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DoD called him a little, worse rebounding Maggette.
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DoD called him a little, worse rebounding Maggette.
It's still mindboggling to me to think that Wemby won't be the same age as rookie Robinson until 2028.
Dean's had some pretty bad misses (Anthony edwards, nurkic, possibly the thompson twins, Giddey) and has some pretty wild takes, but when he does a deep dive like this on a prospect whether hyping them up or trashing them, he's right more often than consensus. The dude called Barnes, Sengun, Suggs, and Wagner early as being better than consensus and had major questions about Cade, Kuminga, and Green, all of which have turned out to be correct. Last year his most focused takes were that he was higher than consensus on Brandon Miller and trashed Scoot big time. It's still early, but at the very least we can say that drafting Miller over Scoot maybe wasn't as crazy as everyone made it seem. If he's doing a deep dive on Collier and calling him a huge bust, it doesn't necessarily mean he's right, but I'd definitely look at Collier with an even more critical eye. I also like the part where Ivey's catching some strays in the article, partially explains why the spurs haven't been too keen to trade for him.DoD called him a little, worse rebounding Maggette.
It may be too early to call that one a miss. He had good progress in year two, but slid back this year across the board, even before pussy-gate.
You realize, running it a hundred times isn't necessary right? You do know how odds work? You also realize that despite the 1-in-292-million odds, someone still eventually wins Powerball, right?
Right, but his position seems to be that it was likely. It isn't. I admit the possibility, but it's a real longshot. It's even longer if you take the odds of them keeping the pick for all 3 years. There's just a mindset here that Toronto is probably going to keep the pick. The odds are 83% that they don't, and that doesn't scream 'probably' to me.
People need to understand that if the Raptors start to really start to tank at end of season so will all the other teams that are 1 to 10.
he looks slow and not interested in defending
Yup. They'll be so far behind, they likely won't crack the bottom 7-8.
tanking at the end of the season is a dangerous game for sure. Blazers were a game under .500 last year with 25 games left to go and started sitting players. They ended up with the 5th worst odds, which would have given them a 65% chance of a top 6 pick. So it's definitely possible, but it's risky as there was a 35% chance that even if you tank successfully that you end up losing the pick. Also, I think that the Raptors' roster is good enough that they would probably not tank as successfully as the Blazers
I ran it one time and got that result and my position is not that it is the likely result but it is a possible result.
The tanking won't be as bad as last year. There is no Wemby prize this year.
Toronto has incentive to get into the bottom five and keep their pick. They will kick the can having to pay the spurs their pick for another year at least.
They sure can tank. They can sit their players like Portland did and even trade away for future draft picks like the spurs did last year.
You also thought Charlotte was going to make the playoffs. I remember disagreeing with you on that.
I was happy Malaki was being subbed out then I saw doug come in
Portland was 10th in the west (and only 2.5 back of the #4 seed) at the trade deadline, which translated to the 12th worst record, and turned that into the 5th worst record. So the trade deadline is definitely not too late for Toronto to activate a tank.
A guy named Cody Williams (6'8" 19 yo freshman U. Colo.) has suddenly ascended to to No. 1 in the NBAdraft.net mock draft. Out of the blue.
He looks like a Jabari Smith/Brandon Williams type based on a quick look.
Not exactly the kind of player the Spurs most need imo. Any thoughts?
nbadraft.net tends towards sensationalism. He's shooting 60% from 3, but on a tiny sample 1.4 per game, and his FTs are at 67%, so you probably can't trust that 3% to hold up, or survive the jump to the nba.
There will likely be less compe ion for tanking this year too because there is no generational prospect available. All we can do for now is hope the Raptors win enough games to think they are actually in playoff contention past the trade deadline.
The thing is, they need to trade one or both of Siakam and OG, or risk losing them for nothing like they did Van Vleet. Both of them are unrestricted this summer. They have to do some sort of re-tooling, at least.
They do seem to trend towards going for the playoffs, though. They have the last two years. One time, it paid off. One time, it didn't.
The one thing I like about DoD is that he refuses to validate the HS/AAU hype if the guy doesn't perform one level up in college. If the player has a glaring flaw, or several, why on earth would you think those would be cured by going up a SECOND level to the NBA? Collier is a fantastic finisher, but he's a scattergun passer, and his shooting is sus. That's a bad one/two for a guard.
Bleacher Report just came out with a new mock where they have us picking Nikola Topic with the 2nd pick and then picking Ryan Dunn with the 10th pick. I am starting to lean more to picking Nikola as he just is such a great PG and is a player that could really bring out Wemby's potential on the offensive side. I go back and forth with Ryan Vs. Cody Williams but I kind of think with the new era of basketball if you can't be an offensive threat your not going to get much floor time.
I'd go Alexandre Sarr or Nikola Topic. (Subject to further study of course.
Topić or Risacher would seem to be spursy players that they would be interested in.
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