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This happens pretty much every game. Kentucky gets stagnant and then Rob Dillingham starts stirring it up. Like, he's basically their offense. Not shooting, but probing, moving the defense around. No one else does it.
Can we get with 2nd round pick, Antonio Reeves? Shooting, solved.
This happens pretty much every game. Kentucky gets stagnant and then Rob Dillingham starts stirring it up. Like, he's basically their offense. Not shooting, but probing, moving the defense around. No one else does it.
It's almost entirely Rob Dillingham.
I really think Dillingham is the most talented kid in this draft.
To with usage. Find the hot hands.
not watching the game but wow those numbers from Dilly
and sheppard quiet on the scoring front but 10 assists
Reed Shep career high 11 AST
8/4/11
Watched the 2nd half. He's such en electrifying player, lightning quick and super shifty, can score from anywhere on multiple ways, better passer and creator than he's given credit for, moves the ball quickly and makes good reads. Honestly he'd be perfect offensively for the Spurs, he'd make Wemby's life so much easier with his dynamism, the cure to a lof of our ills. He's one of the guys I'll be watching next season regardless of where he plays.
if dilly does this in the tourney,He may be the number 1 pick.
It a good showing but would like to see that against a good team it will be fun watching him in the big tourney
It’s really hard to watch him play and not think he’s top 3
Then a couple of days pass and you think about things like size, translatability, defense, etc, and i wonder if player a b and c are ahead of him
then i watch him play again and think no, he is him. Rinse repeat.
basically anybody who is ok with the Trae stuff should have Dilly as PG1. Different players of course. But if you want the strengths of shotmaking, pick and roll passing, floor spacing, and can live with him being hunted on defense, then there you go
its his ability to hit the roll man from a variety of angles and depths that sells me on him. And he doesn’t just have to immediately sprint downhill to apply pressure. Just by delaying or straddling the 3pt line after a pick he can really stretch the defense out before then exploding past his man. He really had a great ap ude for pick and roll. He’s not just a iso baller shotmaker
The kid can play. Ja Morant vibes, although less athetic from what I've seen yet. Hopefully less drama too. Nice handles, body control, has different moves)
If he can keep up with that kind of play, he could definitely be top 3 in this draft, and not necessarily 3.
Give me that guy over Topic any day. Could be an alternative to Trae indeed, then add a couple vets and you should be more compe ive next year (not really hard).
Last edited by JPB; 03-07-2024 at 03:38 AM.
same thing over here with trying to talk myself out of Dillingham only for the next game to convince me all over again
also getting Ja Morant vibes as well as Maxey
Vandy was a pushover team but Dilly has been doing this all season.
Oh well, Kentucky Sat March 9th 3PM CST @ #4 TENN so another real test coming next anyway
I'm 100% NOT okay with the Trae stuff, but I'm definitely on board with Dillingham as PG1. Dillingham plays so much more within himself and within the team concept than Young did at that age (or any age, for that matter). In college, Young had 20 FGA/game a 37% USG rate and Dillingham is at 11 FGA/game and 30%. Granted, Dillingham has better talent around him than Young did, but still...
I really want to see where Dillingham's measurements come in - I think he's a little taller/longer than Trae which should theoretically translate to him being a more competent defender, relatively speaking.
Taller doesn’t make you likely a better defender. Wingspan and strength does.
You're not the only one
This was my thinking all along. I think there's a very solid case to be made that Dillingham will be a poor man's Trae, I'd even say he has all the tools to be a BETTER scorer than Trae, I trust his shooting more and believe he can be more efficient. The question is how close of a playmaker can he be... I wouldn't rate him anywhere near, but all things considered (scoring potential, ACQUISITION COST) if you think he give you 50% of what Trae can, he's still a very worthwhile gamble.
Ugh I miss when Sarr and Topic were considered #1 and #2 and you could envision a scenario where the Spurs got #3 and #7 and could draft Riscaher + Dillingham. Now Risacher is probably going #1 and if the Spurs drop to #4 they probably can't get Dilly either.
Last edited by spurraider21; 03-07-2024 at 01:42 PM.
i mean if topic never got hurt and played well in euroleague it could have justified us taking him. now he kind of feels like a hot potato
Regardless of who we take in the 1st round, I'm really liking the Senior 2nd round options:
PG Tyler Kolek
SF Dillon Jones
C Zach Edey
TaT has them each right around our 2nd round pick. Any one of them could step right in and be productive.
we dont need Boban Edey
How do our draftniks feel about Dilly’s (or the other prospect’s we’ve discussed at our pick or the TOR pick) NBA readiness? One of my concerns is that the top prospects are all so young and raw that they won’t be ready to truly be year 1 contributors.
I want next season to be the year we have our play-in contender season, prepping us for a jump to where OKC is this year in year 3 of Wemby. Are these guys on that kind of time line, or maybe a year behind where shouldn’t expect big things until their year 3?
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