Bryce Simon
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 22 Jul
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Okay. So real quick, I, I had tore my ACL two games before the NCAA tournament, my junior year. And I, I was coming back from injury. It was, it's a long story. That is a long story. So I won't go into that. So I wasn't getting to play this, but they scheduled this game for me. Like they, they tried to schedule games to go back close to home.
So your family could watch you play because I was from Kansas. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. It was really cool. So every year, really cool. Yeah, every year we would try to go some... Coach Jones would try to schedule somewhere close. Obviously, he must not be able to get Kansas or Kansas State or whatever. So we wouldn't play Blake Griffin's Final Four Oklahoma team to start the year.
And here's what I will tell you. this will sound a little bit arrogant. I'm not usually intimidated on a basketball court, right? Like I, I'm kind of arrogant when it comes to that. Like I worked really hard and I felt like I belonged. We walked into the gym and that dude is drenched in sweat three hours before the game going through a workout routine.
And he was just like this physical specimen that I've never seen before. And I was like, Oh my gosh, this is, this is not going to be good. And, uh, They blasted us by 40 and ended up on SportsCenter top 10 about four times. So it was it was a sign of the. Hey, and here's the thing, guys. We didn't suck. We went to the NCAA tournament the year before.
We went to the NCAA tournament that year and had Villanova down at halftime. In the Wachovia Center in Philly. Wow. In the first round in Villanova went to the final four. So like if we weren't some trash team, it's just like we had nobody that could match his level of physicality. Like he it was I've never been intimidated that way. And like I played Roy Hibbert, I played other dudes.
It was just like it was something different.
I think he can pass a little bit of... What I don't... I think he's an advantage exploiter. So I use that term a lot. When I say advantage exploiter, that is somebody that can catch and shoot, but is also able to attack a closeout when he gets a hard closeout. And then if he gets rotation, then he can make the pass out of that as well.
And in probably some realms score, whether it's a mid-range jumper, floater, all the way to the rim, I think Carter Bryant is a little more than 3 and D because I think he can exploit advantages because I think he can really pass... The handle's a little shaky, but I think he can probably do it in straight lines.
Nick Clifford was the answer early. I would say probably Rashear Fleming is still a player I'm higher on than most.
Okay. I'll give you two real quick. Colin Murray boils on the offensive end. Makes me more nervous than I thought. I had CMB really high at one point. I think he's incredible defensively. I'm like, this is the Draymond green thing in terms of like, okay, well, does he find a team that gives him the Draymond green offensive role? No, Now he has great touch and stuff like that.
I'm a little nervous there. I'll give you a sneaky one. Like Vijay Edgecombe's offense makes me a little nervous as well. Like I'm not completely sold on the jumper and I think it's very elongated. And that makes me a little bit nervous, even though I think he's an awesome athlete, awesome kid, really good defender.
I mean, I just say Cooper flag, right? Okay. Okay. Non Cooper, non Cooper division.
Yeah. Get some coop in here. I think it's just the way he approaches the game. Like, I think that's the more I've talked to scouts, you know, a couple of years ago, I wasn't in it. Like when I first started doing this, I didn't really know people. Like I, the more I got into this where I can talk to scouts and, you know, stuff like that.
It's like this mental side of the game of the NBA game is so important. Like it truly is. And I think Cooper has all of that. I was so impressed with the way he handled himself at Duke, the season he had, even just being better offensively than what I thought he was going to be.
But everything you hear about the way he approaches the game, his toughness, doing the little things, I find that to be a skill. And I think that's really impressive in a number one pick.
Yeah, so I think the Trey Johnson, I alluded to early. Him in Utah, I really like that. I like that for Trey, and I like that for Utah as well. And I know people will be like, but they have so many guards. I'm like, yeah, but are any of those guards really that good or long-term? Like, to me, Keontae George is a backup guard. Isaiah Collier is a backup guard. Sorry, Keontae. Like...
how long is Colin Sexton there? How long is Jordan Clark's in there? So I would just keep throwing it at it. And again, I think it, the way they would use him really makes a lot of sense. And then I'll throw out the one I talked with Andrew about yesterday. So I can also talk about the, is it gif or jif? Cause like my students argue with me.
GIF. Okay. About the GIF that I was not able to find. Danny Wolf to OKC is really fun. I like that. I don't know that he actually fits the dribble pass shoot because I'm not sold that he can shoot, but it just seems like he would make a lot of sense for Sam Presti. And the GIF issue is like, whatever. We went down this rabbit hole eventually to the Teen Wolf movie. No Teen Wolf GIF.
I mean, Heart and Shine should be on every big man's film, whatever, with the little floater game. Every big needs that. When he misses, I'm like shocked. And he went through a stretch. Was it last round or the round before? I was like, wait, he missed like four in a row? What is going on here? Game four.
Yeah, but I'll tell you the other one is Charlotte. And this is a little bit of a cop out, but I like Khan or Vijay for Charlotte. Vijay has been the one that I've like said a lot. I don't mind Khan there either, but I think Vijay would make a lot of sense for Charlotte. Like just putting him in between LaMelo and Brandon Miller. I'll give you another one. I don't think he's going to be there.
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