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Alot of 90 percentile scoring guards are rotting on a lot of rebuilding teams roster. His value to MIN is he is on a rookie scale for 4 more years.
There were plenty of players they could have picked that would be reasonable bets. I understand the pipeline and patience but it still feels like they set the team back by not getting some help at 8.
Alot of 90 percentile scoring guards are rotting on a lot of rebuilding teams roster. His value to MIN is he is on a rookie scale for 4 more years.
but we went to 5 finals and won 4 chips after not drafting him. Would anybody really risk all that success by going back and picking scola instead with the hope of getting even more rings?
Even if Dilly becomes the next Trae and Castle becomes the next Dennis Smith Jr. (not going to happen), if spurs walk away with even half of the those rings, not picking Dilly would have been the right choice.
This brings back memories. Ahhh... nostalgia!
This is a minor detail that's really irrelevant to your point, but just wanted to clarify that the Spurs did pick him - they just never could sign him. A banger of a 56th pick after taking Manu 57. Early 2000s Spurs scouting department was a different level.
ahh your right! I completely forgot. It's been awhile since reading a scola post, and when these blemishes were viewed as total collapses during the golden age. Hope to have these nba first world problems again soon.
Sheppard scores 25 in Summer League, spurstalk: „He might be the best shooter in NBA history.“
Dillingham scores 25 in Summer League, spurstalk: „Players always go off at the end of Summer League. I wouldn‘t make too much of it.“
Look like he has the frame to put on some weight, I think he'll become a Nick Van Exel type player
He gonna haunt us like Scola and Josh Howard
It still hurts
It's going to hurt for a while I'm afraid, the kid is young and super talented
FU PATFO
it is so obvious..i mean - if you have a pair of functioning eyes-
you can see he will be good by watching a game or two…
he is a player and it was obvious but this ed up front ofc gifted him to a western conf RIVAL!
I watched the game. I'm also a fan of Dillingham.
He's going to be a big threat to score. Last night wasn't good as a lead guard setting people up. He's also like a way worse Blake Wesley around the rim. Absolutely no chance.
For the Wolves, he's going to help when their offense stagnates and they need a punch off the bench. Not sure he's that necessary now that they have DiVincenzio, but Conley won't be around forever.
The big problem with him is defense. It's not his size, where he's tiny. It's that he gives up soooooo much on that end. Dalton Knecht got an easy dunk because Dillingham had no idea how to read a screen. During Summer League he was giving up stuff because of little to no concept of defense.
None of this really matters, because the Spurs weren't going to take him. He wasn't their guy. The reason why? Is because he would crater their plans to have versatile players in a strong defensive scheme. Dillingham is not versatile. And he's absolutely awful at defense.
2:52 for the blown defense.
It didnt happen much this game, because the young Lakers didn't know how to exploit it, but unless Dillingham is able to ramp up his awareness, this is going to become a big issue. I saw this a lot even in SL. Minnesota has a strong defensive core and so has the luxury of playing a negative there, but it's going to be a longterm problem. He's going to get torched.
Still wish we picked someone at #8, not him but even Knicecht or some sharp shooter
Wright is bad at his job....but we already knew that.
Mr Body on that strong copium right now
Branham is an even worse version of Dillingham but let’s make excuses for branham being young etc etc.
It was crazy to me as a Wolves fan to watch how Rudy started to shape that team's defense and basically became the playcaller/qb/etc defensively. He had KAT of all people play not only the best defense he's ever played all season and being called the Jokic stopper after a career of mediocrity. Your'e crazy if you think that team of perimeter ball hawks won't have him playing at least average D within 12 months.
Offensively last night he looked as explosive as Ja Morant.
And people call us sniffers. I was a fan of Rob for most of the season, and I can tell you that while he can dunk, he’s nowhere near as explosive as Ja, not even close. Ja is DRose/John Wall level, a guard that comes around about once a decade. Ja goes right AT 7 footers, and dunks OVER them.
Nah, man, Branham is like Gary Payton compared to Dillingham.
I think the cope is all on the side of the pissbabies.
The Spurs weren't drafting him anyway, it was someone else.
Explosive? No, not physically. Dillingham is quick but he's not actually that fast. He's like a Maxey who can't finish, or he's pretty similar to an Anfernee Simons. I think he could have played a role on the Spurs, definitely. But good God does he suck on defense. It's not his stature, it's that he has no freaking clue about even some of the basics. He may be even worse than Trae. Minnesota will have to account for him all the time and I wonder how he can do in a playoff series when a team is targeting him over and over for 4-7 games. Good luck to him.
I remember an interview with dillingham pre draft. He was asked what his weakness as a player was. He said he had two. He wasn’t good defensively and he didn’t all ways understand, or work hard to understand, his teams schemes. Right then knew there was no way Pop would ever draft him
Sure. When he's not tearing his labrum and waving guns around in cars and strip clubs.
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