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Topic is falling into “take a flyer” territory. I think he might fall out of the top 10.
If the roster crunch is any concern, drafting Topic at 8 could let them leave him to rehabilitate - and I think he has a massive buyout - while we move aggressively into the later first round with the 35 for another target, a Dadiet type. Makes a problem next year, as we might be getting two rookies anyway, but it's a possibility.
Topic is falling into “take a flyer” territory. I think he might fall out of the top 10.
I think this is the second or third time I've seen you make a Bratislava joke. I was fortunate enough to visit Slovakia last year, and Bratislava was actually a gorgeous and modern city.
Here come the Belgrade jokes.
Topic is absolute do not draft for me after this news, at least do not draft in the first. That negative wingspan goes a long ways towards explaining why he was so in his 1 1/2 Euroleague games. Don't care if he can score on nobodies at the rim in the ABA, stubby arms ain't getting those shots off at the rim in the NBA.
Man, if his wingspan was 7 foot, he still wouldn't have been great in those games. This is why obsession with measurements don't make no sense. He was bad in those games because he has a pretty freakin' narrow skillset that depends on blasting past poor defenders and getting into the lane and he couldn't do that against actual teams.
I think the short wingspan should enormously affect his draft stock since his offensive game is basically only at the rim and he only showed it could be effective in the ABA. There is no way that's translating at the NBA level, especially when it didn't at Euroleague. One of the big things that had people excited about Topic was his size, and now we see it's nothing impressive. Goes from being a high risk, high reward pick to a high risk, middish reward pick at best. I wouldn't spend a lottery pick on this guy anymore even in this draft.
This guy is going to slide to OKC at 12 and it's going to make me sick.
Why? So they can have a poor man's Giddey next to the original Giddey? What makes me sick is this draft just keeps getting worse and worse. I hope OKC does piss their pick away on him.
Yeah it would be freaking great if they somehow went for him.
Their big needs are a secondary scorer and beef that won't kill their five out finesse philosophy. Topic doesn't do anything for them.
Castle will lock him up.
im not drawing any conclusions from his what, 20 minutes or whatever in euroleague when re-acclimated to a different team. with that said, the lack of high level compe ion is why im skeptical of him.
I don't think it should be treated as an aberration like everyone wants to do. That 30 minutes is the entire sample size against high level compe ion and it's all we have to go on. Having a much worse wingspan than expected goes a long ways to explain why a guy whose only scoring ability comes at the basket was able to be shut down by high quality compe ion.
All I know of Bratislava is from the movie Eurotrip, but it seems like a cool place
People argue about whether he's more the prototype giraffe or T-Rex without ever watching one of his games, without knowing how he performs as a PG, without knowing his ability to go to the rim and finish in a NBA context. Go to a zoo and buy postcards. You are doing a film review based on a simple trailer. The certainty that some can express is fascinating.
People argue about whether he's more the prototype giraffe or T-Rex without ever watching one of his games, without knowing how he performs as a PG, without knowing his ability to go to the rim and finish in a NBA context. Go to a zoo and buy postcards. You are doing a film review based on a simple trailer. The certainty that some can express is fascinating.
Seriously.... Here's Topic's first euroleague game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnpVR8dUpRI
If you watch that, you see that he's an effective floor general with the passing skills of a savant, at 18.
Smart, quick at the rim, great finisher. In this game. I guess Pop likes the type.
Thanks for the link.
A Castle 4 and Topic 8 draft unless Castle is gone then Topic 4 and Salaun 8 will be the Spurs picks
Does anyone not see Topic on the Spurs?
Most of us don't.
I have a hard time seeing them pass on Topic (bc they won’t be able to help themselves). The question is whether they chance it and see if he falls to 8. There are a few dumb dumb FOs between picks 4 and 8, but the risk he’s taken there.
ROFL that's not Euroleague, that's ing ABA. What's up with Topic stans always trying to conflate ABA and Euroleague? The le of your video literally says ABA and it's from the ABA's official channel.
This is Topic's first Euroleague game:
https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net.../154/#boxscore
Those guys he was playing against looked like they were in quicksand, very slow and hardly could get off the floor to contest a shot.
It's hard to overstate how bad the defenders look in the ABA.
It’s hard to overstate the seismic difference when there is no defensive 3 second rule. The center doesn’t have to be quick or agile, stepping in and out. He just has to be THERE, and he is.
That's even more incentive to draft him, as you could stash him without the necessary to sign him
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