of

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Speaker 1: I really feel like a lot of teams get it wrong. Listen,

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Speaker 1: I know. This article that I'm mentioning was written by

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Speaker 1: hooray Phoenix Suns. What the article did not mention, conveniently

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Speaker 1: so was in when or maybe it was, they had

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Speaker 1: the EuroLeague Final four. He got up close looks at

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Speaker 1: Luka Done at the euro Final four said that's he's

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Speaker 1: did not want Luka Done set for eight and eight

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Speaker 1: And Luka Done, of course, is on his way to

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Speaker 1: If you can't see that, I can't help you. So

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Speaker 1: not as long as chet Homebrun, but Jabari Smith checks

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Speaker 1: all the boxes. Six ft ten, he had seventy three pointers.

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Speaker 1: He's a full year younger than chet Homebrun. He's nineteen

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Speaker 1: And I wrote this for Fox. They've prioritized length. Remember

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Speaker 1: I like Jabari Smith, I don't. I don't love him

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Speaker 1: chet I think there are legitimate concerns with Chet Homegren

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Speaker 1: Can Chet stay healthy? These super duper tall, skinny guys,

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Speaker 1: that title winner two years ago for the Bucks. Took

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Speaker 1: him a while to figure it out. You know, brook

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Speaker 1: you add Bari Smith, there's still twenty five thirty wins. Okay,

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Speaker 1: good nucleus shade Gil just Alexander, Josh Kitty Chat homegrown

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Speaker 1: don't see any greatness yet. Now the team that I

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna get Bancarro. There has been kind of

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Speaker 1: some chatter this week that ban Caro is gaining steam

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Speaker 1: be kind of a trail of bread crumbs. Not you

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Speaker 1: can't put too much stock into workouts. But the second

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Speaker 1: ban Carro worked out for Houston, like within five minutes,

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Speaker 1: okay a day, uh, Christian Wood was traded. They knew, Okay,

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Speaker 1: on the wing, like a powerful, powerfully built wing guard.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if he dominated a Kentucky, maybe there's

424
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Speaker 1: Encys the number one player in this draft. Um. I

425
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 1: guess one of the weird things about him is you

426
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,440
Speaker 1: just don't really know what you're getting. And apparently he's

427
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 1: flopped in some of these interviews and he hasn't looked

428
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Speaker 1: great in these three on threes and it's like, Okay,

429
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 1: this guy is really really awesomely talented. But is he

430
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 1: gonna fit with the Dame Lillard timeline? I don't get it.

431
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 1: But one thing to remember is the new front office

432
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 1: in Portland hired this guy from ESPN, Mike Schmidtz. He

433
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 1: was covering like international ball, and Schmitz has done a

434
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Speaker 1: lot of work on Shaden Sharp and he's hyped him

435
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Speaker 1: a lot. And that was even before getting to Portland.

436
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 1: So I think you gotta watch a kid Sharp here

437
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 1: to Portland's I mean again, if Dame Lillard calling the

438
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: shots like good luck, you know, you guys are gonna

439
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: be in a waste land for a little while, and

440
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: I just don't think it's gonna work. But at number eight,

441
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: New Orleans, you've also got a situation where you're kind

442
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,399
Speaker 1: of stacked. And I know that sounds weird because for

443
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 1: the most of the year we just made fun of

444
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 1: New Orleans. They were a punching bag. Then c J.

445
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 1: McCollum comes into town. C J. McCollum and Um Brandon

446
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 1: Ingram played great together, and all of a sudden it's like,

447
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: whoa wait, do we have something here? And then next

448
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 1: thing you know, Paul George gets COVID the day of

449
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 1: the playoff game, the play in game, and the Clippers lose,

450
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 1: they ran out of gas in a close game. And

451
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: then New Orleans against Phoenix, Devin Booker gets hurt, I

452
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: think in game two, and New Orleans is able to

453
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Speaker 1: push it to six. And and you go from basically

454
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Speaker 1: New Orleans being like, man, we are, We're not good.

455
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: There's a zion he wants out. We stink, We're not

456
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Speaker 1: gonna make the playoffs too, Holy cow, are we kind

457
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: of loaded, c J. McCollum, brandon Ingram Valanciunis, Davonte Graham.

458
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Speaker 1: I mean, we made the first round, push Phoenix to six,

459
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Speaker 1: and we didn't have our best player. Like what happens

460
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Speaker 1: when we get Zion? Do we have something? So New

461
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: Orleans has a bit of a luxury here in that

462
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 1: they don't need to draft anyone. Herb Jones was a

463
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Speaker 1: smash hit for them, Like you add Zion to their

464
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Speaker 1: top seven, and now they got like a solid ape

465
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Speaker 1: man rotation. Like there's no rookie you're getting here. That's

466
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Speaker 1: cracking that, which is why two names come up, Shade

467
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 1: and Sharp, the kid out of Kentucky, and then Dyson

468
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,159
Speaker 1: Daniels out of the G League. He's kind of a

469
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Speaker 1: wing one of these. He's actually born in Australia, and

470
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Speaker 1: I don't want to. I mean, we talked about this

471
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Speaker 1: briefly on the POT a couple of months back. But

472
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Speaker 1: like the US born basketball players are a different breed

473
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Speaker 1: than international born players. Luca don Chech comes to the

474
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Speaker 1: league dominant, Yokich dominant, Janice dominant. Like these international players

475
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: are starting to take over and they're a little unselfish

476
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that all Americans are selfish players.

477
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: But this kid, Dyson Annuals is like a defense first

478
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: team second kind of guy. He's not jacking up bad shots.

479
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: And if you look at some of his YouTube videos,

480
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Speaker 1: if you squint really hard, you can see a little

481
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: a little bit of Jalen Brown of Boston. And maybe

482
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,880
Speaker 1: that's recency bias from the playoffs, but like this kid

483
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 1: Dison Daniels on the wing, like he's probably going in

484
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Speaker 1: the top ten New Orleans, San Antonio at nine. I

485
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 1: don't know. I just get this vibe that sharpened Daniels.

486
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: Are two guys who are not going to help you immediately,

487
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Speaker 1: but in two or three years, what are they going

488
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Speaker 1: to be? Like Trey Young, who somehow I made into

489
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Speaker 1: like a hot button issue on Twitter this week when

490
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Speaker 1: I said I think he can lead a team to

491
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Speaker 1: a championship. Trey Young got the Hawks to the conference

492
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Speaker 1: finals when he was twenty two years old. And I

493
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Speaker 1: challenge you to tell me who the second best player

494
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Speaker 1: on that Atlanta Hawks team was, because there was really

495
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Speaker 1: nobody else right on there. If you want to go

496
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Speaker 1: John Collins, fine, go ahead, John Collins. By the way,

497
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Speaker 1: they're looking to trade John Collins here today, and I

498
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Speaker 1: just I mean, I think Trey Young can he lead

499
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Speaker 1: a team to a championship? Sure, I think he can.

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Speaker 1: I mean I know Isaiah Thomas did, and he was

501
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: the last true point guard, and Steph Curry has done it.

502
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: But he's got the system. And point guards now don't

503
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: lead the league. And we've said it a many times.

504
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: We know right now wings are dominant. You need wings

505
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Speaker 1: to win. But I watched Chris Paul go anywhere and

506
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: when a lot of games hasn't gotten over the hump,

507
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: but point guards are still extremely pivotal. And Trays not

508
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,880
Speaker 1: your average point guard. He's not a traditional point guard.

509
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: He's a shoot first point guard. Ship and Sharp is

510
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 1: a shoot first, combo guard, slash wing the guys apparently

511
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: six six, built like a tank, and he can play.

512
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: But does he know how to play? Is you know

513
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: how to play winning basketball? And you know he's gonna

514
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: go Top ten? Sobil diyce In Daniels and the tenth

515
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Speaker 1: and final pick of or the final pick in the

516
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Speaker 1: top ten. It could be anybody could be this kid.

517
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: Johnny Davis from Wisconsin. The end of the year, he

518
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 1: struggled a bit for the Badgers. He was injuredy at

519
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: an ankle injury. But this guy had nine point game

520
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 1: this season, five or more points, all American. He's a

521
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: super talented wing. He's a culture guy. The Knicks need

522
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: that at eleven. Washington could use that at ten. Um

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Speaker 1: My guy Usman Dang from New Zealand Breakers. It's so

524
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: funny the narrative on these players. Guys. You guys know,

525
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: I'm a minority owner in the New Zealand Breakers. We

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00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: had r J. Hampton a few years ago. We had

527
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Speaker 1: Dang and a guy who may get taken early second

528
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: round Hugo best song from France. Like, I'm watching all

529
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Speaker 1: the Breakers games on YouTube TV. A lot of these

530
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Speaker 1: guys who claimed to be draft pundits, and when it

531
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 1: gets around draft time, everybody loves the draft, right. None

532
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: of these guys were watching Dang early. They just look

533
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: at the stat lines and are like, oh, he was

534
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: playing poorly, he was playing terrible. Folks. He was eighteen

535
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 1: years old, left his family in France to go to

536
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Speaker 1: New Zealand to play basketball with grown ass men. What

537
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: do you think is going to happen? Of course he's

538
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: gonna struggle, But guess what he's a smart, talented player.

539
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 1: And oh either way, he figured it out and come

540
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: like the final few games of the season, you're like,

541
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,199
Speaker 1: holy cow, this guy's really getting it now. The Breakers

542
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: were not good last year. Again, COVID has crippled them

543
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,719
Speaker 1: in the NBA. They're not playing home games and when

544
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: they were, they were empty. It wasn't good. They had

545
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: a poor record, I think, the second worst record in

546
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: the league. But the kid, dang, I'm telling you he

547
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: either he's gonna be in a lottery. A lot of

548
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: people seem to think he's a lock to the Calves.

549
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: That's if you get by the Spurs, And okay, see

550
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 1: we know is hey, we're just gonna draft the best

551
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 1: player on the board and figure it out later. So

552
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: this kid is good. He's a very strong player. I

553
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: like him a lot. I think he's in the top

554
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: four teen. I think not as highly of Jalen Durhing,

555
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: the kid, the eighteen year old from Memphis, if you

556
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: want my deeper thoughts to me and Fran discussed him

557
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: on Monday. I'm just I'm not a huge fan of

558
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: his work. I think, yes, sure, doubt three years from now,

559
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: could he be something at twenty one. Yeah, okay, sure,

560
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: Charlotte think they can wait three years? Do you think

561
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, who dad's in a playoff series winning forever,

562
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: can keep waiting? Like, I don't know what's going on Charlotte.

563
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: They can't find a head coach, Like what's going on there?

564
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: Same with my Nicks. They they're a disaster. I'm I's

565
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: kind of glossed over the Wizards. I know we have

566
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: a large Washington audience, given I'm from the d C

567
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: area and basically a lot of my friends from wide

568
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: school and college listen. Washington's in a tough spot. Bradley

569
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: Beal decided he's going to opt out, which I guess

570
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: was expected because he can make more money staying in

571
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: Washington after opting out. But I just I don't see

572
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: what Bradley Beal is doing. I think I chronicled that

573
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: he's made a hundred and forty five million dollars playing

574
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: basketball for the Wizards. He's approaching I think twenty nine.

575
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: Do you want to just continue to make a lot

576
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: of money and not win anything, or do you want

577
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: to maybe make a little bit less money and win

578
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: Because d million dollars and I know Jason taxes, agent

579
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: come on expenses. These guys are ballers. I get it fine,

580
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: whatever can conservatively by the bill at worst case scenari

581
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: he wastes money like it's water. Bradley Beale's worth million

582
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: dollars right at the minimum, right if you want nobody

583
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: to go with that, Like, I don't know, guys, he's

584
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: made a lot of money at someone who plays a

585
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: lot of pickup ball and I am playing later this morning.

586
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: I just don't understand the idea of I would rather

587
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: make a lot of money and never win anything. Then oh,

588
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: I've made a lot of money. Now it's time to win.

589
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: Like doing that at like thirty three can be tough.

590
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest with you. If I'm Beal, I'm

591
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: looking to go elsewhere. Fox Sports Radio has the best

592
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,239
Speaker 1: sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our

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00:30:55,640 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: That being said, Washington is like not quite a blank slight,

596
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: but they're pretty barren. I would say, um, this is

597
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: a Washington team with outside of Beal, folks, their point

598
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: guards last year were Thomas Satoranski and Ish Smith, Like

599
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: But what else do I need to say? KCP, Kuzma, Porzingis,

600
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: I do like Rui Hachimura, Thomas, Bryan Stanks, can't stay healthy, Ada,

601
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: Corey Kissburg, Daniel Gafford has shown flashes, but this team

602
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: needs a lot. If I'm Bradley Bill, I'm looking around,

603
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, we're gonna win thirty thirty five games?

604
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: You know what are we doing? I just I don't

605
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: get it. The guy I like doesn't really fit what

606
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: they need, which is a point guard. I don't think

607
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: you can really reach for a point guard at ten. Uh,

608
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: it's if sharp is on the table, I'm sure they'll

609
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: get him. He's not a true point But I mean,

610
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: look at Boston, I don't have a true point Warriors

611
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: don't have a true true point guard um In Curry.

612
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: But there really isn't a point guard at ten that

613
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: you can grab. And I don't know. I have them

614
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: taking Tari Easton from l s U and I gushed

615
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: about him on the Pot earlier this week. I remember

616
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: that stat that I told you guys about offensive um

617
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: offensive rating Ken Palm and the number one player was

618
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: Keegan Murray. The number eight player was Tari Eason. He

619
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: he just fills up the statuet like and again, I

620
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: know I talked about winning players a lot, but give

621
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: me the guy who is going to occasionally block a shot.

622
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: He's gonna hustle for rebounds. He's gonna get his hands

623
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: in the passing lanes, get deflections, get to the foul line.

624
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: Eastern does all of this. Now. I know he jumped

625
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: around high schools a couple of times. He went to Cincinnati,

626
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: then he went to l s U. And it's like, well,

627
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: this is a perfect guy. I'm not ending the pot here,

628
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: but a perfect guy to end on because he fits

629
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: into what is he Teams look at him and see, okay, six, eight, Huh,

630
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: he's probably not a three. He can defend threes, but

631
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: he's not three because he can't. He doesn't shoot the

632
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: three he only made last year, but did shoot from

633
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: the line. Historically, if you're a good free throw shooter

634
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: and the shot looks good and you're making free throws,

635
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: then that should translate to threes. That's what historically has happened.

636
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: That being said, Easton doesn't fit into the box of

637
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: a three and d wing because he's not the three yet.

638
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: And maybe Ken be he's not the four because he's

639
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: a little undersized. Could he be a small ball five?

640
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: Is he long enough to be a you know, Dreymond

641
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: Green type player where he just does a little bit

642
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: of everything. I'm telling you, guys, somebody's gonna get him later.

643
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: And he is already years old, so there isn't as

644
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: much interest around the older guys as there are around

645
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: Oh he's nineteen, so that's him growing to do as

646
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,239
Speaker 1: a player. And you know, so a lot of tot

647
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: the mock drafts earlier this morning, and a lot of

648
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: them have Easton down in like the fifteen to twenty range.

649
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: I have him in like the seven to eleven range.

650
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's twenty one, but I'm telling

651
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: you this guy is going to be a steal. He's

652
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 1: going to be a huge contributor for somebody if he

653
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,479
Speaker 1: were to slip to like the twenties and a playoff team.

654
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this guy could come in and contribute

655
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: next year. I'm not talking big minutes, but I'm talking

656
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: come in flashes and this guy, Oh we've got something here.

657
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: I like him a lot more than a lot of

658
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: other people. Try Eason, Jeremy Sohan Baylor. He's a kid

659
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 1: who's Polish, grew up in the UK. His parents are mixed,

660
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: and he you know, he's young. He can't really shoot.

661
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: And remember how he just said the free throws for

662
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: Easton UM Jeremy Sohan fifty eight percent free through shooting.

663
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: Not ideal And I don't know how you can take

664
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: a guy who's just defense at this stage. He also

665
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: has like the dyed hair color. He's one of these

666
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: like thinking type players, which is cool. I like it.

667
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: And if you read about him, he's he's like a

668
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: really well versed, pretty intelligent guy. There's talk that he

669
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: could be a Draymond Green, very defensive minded smart. If

670
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: you want to see him play well, turn on the

671
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: Baylor UNC game. He was instrumental in that n c

672
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: A tournament come back. I know they didn't win, but

673
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: he was. He was excellent. I like him as a defender.

674
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 1: He doesn't bring a ton of offense to the table.

675
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: But you know, when you're in the teens uh end

676
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: of the lottery, like you know, you're you're getting the

677
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: best guy you can. We already talked about Brandham, the

678
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: Ohio state guard who seems to be rising. We didn't

679
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:41,280
Speaker 1: talk about a fellow by the name of Kennedy Chandler,

680
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: who if you're looking for a pure point guard, he

681
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 1: may be one of the better ones in the draft.

682
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,760
Speaker 1: I saw that he had the highest vertical of anyone

683
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: at any guard at the combine. I watched tape of

684
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: him on YouTube, and you can watch Kennedy Chandler play

685
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: against anybody in the SEC. All of his stuff's on YouTube,

686
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 1: and you know you see a good defender, tough, midrange

687
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: kind of guy, the highest sister right, tenacious defensively. I

688
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 1: see a little Chris Paul, but I don't see the

689
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: killer offensive stuff out of him. Chandelers pretty well, Bill.

690
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: I think he goes to Memphis at twenty two. Back

691
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: up to John Morant, the guy I mentioned earlier from Arizona,

692
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: Dalen Terry, kind of a high riser. He was early

693
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: second round from much of the process, and then all

694
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I started seeing some of the teams

695
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: he's working out for. I'm like, wait a minute, this

696
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: guy's going higher. I think the Sixers at twenty three

697
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,280
Speaker 1: would love to get this kid. Remember how they drafted

698
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: Thible and he was a like a perfect three and

699
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: D wing well, he's not a three. He can't shoot.

700
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: Great defender. Dalen Terry can shoot. And oh, by the way,

701
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 1: when Arizona lost their point guard late in the season

702
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: to injury, Terry stepped in. It was like a solid

703
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: point guard. Not much is known about him because he

704
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 1: was so late in the process, but I'm telling you

705
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: keep an eye on this kid, Dalen Terry. He's not

706
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: even twenty years old yet, but he just versatile, can

707
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: do a bunch of different things. I like him. I

708
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: think somebody's gonna get a steal in Dale and Terry.

709
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: And the other guy who I haven't really touched talked

710
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: about a lot is the kid from Santa Clara, Jalen

711
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: Williams longest reach, sorry, longest wingspan of any forward at

712
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: the combine, and I confess he was not on my radar. Um.

713
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: I played some pickup basketball with the guy who I

714
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 1: think I told this story. He had Santa Clara hot

715
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 1: for him right back at this is back in the day.

716
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: Santa Claro is all interested and he's waiting for the offer.

717
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: He's waiting for the offering, and they go, we'll be

718
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: We'll be honest with you. We have one more guy

719
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: to check out and we'll get back to you. And

720
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 1: it turns out that guy they went to check out

721
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 1: Santa Claro was a guy by the name is Steve Nash.

722
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: And of course Steve Nash gets the offer. My guy

723
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: does not get the offer. My guy ends up going

724
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: to UCSD and you know, played a little bit there.

725
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: Obviously he's a little older now, but this guy can

726
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: still play. And so he is on the ends with

727
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: some Santa Clara people, and I had to start asking around,

728
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: like Jalen Williams. When you see this guy start to

729
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,439
Speaker 1: dominate at the combine, You're like, oh, what is he good?

730
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: I don't remember watching him in the WCC. And all

731
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,479
Speaker 1: of a sudden, this kid, Jyalen Williams is like, could

732
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: he be top twenty top? Could you scratch the lottery?

733
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 1: Is there a chance it's just one of these the three? Indeed,

734
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 1: the league is all about wings right now, and if

735
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: you can find three in d it's a win. And

736
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs are weird because they have I mean,

737
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,359
Speaker 1: if you look at their depth chart, the way they're built.

738
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: Remember it used to be Duncan and Parker and Genobley,

739
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: and now that those three guys are gone. You look

740
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: at what san Antonio has and you're like, geez, all

741
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: they have is three and D kind of guys long

742
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: to Murray, Josh Primo, Lonnie Walker, Devon Vassel, Josh Richardson,

743
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: Kelton Johnson, like all those guys are like six to

744
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: six eight and their thin and wing and can defend.

745
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 1: It's like they basically want to put four guys around

746
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: Yaka Peartle. And it sounds like, by the way, Yaka

747
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 1: Peartle could get big dangled in trade bait. But for

748
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: whatever reason, the Spurs are just collecting them and they

749
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: see the way the league is headed. You need to

750
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: be switchable on the wing. I mean, hell, look at

751
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins. It's like, okay, number one pick good points, Well,

752
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: what's he gonna be on the wing? As like your

753
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: third offensive score when you can lock in defensively, and

754
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins has massive value. So if you can just

755
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: find one or two of these guys to to go

756
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: on the wing and defend and knock down some threes.

757
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: I mean, even Malik Monk, who's more of a shooting

758
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: guard than a wing and Monk not a great defender,

759
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: but I mean he was he was a Lakers third

760
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 1: best player last season. I don't know, you've really got

761
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 1: to look at it, like three indie wings are the

762
00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: way to go. And you know, Detroit trading away Jeremy

763
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: g And opens a huge hole because they basically have

764
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: Cade Cunningham, Sedique Bay with the Villanova kid who is

765
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: Chakra three and d Wing had a fifty point game

766
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: late in the season. Nobody noticed. I think it was like,

767
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: was the Super Bowl, Sunday or March Madness? One of

768
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: those was maybe a day during March Madness. Um And

769
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: It's like the Pistons, they just need to collect these wings.

770
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: That's why I I think a guy like boy Ben

771
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: Mather would be perfect on Detroit. And I in my

772
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: Fox mock draft, I said, listen, you get Cade, Sedique

773
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: Bay and Ben mathern is that not quite a poor

774
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: man's but like a homeless man's Boston Celtics trio of Smart,

775
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 1: Tatum and Brown. I don't know, maybe it's a bit

776
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: of a reach, but that's what you want. You want

777
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: your big shop balking center, Robert Williams, um Mark Williams,

778
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 1: the Duke, I think is is good. Detroit has a

779
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 1: big guy in Isaiah Steward. I like him bab about

780
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,439
Speaker 1: a bio in Miami, and you just want a bunch

781
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: of wings around him who can pace in space three. Indeed,

782
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: that's really what the league is now. And so if

783
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: you are built like that, I think you've got a

784
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,439
Speaker 1: great chance to dominate. Besides Dale and Terry, a couple

785
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: other guys who fit that. Um Kendall Brown of the Bucks,

786
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: I had him going to the Bucks, sorry, and one

787
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: of my mock kind of Brown of Baylor. I like

788
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: him a lot, just he's just not the shooting is

789
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 1: not there yet. And then you look at like e J.

790
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: Liddell and you're like, Okay, he's not quite a three,

791
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: but could he be a Grant Williams? Could he be

792
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: like a four, like a power forward who plays some

793
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: small ball center. Is there a chance that happens? Um? So,

794
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: I think e J. Liddell is a is a perfect

795
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: fit from Miami. At um a bit more polarizing. I'll

796
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 1: wrap up with this guy, Walker Kessler out of Auburn.

797
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: He started at UNC was a McDonald's All American. They

798
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna be amazing seven ft one. All

799
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: he could do is block shots and dunk like literally,

800
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: that's it. Now college basketball doesn't have the spacing that

801
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: the NBA does, so Kessler didn't really thrive. But there's

802
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: ce SEMs to be optimism that in the NBA, the

803
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: more space there is, you're gonna need a center to

804
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 1: come over and be Rudy Gobert Bamata Bio uh and

805
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: block some shots. And can Kessler be that guy? Now?

806
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: Bamata Baio has some range, Kessler has none. I think

807
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 1: he was like top ten in the country and field

808
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: goal percentage because all he did was score in the

809
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: paint and on dunks. Um, we'll see about Walker Caster.

810
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: I haven't going to the Rockets at twenties six um,

811
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,439
Speaker 1: and uh, I don't know the guys. As you can tell,

812
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: that's a lot of NBA draft I I don't know

813
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: if people fell out or there's just like Jayson d Jason,

814
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: You're go way too deep. You lost me. I mean,

815
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: I didn't even talk about Jalen Williams of Arkansas who

816
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: went toe to toe with Drew Timmy and Chad Homegrin

817
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: in the n c A Tournament. And and one I

818
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: have Jalen Williams going to Golden State replacing not replacing,

819
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: but Kevan Luney is gonna get paid by somebody, overpaid probably,

820
00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: And I think Jalen Williams is a perfect, perfect guy

821
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: to slide in. There is the backup to James Wiseman

822
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,399
Speaker 1: and Jayla. Williams could play some Kevon Looney minutes. I mean,

823
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: you know he's a good player. He had fifteen and

824
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: twelve in that Gonzaga game. I think he led the

825
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: SEC and charges taken. Yes, yes, no stone unturned. Jalen

826
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: Williams in Arkansas. That'll be it for the NBA Draft. Reminder,

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Speaker 1: I'll be on Cowherd Show in a few hours and

828
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 1: obviously tomorrow's podcast will be heavy post draft fun debauchery,

829
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: Shenanigan's all those great words. Thanks for listening, enjoy the draft.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you tomorrow.