Random Thoughts After Spurs Draft Livio Jean-Charles

[Libri]

Whenever I saw him play in France, he never stroke me as player with a potential NBA future. With ASVEL, he is just a role player averaging 3.4ppg and bringing some defense/energy. He played PF with youth teams and is making the transition to SF at the pro level but he has little to no perimeter skills. Now, he is only 19 years old so he obviously could get better. To me, a player like Jaiteh (who didn't get a first round promise), was clearly more intriguing.

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[timvp]

Whenever I saw him play in France, he never stroke me as player with a potential NBA future. With ASVEL, he is just a role player averaging 3.4ppg and bringing some defense/energy. He played PF with youth teams and is making the transition to SF at the pro level but he has little to no perimeter skills. Now, he is only 19 years old so he obviously could get better. To me, a player like Jaiteh (who didn't get a first round promise), was clearly more intriguing.

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Those are my same concerns just from watching him on YouTube. He needs to play the three but he has the perimeter game of a four.

But he has good athleticism, length and youth so there's a chance he can be something.

[timvp]

Tbh, I was hoping for Gobert. I wonder if the Spurs would have picked him if he lasted one more pick.

I'm guessing not since LJC appears to have been a sturdy promise.

[Marcus Bryant]

So, he's a prospect without an immediate cap hit and with a rookie scale contract if he's worth bringing over.

Yeah, terrible.

[DPG21920]

Tbh, I was hoping for Gobert. I wonder if the Spurs would have picked him if he lasted one more pick.

I'm guessing not since LJC appears to have been a sturdy promise.

Not only that, but if they were at all high on him, they could have quite easily guaranteed they got him by moving up it seems.

[DPG21920]

So, he's a prospect without an immediate cap hit and with a rookie scale contract if he's worth bringing over.

Yeah, terrible.

I don't think many are upset with the pick, especially for the reasons. I think people are just questioning his ability in isolation.

[Kidd K]

Honestly it might be one of the more disappointing Spurs drafts I can remember. There have been worse, less interesting drafts, but imo there were multiple decent US players left at 28. Maybe the Spurs were just hoping for the 7'2" guy and just said it after he got taken right before them, but it just feels like a big waste.

Mainly because by time that guy even plays for us, Duncan and Ginobili will both be gone. I was just hoping the Spurs would do something to try and win the next year or two. Now I'm just looking at free agency. . .but the Spurs almost never do anything there.

Not sure what to think of this. If they don't make any significant additions, I don't like us going into next year. Ginobili can't be used as much as he was last year, or we have next to no chance at a le relying on him that much. He's either going to be hurt or suck too often. They better add some through FA market. We badly need someone good to take over some of his responsibilities and push him into a normal, Neal-like role. Still a lot of minutes, but not a super high USG%.

[DPG21920]

Spurs drafting an American with their 2nd rounder (no bigge, doesn't count towards cap), but how are they going to draft a guy who wouldn't give them his phone number

[timvp]

RC trolling with the second round pick

Anyways, I bet he agreed to go to Europe already.

And maybe phone-number-gate was just a CIA Pop ploy ...

[Brazil]

Meh I share Bruno's opinion on jc I'm not a big fan. Not sure he will be one day a nba player

[montgod]

If TP/Spurs wanted to hide him, he wouldn't have played in the Nike Hoop Summit where he exploded, tbh.

@JMcDonald_SAEN: Jean-Charles basically blew up at the Nike Hoops Summit in April. Won MVP. Then didn't work out for any NBA teams. His closing argument.

[tim_duncan_fan]

I'm just mad because there was real intrigue in this draft and we decided on some positionless amateur. At least the potentially D-level, but potentially A-level 2/3s actually looked like the positions next to their names. We picked some undersized dude who isn't even a good player in his minor league. At least Splitter was some kind of bull MVP before he hit the NBA.

[99 Problems]

To me it looked as if he had put some muscle on at the Hoop Summit.

[timvp]

Did RC wrap up his draft prep early so he could enjoy the playoffs? Couldn't blame him if he did.

[montgod]

@JMcDonald_SAEN: Buford said Spurs had Livio Jean-Charles rated as one of the top 20 players in the draft.

[BackHome]

I think he put up one of the top two numbers in the Nike Summit...ever.......He just Nailed it..;.

[xellos88330]

Is this guy going to play in summer league? Same with the Thomas guy.

[timvp]

@JMcDonald_SAEN: Buford said Spurs had Livio Jean-Charles rated as one of the top 20 players in the draft.

Great to hear.

Hopefully Spurs.com gets the video.

[Josepatches_]

Tired of frenchies.
Not sure if he will play in the Nba someday.

[Outlier]

Methinks Livio Charles was told to lay low by the Spurs whenever he played so that nobody else would draft him... Maybe he is way better than he has displayed in most of the games he's played in.

[montgod]

Great to hear.

Hopefully Spurs.com gets the video.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=MtrJ3...%3DMtrJ3kWJVz0

[ace3g]

Buford on draft recap
6.27.13 |
5m51s

[loveforthegame]

Thanks for the video. Damn, he's hard to listen to.

[timvp]

A lot of good info.

-They had LJC rated as a top 20 pick.

-It doesn't exactly sound like he was given a promise.

-They liked LJC before the Nike Hoops Summit.

-He admitted that Tony Parker owning that team played a role.

-As expected, it doesn't sound like LJC is coming over this year.

-The most surprising aspect was his excitement for DeShaun Thomas. It sounds like the Spurs genuinely like him.

-RC said LJC and NPN (No Phone Number) both play multiple positions so they must like them both as small forward and power forward.




All in all, RC looks happy ... and that's a good sign. He knows what he's doing during drafts, tbh.

[Darkwaters]

-The most surprising aspect was his excitement for DeShaun Thomas. It sounds like the Spurs genuinely like him.

58 is such a crap shoot. Sure we have guys like Isaiah Thomas and Manu Ginobili that go crazy late. But they are definitely a minor exception to a generally overwhelming rule.

So if the Spurs do genuinely like NPN then thats a major win.