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This registered with me as well, though the defense remains the concern. Shooting is elite and athleticism/measurables are solid. Upside is limited, but if available at 8 it's enticing to get a high-floor known quan y.
he's our best hope to see some of the good prospects fall. The guy will be useful from day one.
This registered with me as well, though the defense remains the concern. Shooting is elite and athleticism/measurables are solid. Upside is limited, but if available at 8 it's enticing to get a high-floor known quan y.
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Wasn’t there talk that he was our target at #8 (before we decided to trade the pick)?
They’ll be shooters in this draft, too.
One of the prospects i would have been content with at #8. Always seemed to have that fearlessness in him.
Popovic is an overrated bag. Handed the Lakers this sort of player while trading the 8th pick for something in 2050 or whenever it is. Overrated sack of , his stroke must have started draft day
Brian Wright doing Brian Wrong things.
Solid post
yea not looking good.Hes gotta be in the lead for roy
he was taken 9 spots after the 8th pick, so 8 other teams also passed on him you crybaby pussy
Thank you guys for not drafting "old man" Dalton Knecht.
The best shooter in the draft playing off LeBron James and Anthony Davis looks good? You don’t say?Put him on the Pistons or Nets and get back to me
That does not excuse the poor decisions though. There was still allot of talent still on the board at 8 and our FO decided to trade a lotto pick away for nothing but maybe for something in the very , very... very far future . Who even knows what anything is going to look like around then.
We are allowed to criticize bad decisions my friend.
This. Also, anyone remember Chris Duarte? Had a great rookie year after being selected at 23 YO, dropped off each of the next two years, and is currently rotting on the bench of one of our recent opponents, can’t remember which, but I saw his DNP CD in the box score. Older drafted players are usually pretty done with their development. Once the league has seen them, they usually find a way to neutralize them.The best shooter in the draft playing off LeBron James and Anthony Davis looks good? You don’t say?
The ultimate payoff was an unprotected first, a #1 protected swap, and an unprotected swap for Harrison Barnes, a trade we couldn’t have made with that pick on the roster. Those picks and swaps were from franchises that are historically bad, and each backslid this year, and in Sacramento’s case, it’s a two year slide.
Of course, not disagreeing, and tbh i thought Knecht was the obvious pick at 8 for us. but the whiny i was responding to is not simply criticizing the non pick and she claimed the spurs literally handed the Lakers the pick when a number of other teams also passed over Knecht and is gloating about pop's stroke (she did this in the stroke thread also)
that being said, it's also very early in the season and dude is a shooter playing next to Anthony Davis and LeBron James - of course he is going to look good in that role. he is also shooting like 60%+ from deep over the last few games which is obviously not sustainable, so to be crying over a pick because of a hot stretch of games 2 weeks into the season is ing stupid to begin with. not to mention the last game came against the worst ing team in the association
The draft is an absolute crap shoot. Almost every team passed on the Joker. Should every GM be fired for that? The Castle pick needed to be Wright and it was. For Knecht to have been taken at 8 would’ve had this whole board killing the servers with hate. The Spurs missed on Knecht, at best it’s a shoulder shrug
Remind me what was Derrick white's age when he was drafted
23, and ST considered him a bust when he was traded, because he couldn’t shoot the three.
You really logged in for the first time on an account created in 2018 to post that? Not the flex you think it is. The exception doesn’t disprove the rule.
Knecht is shooting 67.7% from three over the last 4 games
Lakers were a great landing spot for him tbh.
I'm sure the old man would have put him at PG or some if we ended up drafting him
Champagnie is younger than Knecht, btw.
Oh boy, lakers have another white boy that can shoot and knows where to run to. Toss in bronny and there’s a future big 3. Pfffftttt
I can be honest that 15 games in, it looks like I was wrong on him in particular. The thought process of why I was low on him, that most older prospects do relatively badly in the NBA is generally true, but doesn't mean it will be in every case. There were points that he might be the exception (path through College) but I don't think the process of valuing age heavily in drafting is wrong.
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