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whats up with lonnie's knees, are they holding on? anyway loonie is raw as they come and too style over substance, you have too much belief in him...
He running the Flakers.
whats up with lonnie's knees, are they holding on? anyway loonie is raw as they come and too style over substance, you have too much belief in him...
Don't trade none of the young guys. Add on to them
Agreed. Put it this way, if Lonnie was in this class he’d likely be a top 10 pick.
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Rob Pelinka on line 2 with a hiring offer.
So is Hachimura.
I'm 100% on board for drafting him if he falls to 19, but I don't see the need to trade up for him if you have to use a big prospect or your other 1st rounder. Would rather just take whoever falls.
Hachimura has more polish offensive game, prototype physical profile, he's humble, coachable kid, he has good chance with spurs develop system to become corner stone player...
The same can be said about Lonnie, tbh
2 out of 7 mock draft shows Rui in 18th pick. Spurs could luck out!
https://hoopshype.com/2019/05/15/201...ttery-results/
i don't think so, lonnie has questionable heart, more into instagram, hairstyle, his game also much more imature at this point, much more of a project overall...
he doesn't fall past minnesota at #11, and most probably a top 10 pick...
One thing that could ultimately really help Rui's stock is his Japan roots. In baseball, some owners don't even count the money that they pay Japanese players because they'll make it all back in added ad revenue from Japan. In Rui's case, an owner could demand that he be drafted because the owner would profit off of the rookie deal.
That said, Japan isn't exactly known for the willingness to embrace biracial athletes so maybe not. Difficult to say for sure but that could tip the scale for a few teams ahead of the Spurs who may not otherwise have him atop their draft board.
Oh ok, so you dislike Lonnie for non-basketball reasons.
i don't think he's a true professional...
He's 20 ing years old. I'm sure you were the very model of maturity and decorum at 20.
Very low chance of Lonnie being a cornerstone player, imo. Outside shot at him being a consistent starter for a season or two, maybe.
as an nba player there is no time to around if you want to be great...
that's fair. we all have our opinion on what a "true professional" is, so i can't say you're wrong. from what i've seen and heard about him, i never got the impression that he wasn't a professional or incapable of developing into the player some feel he can become.
If that's the case, I think it'll have more to with dejounte's and white's development more than anything. That's a good problem to have, imo. Outside of those two, I think lonnie has a better shot than forbes, mills, and belli of being a starter going into the 20-21 season. I was more focused on the "being coachable, having an nba body, and humble" portion of the quote. I admittedly don't know much about Rui, but I don't think anyone we draft is going to be a plug-n-play starter on day one. Therefore, if you able to project him has a cornerstone player, I feel you can say the same about Lonnie.
It'll have absolutely nothing to do with that. They're not even the same positions.
As it stands, you're overly optimistic in an unpractical way.
Lonnie has yet to show anything outside of athleticism that he'll be that player. We can hope. I'll admit it's still early in the process.
Let me fill you in. He's a bonafide NBA player at this point; whereas, L. Walker isn't.
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