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Almost a guarantee Salaun will be drafted at 8.
Why would the Spurs want an extra pick in this draft at the expense of getting one of their top selections at 4?
Almost a guarantee Salaun will be drafted at 8.
How would you know?
If the Spurs draft Castle at 4 and Salaun at 8, they better hope at least one of them pans out because it would be a really bad strategy not to draft at least one prosepct with a better shooting outlook.
Why? they'll get their all stars and shooters in next year's draft. This is not a finished product of a team after this draft.
If Castle and Salaun don't become stars then they better learn how to ing shoot. Non-shooting role players are a thing of the past, if you aren't a center.
Please. And Sarr at #2 and Sheppard at #3.
Swap out Sheppard for Risacher and that’s the ideal start.
(I don’t mind Risacher at 4 either, but just prefer Sheppard…either way Clingan going top 3 would be great for us)
I actually think this latest Yahoo draft could be the way it shaped up: https://sports.yahoo.com/2024-nba-mo...TeMOfH-xAKG2hO
Did he for real?
I really hope the spurs come away with either Castle or Carter
I hope the spurs trade no 4 or 8 pick to 2025 unprotected first round pick. There is no one worth to draft at the 4th pick
I don't get why so many people are obsessed with the number the pick has written on. you have a pool of player available and you hope to get those you like.
constantly whining about how bad the pool is doesn't change anything and if it was in fact that bad, why would any team buy a pick in this draft?
I hope Spurs end up with two out of Risacher, Castle and Cody and if not, I will be happy with a consolation prize out of Sheppard and McCain.
(I just envision the meltdown if Spurs came out with Cody and McCain........while I would be pretty cool with that outcome)
if we can get NOLA's first for a bunch of seconds we gotta make that trade. That's exactly why you ac ulate second round picks, to turn them into firsts. They can then look at packaging them for a player. Much better than selling seconds for cash.
He’s so skinny! He plays in a crap league!
this definitely applies to the gleague as well. People are very unforgiving to a 17 year kid who made a bad choice to go to a league they thought would be best for them. When that environment doesn’t support their development, it’s apparently the kid’s fault and people look past their skills just because he’s in the gleague. The kid is still a basketball player at the end of the day and one spoiled year of mediocre growth isn’t going to change how talented they are.
No one is doing that trade from the other side. I’m not sure you could get a top 10 protected 2025 FRP. I’m not even sure you could get a lottery protected 2025 FRP.
The problem with the gleague Ignite Is that there’s really no development at all going on, and no coaching. Scoot gpt worse from year one to year two. If you’re a top recruit, you could have made more NIL money than your Ignite salary, and that’s been the case for a few years, so it basically boils down to selecting playing unproductive AAU style ball over being developed and coached in the NCAA, a low friction short cut.
My problem with Buzelis, by the way, is how he carries himself off the court. I don’t mind it personally, but he seems like an unserious, silly kid. A few words from him and you can easily identify him as a “Fortnite kid”. On the court, he seems a lot different and actually seems very compe ive. I just don’t know if the Spurs will view him as a locker room fit. But maybe drafting Salaun at 8 will keep him on his toes and force him to act more professional. I don’t question his work ethic, just his maturity level. I’m not saying I definitively know what goes in his head nor am I making an absolute judgment on his character, these are just observations that may end up wrong.
For now, I think Buzelis at 4 and Salaun at 8 seems ideal to me. Homerun swings that could pay off huge dividends if it hits.
Again, it’s one year. Scoot is a special example, but other than him, these prospects spent one year there. I’m not going to damn them and be fully dismissive of their talent because of one bad decision to go to the gleague. Period.
And that of course, is your prerogative. I’m simply trying to explain the “other side”.
I just want at least one player who can shoot to create space for Wemby.
If you’re looking for a specialist, you can get that in FA. No need to waste a high lottery pick.
All this wild swinging back and forth speculating which team is going to draft whom where is only very tenuously tethered to teams’ real thought processes, which are probably a lot more methodical and stable.
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