I personally think Karter Knox should go back to school for another year and prove he can be a top dog before he stays in the draft.
saw a tiktok explaining allegedly how the ping pong balls fell apparently if the last ball drawn was a 6, Blazers get the #1 pick. If it was a 7, Mavs. 20 seconds before the last ball drawn, the Mavs representative turned to the Blazers guy and said it was gonna be a 7 didn't know how close Portland was to that pick and ending up with chalk at #11 sucks
According got Zach Lowe, a bunch of teams were still in play for the #1 pick at the time the last ball was picked. Spurs had the best odds at that moment.
I really like Fleming too. His length and athleticism is insane and his shot is not bad. One of my favorites so far.
Wizards had one of the remaining combos, which is better than the Wenbenyama lottery where they held 6 of the 11 remaining combos when the last ping pong ball dropped
Maybe it wasn't KOC moving the Ringer rankings all over the place every day because they're shuffling guys around like crazy. I think in the last 3-4 days they moved Philon from 6th (20 spots higher than anyone else) to 22nd and moved Wolf up to 11th and Coward to 16th. Coward was very late 20s last I saw early in the week and feels like a direct response to Zach Lowe telling Mann that people around the league apparently love him.
People underestimate how athletic those guys can be. My buddy worked for the chiefs and said Dontari Poe could dunk a basketball easily
Was looking this up the other day when Reed Sheppard's name came up because his vertical being so much better than people thought. The number everyone quotes (42.5 inches) is his max vertical where he gets a running start. If you compare the normal one at the NBA combine to the same ones at the NFL combine, the NFL guys generally blow the NBA out of the water. The highest standing vert for NBA combine guys last year was 35 inches. That would have ranked 10th among DEs who participated at the combine this year. Grey Zabel is an OL who had one at 36.5 inches.
Yeah weight training is much more prevalent with football players to give them more explosiveness, so not surprising.
Weight training and they're also training for 6+ weeks leading up specifically for the combine and those tests. I don't think it's close to the same for basketball guys.
Hansen Yang is kinda nice Only 19, and needs to get stronger like every 19 year old in existence, but he has some nice skill and agile post moves at 7'2". Could be a nice pick in a few years if you can grab him in the mid 2nd. Not quite as explosive vertically as I'd like but moves very well for someone that big. Good looking shot too.
Hansen Yang is the most computer generated NBA Live 2005 10 years into dynasty mode NBA draft name imaginable
Givony has Cedric Coward mocked to go 30th and I know he was hurt but that sounds crazy considering the buzz coming out of the combine? I’d be happy if Atl could get him at 13 or 22. My dream scenario is Sorber at 13 and Coward at 22
The Magic desperately need shooting, so I fully expect them to take the longest athlete possible who can't shoot worth a dogshit, or they'll do a favor for a another old all retire player and take their shitty child in the lottery when they shouldn't have been taken in the first round. Man sure would be nice to have Grady Dick coming off the bench right about now instead no one.....
I thought yall were a lock to try and get Ty Jerome this year and I guess he might come cheaper now? still think a Garland for Franz trade makes some sense for both teams but Franz is clunky next to Allen if he never remembers how to shoot
I’m not wiling to let Franz go until I see us with a real coach who understands how to run a real offense if we trade Franz to correct the issues that’s are clearly being cause by our moron fucking coach and moron fucking GM I’ll give up on this team. Can we just please get someone who knows how to run a modern offense in the building my god
forget where I read it - I think it was here? - but there’s a clear incentive for league executives to hype up guys who are on the fence like Coward or Yaxel. Coward listen to me, they are sweet talking you - you need a healthy year to show them what you can really do.
Coward is impossible to judge right now because NBA people want him in the draft and will pump up that stock, but as the draft gets closer they'll all look at each other and say "we're taking a guy in the lottery who played 6 games at Washington State based on good games against Portland State, Bradley, Northern Colorado and Eastern Washington?" It's easy to say you like a guy like that. It's a lot harder to pick him when you're on the clock.
The Coward thing makes me wonder how talented this draft truly is if you're having a guy like that make a jump up boards like this. JMO I think they're a lot of solid to good talent prospects but not a lot of really high upside guys, and I guess people think Coward is the guy that fits that bill
I think the number of prospects that have potential to be much better is low. With NIL and the extra Covid year, a lot of players either are staying to not take the risk or haven’t had a chance to play due to the older players in front of them.
I'm not sure it says that much about the rest of the draft. I think the current state of Coward's draft stock is that players with his measureables who can shoot at all generally go somewhere in the top 20. And now they have to figure out if they can draft someone with his college background in that range. He's basically a FCS football player who lights up the combine and now they have to figure out where he fits in a draft.
Isn’t he shorter than anticipated to the level that he’s probably a PG or off the bench scoring guard?