Alexandre Sarr - 2024 NBA Draft Prospect

[spurraider21]

Sarr's perimeter game coming in is so much less refined than Wemby's was, which makes his insistence on playing the 4 right away more baffling

[rascal]

Now is the time to offer Sochan for Sarr.

Buy low

[TD 21]

Source?

I'm not at liberty to discuss.

ST source = throw at the wall and see if it sticks.

If I was the type to do that, I wouldn't wait almost 15 years to start . . . and you wouldn't be questioning it if it came from one of the snobs on this board.

[Uriel]

I'm not at liberty to discuss.

Not that I don’t believe you, but how then can we ascertain that your claim is legitimate?

[spurraider21]

Not that I don’t believe you, but how then can we ascertain that your claim is legitimate?

why, his impeccable track record, of course

[TD 21]

Not that I don’t believe you, but how then can we ascertain that your claim is legitimate?

You can't, you'll just have to trust the almost 15 years of not making things up . . . or not. I don't care.

[Dejounte]

Whaddaya know. Looking correct with yet another prospect.

[scott]

I thought Sarr was just another Jalen Duren, but I was wrong. Jalen Duren doesn't go 0/15.

[Russ]

I thought Sarr was just another Jalen Duren, but I was wrong. Jalen Duren doesn't go 0/15.

Duren was a different type of player.

Duren was way more physical and way less quick.

In the end, it may not matter. Sarr has not used his plentiful attributes up to now.

Still hold out hope.

[DAF86]

Gonna play devil's advocate here and say that it is somewhat promising that despite not hitting a single shot, he still put it up 15 times and 7 from 3. The worst thing a prospect can do is lose confidence and stop shooting.

[south side spur]

Source?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...r/id1344226066

[Uriel]

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...r/id1344226066

Thanks.

[exstatic]

I thought Sarr was just another Jalen Duren, but I was wrong. Jalen Duren doesn't go 0/15.

Jalen Duren blocks shots, dunks, and likes both. Sarr thinks he’s Kawhi.

[scott]

Jalen Duren blocks shots, dunks, and likes both. Sarr thinks he’s Kawhi.

Jalen Duren doesn't block that many shots, tbh

[CorrectCrusader]

A lot of stupidly short sighted takes here. Sarr has shown insane dominance at the rim so far. The scoring will come, that was always his weakness.

[ambchang]

Sarr is fine. One bad game doesn’t a carry make. Especially in summer league. He will be a good player.

[TD 21]

Duren doesn't make sense as a comp for Sarr. He's a far stronger, more explosive, dominant rebounder, who struggles protecting the rim (his comp is Drummond).

Claxton is the comp for Sarr. String bean rim protectors, who can play various p-n-r coverages, but be overpowered in the post/on the glass and have mostly theoretical offensive skillsets.

Whaddaya know. Looking correct with yet another prospect.

Declaring victory based on a few Summer League games.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...r/id1344226066

I didn't know these fools have a podcast (I guess virtually everyone does now). I don't keep up with these apologists, but whichever of them apparently said it was not where I heard it from.

[Uriel]

Here is the full quote from the podcast:

This is an information that helps anybody now, but I just found it interesting the way the Spurs viewed the top of that draft. And it goes like this, if they had had the first pick, and this surprised me because we spend so much time talking about the draft and we kind of didn't really talk about this name, but if they'd had the top pick, they would have absolutely taken Alex Sarr with the top pick.

Alex Sarr, went to the Washington Wizards with the number two pick.

We wondered about his fit and blah, blah, blah. They thought if they ended up with Alex Sarr, all the others, like just they pictured him as like a bigger, better Jeremy Sochan that maybe they could teach to do the offensive stuff. Like the defense and the mobility would be just worth it, especially in a draft like this where everyone has flaws.

If they'd had the second pick or if the choice had been Castle or Reed Sheppard at four, they would have gone Reed Sheppard probably. Probably just because of the shooting. And then Castle was the guy that I guess probably would have been third on their board.

So they got the third guy on their board at pick number four.

Not a lot of interest in Risacher that went first overall. Like it'd be interesting, I don't know what they'd have done if those first three guys had been gone one through two, three, and Risacher was there at number four, but weren't quite sold on him, I don't think. So all that was interesting, but I was a little surprised that they were, it was like a no-brainer that you take Sarr number one if they had had the pick.

Risacher was a guy who really rose, like two months before the draft, you look at the mocks, and he was like eight, nine, 10, then that range, and maybe it wasn't two months. It was not long before the draft. During the last season, I don't think anybody thought he was number one.

He had kind of this surge because of the way he finished his season overseas, and I tend to be kind of skeptical of those overnight risers, and sounds like the Spurs might have been too.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-new-look-lineup-around-wemby/id1344226066?i=1000662457778

[ChumpDumper]

I am not worried about this basketball player rn.

[Uriel]

You can't, you'll just have to trust the almost 15 years of not making things up . . . or not. I don't care.

Well, since you’re so plugged in, won’t you mind sharing with us all who the Spurs would’ve selected at #8 had they chosen to keep the pick?

[TD 21]

Well, since you’re so plugged in, won’t you mind sharing with us all who the Spurs would’ve selected at #8 had they chosen to keep the pick?

I never said I was "so plugged in" (I'm unequivocally not) . . . but like most, I believe it would have been Salaun.

[K...]

the real mission accomplished is getting atlanta to take rischy at one which has no up side and is only a decent floor.

the spurs view is probably correct that the top three will probably be sheppard, castle then sarr, but sarr will hopefully have a long career and be a good foundation piece. and doesn't hurt Washingtons tank. harrison barnes will be better than rischy over the same period and we can find that archetype in other drafts.

[spurraider21]

Supposedly, the Spurs board was: 1) Sarr, 2) Sheppard, 3) Castle.

Source?

I'm not at liberty to discuss.

confidential source is jeff mcdonald and co

and if you didnt get it from that podcast that came a day before your post, your "source" certainly did

[TD 21]

confidential source is jeff mcdonald and co

and if you didnt get it from that podcast that came a day before your post, your "source" certainly did

I don't really know or care where they got it from and wasn't all the way sold myself (hence "supposedly"), but if another source with presumably some level of knowledge said something similar around the same time, that only adds credence.

[spurraider21]

I don't really know or care where they got it from and wasn't all the way sold myself (hence "supposedly"), but if another source with presumably some level of knowledge said something similar around the same time, that only adds credence.

you told us a day after the podcast was release