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Cason Wallace is the best pick Presti has made in 5 years, IMHO. Kentucky guards almost always show out, and overperform their draft slots. SGA was drafted 11, for s sake. Booker was drafted #13.
Or, what?
Cason Wallace is the best pick Presti has made in 5 years, IMHO. Kentucky guards almost always show out, and overperform their draft slots. SGA was drafted 11, for s sake. Booker was drafted #13.
If Cason is going to OKC then how does that work with Giddey. I’m sure Wallace projects himself as a starting pg
Ignoring all the Kentucky guards who don't show out. It's just that Calipari gets like four blue chips every year, most of them don't get the touches they need. It's not some magic Kentucky thing.
Presti picking Holmgren was the best pick in five years. Giddey was better than this pick. I think Wallace will be good, but he also mirrors Dort in ways and may need to play backup. Anyway, he'll be a good rotation guy for them for sure.
They might lose their job somewhere down the road.
Right, but it happens over and over, and it’s pretty consistent, whatever the root cause. Find me another school in the last 10 years that consistently produces players at a position that nearly always meet or exceed their draft spot, multiple times to Allstar level outside of the top 10 selections.
Don’t tell that to the Phoenix Suns who just traded for Bradley Beal with six second round picks!
PATFO passed on Jokic in the second round in 2014 and Draymond in 2012. No one lost their jobs. Are you anticipating someone in to 2023 draft between 33 and 44 to be better than Jokic or Draymond?
wallace played off-ball quite a bit at kentucky and held up well. he does have starting PG ability, but blowing past his man off the dribble wasnt exactly a strength of his. and he's perfectly suited to defend either 1's or 2's, so i think he fits in nicely between them
I have no problem with taking someone and not panning out, at least you took your chance. The problem is not even trying. Imagine how bad it will look for the Spurs to trade away 33 becuase there was nobody they liked only for a guy like Colby Jones to end up being an all-star.
Imagine drafting Colby Jones because of a distant chance he might have somehow become an All-Star on another team.
So you're basically saying Wright is a dumbass and I'm smarter than him.
Potential employers routinely scroll through previous drafts to see missed second round picks who blew up in the league.
That's not the point at all.
If Colby Jones ends up being an all-star and the Spurs decided to trade their pick away over picking him, that speaks pretty badly about the Spurs' management evaluation of this player. And it's not the same as picking someone else and passing on him, because at least you took a chance on another prospect. Passing on all-star level talent for nothing is malpractice.
Let me know when Colby Jones becomes an All Star.That's not the point at all.
If Colby Jones ends up being an all-star and the Spurs decided to trade their pick away over picking him, that speaks pretty badly about the Spurs' management evaluation of this player. And it's not the same as picking someone else and passing on him, because at least you took a chance on another prospect. Passing on all-star level talent for nothing is malpractice.
What if Rupert becomes a solid 3 and D player?
Rupert's agent was apparently telling teams hands off because he had a guaranteed deal with the Blazers.
That's kind of a thing the past few years in the 2nd round with some players.
I'm thinking this kind of thing probably happens rather often with mid and late seconds. Maybe even early ones. Teams could have ignored the request and drafted Rupert anyway, but that means they will never get to make the same request again because other teams couldn't be trusted to honor it.
We should have drafted Bailey, tbh.
That's his mom, btw.
The Spurs are collecting 2nd round picks like they're trying to fill out a bingo card.
They love to collect them but hate to use them, rendering them somewhat useless.
The best 2nd round picks are like 31--35. Unless the draft is really bad, you probably shouldn't cast one of those aside for two 2nd round picks that may be close to worthless.
On the other hand, they seem to know what they're doing, so what the hey.
Yeah I have no clue other than there was no one they wanted at 33. It also makes their 44 pick look like an afterthought. Now that the draft is done, I'm thinking we have the FRPs and money to do something. Wonder what the plan is?
Daymn… drake on that lolWe should have drafted Bailey, tbh.
That's his mom, btw.
Leonard Miller just did a full interview with a Spurs hat during the draft, every reporter including him thinks he is going there. Lol.
Several of the moms were cute. Not surprising, as most of them are far younger than my old ass.We should have drafted Bailey, tbh.
That's his mom, btw.
Once we are a near tax team those would be used to move contracts around. We have no use for it now so extending it's lifetime has value. The teams who sold their future would be rebuilding soon with a lot of capspace and desire to replenish some picks. FO did the wright thing.
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