There were some rumors that Houston likes Ivey at 3. Makes sense if they think he’s Wade and Paolo is Jabari Parker.
"Eastern Conference Executive No. 1: That guy, he reminds me of Ray Allen. " What a liar. (or an idiot). Ray Allen never shot below 40 % on 3-pointers in college and shot 46.6% on threes his junior season.
I keep thinking that as well, but then worry I'm being lazy with the comp because theyre both Australian.
I think he should be the #1 pick. Which team has a guard like that? Russell-Westbrook-type-athleticism with a much better 3-point shot. Ivey shot 36% on threes, many of them way behind the 3-point line.
thought that was a ridiculous comparison too. But Benn did shoot 42% from 3 on decent volume his freshman year. I think he has a really smooth stroke but his game is nothing like Ray's.
copy/pasted all the Sharpe comments. Nothing on Beauchamp. They love Branham, and think he's on a tier above where he's mocked. Pro-Branham College Assistant Coach No. 2 (his team played Ohio State): Really had a great year. He got better as the season went on, especially if you let him get to his right hand. He loves (to) fake going left, then goes between the legs or crossover dribble and comes back to his right hand. I don’t think he’s as tall as advertised. I’ll be anxious to see what they officially measured at. Definitely a two. Streak shooter. Can get on a roll. He had some big games. I don’t think his (defensive commitment) was great throughout the year. He’ll have to improve in that area. I don’t know how good a defender Branham is. Western Conference Executive No. 4: In that tier with Daniels. I don’t know another guard, unless you can name him, that came into the season not very heralded, and how he went through the year and progressed on that trajectory, and how he finished, was pretty impressive. We put Malaki in very high regard. His age, his versatility positionally, his basketball IQ. Guys like him are only in one place: They’re playing at least as a rotational or as a key reserve on NBA teams. If you were to merge Cat Mobley and Jordan Poole — if you put those two together — I think you have Malaki. I saw him early, and he was good. I didn’t think he was a one-and-done. I saw him in the middle (of the season), and I was like, I’ve got to be doing my work on this guy a lot more soundly. At the end of the year, I’m not sure there was anybody playing more consistently than this kid. Jaden Ivey was up and down; Johnny Davis had some (bad) days, but Johnny wasn’t playing with anybody. Mathurin, I thought, the last 30, 40 days, was somewhat inconsistent. Whereas this kid took his game to another level. I believe he’s very close with Mathurin.
I agree with Mediocre Man in the opinion the Knicks are trying to move up in the draft. Personally, I think Sharpe is the target but if Ivy fell in their laps they might snatch him up. If Sharpe is all that, then the Knicks would be the big stage for him. Purely opinion, no inside info.
Dyson Daniels does not seem like a good fit for Damian Lillard. Lillard likes to have the ball and need finishers, either from the 3-point line or at the hoop on a pick-and-roll, lobs, not sure. We haven't seen that much I think Daniels has the lower floor compared to Duren and Mathurin. As they are, Mathurin at least should be able to score well in some situations, like Ben McLemore. Duren should be a serviceable center. If Daniels never develops a consistent outside shot , he's not going to get much playing time.
Just watched the Duren vid from the blazers and his interview impressed me and I think there is a good chance unless someone slips the Blazers will trade back between 9 and 11 and then take Duren. I think this Knicks rumor / speculation might have some fire to it not involving Obi but Randle cause i saw something of the knicks giving up another future 1st and that was with Obi in trade and that makes NO sense. The knicks want to get off the Randle contract so packaging another 1st and got to be honest something else makes more sense to get off that contract for the knicks. My prediction just the base parts of a trade i am sure more has got to happen so here it goes --- Blazers and Knicks Blazers receive -- Knicks 11th pick , Randle and Cam Reddish , Future 1st ( Top 10 protected ) and maybe a 2nd Knicks receive -- Blazers 7th Pick , Eric Bledsoe ( mainly his contract ) and maybe something else This then allows the Blazers to get there real Target of Duren and they take him at a spot that is not as much of a reach and that pick is protection when Nurk goes down and let's be honest nurk at some point will go down for 5 to 15 games and even if he does not I think unless Nurk is hot in a game his minutes should be limited to keep his workload down to around 25 to 30 min per game. This is my prediction for the team
if this is the return we can expect, i'd be over the moon. i don't think 7 has that kinda value unfortunately.
If we could get randle and the 23 Mavs pick that would be decent return. Theoretically you could then package the Bucks pick and the Mavs pick for something decent. Of course my worry would be that both picks go to Detroit for Grant so Joe can satisfy their demand of 2 first rounders.
Cosigned. I don't love Randle and would still have to look at Cronin a little differently if this were the outcome...
New convo with jake fisher on dunc’ed on, lots of talk about Portland, OG, John Collins, etc. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Y...&context=spotify:collection:podcasts:episodes
ATL has some MASSIVE cap issues. Portland can help them alleviate some of that and save them a ton of money. Collins doesn't want to play with Trae....although playing with Dame/Ant can't be that much more attractive in terms of guards getting up a lot of shots. I'd like to think Portland could trade back a bit (maybe the Spurs with their 9,20, and 25 picks) and get Collins with the #9 and have another asset.
