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Are we sure he’s isn’t the #1 pick?
I think we may miss out
not as a freshman
freshman cody is doing a heck of a lot more than freshman jalen
Are we sure he’s isn’t the #1 pick?
I think we may miss out
not ruling anything out in this class. the top is really disappointing.
i dont think any of the projected top dogs, Sarr, Buzelis, Collier, Holland have done much of anything to help their stock. Sarr has kind of shot for par, and the rest have gone backwards if anything.
not that there wont be useful players, but top of the draft is usually where teams shoot for stars or franchise cornerstones. takes quite a bit of imagination to put Risacher in that kind of category
No, he's not. Dirty little secret is Cody Williams ain't doing a whole of a lot.
This class clearly doesn't compare to last year's class at the top. How about late lottery? Last year there was a lot of chatter about buying another lottery pick for guys like Anthony Black, Cason Wallace, or Coulibaly. Where do you think those prospects (not players, but prospects) would go in this year's draft?
i think cason would be going top 5 this year tbh
If we were to land the second pick it would be a hard decision for me picking Topic vs Risacher - If we get the Raptors pick I would be looking at Cody, Dily, and Salaun.
If we get the second pick while also picking ahead of DET, I’d trade back with them to get Ivey. Hopefully they can still get someone they really like at the new position.
This draft is better imo in the mid to late lottery. Much worse up top.
He's #1 on my board, I have Sarr #2
That may be the case, but the mocks are so 'all over the board' right now that it's hard to project who's in the late lottery. I've seen Shephard anywhere from #4 to #18, for instance. Between injuries (Topic), lack luster league (Buzelis), and meh stats (Williams) there hasn't been any consensus developing. The closest thing is everybody has Sarr and Risacher in the top 5, but beyond that, it's scattered. On the plus side, a guy who should be in the top 3 could go #10 based on how things are disjointed in the analysis world.
My simplistic calculation is that stars need to be able to handle the ball. So that would be Dillingham, Topic maybe Buzelis, maybe Holland, Collier, Castle.
Then we have stationary shooters like Walter and Risacher.
Anyway, just rambling. But do you go for a sure fire role player or someone who needs a lot of growth?
I think that Dillingham and Risacher would be a good draft for the Spurs. Risacher can shoot the three which the Spurs really need and Dillingham can drive which the Spurs need as well. Get a couple of vets to help and call it a summer
Castle has just been terrible shooting.
I still like Dillingham but he's so small and his efficiency is breaking a bit. Kentucky just runs this do-whatever system. It's amazing how many good guards and some great centers come through that program and they never do anything.
I was mentioning that combo of picks like a month ago, so I'm with you on that. Lot can change though. I can't rule out them taking a swing at Buzelis or Holland, though, depending on where our pick falls and if players of interest fall to them.
You realize that Jalen played 3 years of college ball, right?
CODYS FRESHMAN YEAR IS IN FACT TING ON JALENS.
The players, or the UK program?
There are 3 European compe ions: Euroleague, Eurocup and Basketball Champions League.
Euroleague is by far the best one. It's the best level of basketball played in Europe and it's significantly better than the best national leagues.
Eurocup and Basketball Champions league are about the same level. The reason why there are two different leagues is because of a conflict between 2 en ies (ULEB and FIBA). The level in these compe ions isn't really higher than in good national leagues.
Thanks Bruno!
I look at Topic like I look at the G-League Ignite players: empty stats against mediocre compe ion. Now if Topic when he comes back from injury can start having the same kind of success in Euroleague that he did in the ABA then he's probably #1 or #2 in the draft. But his first Euroleague game before getting hurt in the second didn't seem too impressive so not sold on him at all.
Would be an almost best case draft for the Spurs, behind only maybe getting the #1 and getting someone to give you a high-end vet for the right to draft Sarr instead. Would have to both really lucky on the Spurs' lottery position as well as the Raptors'.
What does that matter? How does that automatically translate to anything? Cody's year is unremarkable.
Huge logical fallacies here.
^ fair, but whoever started this line debate started by making the comp between the brothers, so i think it flows logically that people are looking at year over year comparisons. Whether the comparison should have been made at all is a separate point.
1) who cares about comps between brothers when 2) the comp is a terrible basis for a draft pick. People are talking about a mid player because he has a brother. That's it. It's like going crazy over Harvey Grant because there was a Horace Grant.
In the 2026 draft, there’s going to be this kid named Oscar that a LOT of people are going to compare to his brother.
I’m not sure that you understand that outside of one, or maybe two players each year, NBA teams draft based on who they think you can become, not the player you are right now. Sure, he’s got stuff he needs to work on like rebounding, and creation for others, but he has some eye popping stuff, too. His TS% is 63, which is top of class type stuff, as is his EFG% of 60. Probably the best one, though is his FTA rate of 46.4%. That’s the number for FTs per FG attempt. If that number were 50, it would be the equivalent of every FGA being an and1.
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