Event 2025 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY, COMBINE, AND DRAFT

Yeah, I don't think we're going to pass on Maluach for Wolf. The Ringer is off their nut.

 

Joan Beringer sounds like the name of some middle-aged white woman on a soap opera.
And for that reason, I'm out

 

Interesting rankings:

https://tawnyparkmetrics.com/TPM_Draft_Page

 

Someday someone will do a redraft for 2025 and it will look nothing like the actual draft or any of these mocks. Somewhere some columnist or blogger will pull out their crazy mock they did (like this Ringer article) and got most of the picks right out of pure luck. They'll promote themselves as a draft guru when all they did was guess. It's kind of like my wife beating me with her March Madness bracket and she picked teams with cool nicknames. You can't completely write them off because of the luck factor, but any success they had with their predictions was because they did something different from most and got lucky.

 

So maybe it will be a very interesting draft day....

 

Their skill chart on Knueppel (ranked 13) has him rated very low on defense and rebounding. Demin rated at 34. Murray-Boyles and Essengue beautiful skill charts and are still the two I like the best. I don't think I ever want a guy rated low on rebounding cuz good rebounding takes toughness and smarts.

 

Kon is very tough and very smart. He just can't jump and even then he still rebounds at an average level for a SG.

 

That's the way it always is. It's a freaking crap shoot. If you're picking in the top five you're far more likely to be right far more often.

Definitely better to be in the later 8 picks in the lottery then to not be in the lottery at all, but the deck is still solidly stacked against you.

 

Carter Bryant gets a lot of Tou comps and I've noted this before, but wanted to show how very different they were as players at the same age.

Tou was far more, fluid, flexible and dynamic with the ball driving from the perimeter whereas Carter plays more like a throwback forward who wants to take a hard dribble or two and pull up or play with his back to the basket to get to a turnaround jumper.

I like Carter ,but I'm interested to see how his offensive game develops. For a guy that shoots it as well as him, you'd want to pair that with an ability to attack a closeout and get to the rim or make the next play and he really hasn't shown that at all so far.

 

Will Riley received his green room invite today….

 

Re trading down from 11 to 15 and 24. Apart from the fact that we would be doing OKC a favor, I would only agree to it conditionally (obviously you'd have to, as the player they want might be gone on the night) so that if a surprise player drops we get to keep him. But I think you could get two very good players here, including one or both of Jase Richardson and Nique Clifford. And it makes sense for OKC to be looking to do this (or trade out of this draft for future drafts) because they are choc-a-block. If they don't trade, they'll be taking Euro players and strongly encouraging them to stay there for a couple of years.

 

Latest ESPN Mock - they have us taking Kasparas. Works for me! But CMB goes to OKC - we MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN.

Actually, according to this OKC end up with CMB and Hugo Gonzalez. If that happens I might very well be open to that whole swapping the 11 for the 15 and 24 idea...

 

Maybe ace falls to us

 

Some mocks are best guesses as to how it will go, while some are personal choices of how the person(s) creating the mock think it should go. Still others are done to shake things up for the sickos following this stuff and generate clicks and make money...

STOMP

 

If he does he can keep falling.

 

so you’re saying your a fan of J Grant?