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Less than 6 hours until the draft. The countdown continues...
Less than 6 hours until the draft. The countdown continues...
Not really. Porzingis doesn't have Pokusevski playmaking skills nor overall impact on the defensive end.
How much have you seen of Pokusevski to say it is a hipster pick? What makes choosing him a hipster move over picking anyone else? That he didn't play college ball?
Alot of it has to do that no one has him going in the top 15 so getting him at 11 would be considered a reach, much like Samanic was.
So? Nobody had Ginobili going before 57 and history showed he should have been number 1, tbh.
True but how often does that happen? We took a chance last year on Sammich and the dude is a scrub with t-rex arms. I see the appeal in Poku but I prefer as safe a pick as we can get.
Pretty much every year guys that should have been picked higher drop in the draft, tbh.
Of course, they can't legally enter into a contract until they are 18.
Spurs are not drafting two Euro projects in back to back years. No way.
By definition, every player selected on the draft is a "project".
If we have more than 1 first round pick and he is willing to play in Europe for a couple to three years, I could see it happening. If we do make a move tonight, lots will depend on who and how many players we take back and do we have room for a Poku on the roster. If we don't have room and we can afford to wait, that would be a great pick (assuming he is willing to play abroad). Many factors involved, too many to wrap my head around it.
3 hours until the draft. Final prognostications ... calling all final prognostications...
Who can guess anything in this draft when it’s all over the place and who knows what will happen? I will just say that I think SA makes a trade.
Spurs choke hardcore. DDR and LMA are not traded and pick either poku or meladon with #11. Really hope I’m wrong. Would love to somehow get wiseman, Halliburton, Toppin, J. Smith, Tyler Bey or Nwora
smush can. He sees the future.
Agreed. Too many rumours to ignore this time. No team appears to want to move their 2021 pick...yet.
If you believe in a transcendent talent in this draft, that pick might become available.
Poku's literally the youngest guy in the draft. If he hadn't turned pro in Greece, he'd possibly be starting his freshman year in college this season... so to say he's a few years away from making an impact in the NBA is kinda obvious. In a normal case of development, Poku would've moved up to the main Olympiacos team this year and played his first top level Euro season... He's 3 years & 9 months younger than Obi Toppin. Would you have expected Toppin to contribute to an NBA team in 2016? or '17? Did anyone here even know Toppin's name in 2017? 3 years & 9 months is the time span of an entire 4 year college experience.
Last edited by R. DeMurre; 11-18-2020 at 04:33 PM.
Who cares that he's younger than Toppin? I don't think I've ever seen a poster crusade against a player this badly. Even Dejounte doesn't ream on Vassel or Bey this much.
I'm feeling those drops coming, that 11 pick is mad value tonight
Nothing I wrote there even criticizes Toppin... not sure why someone disagreeing with you on a college player gets you so upset.
Who cares that one prospect is nearly four years younger than another prospect? Every single scout and GM looking at them.
I have been on Toppin forever, but for some reason, I can still talk about other players without forcing him into every conversation. Same with like Poke skepticism. It's just weird that you feel the need to bring him up when there's like a five-percent chance the Spurs even get a chance to draft him. There are a number of other players likelier to be a Spurs than are four years older than Poke.
I mean, yeah, in the sense that it is a metric to compare those two specific players. But like is that a point in Poke's general column? No. The Spurs shouldn't worry about who they're not drafting. Would Poke be a good pick? I don't know what they think but, "Well he's younger than Toppin" probably isn't something they're using to answer that question.Who cares that one prospect is nearly four years younger than another prospect? Every single scout and GM looking at them.
It was a direct response to someone saying Poku is 3 or 4 years away, as if that's a shortcoming for the youngest player in the draft. It had nothing to do with the Spurs drafting him. It was general draft talk.... And talk about a silly obsession-- Poku himself says his nickname is Poku, his teammates and his coach called him Poku, and his Instagram account is called Poku20... You're literally the only person who calls him Poke, because you thinks it's a clever dig. Cheers to your cleverness.
Why is Toppin being 22 such an issue to many people right now? It wasn't an issue when TD was 22 and the #1 overall pick who went on to win 5 rings and be the GOAT PF. , it wasn't that much of an issue when Derrick White was 23 and went in the first round. I mean, I know there are more and more players doing the one and done deal in college or declaring themselves for the draft before they hit 21, but I'm surprised to see so many people make an issue of being a 22 year old rookie.
Ageism. People are obsessed with potential when you're a young age.
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