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Chapter 1: What are Ryen's final player rankings from the NBA Draft?
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Chapter 2: Why is there a renewed emphasis on drafting big men in the NBA?
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Chapter 3: Who should have gone No. 1 in the NBA Draft?
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I've got five things for you from last night's first round of the NBA draft. We'll run through them and then bring in Jay Billis for more. All right. My board, no one cares. But for the record, Peterson won, AJ two, Boozer three. I had Wagler four, Caleb Wilson five.
Chapter 4: How many players from this draft could be the best in five years?
Peterson shot making five. is just so absurd that I would probably prioritize that also being like in that six, four, six, five range. This is what I hate about the combine measuring without shoes because Peterson would be a six, six guy the old way where your measurement would come out, measurement in shoes, but they changed it a few years ago.
So now it just feels like everybody who's six, four and a half, it's like that sucks because you used to be able to say that you were six, six.
um based on nba heights and again if you don't believe me that's exactly what they used to do and then they just said all right enough of this stuff so i guess eventually it'll be all phased out and every six four and a half guy will feel like another six four and a half guy all right um right now i think peterson's a better player too i think that debonza even though he was just physically overwhelming and then that's the frame that you want to bet on six nine versus six four and a half or i think he's six eight and a half with his measurement with that
with those shoulders, not doubling him, even though his teammates, Saunders, they're the best score probably on BYU other than him not being in the mix. And then Devon said, just like taking it to dudes in the big 12 tournament game. So I was changing my mind constantly, but I still think Peterson's a better player right now. If you want to tell me, Hey, that's not the job, man.
The job is who's the better player in three to five years.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Cam Boozer landing with the Grizzlies?
And that's why winger and the group with the wizards went with Peterson. I couldn't sit there and tell them that they were wrong. And I still somehow wanted to be a boozer guy through all this because I think that pick may haunt the two teams in front. That's how much fun I think this draft is because it was so hard. It was really hard for me.
And I think there's a lot of things on the table with the endgame for all this stuff. But you know if you're going to be wrong, teams are going to be wrong with height and hopefully with height and athleticism. That's why Caleb Wilson is four instead of Wagler, who I just think you...
are going to get a guy that can play on and off in a way, you know, I don't want to call it SGA because that seems to be a little ridiculous. We're talking about potentially one of the best players in the world for Wagler.
Chapter 6: How did the Bucks perform in the NBA Draft?
If you were that good, then he should just go one. But I'm just telling you, I think there's so much to Wagler. And that's why I had him higher than the other guards and higher than Wilson, which I didn't see a lot of there. The draft, I don't know that it's really an upset because you started seeing it in the mocks. Mikel Brown going six to Brooklyn.
But I think that changed a lot in the picks behind them with him moving up. I did not like Brown as much as other people because I just thought his decision-making drove me crazy. Where I have this thing with certain players where I'm like, are you playing basketball or are you auditioning for a role to play basketball? Where you're going to take these absurd shots to show how cool it is.
And the passing stuff with him is just...
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It was, I thought there were so many moments where I'm like, what are you doing? Tasks just have absolutely no chance, no chance whatsoever. But his pick and roll ball handling, as he is the ball handler in the pick and roll, because there's two different variations of how you can look the stuff up, pick and roll man, which is the man who's sending the screen and then rolling, pick and roll ball.
That is the ball handler off the pick and roll. He was in the 89th percentile for points per possession on those. And on spot-up shots, he was in the 97th percentile. With that size and that athleticism, I totally get why teams would have him. I wouldn't have him ahead of Wagler, but would have him ahead of Acuff.
and also uh kingston fleming's who i i really liked like i liked this group so much so that sets up sacramento which was a lock that it would be a cuff i don't think that that ownership group was gonna decide to go hey let's go with kingston instead of like the star potential with an empty pallet considering all the offseason stuff that could be happening.
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Maybe that ends the idea that they were going to get Ja, which sounds like it was over anyway once they asked for compensation to take on Ja Morant, although that felt like the most Sacramento Kings acquisition ever. But Acuff to Sacramento, kind of a layup once you saw all that play out in front. That meant Atlanta...
and still having Kings and Flemings on the board, had to have felt like a huge win for them.
Because even though Mara goes to Sacramento, which we're going to get to here, excuse me, goes to Oklahoma City, which we'll get to here just four picks later, Mara with Atlanta, like you're providing yourself that big and that optionality, which maybe is a little bit more important than just a long-term starter at the guard position with C.J. McCollum being in his mid-30s. Yeah.
So me being critical of Atlanta going like, are you potentially just drafting a backup center at seven foot three because you're not going to want to bench a Kongu or does it really even matter?
Or does that mean that Kongu gets phased out as a starter or it's matchup dependent and you have like two really different looks that are kind of cool and maybe both guys that are going to be able to stretch the floor as fives? Like, isn't that the goal? And you could have two of them that are entirely different defensive matchups. So,
I wonder how much internal debate they had about that, but I'm sure once Kingston Plemons was still there, you're just kind of like, dude, some teams may have taken him fifth throughout this entire process. Moraes Johnson. Goes ninth. My scattering of pour on him was just aggressive, aggressive, aggressive. When you watch him in transition, it's fantastic.
87% of his field goal attempts were at the rim. 22% of his possessions, which is the most of any of his possessions. So it's like, hey, how often is he ISO? How often is he posting up? It's nobody posts up anymore. Handoffs, all this kind of stuff, pick and roll ball handler, pick and roll man. Well,
The most used possession for Merez is 22% of his plays were cuts, and he was in the 91st percentile on points per possession. It's too bad Luka isn't still there. I was thinking about this. I'm like, oh, man, cutting off the ball, his aggressiveness, him running in transition, him being a lob threat. He'd be a perfect Mav with Luka. It's never going to stop. Sorry. I'm sorry, Dallas fans.
It's never going to stop. And this is somebody with limited touches, limited minutes, but so incredibly aggressive. And the crazy thing is, too, is like he takes more shots than you would have thought at like only 20 plus minutes a game. But Even though people are selling him as a three point shooter, because he's at 34%. I think that number is a bit of a lie.
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