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Kind of interesting to look stat-wise. I believe they both came off the bench. Barnes was the much better facilitator, Sochan better rebounder. One's more of an SF, the other a PF. Sochan a better shooter from deep. I was surprised to see Sochan beats Barnes in most advanced stats. ...

Many suggestions that the Spurs were looking to make trades. This write-up says they were exploring trading up to get Sochan. Trades often don't materialize and desired players were at those spots anyway. I am curious whether the Spurs really were after Jake LaRavia since Memphis traded right in...

Good stuff and a great glimpse behind the curtain. I'm really stoked for Blake Wesley. He's Ivey-esque when he gets a head of steam -- it's really hard to stop him. I also noticed the ages. Primo was born Dec 2002, the FRPs in Mar and May 2003. I wonder if Cleveland will regret taking Ogbachi over...

Man, if you want to piss in your own Applejacks and scarf it down, be my guest.

I've said this over and over, Sochan is a better shooter than Kawhi was coming out of college and Sochan is a year younger. Literally a better 3pt percentage, a better 2pt percentage. His ft% is a bit strange, possibly an outlier. He did not shoot many fts a game. Sochan is not a great shooter....

Murphy I think has a fairly low ceiling. Duarte is literally six years older than Primo. Only Sengun, but his defense is atrocious and may never get to neutral. Last year's draft was top heavy and then really, really bad. Settle down on Primo. He's going to be good.

He was pick 12. You're also wrong about everything else. Just sit on your couch and wait.

Spurs are into those polite young men.

Yeah I think Wiesy stays for now. Last summer was about getting shooters and it was a direction that basically failed. I remember some of us discussing whether Corey Kispert could possibly be a good pick at 12. Forbes failed. McDermott essentially failed. Wieskamp is part of that push. Name of the...

You're right. If you can't shoot as a baby, you will never know how to shoot.

Anyone want to talk about how things went a little nuts with mocks at the end? 1. Some big mocks suddenly veered from Duren-heavy to the Spurs picking Dieng. Whether this came from the AppleWatch fiasco or a crazed sense of groupthink, a lot of people thought the pick was Dieng. Rumors of a...

Sochan (a freshman) actually shot a titch better from three than Kawhi (a sophomore) by .005%, but worse from the stripe. Sochan shot a good bit better overall, but carried less of an offensive load. Kawhi has him in most advanced stats, but not by a ton, and again was a year older coming out....

Rare to have a player who's just fun to watch on defense. His reactions and fast twitch decisions are special. He does make mistakes -- he just turned 19 -- but Pop and any other coach is going to love him.

Yep. Wesley even has the same efficiency struggles as Davis already! And Branham has the same limited athleticism. Really, I've said in some other thread... Ivey, Davis, Keegan Murray, all had big leaps from their freshman to sophomore years. It's not hard to imagine Branham and Wesley doing the...

Yep. Use cap to facilitate other teams' trades, get draft capital. Run with what we have minus shedding some players.

Zollins has proven to be a good get. I have doubts about him long-term but he's a banger and can hit outside. He becomes even more valuable with the presence of Sochan -- now the Baylore dude has both Landale and Collins to play with. Each is a floor spacer, while he will struggle with Poeltl. You...

Very significant. That should be a pretty good pick -- wasn't this pick they traded the LAL's, too? So basically they punted an unneeded pick this year to next year(plus money). That's excellent.

Apparently there are family members of Brunson working for the Knicks along with his godfather.

Yes, it seems fait accompli that they sign Brunson. Probably for too much. Knicks being Knicks and taking the Mavs' second best player in the POs.

Or Charlotte rushed into a trade before finding out what other teams might offer.

This is also assuming the Spurs, or anyone else, had any idea Charlotte was doing this. It's not like they make these trades on conference call.

I've said elsewhere, he reminds me of another OSU product, Michael Redd, who wasn't explosive at all but managed to get his shot off in many ways.

Damn, I'm gonna need more basketball than this.

I can see Duren. Otherwise I don't see any players I'd obviously rank above Sochan at 9. I don't remember Bilas's top picks at that point, but he had like AJ Griffin and some other usual suspects there. He was also wildly wrong about Jaden Hardy.

I think there just weren't good bigs at those points. The Spurs picked BPA at 20, whether they thought Branham would be there or not, and then picked BPA again at 25 even though there was overlap.

I think they misrated Sochan, same as Jay Bilas, who had trouble letting it go that the Spurs took him too soon. Was the first thing when a possibly coked-up Scott Drew came on to talk about the pick for Baylor's program.

Definitely not. Ayton doesn't solve any issues. He's not an outside shooter. He's an okay rebounder. He's not a shotblocker. We don't need interior scoring. That cap space is better used to absorb contracts, whether for useful short term veterans or more likely to gain draft assets in the...

Those feel fairly harsh for Branham. Those are concerns. He reminds me of Michael Redd, another OSU product. I don't see Branham blowing people away with athleticism, but like Redd, just hitting his spots and somehow getting shots off. Redd was an incredible shooter from deep. Branham only shot...

Good stuff. - I'm unsure about the Rockets. Their offense is chuck-first from KPJ and Green. Jabari Smith projects as an expensive if high-end role player, so that works, and Sengun is a poor defender so he helps. Eason adds to the chaos of trying to play team basketball but I like the TyTy...