The Deep 3 Podcast - We Live Reacted To The 2024 NBA Draft! | TD3 Live

Episode Date: June 29, 2024

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People trickling and whatnot, but I have my intel. Your intel? Yeah. Okay. Are we live on YouTube already? I don't know if we are. I don't think it's pushed through yet. Perfect.

Hoot, hoot, hoot. And some Mara-carly stuff. As always, people are spamming late immediately. Look at all these late messages. Liars, we're here on time. I think you're still not live. Oh, gotcha. How many cold opens are we going to have?

I know. I love it though. No, man, he definitely... I know. They gotta stop showing this spot. That's what I'm saying. Is this suit green or a green? Yeah, it's olive green.

They have to stop showing Rishaset's suit. live. Everything's going through on YouTube. I see all the lights coming through immediately. Relax, relax, relax. Someone said Donovan's posture is mad elegant. Whoa. Donovan always is the best posture by far. Mo is always the worst by far. He's neck down in the thing. And Donovan has the straightest back because every time we do the streams, we're always like, okay, like try not to slouts and something. Like, let me like, you know, over-emphasize that I can sit up straight. I just like being comfy, bro. Yeah. And good for you. That's how you should be.

I see people coming in, spamming, someone saying, Mo, take off the hat. The jokes line immediately. They didn't watch the last part, and it shows. You are out of the loop, brother. There was already a hairline review. You guys need to go do your homework. Exactly. But as you guys see, this guy's next to me, and that guy's over there.

I can't reach him. And we are in person here live from the Bleach Report offices in New York City doing this stream today, watching the draft with you guys. And on Sunday, we'll be here again doing a live reaction to the start of free agency, which from all accounts, everything that's happened today, already before. It's already madness. It's going to be ridiculous. It's already madness. It's going to be crazy. Well, free agency's over. I mean, listen, OG signed. It's okay. It's okay. We don't have to talk about it. It's all good. When you're happy, that makes me so sad, bro. I have not been

able to stop smiling for the last, like, two hours, hour and a half, whatever it's been. I'm great. I'm doing great. This is awesome. I don't care what the Knicks do tonight. I feel like in years past, every NBA draft has been so stressful. So who are the Hawks taking one overall? Who are the Hawks taking one overall? I'm glad you ask. Because, guys, look. Oh, what? You know what this is?

I don't, but I would like to know. It's a script. Script? Oh, you have the script? I have Intel. This guy's problem. Who are you still that from? Something that you guys don't know about.

We're over here in New York, you know, and I have a lot of sources. Okay. Tapped in to the market. And I have a few notes here. You may see a couple trades go down and whatnot, but I can't leak those. I can leak who's going number one. all, though. Okay, go ahead and leak it. Now, we did hear all these rumbings about Alex R and him not wanting to, or his agents, not wanting, you know, him to be in Atlanta

and whatnot. It doesn't really matter. I spoke to some people. People spoke to me. And according to this, this is not me, but this is not my paper. All right? So this is not on my record. I understand. I think I follow. But he's going number one overall. Alex R. Alex R. He's going to be an Atlanta Hawk. How confident in this are you? Because I got some bad news for you. I think you're wrong. If I'm wrong, I'm literally going to have a mental breakdown. Oof.

Chad, I want you guys to spam right now. Who do you guys think is going first overall? You know, this is a very strange draft in that we don't know a damn thing about the top of it. Yeah. There's, obviously, it's a weak draft, all this yada yada, yada. Even outside of it being weak, it's so much unknown with the top picks. Apparently Atlanta wanted Saar, then Saar ain't want them. Then, oh no, we're open to him, but we're also open to Klingin and Reese Shea.

We don't know what's going to go on. So, Chad, I want you guys to spam or know who you think is going on overall. going one overall. We don't know anything about this draft, period. Like, even after the top three, I feel like the most, like, consistent thing that you've heard is that Reed Shepard's probably going to go, like, number three, to the Houston Rockets. Yeah. Outside of that, everybody can go everywhere. You know what I'm saying? Like, there's no, there's no one spot that every player is going to go to. So. Absolutely. Usually there is, it really can open up mayhem throughout the middle of the draft, back half of the draft, as always.

But from, for this year's draft and with how optics panned out, straight up, number one overall pick is going to be mayhem, no matter who it is. The Washington Wizards just made some moves wield and deal, and I'm sure that changes the perspective on the draft and whatnot, but we really don't know what's going to be going on, for sure. So the chat's obviously full of half SAR, half Riesichet. I saw one tweet that you're going to love.

Not tweet, one person in the chat. I missed the name. I think he means Rishishi. He said, enjoy Cam Reddish 2.0. How do you feel about that? As someone who dealt with, Camer Riddish 1.0. You see my hands shaking right now? He's about to cry.

Don't do this to me, man, because I will cry on camera. Like, this is, nothing good happens for the Atlanta Hawks. Nothing, all right? The last best player, before Trey Young, who was the best player that we've had in our organization? Al Horford, Big Al. No, no, no. Joe Johnson? Before Tray Rollin.

Dominique? It's Dominique. It's Dominique. Before Trey Young. You just casually threw Trey Young. to Dominique conversations, get the hell out of here. Paul Millsap? There's nothing good happen.

Hey, don't play a P-M-M-A-M-A. I'm not. I'm trying to give Paul Milsap his credit as one of the best hots ever. Might be a better Hawk than Trey Young. All right. Relax. I mean, that's kind of fair. No, it's not.

Why? Paul Milsap's a great player, but there's levels to this. They've been to conference finals. Paul Milsap has played multiple years. Someone said, reach up her about to go first. Listen, I've been telling Donovan all day. I just need that to be a plot. twist and spoiler I love Reed Shepard I think that's if I had to predict an

all-star in this draft reads my number one pick I think he's gonna be wow number ones be an all-star that's yeah I'm not I'm not picking Zachary sorry I mean SAR could be but yeah that's obvious you know I like that all-star picks are pretty offensive slanted and SAR is gonna be fantastic defensively offensively is a long way to go I am so confident that Reid's gonna be incredible as an offensive player especially I wouldn't be that shocking one if they just came out of nowhere and did what the magic did with Palo Bancaro where they pretended they didn't like him and then just pick them immediately don't even let any time go down the clock

yeah would not shock me at all read with one number one like you no mess it would shock me because there's no reporting on it yeah but i wouldn't think it's crazy how would you feel if read went number one if reed went to the alight of hawks how you feel i wouldn't feel terrible i wouldn't feel terrible because he's a good player in general although he's like undersized to NBA standards his defense he makes himself known on the court although like yes he's small and all that but he has some athleticism Obviously, the shooting is outstanding, and that is his main calling card on the court. To whatever, in whatever team, he's a part of, it doesn't matter, like, he's going to make a positive impact.

So, I'll be good. I'll be good. Okay. So listen, let's say that your script is wrong, right? Let's say you got fed false information. Alex Arr is not an Atlanta Hawk. You have Reed Shepherd. You have Rich Arshae.

Who do you want to be in Atlanta Hawk? I'll take read for her. Okay. I'll take read for her. Okay. I'll take read. Nothing against, like, let's just say for sure. like tall can shoot everybody needs a player like that and that's what the scatting report ends

exactly like everybody needs a player like that at number one makes me really nervous but you know like we'll see what happens courtingall reports are on my end Alexar is going to be Atlanta Hawks yeah listen they're on the clock right now the hawks are coming up you're going to find it real soon if your day is horrible I shouldn't even say day because this defines a lot more than just today for you it's the next three years at minimum well I was going to say his life I was going to say if it doesn't go well for you today, you're just done. It's over for you? Nothing good has happened for this team, bro, or since like 2021.

The last time I was able to smile about my team was when we bounced them out in the first round. And we made it all the way to the United States. Hey, Donovan, what did they say about the old days? The old days. For the reason. The reason. Man, I'm talking about 2021. Get out of my face.

A lot changed to 2021. I just need this pick to come through. I just need this pick to come through, man. Like, my entire legacy is on the line. I don't want to say my Hawks fandom's on the line because I'm still going to rep the A of force. Yeah. People in the chat are talking about

a shout-out to Omega 3178. So Donovan looks like Mikhail Bridges. How you feel about your doppelganger playing for your team? Listen, everybody's favorite player. When you have an opportunity to see your favorite player, it's great. When you have an opportunity to watch your favorite team and see yourself on the coin?

Listen, 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10. You have my doppelganger, the power of friendship, an elite, elite role play. However you want to classify McCle Bridgett. He's a good basketball. He's a great basketball. Fantastic.

And now he's on the New York Knicks. OJ&O.J.N.O.B.Sign. We're up. This is, oh, my goodness. All right. So, Reed Shepard is on the screen right now. I can't wait. I can't wait.

Y'all, so shout out to Omega in the chat for bringing that up. I'm sorry. I let Omega let me have you a good moment to talk about the next. It's not going to happen again. I'm sorry. Tobin can't come fast enough. I'm fiending for Knicks basketball.

Oh, Shams just spoiled the first pick. You guys, so these two guys... No way. So I know who's one number one overall. Donovan and Mo, I instructed them to stay off their phones entirely. Donovan is on airplane mode. They're not allowed to look. And they're not looking at the chat either.

It's just me. So I know the pick. I'm going to know it every time. Who do you guys think it is? It's Alex R for sure. I'm going opposite of him. I think that your sources are wrong. I think you were fed false information.

I don't know why. I don't know what the propaganda was, but I think that research I say is going to be the number one overall pick. Somebody said, am I wearing jaggings? Damn, what are they like that for? These are green jeans that are cut. Actually, now I'm looking at, it looks hilarious

because they're cropped to be above my shoe when I'm standing. So now that I'm sitting, they're high as shit. Yeah. This is how NBA players look because their pants are too short for them because they're all tall as hell. So they look like this every time.

So wait, quick question. Who has the worst draft fit so far? Oh, Donovan. You think you're urban-in-knitted on this? Is that your bag? Listen, I think that... A lot of people put it on. A lot of people did put it on.

And I think in years past, we've seen guys, like, take, like, kind of, like, big risk. We don't really see that today, right? It's a lot of, it's a lot of just very safe, safe picks. It's a lot of very, you know, just good fits. The guy that I do not like, I don't like resace suit. And that right there tells me all that he needs to go, bro. I'm with, I'm with you. I personally am out on him.

all because of his draft suit. I don't think that it fits him well. I don't think that it has swagger. Even Reed, even Reed Shepherd, right? Who may not, may not have the most aura in the draft. Even his suit is fire. It's almost that I look like birthday boy in a high chair because I'm so far back in his chair.

He looks so yee. What they also said, they also said, Mo's shoes are goofy as hell. Moe is wearing cow print Birkenstocks, by the way. They're Doc Martin's. Oh, Doc Martin. Oops, oops. My bad, they got a strap on the back. That's a difference.

Of course. I always got that shit on, man. Point it out. See, I carry my childhood with me. Ever since I was like six years old, my parents made me wear sandals of school every single day. I'm carrying on that tradition. We got the zoom in. Look at that. We're professionals. I love it. Shout out the cow print. Oh, man, that's hilarious. Oh, the pick is in. Let's do it.

Oh, okay. And y'all, we're reacting in sync with the ESPN stream. So if you guys are watching at home, you should see it at the same time we do, minus the, you know, slight YouTube delay. But the pick is in. The number one overall pick. Mo, you might want to hold on his hand. Here we go. Here we go. I want to have a friendship pack to.

No, he's okay. The pick is accurate. It's Riesashe. Harrison Barnes, welcome to Atlanta. Wow. Cam Redis 2.0, welcome to Atlanta. Wow. I actually think he'll be fine.

People love to hate on Zach and assume because he's not this. Oh, my God. What the fuck? Are you serious? That's the hate I'm talking about. What? So is Bobby Powers the Chats and Moe is dressing all black for the funeral of the Hawks? Listen.

Oh my God, look at his sleeves. He's not built to be in Atlanta yet. Oh my god, they're too long. Listen, I know you're going to be distraught. You've been told all summer that, or not all year really, that Alex R is the next great big man, is to come in, lock down the paint, all this stuff. I think that could be fine. Nobody likes him because he's not a ball handler. He's not the prototypical number one overall pick.

He's boring, not a creator, all this stuff. That makes people assume that he's not worth it. My guy, nobody in this draft is a sure thing. I can promise you that guy is going to be tall and he's going to shoot threes. You're doing all the coping for me right now. You're doing literally all the coping for me right now. You got Trey Young. You got a Kongwu down low. You need good players and fast because your team is distraught.

He'll be a good player. I don't know if he'll be a great player. Every single year, something finally good happens to the Atlanta Hawks. We get the number one over pick. Of course, the draft right after Wednesday. Whatever, cool. Not hanging on the script writers. To my guy who I paid $50 for, the NBA script,

screw you, buddy. I'm reporting to the ops. I'm reporting to the police. NYPD, they're going to be on my line as soon as this draft ends, bro. People with a chatter spam and L. You're just getting massive L's. This man, at the Combine, this man looked Alex Sarr in his eyes and said, see you in Atlanta.

That too, you know what's funny? He did that when the cameras turned off. Yeah. He was walking away. I was being professional. for any moment, like, I see you, man, I'm a box fan. And the guy was like, yeah, and just get walking. Yeah, thanks, buddy.

He just kept walking. Now, he did not care one bit. He didn't go, fuck. I'm going through. I got some bad news for you. I'm going through all this. It's a grief right now, you know, and Zachary, we like the length, of course. We like the shooting.

He adds, of course, more versatility to our team, and it gives us more optionality naturally. Deandre Hunter is a good player, but. This is a lot of games here, and then. He's gotten better every single year, but... Look at the way that they're clapping. Like, they look kind of happy, Brad. Oh, my God. They're just like, listen, we did the best we could with what we were given, right?

I honestly think, though, anybody who was... Whoever was drafted, number one overall, it would have felt like this. Because the entire draft, like, once you get past one and two, everyone's like, yeah, there's no stars, but everyone else, like, this good role players. And nobody really in this draft is the caliber of player that you would say, yeah. Oh, his sleeves are too long.

Yeah, come on, my guy. See, the thing is, so I wanted to, I don't, okay, so first of all, everybody on draft Twitter is having these strong opinions about this guy as if they're watching French basketball. You're not. Like, come on. And I just have such flashbacks to Brandon Miller when I see the discourse around this guy. I know he is not a great ball handler right now.

He wasn't asked to do that on his team. He's purely a floor bet. A lot of these same things are said about Brandon Miller. He can't get to the rim. He can't be an on-ball creator, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I think there's a reason these teams value these big wings that can shoot. That's a really strong floor to build off of and get better. I wouldn't be so quick to assume he doesn't have a ceiling.

Yeah, it's definitely not fair on his end to do so. Of course, there's, like, very limited tape. And he's swaggerless. He said he's what? He's swaggerless. Don't talk about my number one over. Watch your mouth. I'm going to work for any of these guys.

I don't even know. Me been a hug for like five minutes. That's Zach. You already know what I'm talking about. But, no. Yeah, like even though his three-point volume was, I think he averaged like one, maybe two, three-point attempts per game and in his last field to play. But the form is there. We see what he can do in transition.

Of course, defense is not a weak suit at all. But something that would obviously take him over the top is if he had more creation ability. Him alongside Dylan Johnson, who's basically a stud in, in my mind, he has all-star ceiling alongside what trailing he can do as well. I like it. I'm not, I'm not like, what if he's Michael Porter Jr.? What if he's French Michael Porter Jr.? Next to Trey Young. That's the question.

That's the question. No, no, no. What you just said is the question is, is Trey Young going to be on the team? And I'm saying it legitimately, like, if you talk about wanting to see his creation, he might have the opportunity to have a lot of in-game reps to work on his creation because Trey Young might not be there, right? And now, if he is there, if Trey Young is there for the long-term future, then I think that this.

this pick is fine, right? You can get him a shooter on the wing if he turns into, even if he is Harrison Barnes 2.0. Trey Young and a Harrison Barnes type guy is not terrible. It's productive basketball. Yeah. And for where you guys have been

over the last two years, after trading for Dejante, you guys have kind of taken a couple steps back. This does still feel like it's a step forward in a rebuild, and now you just have a couple of decisions to make. You have to figure out what you want to do with Trey slash Dejante. You want to figure out what you want to do with Clint.

And obviously, Jalen Johnson's going to be there. O'Conu, he might be there as well, but you're not in a terrible position. Yeah. So Shams just, again, spoiled the number two pick. He needs to stop. I want you to take a wild guess who it is. He needs to stop. This might be the biggest surprise of the draft.

Really? His name reminds of Malix Bar. I'm going to say that. Malix Bar. Yeah. Listen, you thought of that on the spot, so I won't harping you too much. But Malix could have been a stronger pull. I'm right.

Alex R. Yeah, yeah. I'm what Alex R. Alex R too. Yeah, obviously. Duh, duh. But back to the chat. They're demanding you state your sources on who gave you that script that was so horrendous.

Listen, I ain't gonna lie to you. There was this tweaker that I met on the street to New York, and he was giving me some information. I was like, oh, interesting, dude. Okay, so. Why do you like this? Somebody's spamming another, another scramming Malik's bar. Oh, there we go.

There you go. The pick is in. Alex Arns are over two. Congratulations to the Washington. Nice double-breasted suit. We like that. Braves looking on point. Exactly.

Dude, shout out the Wizards. The Braves and Jane is nice. You can see the watch. You can see the bracelets. This is what a number one pick should look like. Oh, we're judging the quality to pick off a horse. Yes. Yes.

All the war. All right. All right. Listen, man. The Wizards have been downtrodden. for several years now. Look at the buttons. The button's all sparked.

Look at the buttons. Can we talk about basketball? That's detail. Please. The Wizards have Valal Kulabali, who is now a 6-9 guard who won't stop growing. Who knows how good he'll be?

They did have Danny Adjillo with it traded. We'll talk about that in a little bit. And now they have Alexar down low. That's too legitimate building block that you can, like, have some excitement for. You can want to watch a Wizards game.

At the very least, that would be a good defensive duo. We'll see how everything else comes around them. But last year, I had zero desire to watch the Wizards. Now they have something going for them. Yeah, absolutely. I agree.

It seems like they're starting to form some type of identity, which is very much needed after witnessing what Kyle Kuzma and Jordan Poole did last year. They won, what, like 15 games last year, played pitiful basketball on all accounts. And having Alex R there, you know, is fun. But he bounces off someone like Kyle Kuzma extremely well, even though Kuzn might not be there for very much longer. But this is a great pathway for them,

and they have some type of vision out, which is great. Yeah. I was more excited for that vision when it included Denny Avdiha. For sure. And if you guys didn't see, I'm sure you did, everybody watching, because you tapped in and you know a ball. They traded Deni Avdiha like 35 minutes ago for the 14th pick in this draft and a 2029 first-round pick. How do y'all feel... This is a weird move. You don't often see a young player get traded from rebuilding team to rebuilding team because now he's on the Trailblazers.

What is the logic behind this for the Wizards, do you think? I think for the Wizards, it's very clear. One, when you traded Bradley Bill, you guys are going to suck. You guys are in the rebuild. Jordan Poole and Kyle Kuzma are not the duo that you want to start a rebuild with. I hope not. Exactly. And so now you trade Denny.

You hit the reset button 100%. Like, why, though? Like someone like Denny, the leap that he made from the year prior to this past season was crazy. And seeing the shooting come around, he already was a fine defensive player. great defensive wear. That's his strong suit and being a connective pastor. Like, in my mind, he's someone who I'd want to make Alexar's life easier and Balakul of Bali's life easier, you know? Yeah. It's weird because I, so first understood it, I was like, he's coming up for a payday pretty soon. They're essentially in your one of the rebuild. They have a long way to go.

You don't really want to be in a position where you're paying guys are ready. You'd probably rather reset the timeline around Alexar. But then again, he's younger than Dalton Connect. Dude, they're the Wizards. What timeline are they following right now? They're trying to build one. They're trying to start something productive and be in Lockstep. But he's so young and you've got to pay somebody and you just did it for the 14th pick in a not the strongest draft.

And again, he is younger than Dalton Connect. Even if you have to pay him $20 million a year, that's probably more valuable than the 14th pick in the draft. And yeah, they got another first. And as we're seeing by the Knicks and everybody else making big moves, the name of the game is volume of picks. That's how you build for the future in the modern NBA. So maybe that's logic, but it's just puzzling.

We have to see who they draft that 14, to be honest with you. Like, if they, if someone like a Rob Dillingham falls, then I'm like, okay, I completely understand and I see the vision. Or if like a Stefan Castle falls or something like that, I see the vision. So it is entirely dependent on who becomes our 14th. Great. If they get a steal, then it's cool in hindsight, but in practice in terms of the process of getting there, it doesn't make a ton of sense. I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it at all. you're just trying to get as many swings as possible.

And I think, like, again, if you are going into, as soon as you saw, as soon as you saw the level and the quality of basketball that was being played last year, regardless of who was on the floor, I don't care what good Denny did. Everybody has to go, right? We just can't, we just can't have this. We're going to start from absolutely ground.

Did you see the screen that Marvin Bagley was setting? Everybody has to. Marvin Bagley is nice. He's underrated. You see the rebounds that Rashon Holmes was grabbing? I'm sorry. He used to be underrated. You have to go.

You have to go. So I'm okay. I'm okay with it. On Portland side, and we're going to talk about it later, I like it for them. Oh, that's great. Yeah, like they came in into tonight looking for forwards because they have a very, very stacked guard room. You get another forward right now, defensive-minded. You still have the opportunity to really build out your forward room or your forward position with your picks tonight.

I'm okay with it on both sides. I think it's fine. Yeah, I feel like I best you can be okay with it. But no one's ever going to be like, this is a great move for the Wizards to trade the 23-year-old role player for the 14th pick in a week draft. That depends. Again, it's only going to work in hindsight. Yeah, yeah. And again, that's bad practice.

But maybe they have somebody, maybe they want to go big game fishing and they're big game hunting and they're swinging for the fences and think somebody at 14 can potentially be a huge impact player. And they're like, listen, Deniav Dihaz, not true savior. He's not going to be the star player for us. But again, that's bad practice. Question. If you guys were Raphael Stone, GM of the Houston Rockets, what would you guys do with this third overall? I would not make this pick. I would trade the pick.

Why? Because I think that the, I think that the Rockets are at a point right now where you finally got some adults in the room, right? Fred Van Bleet, Dylan Brooks is there. You need to make a decision on Jalen Green and you have a lot of, a lot, a lot of young pieces. Make a decision on about where you want your future to go and trade kids and pick and get access.

And I think Reed Shepherd is going to be a star. I think it's Reed Shepherd as well, though. The pick is Reed Shepherd. He is so like... Wow! He's going to love Houston, man. This is dope. We've all known for the past week this was going to happen. All the smoke out there was they love Reed Shepherd, and I'm so happy for it.

Right now we know Fred Van Vlitt is a starting point guard. Bridge. He won't be the long term. Lastly, they drafted Amen Thompson, who, I don't know about you, Mo, me and Donovan think he is the truth. He is the future. He's like that. He's going to be a star point guard. He's going to be one of the most athletic players in the NBA, elite passer, elite defender,

everything you want from a prototypical super soldier point guard. And when you think about that being the driving force your offense, I can't think of a better, a better player to suit around that than Reed Shepard. I 110% agree. Like, read his skill set and what he does, specifically shooting the ball, off the ball, on the ball, on his playmaking shops defensively, and just how, like, he makes his presence felt by being annoying and giving all his effort on the end,

makes him a plus player all around. And a player like him, there's no situation where you wouldn't want him on the court. Playable on all ends. I love for them. You do Alprin Sangoon, high post hub offense moving around him. You have Reischeper running around off ball to catch threes.

You have a man Thompson driving kick game, Reischper to catch those kicks. Every player they have, Cam Whitmore's downhill speed, if he becomes their long term starting three, him just space the floor. Everybody you can possibly put in this young core, whoever rises to the top,

Reed will fit with them no matter what. Now, I'm good with this pick, right? Because, again, I would have traded the pick. I would have wanted to get a couple more assets and maybe like reassess where we were with the young core. Picking Reed Shepherd to me is now putting the target on Jalen Green's back because now if you were thinking about the core of the future, again, you can't pay everybody. The Rockies do have a lot of young talent, like you said, Amen Thompson, Reed Shepherd, Jabbarry Smith, Sengu, all these guys. Everybody can't come along on the ride. And I think that Jalen Green, who shows a wonderful flat.

of scoring for two weeks every March. If they can't get that consistently throughout the year, and Reed Shepard is now shown in, actually, you know, knocking down threes, actually fitting with their point guard of the future, now you have another young player very athletic that you can trade, get more assets, and keep, you know, keep evolving.

I think that's one of the biggest things because whatever pick that they made, if they took Reed Shepard or if they shocked everybody and took, you know, Klingin or whatever, it was going to send a signal about how they felt about one of their two stars, whether it be Jalen Green or Sangoon. I think that them picking Reed Shepard let you know, like, all right, it's time to start, you know, we got to set this process, Jaylon.

I agree. The Spurs on the clock, I feel like a Spurs fan this draft because I'm so invested on what happens for Victor Women Yama. I've spent very little time thinking about the Lakers pick, my own team, and I spent all the time in the world thinking about what are the Spurs going to do with these two first-round picks to build this core around Wembe, I'm so scared they're going to fumble this. Whoa, whoa, whoa, how is there, what is fumbling this pick to you?

Well, listen, there's a certain French player that they've been linked to that I do not think it's particularly talented right now, that if they pick him with one of these two picks in the top ten, I'd be like, but listen, I don't even know what it looks like to fumble it. This is such a perfect opportunity to have two complimentary pieces come in next to your star at this age, that it's an inflection point that if they nail We're like, oh, the next contender is right there. They just built it in front of her eyes.

Then I'm worried that even if they just do okay, they'll fumble that opportunity, and it stresses me out. I don't know why. This is the San Antonio Spurs. When was the last time that they, like, genuinely fumbled a pick? I don't know. Maybe you can say, like, Josh Primo, but that's for, like, nasty. They've drafted, like, crap the past seven years.

Really? How? No, not really. They have Vesel who was good, and Wembe, who was, they lucked into Wemby. Exactly. Pre-Pwembley. So Han's out there. He's good.

There's other. players they could have picked there. That wasn't the best pick in the world. Primo, the biggest miss in the goddamn world. Kelton Johnson was a late pick, so I guess we won't hold it against them. He wasn't bad at all. Yeah, Kelton Johnson wasn't bad at all. They've done squarely fine for seven years outside of drafting the best prospect of our lifetime who they happened to get off a good lottery look. Outside of that, they've done nothing to show us that they have an elite scouting

department that's going to find the perfect players and anything of that sort. They're not like the Wizards bad level drafting, but they're not great. They haven't been on the money, definitely, but they've always had picks towards the back half. Remember what they did with Jezonte Mary a long time ago or Lonnie Walker a long time ago. Those are solid picks and for what

Wembe is, that's all you need at bare minimum. Now, yes, it would be nice. Lonnie Walker walked for nothing. Exactly. You need better. If you have two picks regardless of how good you think to draft this, if you have two picks in the top eight, you need to do better than landing one Lonnie Walker if Wobber is on your team.

If they draft Lonnie Walker for them, we're all but a vomit. It's going to be. It's going to be. So who is the pick for you? I think that they are going to go with Stefan Castle. All the smoke says that. Exactly. That's what the smoke says. And basically everybody in this draft or a lot of the guys in this draft is like,

hey, if he can figure out how to shoot, like we have a really, really talented, talented player. And so why you would want spacing around Wembe and why that would be ideal, you still have a lot of holes on your team. and a lot of those guys can't do the other things, Stefan Castle does a lot of the other things, and it would still make sense to go get him right now and just try to figure out the shooting later. You still have cap space. You can still trade for guys bringing the shooting.

And you have a pick at 8 where you can get Castle here, go get a shooter at 8, and really just take your dart throw at whoever you like. I'm glad you mentioned the fact that there's so many non-shooters in this draft. It's absurd. The whole lottery is like a bunch of Thompson twins. It's guys who are like elite at certain things. You can't shoot.

If they can't shoot, they're just going to be just okay. But if some of these guys can be a good shooter, let alone a great shooter, they immediately become stars. You mentioned Castle. If he can shoot a little bit, he is Drew Holiday. I'm staring at it. It's a Spider-Man meme. That is Drew Holiday if he can shoot. Ron Holland, if he can shoot, God knows what we're going to call it.

Jalen Brown. Let's say it right now. There you go. These guys have crazy feelings that they can shoot. Boozellis, if he can shoot, good Lord. There's so many of those guys. Oh, pick is in, pick is in. But I feel like it's more of those than a normal draft.

My prediction is Rob Dillingham. Well, your prediction is wrong. It took Staphaun Castle. I love it. Okay. I wouldn't say I love it. I like it. This is not, you should, I'm cool.

I like it. I like it a lot. This is a pick to love because he very much feels like a Spurs E player because he has no real weakness on the court. And other than shooting, of course. But when you're, you have to assume that eventually hope that comes around. Yeah, hope is a better word than I assume. Yeah.

But with all the things that he can do, make all the simple. passes, plays great defense, of course, like bigger body. I like this for them. Yeah. Yeah. I like especially the fact that he, Stefan Castle and his team have talked this entire process about he wants to play point guard, right? He wasn't really able to show that at Yukon.

That wasn't the role that they cut out for him. This is a team that needs a point guard. So if you were ever going to be in a situation where you wanted to do something and the team wants you to do that thing, this is going to be it. So I'm excited for him. I think it fits for him. I think this is probably one of the better landing spots for him. He's a nice mix of floor and ceiling.

Because like we said, he's one of these guys that it all comes in a three-point shot. But I feel like when you have this slew of guys, you have to pick the one who, obviously, they do their scouting as a team. They know more than us about his shot. And if they have faith in it, clearly they do have faith. It will be solid. You have to just pick the guy that you have faith that their strengths outside of the shot are going to be good enough that you can hope that it becomes decent enough of a shot that the strengths and shine. And his strengths are strong as hell. Thankfully.

Wait, I need to be able to move the camera down. Is he wearing sneakers with the suit? Because I need to see that. The suit's fire. I like it. I like the chain. It's hard. He has a castle for a chain.

Also, these hats are tough. Much better than what we've gotten in the past couple of years. I like, listen, shout out to the NBA for stepping up their hat. I'm seeing a lot of W. Chat, let us know. Is this a W pick or an L pick? Because, again, fitting in a 1B is everything. And this is a guy that has a 6-7 with a long wing span,

truly elite defender at the point guard. position, can even defend twos and threes. Passing isn't horrible. Nobody thinks he's a bad passer, but like you said, he wasn't really allowed to show that last year at Yukon, so there's another level that we assume he can make. Yeah. Not the best athlete in the world, but not a bad one. He has strength and get to his spots.

Not the worst shooter of all time, not a good one. You know, there's a lot of good, not great. We'll see which one of these becomes great. And if any of those becomes great, like that's what puts you in the next tier of point guards in the league. No one's asking him to be elite. No one's asking to be an all-star at all. Can you be playable?

Can you not be 30 games of Jeremy Sohan? And I think he can clearly ease. He can clearly pass or past that within the first. I can't believe they started Jeremy Selehan at point guard. What a crazy time. What was Pop thinking? Yeah, no. Come on, Pop.

So now we know, we have Castle, presumably, the starting point guard. Vessel? That's a nice duo. That fits. That's a nasty defensive duo. Yeah, Vessel's a, I don't know. Well, Vessel, he was more so known as the defender coming into the raft, and that just fizzled up as, you know.

He's not a horrible defender by any means. He can shoot, we know that. We'll see everyone wanted to take a bigger leap than he really did last year, but he still has potential as being a scoring, shooting guard can move off the screens a little bit while Castle presumably is the main playmaker. That makes sense to me. We'll see with the three and the four. They got this eighth overall pick.

I hope it's a forward. What do you all think? I hope it's the same thing. I think that they have to go, you have to go and try and fill out as much as much as you can. I've seen some people be like, hey, you know, you need a point guard, take two shots at it, right? You know, go get Castle, maybe go get Rob at 8. I think you want to try and be very well-rounded here because as, and you pointed this out so many times when we talk about Luca and how fast Luca, like, sped up the math timeline.

Yeah. Everybody understands that Wembe is, like, the timeline is now. Yeah. And while you have him on a rookie deal and are going to be able to have as much. flexibility, you can't have misses. You can't have a lot of guys who aren't coming in and being productive or having massive holes on the team. You need to have a actual hooper at every single spot. So I would just try to cast my net at every need that is that you have and go get a forward. Yeah, I think the best option here if he is there is Modis Buzales. If he ends up

like living up to his shooting. Just two guys who can't shoot and just just hope. Oh my God, his tweet from Sean Yu on Twitter LMAO they showed a highlight of Reed Shepard shooting a

motherfucking free throw this draft is cooked all right I missed that they did him so dirty they did him

so they also like did Reach Shepherd mixed in with Kobe in their kind of show it was kind of nasty I didn't want to say anything

but Reed Sheppard you're going to shine brother that a free throw highlight is ridiculous they only show like 90 seconds of highlights

that's ESPN I don't know why That was a terrible cut. I'm ready to see Reed Shepard. Listen, what is it? We're in June. He's going to have a nice little offseason in Houston to get a custom. Paul Walgryl's.

I need to see the haircut when that rocked over. Is the fay going to go higher, right? It's hanging out, is hanging out with Jalen Green and everybody else. What's the barber situation going to be like for Reed Shepard? Can we get a midfay? Can we get a taper? He doesn't have mad selfies and Instagram going like this. When are you linking with Johnny Dang?

I need to see Reed Shepard embrace Houston culture. He's a pop-up backstage at a med concert. Folks on the car. Oh, I need. Yo, okay. I had the picks spoiled for by Shams. Like, you guys don't know. The fifth pick is interesting.

The Pistons on the clock. There was talking, them trading this pig earlier today. They were shopping it. They did not trade it. This isn't a chalk pick, finally. The first pick that's not chalk. Okay. What do you guys think?

Who do you guys, who would you go with if you're the pistons right now? They need someone who can just straight up shoot. So for me personally, you either have to go with someone like Rob. Now I hear you. You. Or at least I can hear you in my head. Ew. Terrible fit. Keep going.

Terrible fit because Jaden Ivy's there and you're not really 100% sure like where that is looming and the duo, how the duo is performing between him and Cade. If not that, then I really like Dalton Connect because he's. He's a seasoned rookie, he's like 22, 23 years old, and you already know what you're getting out of him day one, because if his size is 212, 6, 6, and he has a ratchet on him. And at this point in time, they cannot afford to have like that many projects because you're teetering,

yeah, he's big. Guy's jacked. Yeah, he's big. Donovan, where would you go? The fact that you said that this is not chalk, I think a lot of people have been looking at Detroit and wondering if they're gonna get somebody who can shoot, right? somebody who can play make a little bit.

Are they going Donovan Klingan? That'll be nice, too. At 5. And because, I mean, listen, Klingan is somebody who people have talked about could have potentially been number one. Right. They could have gone up there.

There's been spoke about, you know, they don't really rock with, with you man, Jalen, like that. Is Klingan the pick at 5? And do you just take what you think is best player available and you rock with your guards right now? So I'm going to say this.

I'm going Klingin. That's my game. I'm not going to spoil the pick. It's not Klingin. So with that being said, Klinget's falling to six now. There were several teams that were in talks to trade up to get Klingin. But the... Who's at six?

The Hornets are at six. They could just take Klingin. They could. They could. The Grizzlies love Klingin. The Bulls love Klingin. I think the Blazers. There's other teams that were linked to him.

We might see a trade-up pretty soon. Okay. Pick is in. The pick is in right now. We're watching the Pistons go on. Chad, you guys know what are ready. These guys don't. Let's get the reaction.

Hopefully it's someone who can shoot, because they need... The pick is Ron Holland. Oh, my guy. Let me say this. Let me say this. Okay. I don't know about the fit. They have no shooters.

Ron Holland is not a shooter. This is going to be discussed. But, but Ron Holland is amazing. And the fact that he's fallen down the mock drafts in the past months because of overthinking by draft Twitter, and we have reports he's going to fall out of the lottery, you guys were insane if you thought that was happening. If you thought 15 intelligent GMs were going to look at Ron, Holland and be like, not my guy, you're out of your mind.

This is one of the best players in the draft. I'm so happy he went top of it. I told you guys before that, right? Everybody always, like, has their guys. My two guys coming into the draft was Modest and Ron Holland. And the defense that we are about to see with Ron Holland and Assar Thompson, the athleticism that we're about to see with those two, on top of Cape Cunningham being a very big guard, on top of Jaden Ivy being as fast as he is.

Now that Monty Williams is out the paint, right? And we can get a real coach. Right? Somebody who at the bare minimum prioritizes development of your young players. Once again, it's a drug that I cannot quit, but I'm buying into Pistons hype in the offseason once again. Oh, brother, you need help. No. I'm definitely tap in. I'm super excited.

I'm super excited. I love this. Again, I love this. Is Jaylen Dernan long-term five? We don't know. Is Jay Knives is a long-term shooting guard? We don't know. I'm going to say probably not.

We damn sure don't know who the long-term small forward is. What we do know is Cade is their point guard and Ron Holland is the best. player on the board. You make that bet and figure everything else out because everything else is essentially a blank slate. Yeah, I like this pick because he easily has the highest ceiling out of everyone else at this point in time. And he also brings something that nobody else seems to have on this roster, which is just absolute dog care, passion. And yo, they call it the Motor City. I'm wrongly enough. One of the biggest things that's talking about him is his competitive nature. Look at that. They talk about his motor, bro. And I love this pick because

he has. He's a professional. He's not a rapper. He has that type of ceiling, of course, like the shooting is... This is awesome. Yeah. For him, but talk about his rebounding. Talk about he's not the best playmaker by any means necessarily, but it's not an absolute weakness for him. I love this, bro.

Chat, spam it up. This is a W or an L. I'm seeing some mixed reactions, mostly Ws. If you were saying poor Ron Holland, listen, Monty Williams is gone. Where's the blank slate? It's a new day. A new day. They got a new gym, a new coach.

Listen, it's not the best situation. if not what it once was, there's a chance that he can be the culture center, him and Kay can be the duo. This is a good spot for Ron Holland, I think. If they don't come out next season and play like the Sacramento Kings, I'm going to be disappointed.

I'm going to be disappointed. They need to run up and down. I'm doing that from day one of training camp. We are getting 200 possessions in every single game. I'm not giving you guys the opportunity to stand still and shoot. You guys don't do that well. We won't do that, right?

We will run all day. I'm actually very excited. I need to see this. I need to see that play with pace. I need to see Ron Holland shooting 2,000 jumpers a day for two summers. It's going to work. It's going to be great. What does this mean for someone like Jayden Ivy?

Is he expendable in your eyes? Because to me, probably should be. Everybody's expended. I don't think this is why. Yes, I think Jayden Ivy has done nothing to earn his spot for sure. He's a promise, but it's not a sure thing that he's a long-term guy there. And listen, this isn't a good fit for him. So I see your point.

Like, maybe. I would prioritize Ron Holland over Jay and Ivy, I think. Absolutely. There's too much redundancy at this point in time. And I think I view Juan Holland and his skill set. I think he is a much better and cleaner fit compared to him and Kaye because of the cutting ability. And he naturally doesn't prioritize the ball in his hands as much. If this guy can shoot just a little bit, especially like in year one, if you can just not be a minus, if we can get you at like 32, 33%, somewhere where it's like slightly below respectable, right, right around that line.

I'd be okay with it. This is going to be fantastic. And shout out Ron Hollis. The rest of the draft is getting me. Real quick. Someone just DM me on Twitter. Can we get the solo cam on me? I'm going to show it on my iPx.

I can't pull it up. Somebody said, why does Isaiah Collier look like Moe and Donovan combined? I'm about to say. Is that Mo? Is that me? Oh shit, that's me. What the hell?

So that's Moe. One, I don't know why it's Moe and Donovan combined, but that's just Moe. Yeah, it genuinely looks like me. You saw him in person. He didn't look like me at all, bro. You guys has new haircut that you. You guys are going to see when he gets drafted.

I don't have you seen it yet. It's quite the talk of Twitter. I'll say that. Nice. Hands a fellow. I know one when I see one. So another thing. What was he tweeted?

Miles spoiler. A team is currently trying to trade up to six to get Klingin. Like I said, I assumed. A team is trying. Who do you think it is? It's probably going to do you first of these. Easily, bro. They're on their knees right now because they need someone like him because who's their five?

Stephen Adams, he's out of there. He's kicked rocks, you know? He's kicked rocks. Yeah, sadly. And right now, they're. bare bone, you really don't want to go into next season having Jaron Dexon Jr. at the loan five because of rebounding issues. We all see it and heard it, especially last year over the course of the year and also before that in the Olympics, really, really poor numbers. I predict it's going to be them,

for sure. Memphis, you know what? Is Portland going to trade up one spot to six? Do they care that much about going to get Klingin because even though that they have DeAndre Aiton, how confident are you that they love Deandre Aiton? I think they might like him good enough, but he's like, what is he 26 now, 25? 25, he's 25, yeah. Like, they are so early in a rebuild. DeAndre Aten is not the feature of that position for them. Even if they like him a lot, it wouldn't make sense to prioritize him now when by the time

Scoot is ready to be, no, competitive. DeAndre Ait will be pushing 30. So he's there. to be traded eventually. So if they believe in Klingen, I think you take them. Wow. Okay. I wonder what the Hornets are going to do at this point. Okay. Okay. So it was Portland that was trying to trade up for him. Wow. And that didn't materialize. Now there is a pick that's coming in for the Hornets. Okay. Who do you guys think it is? The Hornets are I think it should be Klingin. I can't let him. Knowing Lamella Ball's

defensive woes, Mark Williams, and his injury history. Get modest. I do not want to believe in. I don't want to pass up on a potential generational paint defender just so I can put my stock into Mark Williams. I don't buy that. I'm going out, if I'm the Charlotte Hornets, I'm going to get Modis. Because, again... Rodis is a good kid. Why send him to Charlotte?

Listen, I understand. I understand, right? For his personal development, that might not be the best environment, right? Even the Miller going crazy. The same logic applies here where if his three-point shot is the shot that was his shooting stroke in high school and he's actually like a shooter and not what he was last year, then you have an amazing player in Charlotte. And I think for them, you already have Brandon Miller.

You can go out and get some real, real versatility on the wing. Because even if the shot doesn't come around, having Brandon Miller and modest, that's a lot of length on the wing. And Lamello's already a big guard. He's obviously not a defender, but it's just a lot of length. It's a lot of height. It could work. I think having someone with tertiary skills,

Modis definitely has that in his bag. But for me personally, and as a modest fan, I guess I am now, I wouldn't want to see him in that because I think he has higher ceiling than just to be a tertiary creator. It would be nice to see modest employment. Oh, absolutely. I would love it.

Portland is a better place for me personally. Is modest dropping, though? That needs to be clinging. It needs to be clinging. If I'm the Hornets, I'm scoring everybody's drafts. That would work. That will work. I'll say this.

I hate this pick for the Hornets. I want to tell you who it is. Not a fan. So. Probably Nicole at Tobin. Oh, my God. Please don't tell me it's him, bro. Because that, that'll ruin everything.

That'll ruin everything. If I'm a Hornets fan, I'd be so sick to my stomach. Well, listen, you don't, obviously you gave Lamello the money. I feel very differently about Lamello than you guys, where I'm still a little bit unsure. Wait, time about the pig sick. Who are they picking? The Charlotte Hornet select? Who?

Oh, Tijan. Oh, wow. Wow. Okay, so they're buying in heavy. He kind of looks like Lamello here. Tijon Salon, with the number six overall pick in the draft. Wow. A bet on a player who is...

Super raw. To put it politely. Wow. Very tall, very long arms. Pretty athletic. Potential to shoot. You could be a good shot. You're saying he's a brown shirt on 2K?

Currently. Damn. And this is like this year's Janus pick where like they're just hoping they could mold all this potential into something. And listen, again, I'm not out here watching full games of this guy. I'm only doing research via people who do research, right? So my opinion is not the strongest in the world. But I haven't learned a lot about him that makes me very impressed. He is a project fiction.

The famous line from NBA drafts is, He's two years away from being two years away. And, ah, come on, Charlotte. I don't hate this pick. I really want better for them. Yeah. I don't, I don't love, yeah, I don't love the pick just because I think that you do need somebody who is a little bit more ready. Like, you don't have, they're in a very weird spot where they have some building blocks in Lamello and Brandon Miller.

But at the same time, Lamello's always hurt and Brandon Miller is just like, like, he's, He's a good shooter. I don't see Brandon Miller as, like, the number one option on the team. He's still very good, but I don't see him there. He's a perfect, too, yeah. I would like something a little bit more concrete rather than theoretical the way that this pick is. Yeah, he's definitely a project, and he's someone that I, like, if it works, then okay, I see it. But I think that's just too much risk.

There's too much of a risk pick, and you're not with the, with where they're projected to head towards in the future. and Lamello trying to make a comeback, Miller, he's already, like, an NBA-ready product, and he's probably going to be scoring 18, 19, 20 points per game next year. Someone like him doesn't help you rebuild. People are spamming L's in the chat right now. This is kind of malpractice, and I'm getting kind of angry right now, the more and more that I think about this. It's just typical hornets, man.

Hornets are going to hornets. And again, we could be very wrong. This is not the strongest draft. There's no sure things. Exactly. This guy could have the potential that they view him as. For sure. But, again, from our educated opinions,

I would rather take that bet on who's Ellis. I'd rather take that bet on Klingin. I'd rather take that bet on a whole slew of guys who are still there. And again, they're in these workouts. They're talking to him. They know more about us about what they view of him. But it's very puzzling. When you could have traded back and got him,

I don't think there's going to be a bidding war in the top eight to pick this guy. Like, they, the pick is not guaranteed to be terrible, but I think the process is. Now, with what they hope and dream of him to be, then I love this pick, you know? Sure, if he's honest, It would be great. It would be awesome.

Not even, you honest. If you could just simply shoot block shots with those long arms and, you know, like, catch lobs, that's, like, great. That's great. Yeah, exactly. Via defensive presence, help side, whenever Lamello and Miller gets blown past by, great. Also, yo, France is out here, man. France is out here. Shout out France.

France is out here. Three Frenchmen in the top six. They say it's an international record. I have no idea what factory these guys are being made. Because they all have the same bill. right they all have they're all tall as shit it's crazy i have i have not seen a six one frenchman's in stony park it's been 20 years i haven't seen it they all look the same they all the same even cool obali is six nine now they're all just massive yeah he grew into the french build like you know

what i it's it's so crazy they're all making them in the same two k lap i don't understand but again so let's be positive it'll be fine if it does work for all the reasons you said if it does work and he can stretch the floor, can use athleticism to be a killer in transition, defense gets good, which is the biggest hill to climb up, I think. If that does work, having Brandon Miller and this guy on the wings, that's tantalizing around Lamello. Like, that could be really good. It's just a lot of could be.

Yeah. That's what this draft is. True, true. And so, yeah, I don't love it. Yeah, I don't love it, like, in practice. But at the same time, with this draft, you kind of have to throw a lot of your normal draft expectations and, like, draft rules because outside of whoever you want at number one, it really is,

hey, we're just going to go get this guy that we like. It's potential imbibes in this draft, and that's exactly. But at the day, when you have Demon Edie sitting on the bench waiting to be picked up, every pick is terrible. Demon Edie, that's your man for sure. I'm the big Zach Edie fan. And with the seventh pick, the Blazers pick Donovan Klingin. They pick Klingin.

Wow, bro. Their big rotation is kind of nasty. They got Aiton. You know what's funny? Rob. It was reported. They were trying to trade up and pick him at six, but then the Hornets just picked him, buddy.

So did they call the Hornets and be like, hey, let's trade up. I want this guy. And they're like, no, you're good. We're not picking them. Are the Hornets dumb? Bro, the intern over there just cooked their entire franchise for the next five years.

He's like, nah, we're good. Just call back later. We're not going to get him. If Woz tweeted that they were trying to trade up for him, a call was made. If a call was made and the Hornets knew they weren't picking Klingin and they didn't trade back, are they trying? Are they just friends?

Well, they're like, listen, I'm going to let you in on a secret life. Now you're good, bro. Trust me. Listen, Mike Smith, I used to read the articles back of the day. I respect you. Don't bother. I just let him go. Klingin.

But shout out Klingin. Again, we'll see what happens to Dominating now. That's a new interesting wrinkle for this off season. Because I think dominating is overhated. Second half of last season, I know that he started off. No, he was going crazy. He was going nuts second half of the season in that fake March basketball. A team could use him that plays real basketball that is organized and is trying to win.

If they trade him and get some more pieces, Maybe it's tonight. I see something kind of coming together for the Blazers. I understand everything that you say about DeAndra Aiton, about our man Dominating. I know that he was playing great. I cannot get the clip of him just walking through the motion, setting that fake screen.

That was hilarious. I can't, any time I think about him, that's the clip that comes to mind. And he can average, he's going to have to average 30 and 15 for me to be like, no, he's actually pretty good. Oh, my gosh. 30 and 18. Standards are ridiculous.

He's going to have to be shocked. It's crazy. I'm seeing y'all spam Ws. Okay, so you guys like Klingin. Do you all like Chat? Do you guys like Klingin because you don't like Aiden? Or do you like the Klingan fit there? Because that's the interesting part.

Because people really hate Aidan. People hate the guy. Yeah, for the Portland Trailblazers in the state of their organization where they're just like looming and they're just seeing what pops. Of course, like Anthony Simons is there and he put up like 22 or whatever this season. But that 22 wasn't just like life changing. I think they're still looking for that guy or a guy who can help push this organization forward didn't make a real impact, whether it be defensively, and you could be looking at this guy

right now in front of you, and Donovan Klingen. Someone said, damn, they drafted Bill Walton again. He lives on! That's hilarious. Somebody's going to make some graphic that's going to be incredibly insensitive. That's like Bill Walton in the sky. It's going to be nasty. Yeah, I mean, so back to the actual player.

Let's talk about him now. Baseball protector in this draft, bar none. Well, let's see what you think about Alexar. That's funny. The only guy in college basketball that could go toe to toe with deep. and Edie because he's damn near as big an elite room protector offensively isn't a zero but is not a 10 you know like he's shooting around in pre-draft workouts like all these big to do Derek Live was pulling in draft workouts he was pulling in draft workouts who knows that that

shooting potential is real if it is this becomes the best pick in the draft if you can be a spacing five that can be the best room protector but even as is you get what should be an elite defender should be a good pick and roll big man a lob threat all this That makes sense when your team is very guard heavy right now. And especially now that you have Denny, I like this a lot. True. Right? Because now you're-

An identity is starting to form. You're right. Exactly. Now your defense and now your young rebuild has a little bit of structure defensively. And when you know that you have, that your entire guard room is just like, cone, cone, cone, like they are not defenders. Games. Collegrees.

Exactly. Exactly. High scoring points are cones and you cannot rely on them night to night defensively. It's good to have guys in the back end who can guard, you know, the other team's best perimeter player and who can protect the rim. So Portland, and if they trade, if they trade Aiton and you can get some stuff for him, right? I don't know if that's going to happen. But like, just with these two guys, I'm rocking with this.

I like, I like where Portland is going. Yeah. They were, I was not shy about how I felt about Portland. going last year. They were one of the worst teams to watch in the NBA. They were coached horrendously. Criminal. I think Chauncey Bowes had a terrible job. But also, he didn't have the best talent in the world. They weren't exactly serious. They weren't exactly trying to win. And now you're going to have a young but promising protector. And bigs like this are typically pretty good early on. You typically know if a big defense is going to be great,

look at lively contribute right away. I can expect Klingan to be a top half of the league defensive center to start through the year. We know Denny's going to bolster that defense. Another year development from their guys. Scoot. should one day be a good defender at the point of attack. Jeremy Grant's still there. They should be confident. Like, they should still be bad and get another high pick next year. But they shouldn't be as unwatchable as they were this year.

Yeah, this definitely gives all Portland fans more hope and identity starting to form to have their guys so far. It's still, there are a couple pieces away from, you know, a vision being clear, but the vision is not blurry anymore. No, it is clear. The Spurs are back on the clock. The team we're talking about, everybody's fandom right now is based on Wemby. Who are they going for the second pick?

Because all the guys that they were thinking about picking are still available. Boozellis is there, which low-key, I didn't think they expected that. So maybe it's Bozellis. Cody Williams is there. Dillingham is there. A whole slew of options. It fits me again. Now was the time to go ahead and take a swing type of hit,

and I'd want to lean towards someone like Modis Bezellis. If he hits, that changes so much on the court for the San Antonio Spurs because his potential is just so immense. There's no real weak point in his, hold on. I don't want to say there's a real weak point in his game because the shooting needs to come around and defense still needs to be worked, although he's worked on those instincts

while he was in the G league. But the type of bang that he can do on the court, it's immense. He's one of the most bang or bust type of prospects here. Do you want to have two kinds of those guys? I don't use the phone Castle. I like Mattis a lot, but the fact that you pick Castle at four

and it's really the same thing. Yes, I do want two of those. You know why? I got two guys. Some of these guys in the draft are going to be good shooters. I want as many dice rolls that as possible.

Because if either of these guys become great shooters, stars. So give me two dice rolls. Give me two potential stars that the shot comes around. It would be so tragic if none of them became good shooters.

Yeah, and so be it. You got two great defenders and we'll figure the rest out. Also, Wembe being a stretch five and being so generational from the perimeter that allows you to get away with having some non-shoiter out there. So if it's Castle,

we know he's a good. It should be in other ways. Exactly. Buzellis has a bigger bus potential than Castle does. But if you have Castle at your one and you have length in size there. And then you have – and then you have Buzellas, also 610 wingspan. And then obviously Wembe, your 1-3-5 has a lot of length that you can put out there. I want to see Rob Dillingham in his furze jersey.

I really want to see it bad. Hey, man. Well, the pick is in, and it is Rob Dillingham. Oh, my God, here we go. This is beautiful, bro. Buckets for days. These are going to have the nastiest TikTok highlights out there, bro. All year, everybody said, everybody watched college basketball

and saw Rob Dillingham be the most electric guard in the league in the country. And everybody said, spur. Tim and Wembe, great. And we're getting it. This is like fan fiction. This is fan service. It's happening as much as everybody wanted. You know how rare this is?

Rob and Stefan Castle are, like, the most inverse prospects ever, bro. Exactly what Stefan is bad at, creating and shooting. Rob Dillingham, that's his absolute selling point. I love this. I know it's funny. Castle's bad at those. Great of everything else. Rob is great at these things.

Not good at anything else. Small. Couldn't be the more opposite, bro. I love it. So I like it because you have Wembe, who is going to be the best defender in the world, as soon as six months from now, probably. Yeah. You can deal with having the smallest guard in the country because he is little.

Exactly. Dude, he is small. You watch the film? So we have been in person at the Combine and re-interviewed these guys. I didn't feel like he was undersized. He felt normal to me. Then I watched film, and I'm like, yo, was this the smallest player in the NBA?

This guy is slight. And that could be a big issue, which is why he wasn't like a top-fight pick. Teams can worry about what they could do to their defense. Can he be an elite pastor of that size? Is he going to be more Bowens Highland than is, Tray Young? I don't know. You can deal with that downside

when you have Wembe on the back end protecting him. And they're quite literally the only team in the NBA who can have those type of issues because Wembe is there when he affects defense on ways that, we've never seen before. Dude, you have Drew Holliday's defense in Castle, which I know he's not Drew Holiday.

But let's say, Sealy, you get an elite, actually, me not say Drew Holiday. He's like one of the best defenders in all time. But you get an Alice Caruso defender type with this guy in a castle, and you have Wemby. That's a lot of protection from Dillingham's weaknesses. I love it, bro.

The creation that Dillingham has, yo, Wemby's not going to be exhausted, like how he has been, and he can do other things out of the edge Hey, yo. Whoa, what's happening? Hey, yo. Never mind, calm, put the phone down.

Minnesota has traded for the eighth pick and Rob Dillingham. No. Wait, what? Minnesota just traded for Rob Dillingham. No. Are you serious? Rob Dillingham is a Timberwolf. What the hell?

Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. What did they trade? We'll find out soon. Please don't tell me that this involves Carinthetowns. They can't. I swear to God, if it's Carinthetowns, if it's Nasreed, if we get Nasreed in Wambi? No. They probably won't.

They can't ruin that. They probably won't. I don't know, you need a good amount to get rid of the eighth pick if you're the spurs. What was the- No! Wait, what? Minnesota just traded for Rob Dilligan. The Timberwolves had a pretty late pick.

Are you serious? Rob Dillikam is a Timberwolf. What the hell? Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. What did they trade? We'll find out soon. So one thing I will say is that the Minnesota Timberwolves, they need this type of juice on their offense. I swear to God, if it's Mike Conney wasn't, and whenever he's on the court, they're way better with him.

No. They're probably. They can't ruin that juice because Mike Conn. I don't know, you need a good amount to get rid of the eighth pick of the spursers. He's giving you five, six, seven, five. This is unacceptable. Someone like Anthony Edwards was shown those leaps as a score. Yeah.

And also leaps as a playmaker as well. He, the game is just about buckets at the end of the day. And when you have someone like Rudy Goberra on your team, you can't afford someone else like, Mike Collins to give you five. 100%. This is crazy. I wonder what they gave up, bro.

I wonder what they gave up. Please don't tell, please do not tell me it involves Kat or Nasre. Nasree. No, the night pick is so sick. So sick. Okay. I don't know. I can't spoil them for you guys, but...

So the Memphis Grizzlies have the ninth of the wrong pick. They do. Wow. They have a lot of optionality. Marcus Smart's coming back. John's coming back as well. I'm done guess at this point. I'm ready for the picks.

I'm not going to lie. If I was them, I'd probably want someone like... Wait, they probably have EDI. Oh, my God. Did they take E. That's what I'm thinking. Did they take E.D? As I said that, I'm not predicting any more picks.

I think that they... You're not a mediate word. I'm not. I'm not. The Timberwolves are trading a 20, 2031 on protected first, and a protected 2030 pick swap to the Spurs for Dillingham.

So the Timberwell's traded the eighth pick, I mean, the Spurs traded the eighth pick for a 2031 pick. They didn't want to bring in two rookies in this class, and they decide to bet against the Timberwell's future. So the Spurs got two pits back. Guys, this is... A pick swap and a pick.

This is not good. This is not good. Like, you don't... I'm actually I'm actually frustrated right now by hearing that I don't like I don't know if I'm in love with this for with both sides now that no I love something okay well let me explain the thought process then because I don't love it either because you want to see the spurs get two young pieces one they must not believe that heavily in this draft right so they don't want to

take another swing on a guy two they know that they're going to be in win now very quickly around Wembe whether they have a young guy in this draft or not and we know the current meta of the league is stacking up picks and training them for good players. A 2031 pick is going to be an asset you have for a long time. It's going to convey you're going to have in your back pocket to make trades for a long time for say a Trey Young or whoever may be, say Donovan Mitchell, whoever may be. And if somehow you don't trade that pick in the next four years or whatever, the Timberville are not going to get in 231. This is going to be post. This is a long time from now. You want to bet against

that. That's why I hate this trade more and more that I think about it for the Minnesota Timberlores. I understand. But considering the flaws that Rob Dillingham has in his game and his ability to like be a cone on the offensive end and also not be the greatest playmaker in the world I don't know how I this is too much this is too much considering all the picks that they had to give up for Rudy Gobert and I had given up even more two more picks basically two more picks for obdillingham it's not looking the brightest okay we were so hyped for the spurs for getting rob dillingham I understand I understand that right like why if you're in minnesota you kind of want to be a little bit, like, cautious, right?

Because you gave up all of that draft capital. You have Anthony Edwards ascending right now. And last year proved that when he's at his best, offensively, he can carry your team. Rudy Gobert returned to Rudy Gobert form. Like, you are 100% in win-now mode. So I'm okay with them saying we don't care about these picks. By the way, we're going to go in.

Zach Edie is on the Grizzlies. We missed that. Oh, yeah. Oh, we guessed it. Y'all, there we go. I'm waiting for the Tim Bulls. I am so unbelievably in on Zach Eadie. Wow.

You love, you love Zach Edie. As the whole draft process has gone on, I've just continually thought more and more. The criticisms that we've had are so dumb, so lazy. Everybody assumes he'll be the worst possible. Everybody looks at his strengths, and they're like, these strengths are so cool that their weaknesses because we don't want to post up in the modern NBA. So the fact that he's the best post-up player in the league is irrelevant. It's a bad thing now.

And he's going to be one of the best offense rebounds in the league, day one. Competent shot blocker. Great pick and roll threat because he's massive. You throw anywhere near him. He's finishing it. He's not slow offensively like that. He can roll to the rim. He's going to be an amazing gadget post-up player that you put him against bench units.

You can actually play through the post when you have Zach Ead on your team. That kind of breaks the rules of, you know, the modern NBA where we're only focused on driving kick or whatever. His strengths are so strong that people ignore it because they get scared of the weaknesses. And I think he's going to be a great player. And the fact that the number one joke about Jaron Jackson, Jr., is that he's a big man and he can't rebound and he's doing all this stuff, you go out and you get a guy who averages 13 rebounds a night, and you protect Jaron Jackson Jr. And now you can have Jaron in his natural position, right? You can have him as a four. You can have him as a romer being extremely active on defense.

And this is probably going to unlock a lot of stuff for Memphis again. And so now going into next season when you have Market Smart, John Morant, Desmond Bain, Jerry Jackson, and Zach Edy. Like, their defense should be nasty once again. So I'm a shout out Zach Edy. I'm not going to lie. I love this for them. I love this one. I'm not going to be, like, munching like Isaac over here.

But I will say, considering what this roster needs and the concerns for Jaron Jackson, Jr., who is one of their cornerstone pieces, you did him justice with this pick right here. And some like Zach Ety, he's not going to have. have an insane offensive load or whatever. But in terms of just, like, doing the dirty work, said nasty screens for John Morant, he's a great screen setter. Like, I love all the, I love the all-round things as that he does as a player. Great pick.

Can I guess the 10th pick is coming up. The Jazz has the 10th pick. Yeah, the 10th pick. I think that they should go with Topich. I would take Topich at 10. Have you heard his voice? I haven't heard his voice. It sounds like he has a voice changer, bro.

It's ridiculous. He sounds like Dark Spader. I need it. Yeah, well, I'll hear it afterwards. But yeah, I think that, I think, I think Utah, they are in a position where they're in a rebuild. You have Lowry and you have, you have, you have Kiante George, but all the noise around is that Danny Ames doesn't really rock with Kianti Joseph. Like, he's not sure about Kiante. So if you go out and get another point guard, this might work.

Well, the pick is in, and it's not tow pitch. It is Cody Williams. Okay, this is a good pick. Also, good pick. Cody Williams is a great player. He's not known as a creator necessarily, but this is not what you're looking for him. Rangy wing, though.

The defense is there. His cutting is immaculate. The ball movement over there is going to be disgusting. He pairs really well with someone like Lari. And Walker Kessler, Keonti, Kianti George is a good player, too. Has great creating ability, so we're not really looking at Cody Williams to do that.

This is a great upside pick. I love it. Yo, I said Reed and Ead are my two guys in this draft. Cody's my third guy. Why is your third guy? He is so good and so. so efficient that people look at another thing where we pretend that his strengths aren't there because he's really skinny that's what he's people are scared of he's not great getting to the

rim because he gets pushed off his spots and you kind of see that holding back people can add weight I don't think he'll be skinny forever he's an efficient score he should be a good defender he has crazy length he has good feel for the game and you put him next to one of the smartest coaches in the league in will hardy who's really good against people going down there doing TikTok dances at the NBA draft Adam silver what has happened to my league What? Oh, my God, bro. No, he fits perfectly a Will Hardy wants to do.

Perfectly next to Lowry. He gives him a big wing. Great. TikTok dances in 2024. This man just accomplished a lifelong dream and was... I know Jeremy McCain, mad as hell right now. Like, damn, he stole my shit. Bro, what?

I was gonna do that. Yeah. Wow, man, you'll walk up them steps? Shake Adam Super's head. This is crazy. No, but he's not. he's good he's good though i like him yeah the the the movement thing that that you said is going to be very interesting because like with with lowry and the way that he moves off off ball

having having just everybody move move everywhere and like utah uses a lot of off ball screens they they send everybody everywhere this this should this should be funny he's a he's a really good cutter like this is this is going to be very interesting with their like big to big stuff yeah absolutely if he does the level of a creator then obviously like this This is a hit pick in my opinion. You can't lose in any angle or any direction with this pick at all. Let's go back real quick. We didn't get a chance to talk about it.

Rob Dillingham is on the Timberwolves. That's amazing for them. Yeah, like, I like it. I think about it, 2031, screw 2031. You're in win now mode with this court. Absolutely. If he does, a ridiculous luxury tax bill, go on in. Level of a creator.

You might as well. Then obviously, this is a hit picket in my opinion. Yeah, that's good for Minnesota. Soda, because, again, and I will see how much of a direct impact Rob can do, but he's a bucket getter, and I will say it until probably the end of time. When you are in the playoffs, you know what Anthony Edwards is going to give you. Do you want to rely on Car Anthony Towns to give you buckets, right? And I don't know.

And so having a little bit of that load taken off of Kat and putting that responsibility on Rob, helping out Mike Connolly also and not needing 12, 13 points for Mike Connolly to stay in the game when he's aging. That's a massive thing. And now you have, again, one of the shiftyest point guards that we've seen in a while. See, my thing also about this is like Minnesota, one of the main reasons why they made this deep of a run, of course, is because of their defense. But more so, like, something about their defense is, like, they had tremendous size across the board except for Mike Conley. and I guess maybe they're just viewing it as like, you know, if you can take a punch anywhere, it's at that point guard position in terms of size.

But I am not like the big, I like this because Anthony Edwards has to be relieved. But at the same time, I think they're going to take two major hits in terms of playmaking and also, like, defense because I just think. Yo, we see you in the chat. Sorry about the glitches. We're fixing that. It's not immediately anymore. They're talking about the cameras and audits glitching.

We're on top of it. My bad. It was because of the Twitter thing that he guys said. No more of that. But yeah, like everything you're saying, it's a perfect fit. The Chicago pick is in. All right, hold on. It has to be the stupidest thing ever.

Whatever you think is the most moronic thing to do, that is what's happening in Chicago. I don't, yeah, I don't, I don't know. I hope it's not modest was jealous. Bro, how is modest falling like this? We knew, okay, bro, like, we knew that somebody was going to fall, especially because everyone's like, nobody knows what's going to happen. It was going to be a lot of chaos. I think I'm just shocked that it was, that it was him.

I thought that Rob was going to be. the one that fell, but I guess since Minnesota wants to jump up, then there's, like, your answer for that. But now, this is really, really interesting. Yeah, not going to lie, I'm going to be super sick to my stomach if this is the case, because I really don't want to see modest in Chicago, although, like, hometown kidd, they'll be cool story and all that, but they just traded for Josh Giddy. Lonzo Ball is still under contract on that roster.

Zach Belvedin is still there. Kobe White, he was just thriving, and now you tell me I have to play alongside Josh Giddy? Why is he around? Yeah, man, listen. The Chicago Bulls are a team that just needs a direction. I don't even, everything you're saying, they just got to pick the best player available. They just need talent so bad.

They need young direction. So you know the pick. I do know the pick. Can you, obviously don't tell us the pick. Is it a pick that will lead us to believe that the Chicago Bulls are continuing to be an unsurious franchise? No.

I think it's a serious pick on a team that's getting on the right path. I'll just tell you, what does it matter? Yeah, they don't break. Who is it? This is Modis Buzellis going to his hometown team. Oh, my God. The Chicago kid. A lot of people don't know that.

He's telling us an interview. A lot of people don't know that. He's from Chicago. They think, listen, you read Modis Buzellis. You think he from over there. He's not. He is not. He's from Chicago.

And he's staying in Chicago. Good for him. You got a love that happens every time. It's a good storyline. I know they have Giddy. Derek grows 2.0. There you go. I know they got giddy.

Nobody's a good fit with giddy. I'm about going to get a tag for that. Nobody's a good fit with giddy. But if Roselle's can shoot, he can be good fit with anybody. He can be a long wing that can pass a little bit, get to the room, create his own bucket. Hopefully shoot threes. In the G-League, he shot sub-30% was a terrible year from three. He shot well in a senior year from high school.

But before that, he shot poorly. So real up and down, there's no real strong way to feel about his shooting. But if it clicks, that's a great piece for them. I think this is seismic. What does this mean for Patrick Williams in his position in the Chicago Bulls? What do you mean? He's the habit of.

Welcome to Oklahoma City, Patrick Williams. Exactly. Exactly. It means absolutely nothing, man. But, cool. So they're going to have... I'm good with that. Kobe White and Gidey as their guards.

I. I. O. DeSumu and presumably Zach Levine is a shooting guards. You got modest. DeRosan's probably out of there. You got modest. You got Patrick Williams. That's a start.

You know, it's something. Oh man, they just see a guy from Chicago and like, all right, guys, like, I guess this is it, bro. Because they literally always have someone from Chicago on that roster every single year, bro. And that's not a bad, in a bad draft or in one of the weaker draft, when you probably don't even know who to take you, it's like, ah, yeah, we'll just get the fan favorite, right? We'll just get the hometown kid. So it's not, again, I'm very happy for modest. This is my guy. I'm wishing.

I hope, I hope that the Bulls can be a serious, um, organization over the next couple years that he can develop but this is this is not there okay so we have so so who's next who's Oklahoma City next I have someone I really really really want this guy to go here someone who fits into their culture can shoot can defend of course and also and also he can make some pretty nice tic-docks Jared McCain I want him there so bad now that they cleared way of giddy Caruso's there now and he's obviously, you know, mainly there to be a defender and another ball handler who doesn't have too much responsibility.

I love the thought of Jared McCain being Oklahoma City Thunder. Someone said, Kenny can go play some golf now. If you're a Bulls fan, you gotta like this big, right? Yeah. Like, given who was on the board, this is the highest upside swing. And they need some upside on that team. Like, this is a draft for them to take a swing because nothing is concrete with their young core.

Kobe Y had a great season. season. Good tertiary player. You don't want him to be the best player in your young core. You want to swing for the fences and have him be a complimentary piece. This is a guy that if things go well can be that best player in your core. But, you know, there's a reason he fell this far that you need a lot of things to go well. And I would take that swing for them if I was them. I 10010% agree. They have nothing to lose with this pick at all, bro. I think this is the right pick. They did what they could do, drafts of the most talented to dude. And at this point in time, like, if you're a Chicago Bulls fan, like, you're back up. I ain't going to lie.

losing his back, bro. Bro, trade everybody. Trade Levitt. Like, can we allow these young dudes to grow and to have an opportunity to actually rebuild instead of, like, fighting for their lives on the 39 and 43 team with no direction? If they have another season, please don't ever forget that the Chicago Bulls had a player's only meeting on night one. I don't know.

That's nasty. That is so crazy. Everybody in that meeting should be gone, right? You need as much of a fresh start as possible. I hope that he, like, gets the opportunity to actually, like, have a solid foundation. And I always, he's one of those guys that he was kind of like Holland were coming into the year. He was one of the highest tallied prospects. It was like Holland, Buzellis, and Collier is the guys that we thought would be the top three picks.

All of them shot poorly in their season outside of high school and made their draft stock plummet. A lot of times when it's just because of poor shooting, you know that these strengths are there outside of that. And that's something you want to bet on. Like, they have this clear base of skill sets that is going to provide value. I absolutely agree. I love this pick for them. Who do you love for that Thunder? Who do you want them to go with?

Because this is a team that with the one seed is going to be one of the best teams of basketball, one of what happens with this pick. But if they can nail it and supplement that bench where they're currently lacking right now, their only ball handlers are Shay and J-dub. After that, Kays and Wallace pick and rolls, ugh. Like, they need another ball handler, but we also know they need another big. hot me personally i think i said it earlier jared mccain is probably the easy pick for me but if you're not leaning that way color wear is like i don't know why he isn't talked about as much

as to be a lock in the lottery but considering he has a lot of size has potential to be a three point shooter don't let the number screw you shot like scoo you he has shot like 42% from three point line last year but that was just on like one to ten per game so the potential is there they can play that five-out basketball, but he's super physical big who can grab rebounds just like one of their main issues last year. So I'm leaning towards one of those two routes. McKayne would be cool. McCain is like an off-ball shooter.

I've seen people say he could be like a stocky, Seth Curry. Yeah. That would be a good fit for them. But I can't have any ball handling more than the shooting? Can you go out and can you get can you get Buck? Right? If you're Oklahoma City Thunder. Bub Carrington.

Yes, yeah. Because Bub has like, he has a little bit of size to him he's not he's not small and he he's a bucket right like he he is a he is a bucket and if you are talking about having somebody who can stabilize your your second unit i think that that's somebody that they can go to and and really strengthen it and then just worry about who you're going to who you're going to get as you're as you're big you can worry about that through through trades you can see what happens in the um like during the season in terms of trade talks and buyout stuff and you know the thunder still have

a million picks the fact that they were able to get caruso and not give up any draft capital you still have all the flexibility in the world all the stuff that people think that you should have had to trade to get alice caruso take that go get another big right you can do that later okay i see the thunder pick not going to spoil it last time we spoiled it for people my bad y'all i saw the comments my bad i saw a few of you say y'all spoiling picks no more Tomatoes, tomatoes. Tomatoes. Very good pick for The Thunder.

Okay. Not going to lie. Another name that I thought of, Devin Carter would be amazing. That would be good. Very loud, sound guy. Obviously, he's a great ball handler. You can shoot and he just tries super hard. And, you know, I guess the loss of giddy, if that is a thing, then he perfectly fills that hole.

I can't wait for this pick to be revealed. It's... It's a good pick. I'm satisfied. Okay. It's not the person I would have picked, like, number one on my list, but it makes sense. And for a team that their rotation is very solidified, they don't have pressure to pick somebody that can win now. They don't got to pick an old guy.

They can do something that has, like, you know, some variance and outcomes. I'm glad to see they're not scared and picking, like, a 24-year-old that could win now because they're the ones who you even got to win in the playoffs. Yeah, they can, they, in my opinion, were in one of the most interesting positions just because you know exactly. exactly, you know exactly what they needed, right, in terms of like another ball handler or another big, but rarely for a team that wasn't M1C, are you going to draft somebody in the lottery and immediately be like, hey, we're going to need you to come in and, you know, play 25 minutes and be an impact player in the playoffs in the Western Conference finals where they think that they're going to be at. So you really can't, can't go wrong. And also, like, every time I talk about the Thunder is just so weird because you have all of this flexibility. So. while if this pick doesn't work out, it's okay. We have 30 other changes. I know, it just doesn't matter. And even if outside of 30 picks,

you have the most stack roster in the Western Conference. If this guy doesn't contribute to you in the first two years, it is a little consequence. It would be nice if this guy could earn a spot right away. But if he doesn't, you will be completely fine, like entirely. That's such a unique spot to be in where you have a lottery pick and you're also potentially going to be the best team in the West. It's just playing with house money.

And you have other guys on that. roster. Now they, now that Giddy's gone, you have guys that can, you know, step into that role. Giddy and Gordon Hayward is gone. Now, mind you, that's like an extra five minutes added to the rotation. But it is, it is something to where now Isaiah Joe can get more time and Wiggins can get more time. Case of Wallace can get more time. So if you still want to, like if you get into training camp and the guy that you pick is like kind of raw, you have guys that you trust, have seen in playoff moments now,

and are okay, giving them the keys to do a little bit more. But let's see what this pick is. What if they draft Isaiah Collier? That would be so interesting. You know what's crazy you said that? What? They didn't draft Isaiah Collier.

But they pick European Collier. They pick Nicola Topich. And this is exactly the kind of pick that works because for everything we just said, you have time to let him get healthy and get back to his regular form. You know what's cool? When I started scouting this in the past few months,

I saw this guy. I watched the tape. I read the analysis. I saw everything I learned about him. My first thought is, this is who Josh Giddy would be if he was fast and as good as we hope he could be. He is a tall point guard that can pass really well,

not among the best in the league, but really well, and can get into the paint and create penetration, create fun touches, create for others. Josh Giddy can pass really well and his vision, but he can't create advantages because he's not super athletic, doesn't blow by anybody so that passing is a little consequence at times this guy's action

advantage creator literally is who giddy should have been this is like to ship giddy out of there and bring this guy in is glove and hand fit are you telling me this is Josh giddy on a calisthenics program this is Josh giddy with Black Panther fruit every eight it turned into a superhero Josh giddy was vibranium yeah with adamantium skeleton yeah this is a great pick because there's obviously no pressure his season uh his draft stock dropped a little bit because he had a partially torn ACL, and that scared a lot of teams. But I love this pick for them because obviously, like you guys said, there's no real pressure for him to do anything year one or year two, really. But if he does end up banging,

you definitely can see a world in where him and Shay can coexist on the court at the same time, alleviate all the playmaking issues. And also, he has things in his game that Shea doesn't have, which is just like pure athleticism in terms of bursting straight into the rim. And I like Yeah. He's another one of his comments that people made was Goron Drogic, who is a fantastic player. It's a Serbian, Serbian? Yeah.

But Goron was a demon six man. Yeah. This guy set up to be an incredible six man for a long time. And, you know, he has potential to be a starter level player, but, you know, he has seven years of contract control on a team that already has, J-Dub and Shea in the starting lineup. That's just really good team balance for your ball handlers. Yeah. And we, people are spamming L. Why are y'all spamming L?

Why do you hate this with the Thunder? This is a great pick. They're hating the horror. Okay, he's cooking. Maybe there's only a few of you guys spamming, but this is a good pick. Spam W or L. Let me see what you guys are thinking in. Exactly.

He can come in and again, he's going to be okay, right, once he gets healthy. I know that, and I think you're higher on Case & Wallace than Isaac is. I'm kind of high on Casey in terms of like being another ball handler. But now you can just ask Casea Wallace to keep doing what he was doing last year in just more minutes, right? Because now Topich can come in and Tobich can be more of the primary ball handler with that second unit. And Casein Wallace can just keep doing what he's doing. So I, listen, it's okay to take projects when you have the depth that Oklahoma City has. And when your team is centered around five out and attacking the rim, you get one of the best drivers in the league in this draft.

Because a lot of guys don't have super strong strengths in this draft. It's a lot of balanced players. A lot of guys, if, if, if, we know this guy has a superpower, and that's getting to the rim and get him by people. That is his skill. It's one of the strongest skills in the draft. He probably would have been top five if he was completely healthy. Who are they getting at their center?

That's going to be interesting, and that's going to be key for them. Because now your guard rotation or a guard slash wing rotation is very solidified. You have a lot of defense. You have a lot of playmaking. You have a lot of scoring. All it is now is you have Chet Hungren, who's going to play the five, and you need somebody in reserve who can cover for 10, 12 minutes before Chet gets back on the floor.

I'm very curious. So we were going to pull 86% of use at W, so the people's famine L. Losers, he lost. Yeah, man. Some people said it's a neutral pick because they're scared of the injury. I get it. I understand you don't want to draft somebody with a torn ACL. It's not exactly the best place to be, but they're also in no rush.

This isn't 1992. A torn ACL isn't the end of your career. It's not doom for your athleticism. We can assume he'll be fine, especially by the time they need him to contribute. I'm not worried about the health at all. 2002, and ACL was career ended. That's hilarious. It's like pre-imposed Adrian Peterson.

It's like AD when you're talking about years. What a season. After Peterson. That is crazy, rough. That is crazy. You just changed medical. science forever okay king's pick is in quick who's your who's your pick uh me personally if i'm the sacramento kings you just need to sit down and think about how are you going to create

advantages what is your team identity this past season they were known to be or prior to this past season two years ago they were one of the best offenses in the entire NBA historic and they lost that advantage because they remained complacent and also they weren't one of the healthiest teams in the NBA. Now, I think you need to look for someone who's a little bit older. They re-sign Malik Monk. And in this range, I want someone who's going to, of course, be older, give me a scoring punch. I want someone who's going to give me an advantage offensively. And I think someone like Terran Chan and Jr. He could raise his eyes here. Or Don't Connect. He's an elite shooter. Put him on that roster. And just let those things fly because you cannot afford

to have another stinker year for someone like Kevin Herrub. and just, like, bloodbattle. You know, you know the pick already? I do know the pick. Okay, cool. If it's Devin Carter, I ain't going to be mad. I think for Sacramento, now personally, I think that there's not a Sacramento King name that is more Sacramento King than Jacoby Walter, right?

That is so true. It just feels right. Yeah. But I can see, I can see this being, oh, wait, I just see the pick. Oh, Devon Carter. Never mind. The least surprising pick in the entire drafts before, Devin Carter is in the Kings. This has been written in stone.

The ink has been dry for like a month. even knew this guy was going to be a king. Not going to lie, I kind of hate the Shackard O'Kings because it feels like they consistently just draft the guards for some reason. A couple years ago was off night Dave Yon Mitchell. We don't hear about him anymore, and this is his replacement. And I think I like this guy a lot because he's so sound defensively and offensively. His impact is so known. And he can play on the, he can play on the court alongside Darren Fox because of his size, although like the height isn't that impressive, but bro, we're strong, stocky, solid wingspan.

I like this pick for them. You know, every draft has sleeper stars. I think back to Adonovan Mitchell, a guy who's a little bit older, fell in the draft and came out and were like, oh, he's actually just incredibly athletic, can defend, can be a one-on-one score, all this stuff. Every draft has those guys, and people will spend a lot of time trying to figure out who that guy is going to be. Devin Carter's a good pick for that if you're going to pick one. Going to be a great defender can score with the ball in his hands, isn't a total non-zero shooter, isn't a horrible passer

it's like those things where you don't see him be an elite passer but then he gets to NBA spacing and suddenly he's diming cutters suddenly he's spotting up off of wide open shots at the Aaron Fox creates for him

and he's a better shooter you can see those things start to fall in place for a guy who was slept on and suddenly we're looking up and his team's transformed overnight Devin Carter can be the kind of player yeah and it's very interesting

because we saw last year like we saw Kimmer Hurder have a very like you know down year and the for the last two years, the Kings have been very offensive oriented, even though that Mike Brown is a defensive coach

and he's wanted them to get more, you know, involved on the defensive end. And so now, if Devin Carter is who you think he is, now you can have a finishing lineup, a closing lineup or a dominant lineup that is more of the identity of what Mike Brown wants, right? Like, you can't live for an entire era on just trying to be faster than everybody pushing the pace, be so, you know, skewed towards offense. And this brings you back a little bit towards the middle, especially when your offense took a step back.

The defense didn't really take that step. Now you have a player who can help you take that step and alleviate a lot of the regression that you took on offense. So it's a good pick for them. So some people thought they wouldn't pick him after they extended Malik Munk, because they kind of viewed him as Malik Munk insurance if he were to walk. So people might be surprised by this now. I kind of fuck with that because you got D'Aron Fox and Malik Munk

as your starting back court. And then Keon Ellis and Devin Carter at your backup, that's a deep front court. I mean, back court. Like, that's a lot of depth on the two important positions, especially with Sabonis being the hub down low. You want to make sure you have guards that can attack off those creations advantages he brings. I like that. Run that three-guard lineup, man. Let me see it.

We need to see it. We need to. This is a fire pick on their end, bro. I like it. I like it a lot. So Washington is on the clock. After trading for this pick in the trade to send Dennyav Dihat to the showblazers for the 14th pick. And so, you know, we said we're kind of.

I'm perplexed by that. Why do you get rid of Deniav Diha? Clearly they liked somebody back here in the draft, right, that they thought was worth getting rid of their young forward for it. Who do you think that is? There's only one name that genuinely makes sense. For a team that had all that Tom Foolery happened to them last year, just like low light after low light after low light, I need someone who's going to set the table for me, someone who's going to have a real presence on the offensive end and just like get things together now that you have Alex on your team.

Belakulah, Coler, you're speaking the next step. Isaiah Collier. In my mock draft, you are a Washington Wizard. That would be sick. I don't hate that. I don't hate that. Listen, even as high as four, I feel like the Spurs should have been looking at Isaiah Collier at four, because I think that a lot of what we've done over the last year is

overthink Isaiah Collier. Thousand percent. And, you know, he's going to be, he's going to, he's going to, Isaiah Collier is going to be a really, really good player. And I'm with that. I'm with that. Yeah. Again, they have Sarr, who's going to be their building block.

Good job, you. Their two-way player, they're going to play through him offensively. He didn't want to go to the Hawks because he wanted to be a feature player on offense. The Wizards are going to give that to him. Kula Bali is going to be a very complimentary defensive player that maybe develop into a slasher offensively do some things. That is a team that is right for a point guard. Jordan Poole is not the answer. Jordan Poole is not your savior.

I'll tell you that. He's a lot of things. At all. He's not your savior. Kyle Kuzmo is not. match or savior. You need an on-ball creator. They need to pick somebody like that with this pick. Yeah, absolutely. Someone like Isaiah Collier, there's no way he just doesn't become a productive NBA player because of his size, bigger point guard. And like we said, earlier about

Nicola Topich, this dude knows how to get to the rim, although he's not the fastest. He does know his angles and you get there easily. The weird worry and concern with him is his shot and whether that'll come around. And if you're the Washington Wizards, you're not in a position to be picky. He knows what he's doing comes to getting to the rim. A lot of the guys. don't know how to do that on a consistent basis and find looks and be a connective piece and I think that's why he should be this pick for sure. Pick is in, let's see who it is.

Let's see who Adam Silver is to announce. I'm reading, we don't have audio, so I'm reading lips out here. I'll just say, as he says it, the pick, what you're saying at the same time. I'm reading the lip. It's all right. The pick is Bud Carrington.

Oh, Bucket. They didn't pick the guy in Collier who was amazing going downhill. Wow. They picked the guy in Bud Carrington who has potential to be a star because he has a rare gift for off the dribble shooting, obviously a valuable skill set. We know he doesn't get to the room well, defense is TBD,

passing his TBD, but it's a pretty safe assumption he's going to be a good off the dribble shooter. That compliments, one, Alex R pretty well. I like that because when you have Bilau who's still developing and you have Alex R, who you obviously know is not going to, like, instantly be an offensive threat, he said, all right, we got to get a bucket somewhere. And, like, you still have to score points and you go and get a bucket. I like this.

So the question is, do you view this as a player that was worth trading Dennyad Diehl for it? There's more picks in there, so it's not just one for one, but this was the core of it. I think he's a great player. Interesting name, too.

Bub is a fire name first him and ever seen a Bub in my entire life until now, bro. That is true. W first name for sure. His real name is Carlton, but we're going to go by Bub. No, Bub is cool. Please don't say that.

I bet. Cut the audio. But I, this, pick is good, but me personally, I just think Isaiah Collier would have been more of a productive and beneficial pick for what the other guys on your team cannot do, which is just make simple reads, passes, and initiate offense on a consistent basis. Here's where we're at. Next up is Miami Heat. I have to use the restroom while I'm gone. I need y'all to discuss what the Miami Heat should do. Y'all got it. I'll be right back. Please turn off your audio. Nobody wants to hear you drop bombs.

And I saw the Heat, I saw their logo come up, and I know who I want them to pick. I want them to pick Jeremy McCain. The Miami Heat, whoa, if they pick Jeremy McCain, Eric Spolter and Pat Riley are going to delete his TikTok account. So I don't know if I want that. Listen, Jeremy McCain comes from, he comes from Duke, right? They do all the little, you know, work hard stuff, all that. He's going to fit into heat culture. He'll be fine.

But the Heat traded for, they traded for Terry Rozier and, as soon. As soon as they did it, both of us were like, oh, wow, like, yo, Miami is about to be, like, nasty, right? Because they finally got a secondary creator. They finally got somebody who could knock down outside shots. When your top two guys are Bam and Jimmy, guys who consistently don't take threes, you need shooting, you need spacing. And that can't be on Caleb Martin and Kevin Love the whole time, entire a hero. If you go out and get your man McCain, you get shooting, you get secondary playmaking, you get a guy who's the guy who's at at least going to try hard on defense and fit in, that should be their pick

right now. That's where, that's where I would go. I don't know, I don't know what they're going to do. Yeah, their team to where, like, they just extended BAM out of bio. They're really good on, like, that end of the side, on that side of the floor. Tyler here is still there. They just traded for Rozier, like you said. And all those reasons, like, with all those reasons being said, I don't see why someone like

Jared McCain wouldn't be a good fit over there. There's nothing that he could do. negatively on this team other than like doing TikTok dances that I guess other players won't rock right or whatever because Miami culture is a real thing that might break that phone day one.

I think Jimmy would like to do TikTok dances. Is Jimmy going to be there because he's going to test out free agency next year? That's also, well for this upcoming year I think that that's fair. But like Jimmy, Jimmy's still going to be there. Jaime is not a great shooter. So you have to, you have to get some spacing.

You have to get some shooting. You can't, like the whole heat culture thing is 100% built off of once we get to March, all of our guys are going to turn into Steph Curry. And that's just not, it's not reliable. You need actual shooters, and I think that Jeremy McCain would be a really good pick for that. I think at this point in time for the Miami Heat

and the question mark in my mind now that I'm saying, it's like that Jimmy Butler Streeter might be because he's testing for agency next year, I want someone with super high upside. You can get all the guys who are around the edges, I think a Jerry McCain, great player, but he doesn't have all-star potential. That's what they love, though. That's what they love guys who you don't have to, like, it's not like a crazy project.

And also, for Miami, and as long as Pat Riley's there, they do not think, oh, we're going to be in rebuild position. Real quick, somebody asked for a Don fit check. I think you should give it to him. What do you mean? Oh, we went shopping today. Tell him about it. I guess. Some words on the feet.

Tell me what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. I actually forget what this is called. Jordan 2 is very underrated Jordan, right? I like Jordan 2's. They dope. They're grandpappy shoes, but continue. Jordan 2 lows are dope.

I don't like Jordan 2 high. I'm a big fan of Jordan 2's. I have these wide leg pants from Zara. We went, I got this today at cost, very fire shirt, so I got on. Okay. Look at that. Nice.

What a fit. It sounds like he got some money. I might be pocket watching here and there, but okay, I like it. I like it. I like it. My pick prediction, my pick prediction, something that I'd like for the market. Miami to do is select someone like Terrence Shannon, Jr. again, this is like my second time saying his name because I think this dude has real ceiling. I don't know if he's going to be an all-star one day, but he's going to be pushing that in my eyes because of the scoring potential way he can do off the ball. And the size that he has, and also he's an older prospect as well. So if, hey, he, the everything is clear on his name right now. All right. So the pick is in. I'm not to tell you guys who it is. What's your guest? Final guest for the Miami Heat.

Terran Shannon, Jr. I'll go McCain. McCain. McCain, okay. I'll go McCain. Hmm. I don't think you'll be upset by this pick, but I think it'll be surprised. If it's not Terran Shannon Jr., then it might be Tristan de Silva.

Watch it be out there in Collier. If it's Collier, that would be... That would be mocked for a while. That'll be cool. Yeah. That'll be cool. That'll be my secondary pick. My, I think one would be McCain, I think two would be Collier.

This is where things that's super interesting and everything is literally in there at that point, at this point, because I have no idea. who's coming up next, bro. We're definitely at the point of the draft where, like, anything can happen. There's no more, like, sure things. All the, like, who are the best prospects available right now? Barney James.

Collier. Connect. Connect's still here. Connect is falling. People thought Connect would go out like six. Yeah, but he's limited and I think. Old is what he means. No, no, no.

Limited as, he's limited as a... He's not a great defender and he's old. Yeah, but he can do a lot of heat day. He's not limited as an offensive creator. He can do some things. No, listen, once we... Once we get past Miami, Philly's on the board. Oh, that's so nice.

That's somewhere where I think Connect. That's a Connect team. Oh, connect would be awesome in Philly. That's a Connect team. Dude, after the Sixers is the Lakers. Connect would be great. We are gearing up for Isaiah Collier to go to the Lakers. I love Isaiah Collier.

If we can get him on the Lakers, I will be so happy. D.Lo is not long for that team. Collier is the most talented player on the board. Not the strongest fit there being a downhill slashing point guard. I don't care. When there's a player that has that much potential, And I don't think you should have fallen as far to begin with. You absolutely take them.

Keep talking, because I'm going to do exactly what you just did. I'm going to turn my mic off. I'm going to head out real quick. He's going to blow that thing up. Yeah, listen, we're at the point now where ESPN is juicing the hell out of this for advertisements. So the pick is still not in. We're waiting for Miami to formally make their pick. So yeah, man.

What do you get? Who has the best pick of the drafts before, chats? Let me hear that from you guys while we take this quick break away from Miami. Dude. Who do you think? Quick break away from Miami. seeing what the Minnesota Tim rules did and what Tim Conley did

just taking punch after punch and risk after risk he's constantly heavily criticized for every move of course we know what happened a couple years ago and how many picks he had up for Rego Bear

ends up paying off in dividends and this trade right here could possibly be doing so as well Mike Conley's my colony's still there as a right now and he could be training Rob Dealingham and getting him to speed in terms of how to be a professional point guard

in terms of dishing out on all types of ways and making sure that your guy eat. They for sure, I like their pick. Not anything about it. Well, the pick is in now for Miami. Kell L. Ware is a member of the Miami heats. The Stretch 5 who has lop their potential, three-point shooting potential, some defensive potential, but some motor issues. People think he has motor issues. Wow. Some people think he doesn't try hard enough. That's what that means. Motor issues is like, damn, where's the dog? And they think he has some issues with defense,

but more like between the eyes, not necessarily size. Can he get up to speed on NBA offenses, making right rotations, all this stuff. It's a lot of the mental aspect of development for big men that's really holding him back. But if that comes together, this is a stretch five that's seven foot tall and can catch lobs. It's a completely different player compared to Bam Out of Bio, who they just

extended for three years for a massive contract. I think this is a W pick. I'm not like absolutely in love with it because it's like, all right, we're in the lottery. I kind of want like someone who isn't a center at this point in time because Bam Out of Barrow is going to be the guy to get it done at the end of the day. But having depth at that end, you can never hate on that at all.

Who was the backup center before this? I don't even remember. Who was their backup five last year? Why am I drawing blanks? All right. What happened? Miami got Kellow-Ware. Oh, wow.

Interesting. Yeah. Who was their backup center last year? Why couldn't I remember? Look at Mike Woodson. Who was their backup center? I have no idea. I'm doing that research right in how as you speak.

Why am I drawing blanks? I don't remember at all. Who played center for a mine? I don't know, but clearly they needed another one if you can't remember who it was. Start them. There are some guards available, like you said. Everybody kind of mocked hello where, I mean, Isaiah Collier, going here, because logically they could use a point guard in this roster

after losing Gabe Vincent, losing Max Drewes, kind of trying to cobble that together. They're down guard-depth year every year. Thomas Bryant. Oh, yeah, Thomas Bryant. Great pick. Fantastic pick. We're illuminated Thomas Bryant minutes.

We bring in 7-1 Thomas Bryant who can shoot just as good, has a better ceiling because we know what Thomas Bryant is. Fantastic pick. This man gets to move from Indiana to my age. me. Wow. Talk about a level up in life. This is the winner of the night. He used to learn from Jimmy Butler on how to griff for fouls. Oh, we're in there. He's going to be a bucket. Yeah. Now knowing the context behind this pick and how bad their center depth was and has been over the last few years actually not how I think about it. Great pick. He offers a lot of

optionality. I can't even if we forgot about Thomas Bryant. That's hilarious. He's such a forgettable player because it's like, why is Tom and Brian in your mind? Great player. Again, like stretch five or whatever. But come on now, man. Let's be real. Dude, I wish you would have felt to the Lakers. Kella Ware is such an interesting player because this is another one that's like pure ceiling play. There's a world. This is perfect.

There's a world where these motor issues and these defensive rotation issues, all this stuff, holds them back, and we're looking at like, not to call anybody James Wiseman, but there's a little James Wiseman potential. There's a world where that happens, and there's also a world where this is Derek Levin with a jump shot, and we're like, wow, Miami, he just got to steal the draft.

If there's any team that's going to challenge you to play hard is going to be Miami. And so, like, we're going to find out. so quickly whether or not he's going to make it. You know what else? They wouldn't draft somebody with murder issues. They clearly don't believe that to be true. I ain't a lie, bro.

Their pre-draft initiation, their pre-draft workout is literally them just circling around each prospect, hoodie's on, and they're breaking his knees. Breaking his ankles, bro. Every time he stops and he catches a breath, they're running suicide. Anytime he stops and put his hands on knees, they're just like, shame. I like, I take a pick. I have a lot of faith in Miami's scouting department that if a player has personal issues and hard work ethic issues

and the Miami heat choose you, I think those issues were false to begin with. They know how to identify character and they value that more than anybody. You know, they let you hear about their goddamn culture every five seconds. They don't pick people

that don't belong in there. So that makes you think those issues were all made up. And this is obviously a bet that like Rosea's going to come back, have a full offseason with the team, get healthy, and that he's going to be

everything that they thought he was going to be whenever they traded for him. So like, I'm okay. He's a great pick. Yeah. This is good. Where is Kineck going to go?

We have two teams coming up in Philly and the Lakers, both of which in win now mode with MVP-level players, well, superstars on their teams that can win now and should be contending in their conference. Connect is 23 years old, ready to play now. People say he's like KCP or Desmond Bain. Listen, I thought he was going to go high because I thought we learned from Desmond Bain that if a guy is old and is highly effective, you pick him high. It looks like we're looking at another Desmond Bain situation. Yeah, for the Philadelphia is 76ers. quite literally have like no one on the roster outside of like two or three people which is like joll and beat and iries maxi so complete fresh start have to assume they might resign kelly ubrae or

batum or one of those guys you know um but i think right now connect is the safest pick because he 110 percent guarantee you that spacing of course he's a little older coming out of tennessee's 22 23 years old and he has an NBA body ready body already and if again you're going to have leeway to draft someone who's not the greatest at defense, having a 7-1 center like Joel M. Bede right behind you, I think you can afford that. He could start for the Sixers, honestly, as their shooting guard, they were playing Buddy Heald in the playoffs. Is there a world where it connects better than Buddy Hill day one? Probably. I mean, it's hard to be good day one. At the end of the day, he's old, but he's still a

rookie. So maybe not, but by the end of the rookie year, I think that's doable. Yeah, I think, and listen, like, he showed a lot of stuff in terms of, like, getting his own shot, and then also being able to just move around. Like, he's not this, like, standstill, you know, spot-up shooter. Like, he can move around on the floor. And so when you're playing off of Joelle and B, that is absolutely necessary, right? When Tyrese is running all over the floor, being able to relocate and move around and cast these passes and shot, like, that's great.

Chat, I see you guys. Go to hell. What are they saying? One guy said, Isaac has thick the eyes, and now they're all spamming BBL Isaac. BBL Isaac. Oh, my God. What the app? I see all of you in the chat.

I hate you all. Oh, my God. Whoa, hold on. Is there something that we don't know that? And they're not just spamming it. They are spamming it. It is everywhere. They're calling you Isaac Gluteeras again?

Oh, my God. Wait, did they ever say that? Yeah, they did. Don't wait. He didn't read that up. That wasn't the original. Ooh, okay. Philly's pick is in.

Is it Jared McCain? Obviously, that wouldn't be a bad pick either, but I think there's a little bit of redundancy between him and Tyrese maxi. Think so. Why is that? Really? Similar size, and also, I don't, he's like the worst version of Tyrese Max in my mind. Doesn't have the speed, doesn't have the creation, but he can't shoot. Similar size and, you know, like, good defender as well.

Is Philly ready for a guy like Jeremy McCain? Are they ready for him? Too much Ory? Philly fans? Too much O'Refon? I don't know if Philly fans would be getting down with Jeremy Kane like that. Listen, sports fans in general aren't ready for Jerry McCain, as we found out. I see your point.

Are we getting into the Caleb-Booom situation? I hope not, but... Terry's going to be a good player. I feel very confident in Jared's ability to be a contributing role player to a team. Like, I don't know if he has a super high ceiling as some of the other call here that's left, but I think his floor is immense.

He's going to be a great shooter. I think he'll hold his own defensively. He can create off the dribble a little bit. That's a big chain from Kine. That's a lot of money. Did he buy that chain thinking he was going to go top 10? All right. I'll play it on.

It's like, man, I can pay this bag easy. It's like, man, I can pay this bag easy. Now you have multiple payments on your credit card. They're still going. How long are they going to do this? BBAL Isaac is crazy. They haven't stopped. Oh, man.

I really hope this big is don't to connect. No, it's funny, y'all. So, y'all, I'm going to talk to the chat real quick. As you can see on the screen right now, your chat isn't on here. You guys aren't there. Typically, you are when we stream. You're not on the screen right now because we're broadcasting this to several other channels other than the Deep Three's YouTube channel.

And I can't trust you guys to be. to be brand appropriate and be shown on how's the highlights. That's why you're not on the screen. This was an exact main decision, bro. This cannot happen whatsoever. We were, we had the option to go ahead and put them on there. Oh, it was my decision. And I chose right.

Said, no, bro. Because I knew you guys to do some shit like this. I'm trying to mess up the money. I know you too well. You guys are insane. Yeah. Love y'all, though. But that's great.

This pick is in, and the Philadelphia Saviors have selected Jared McCain. Wow. Okay. Not a bad pick. It's not a... You can play a long side, their eyes. It's not a bag.

Yeah, it's not a bad pick. You get some more shooting. I'm with you. I think that they should have went, connect just that they have a little bit more size. But, you know, Jeremy Canaan is knocked down. So this is... And when you are playing off of an beat,

just having shooting, having spacing works. They tried to go get a spacer and Buddy Healed. You saw that he was good for about 20 minutes in the playoffs in game five or in game six, that's about it. That was a fail. And so now you have another shooter coming in who could play a little bit on ball, create a little bit. That's a good pick for Philly.

Good for them. Jared McKinj is one of those players who can literally play anywhere in the league because of his skill set, not needing the ball necessarily to go ahead and make an impact. Defense is there. He has good size to him. And I don't envision many scenarios where he cannot play on an NBA court whatsoever. So I think this is a safe pick, for sure. Hey, Philly, be nice to Jared, man.

Be nice to Jared. Jared's a great guy. He has the crop suit jacket right now, right? He put that shit on. He did. We had him in our draft interview podcast a couple weeks ago, and he said he had something in store. Do you think that he fulfilled that hype?

I do. He had a good suit. He had a good suit on. Look at that. Yeah. Listen, the chest is out, which is a gamble to take. And he got the waterworks out. He's happy to be here.

That's a good suit. I agree. It's kind of cropped, you know what I'm saying? I like that. He put that shit on. He put that shit on. Listen, it's an NBA, let's that NBA, uh,

Mark Mariachi look. It's okay. But no, but this is, this is good. I love this thing for them. Yeah, this is good. Can't go wrong at all. I, I'm not sure.

All right, so, the Lakers are on the clock. Who are they picking? Who do you want them to pick? It's your time to shine. Isaiah Collier would be cool. That would be nice. Dolphin Connect is right there, and listen, they need shooting. Can Collier wait one more pick?

For the magic? Oh, Collier goes that magic? That'd be dope. Can we- Not really. Yes. The spacing is nasty. Of course, I like him as a passer, but you need to prioritize spacing,

first of foremost. There's plenty of ways to get spacing. They also need to prioritize passing and point guard play and not making Palo Ben Carroll be the point guard for the team. I think he can do it good enough. He can put up good numbers and try hard. That's not a good position for him to be in long term, I don't think.

I don't think he needs to be this point forward being the primary ball creator. They need legitimately playmaking on that team. You're taking a massive gamble on Isaiah Collier and his passing turnaround. They just drafted Isaiah Collier last year in Caleb Williams. I said Caleb Williams. You said all the wrong names. Anthony Black, my bad. I said Caleb Williams.

I don't know why I'm thinking about footballs. You almost said Cole, Anthony. You almost said Caleb Williams. I said the right thing, I go. We're still, listen, we're here, we're here. Point is, they need someone with shooting. They drafted a non-shooting point guard last year in Anthony Black. True.

And I don't think going Isaiah caller, another point guard back to Michael can't shoot, is the wisest decision just yet. I know they're so pissed that Jared McCain's gone, though. I'll be mad. Yeah, listen, there's out some options. If the Lakers pass up on Connect, pencil it in, he is a member of the Orlando Magic. That will be such an easy pick for them.

They will be somersault. They will be doing cartwheels in just euphoria for the fact they got Dalton connect at the 18th pick. Yeah, it would be great. I mean, it's just another dude to get you and they need that badly, bro. See, the Lakers could go Holmes. That can be an interesting pick

as a power forward slash center. That could be a stretch five, play alongside AD or at the bench. They could go call there and get another point guard. They can go connect. Earlier, they apparently were liking Jacoby Walter a lot. Yeah. Which I'd rather have the guys I mentioned,

but I wouldn't be heated at Jacoby Walter. I wouldn't be mad. Tristan De Silva is a big forward who can shoot, which always fits well with any winning team. Interesting a lot here. Tristan De Silva actually makes more and more sense that I think about it because he is, I think, I don't know if they can necessarily wait on someone like Holmes

to go ahead and develop on the defensive end. And I don't know. I think they very much. I see the pick. Oh, and he's happy. And he's happy, and it's Dalton Connect. I love it. I'm not telling you who it is.

Listen, I'm going to be, there's a lot of players I'd be happy with, so there's no way for you to guess who it is immediately. I would love to see Holmes. I know you said wait on him. He's old. He's 22 as well. We'll see how that, you know, development curves are different for older players. They're not all ready-made products.

Some of them are. And I think having a stretch five next to AD in some minutes and also with the bench could be really good. Man, it's hard to pass up on some of the other guys that are available. Yeah. They have at this point in time. They're still going, spam. Now they say your guys' names, it's BBL Moe and BBL Dawn in the chat right now. They haven't stopped.

We're like 10 minutes in. You guys, only think is are looking at you right now, and they're looking at your us and you guys are selling us. Bad. You are a suspect. Absolutely, bro. Oh, bad. For the Los Angeles Lakers, I don't think there's no bad pick in this region right now

with all the touted prospects around this range for sure. was them though not a bad pick at all i so like some some of their picks in in previous years have like you know like projects and then when you're and and when you have lebron and ad and obviously like lebron is is aging you when you get to this part a lot of the guys are older as it is i would love to see them pick an older player like adults in connect so that you can actually get some some production what do you think stephen smith is screaming about right now we can't hear the audio y'all at home there if we're watching apsepn stephen is about some shit? What do you think it is?

Okay, so Stephen A. is probably, he's probably talking about how the Lakers need everything to do everything. Probably not about DJ Redding. Something like that. This team is so far away. They did everything under the sun. It's probably something outlandish. The pick is in. Dalton Connect is the Lakers pick. Nice. That's a great pick for them. That's a great. This is exactly what I'm saying. You need to get somebody who can come in day one. and contribute when you are trying to make a push for the title.

And, listen, you get a white boy who can shoot. You just hired a white boy who can shoot as you say. This is mentorship at Inspite. This is awesome. This is white square. This is generational white. You talk about player development to a T, to a T. They got Rob Polinka, shooter.

Jamie Bus is, I think, head of their scouting department. Probably a shooter. That's the other description. Every level of the organization we got white shooters, what can go wrong? Yo, JJ Redick said in the standard, here we go. This is a new era, bro. I love it. I love it.

But no, this is amazing. I mean, he can play day one. This is a player that nobody expected to be here for the Lakers. Maybe it doesn't have the biggest ceiling in the world, right? He's an older guy. It doesn't matter. The Lakers need quality players in there. They have a new coach who's going to preach modern basketball.

He did his first presser. He said math like four times. He's like, listen, I'm going to use analytics. I'm not a dummy. We're playing modern basketball. You need shooting when you have modern basketball. They were bottom three in the league in three-point percentage, and, I mean, that three-percentage, two-point rate. They were not hoisting threes because they did not have a lot of volume shooters.

Here you go. This is the fix of that right away for their bench. It's perfect. The Lakers were playing a liners for four power forwards last year. Rui Hachimira, your minutes are burned. Cam Reddish say goodbye. It's over. They were leaning on Cam Reddish and Torian Prince.

People are spamming L's. You're out of your mind. This is a good pick. This is a good pick. This is a great pick. Yeah. Not only is he just like solely a short. shooter, he can do some stuff on the ball and he's not overrun, just on simply being a shooter.

Like we're seeing right here, he has, like, his creation is very underrated. And I think his ceiling, I'm not going to say, yeah, he has all-star potential or whatever, because, you know, the defense is a real lack and also, like, you know, the creation isn't all-star levels. But he is definitely a very quality of pair. And I think, like, he's a similar player to Austin Reeves, ironically enough. You think so? Yeah. Oh, my goodness.

Probably a stronger shooter on the perimeter, but I think what you mean. A little bit bigger. Realize that it. That it's going to be connect in Austin Reeves. We're building something here. We got some shit flowing. This is this kind of team. Yeah, you must be happy as hell.

We're playing fundamental basketball, sneaky athletic basketball. Sneaky athletic. The type of guy you want to take home to mom basketball, we're de widowing at all. Oh, we're getting nasty, bro. All the stereotypes are bringing to us. This is going to be great. This is awesome. Yeah, I mean, what a surprising pick, man.

It's not that surprising to me, man. Like, to be honestly, this is the most obvious pick at this point. I just been surprising he fell. That's what it is. Yeah, like, I, when I was thinking to options as a Lakers fan, I never once thought Dalton Connect would be there. I ain't going to lie. I can't wait until he plays, like, three Summer League games,

Laker Nation's out of their mind about him, and they come up with the craziest, nastiest nickname for him. You know what's great? He's going to dominate the shit out of Summer League, too. Being a grown man playing 19-year-olds, he's going to go stupid. Yeah, we're, like, 2017, like, Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma type of thing.

Yeah, Kyle Kuzma. He's grown asses out there. dominating teens too. Yeah. Yeah. I need to hear him talk. You think he has a little twain to his accent? Just a little bit.

And I don't know. Because of the chain. That's a big chain. Listen, I'm not here to make any wild assumptions, but the chain tells me that he sounds I'll make a mild assumption. Exactly. I'll do a little bit of reaching. That's what I'm saying.

Okay. But yeah, I will be tuned into his presser. So where do the magic go? Like you said, they need shooting, they need a lot of stuff. Isaiah Collier. And also, keep in mind, this GM that's been there for years, I think the same one, is obsessed with size and length. If there is somebody a 6-9 or above, a wing, give me. Yeah, at this point in time, if he's there, go for talent at this point, like, Isaiah Collier, whatever.

Hope the shooting comes around, and it's not like, he's not a non-zero. He's something from that range, but he's not consistent. But at this point in time, you have so many holes, two of the biggest holes is, of course, shooting and playmaking, because all the responsibilities on Paul, like you said. Fill one of those and take care of your shooting in the all season. I don't hate it. Someone said he should award number four. Some people call him Connect Four.

That would be so tough. We're already in our bags. I love this, bro. I like that. I like that. That's really good. This is the analyst that I need right now. Shout out whoever commented that.

I missed your name. I think it was Chimpanzee, the crayon. Yeah, that's his name. Shadow Connect Four. Is four available? Nobody in the Lakers was four, do they? I don't know. You guys have so many.

retired jerseys. No, no, because Caruso was out there wearing four. So it should be available. But yeah, for the magic, like, even if Collier can't shoot, so what? None of your other point guards can. Like, you might as well take somebody who can, like you said, who can do the other things.

And if you run this lineup of, like, Collier's Suggs, Franz and Palo and all them, like, you're taking a step in the right direction. And you need a point guard. Keep throwing as many darts as possible to try and get a point guard. And now they are making the pick, and they are taking who? This is going to be so interesting. Who is the pick? Tristan De Silva with the 18th overall pick.

It's a nice pick. People have compared him to Kyle Anderson. He's a very all-around wing that can contribute another older guy that's here because maybe of a lack of a ceiling, but people feel very confident he'll be a contributing big wing. Interesting fit right now, because that's kind of all they have going for them is big wings right now. So they're going strength on strength. They said, we don't like the point guards available. We don't like the shooters available.

give us a guy who we know is going to be good and builds our strength on the wings, apply that depth we have in the starting lineup with Franz and Paolo to the bench and keep sides up there at all times and double down our identity. I don't hate it. It's not a bad route to go.

If you're not in love with the player that Isaiah Collier is considering your roster construction, the context behind that, this is a good pick. Why not go ahead and hone in on what got you to the first round of the playoffs when no one expected you to be that?

This is a great pick, bro. He has no way. real weakness other than like not being excellent as an athlete or as a creator but he bro he's what 21 22 years old and he can play day one and contribute to this team which is what you need bro the reason you don't double down is because you saw what it looks like in the playoffs like you saw that it's palo and if i think for them like yes you are expecting franz to have a bounce back year shooting wise but yo like all of your guard None of your guards are shooters.

Like, you guys were relying on Cole Anthony and Jalen Suggs to consistently knock down threes. And even though that Suggs took a leap forward, I don't want him to be the best shooter in my back court. I don't know. Y'all might have forgot something, but just real quick, Dalton Connected is a Laker, by the way. Yeah, we know. Just like remind you guys. Are you happy? Just not a sure remind you real fast.

All right, so Toronto's at. I seriously thought you had a moment of, like, Alzheimer's where I was like, all right. Right, dude, come on now. I just want you to know that my team's having a better night than yours. Yours, not than mine. Toronto Raptors. This team is so interesting because they're in this rebuilding phase. Hey, man, is Delta Connect better than Isaiah than Zachary, Rishishay?

I think it might be better than them long term. Other than the Toronto Raptors and having solidify Scotty Barnes and I guess he manual quickly because he did have a really good second half of the year when he was let loose. Where do you see them fulfilling all these events? avoids. This is Collier. He's been mocked here for weeks. Callier. He 10010% should be there because they have no natural point guard, although I like, I love Isaiah, Emmanuel Quickly. Great player, bucket getter, not his natural position. Combo guard, yeah, yeah. Interesting. They are team with a lot of versatility, right? Scotty Barnes is one more versatile players in the league.

RJ Barrett is coming alive on the wing, looks to be resurrecting his career with them. Quickly, like you said, combo guard. It's a lot of combo this, complimentary that. I don't really know if they can feel the need they need, but they need another creator, I think. They did somebody that quickly and Barrett can play off of. Smells like I can say a callier to me. It's so crazy how far he's falling. Like, I guess the mocks did have him around this range,

so it's not that much of a shocker. But his strengths are so clear in day, and in a draft where there's, like, so many question marks, you would think that a team would hone in on this, like, immediately. Interesting. Okay. Real quick, where we're waiting. Zach Edie is on the Grizzlies.

I don't think we talk about that enough. We did it. Aaron Jackson is going to be able to cover up for Zach Eadie's defensive flaws. But it's going to be amazing. You know how dumb it? You have Jama Rants, downhill gravity, and Zach Edy setting screens?

Remember how important Stephen Adams screens were for him because of an amazing screen setter? Zach Eaddy's the best screen setter I've ever seen. He's massive. This dude is a Zach Ety much. Oh my goodness, bro. We get it. You're welcome.

He's going to feast. This is so, so I know people counterintuitively will think that he's not a spacer traditionally, that this would be bad for a slashing point guard. This is going to be so good for John Morant. If you run and pick and roll with these two, you can't throw bodies at John Morant and you need to be able to throw aggressive coverages or he's going to blow by your drop coverage. And if you do that, Zach E. is a roller that has a, just gigantic range for catching a lob or whatever. That's

going to be a deadly combination of the room. Yeah, that dump off facts. Because it's not going down again, it's going to be amazing. That's going to be amazing. Zach Edee is going to get so many just easy points down low. Honestly. You know what memes where it's like, Kind of Memphis, man. You know those football memes where it's like screw it, so-and-so's down there somewhere? Yeah. Screw it's got to be a crazy style of play with a smart coach, too. Yeah, honestly, I can't.

Back in the mix. I can't envision a better team fitting for Zach Edy than the Minnesota. I said Minnesota, then the Memphis Grizzlies. Yeah. Man. Okay. So it wasn't clinging, but it was Edy. Do you guys view the Grizzlies as being in like the top three teams in the West next year,

knowing they got their center position filled and John Moran's back? Three? So my top two would be Denver and Oklahoma City. Naturally? Yeah. They usually could be. I mean, why not? Dallas in that range.

And I trust Memphis more than Dallas. I trust Dallas a good deal than be the finals, but I see what you mean. We're going to see Jha and Smart together for the first full season. Desmond Bain. And then you have the defense, do you have Jaron Jackson and Edie? Like, that's, is he going to start? He has to, right? Yeah.

He probably would. this team matches up so well against every single team in the Western Conference. Like there's not a single team out there that you're like uncomfortable with up with them facing any scenario whatsoever. And we've done, I feel like we've done a really good job over the last like year and a half,

two years of trying to stay as patient and calm when it comes to talking about John Morant and people would like forget how good John Morant is whenever he's whenever he's healthy. And we saw this year whenever he came back from suspension instantly game one hits a game winner. He comes

in, they go six and three, right? They're on a nice winning pace, and then he gets hurt. It's been a while since we've seen John Morant consistently be great. I think that now that he's healthy, Jared Jackson, like the whole squad is healthy. You have a defensive guard in Markets, smart. You have the lobby threat, the interior threat, and Zahidi. This is the perfect time for Memphis to make their push back up. Because even though that Dallas, like I do think that Dallas is probably going to be a top four seat. in the West, the rest of the West is good, not great. There's a lot of people stacked up in the middle.

Yeah. There's a very clear opening for anybody to jump up to the three spot, the four spot, and go take that seed. I don't see any reason why Memphis can't be that. So I, they are a top three team going into, in the West going into next year. The West is going to be nuts again. We've got the old teams and the Lakers and Phoenix are going to be in the mix. They're going to be competing.

Whatever happens, the Clippers and Paul George, the teams you mentioned. New Orleans. New Orleans? God, sorry Sacramento. You guys are not made. You're like the 10th team. You guys, listen, Houston is going to be back in the mix as well. Is San Antonio going to make a push?

They're going to be good. They're not winning like 20 or whatever games. Like, that's impossible. What's the ceiling for San Antonio? It's very annoying how much they milk these commercial breaks towards the end of his draft. Like, God, get on with it. Yeah, I know, bro.

I know. Another underrated pick for the Tarant Raptors is Tyler Kullick. He is an undersized guard, and, with their infatuation with just naturally having size. I don't know if they would, I don't know if they would go there, but good passer, good facilitator, small guard doesn't have a great wingspan, and he's like 6-2 or whatever, but we've seen plenty of times with small guards do make an impact in this league,

and he has those tools and abilities, and if he can get away with being small, then it's a team like Toronto Raptors. The pick is in, and that pick is Jacoby Walter. Makes sense. Make sense. Listen, they think he's a good player, a good shooter, that can contribute around their players. Like, we're at the point in the draft where if you think a guy's just going to be good, you pick them.

Yeah. I don't like this pick. Why not? Tell me why. Jacoby Walter, his game is good. Like, there's no negative about his game, really, and he can shoot, has some creation chops and whatnot. Not really a facilitator, not really a playmaker like that.

He's just buckets. That's what you think of him. And also, he's not like an absolute cone on the defensive end. But for this team, I don't make this move unless you have serious questions about someone like RJ or Emmanuel quickly. And I have serious questions about RJ Barrett. Like, I know that he played well and he fits a play style, 110%. That's what I'm saying. Like, RJ played well and he stepped into the role and he did fantastic.

But do we actually believe that RJ Barrett is going to consistently be a really good shooter for the rest of his career? I'm not sure about that. And so now, like, you drafted, you drafted, your man, Grady Dick last year to have some shooting. You, once again, go get Jacoby Walters some more shooting around a point guard that you believe in, and Emmanuel Quickly, and Scotty Barnes, who can do a lot of, a lot of everything on the offensive end. I don't hate this to put more shooting and more spacing around Scotty Barnes. Damn, man. Dalton Connect is a Laker.

All right, bro. Like, come on now. Someone nerf him, man. Enwar, cut this guy's mic off. Good grief. This is a good pick. I don't absolutely love it. But hearing your concerns, I understand it.

Yeah, he's the 19th pick. Yeah, he's the 19th pick. Yeah, exactly. 19 is cool, right? Pew was projected early in the draft process to be like a late lottery pick. So if people have the concerns you have, this, you know, that kind of show with that.

He fell a little bit more to make up for that. Yeah. Should be a good high floor player, I think. Yeah, absolutely. He's going to be a very productive NBA player. He's going to have, like, a 10-year career. guys like him are just around because of his archetype and the spacing that he provides, the size that he has as well, and him not being a liability on the court just goes like a long

way naturally. So I like to speak. Next up is the Cavs. What a weird situation the Cavs are in. It doesn't seem that they're going to trade any other guys, right? They're going to run it back with their core four under a new coach and hope somebody that has a better idea of how to run a basketball team can get more out of them, which we want them to blow it up, but I think it's more like just the fucking. and thirst for transactions. Because two years ago, we had faith in this court for the most part. They had an off year and we're all like, ugh, get rid of them.

I don't hate that idea to keep them together. But how do you supplement the weaknesses right now with Pick 20? Me personally, I think, of course, like the Donovan Mitchell and Dair's gone pairing does concern you because of the defense and all those other stuff. And Dair's growing and his ability to just, like, disappear seemingly and look not as connective as he usually does is concerning. But something that's even more concerning is. is a Jared Allen and Evan Mobley pair.

And I look for someone who can alleviate those pains and throw a little bit more juice onto there. And that's what I mean personally. If I were them, I'll pick Doram Holmes. I think he does a lot of things that neither these bigs can do, obviously, which is spaced the floor. And whoever you pick doesn't really matter between Jared Allen or Evan Mobley.

Doron Holmes is someone who can be on the court pretty much at all times. You think another, adding another big into that rotation? Obviously, like, he's versatile. so it could work. But do you think that adding another big to their rotation would help right now? Yeah.

Oh, no. Tristan Thompson minutes are gone. It doesn't really matter, bro. Yeah. Interesting place they're in. We actually have the next two draftics, spoilover, these guys are going crazy. Shams is in his bag right now.

Someone nerf him. All right, let's talk about it. We're at 20. It's fine. For people back home, we'll wait. But, yeah, so we know they have their front court. We have the back court. It's all about in between, right?

wings they got struce they have isa coro after that it's pretty thin so i would assume that's kind of what they're going for right because if they feel confident the front court and back where these quote-unquote stars is worth keeping together yeah you got to supplement that you got to give them the best position to succeed and that starts and ends with shooting yeah i think of was somewhat, Isaac O'Crow, although he made, like, a sizable leap offensively on, when he comes to shooting throughout the entirety of the season last year,

he still was left open and he was given, like, the Ben Simmons treatment there, like, anybody else? Like, every time he shot the ball, folks are like, he's with us, and he saw, like, 20% of him 3.5. And so, with that being said, if they went ahead and did decide to go ahead and choose a guard or someone on that wing, again, Terran Shannon, Jr. has a strap on him,

and I think he's a type of wing that has a combination of everything that the guys, the rest of the guys on their squad doesn't have, Carous Avert, Isaac McQuarrho put the best in their game into one player and I think you're looking at Ternetana Jr. Someone said Re-Shepard after a month on the Rockets, it's an Ian music video.

That's quality, bro. That's quality, bro. Shout out Kofi. I was when I'm like, dude, are you jamming out mid-like string? What's going on? I was imagining Reed Shepard. Look in the mirror.

I probably hate me too. It's just Reed Shepherd. Reader experience would be so disappointed if they saw that. Kentucky born. Damn, what a shame. That's quality. I love it. Okay, so the real question, though, with Cleveland is do you draft a player to supplement the people that you have?

the people that you have, or do you grow up and trade one of the big four? Because I don't think that, I think that in the playoff series against the Knicks and basically the entirety of last season, you understood that while this can be good, it doesn't work optimally. Like, it's not ideal to have all four of those guys on the floor at the same time. And if you think that, you know, bringing in a new coach is going to instantly change everything, that's fine. But I think that you're also still putting a lot of pressure or pressure or responsibility on Evan Mobley to grow as an offensive piece. Jared Allen's

going to be Jared Allen, so there's that. But there's a lot of, like, tandems that you need to work and that you need to click. And it just feels like a lot. It just feels like a lot to ask of everybody when you can trade one of them and probably get a more seamless fit and have more defined roles in what you're doing. Another interesting player that could be picked up for them around this range is Kishon, Kaishan George. Someone who can do a lot isn't necessarily like

going to change your life, but has the versatility to open up other aspects of the game and has also the length of play alongside Max Trues and Jared Allen or Evan Mowley played that kind of swing four spot that we see nowadays. He's someone who can help create advantages.

Certain things that again, Max Drew's can't do because he's not a creator like that. And that could be a possible option for them at this range. Thank you. That commercial break was long. I know. They are milking this.

Good Lord. This pig is hilarious. If it's Isaiah Collier, then I'm going to. Funnier. It's funnier. Is it cut at the podium? Is Ronnie James? That'll be hilarious.

They're only wings. Isaac Akoro, Max Drews. They drafted Jalen Tyson, whose pro comp in every single analyst mock draft is Isaac Akoro. They got another one. Jalen Tyson. I don't know. This is actually a great pick. Because someone like Jalen Tyson, I wouldn't compare him to Isley Cacore.

I generally think that's a disrespect for his album. Because he does have, he is a good shooter, and he's someone who, again, can fill in all the gaps. I don't think he's necessarily an explosive athlete. And to be honest with you, he seems like a, when I see him, I see, like, shades of someone like a Paul Pierce. Just think of, like, someone who's not the most athletic, but he's going to get his buckets in the most ethical way possible. You know? Yeah. Well, listen, they need to wait.

They pick the best thing they could. It's just hilarious that every time I see a draft mock, it says shades of Isaac Acoro. That's disgusting. That's wildly off. I'm not going to lie to you. You got one Isaac Coro? Yeah. He's one more for you.

That's genuinely so disrespectful. Dylan Tyson is genuinely a great player to have, and he's going to, again, an older rookie coming into the season. Which is fun. Which is fun at this point in the draft. Yeah, and also, like, he's a dog, and he's going to eat up those minutes. He can't shoot. He can't facilitate.

That's another underrated thing about his game as well. And he's obviously not scared of contact and he can, of course, like initiate offense when needed. I think this is a tremendous pick. Good, good. I love this.

Yeah, they need wing help but if you're confident he'll be that good. Good for them. They need wings and they address that in the most direct way they possibly could.

Yeah, he's an absolute dog. This is great. Sometimes people have types. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes you just keep going back to your type. You keep going back to what works and they clearly like Isaac Okora.

And again, they got themselves another one, so it's fine. It's so nasty, bro. Whoever did that is so extremely easy. I just don't know what's going on. Now, the Pelicans, though. The Pelicans are on the clock. Apparently, we already know their pick.

I think that here, we can go Collier. I think here we can, if you, for some reason, don't like Isaiah Collier, you can go, you can go, colin. I think that you can get, you can get some guards that can actually run a team and run an offense, and then you don't have to have C.J. McCollum be basically like your lead ball handler if you are going to keep C.J. Yeah. And I think those two guys would be fantastic. Kenny Atkinson just agreed on his five-year deal with the Cavs. Nice.

He's officially the coach. Nice. We knew that. Five-year deal. That was a small detail, but it's going to be five years. Okay, that's good. That pick even makes more sense considering the background of Kenny Ackinson and, you know, the motion offense that he's been around over the last few years. I love that pick.

So the Pelicans. I feel like the Pelican is one of our most discussed teams. They have a gaping hole at point guard and an even bigger gaping hole at center, now that Yones Van Tunis is an unrestricted free agent. Which hole you want to see him, Phil? Because they've got to pick one of them. I'm taking the point guard.

Nah, me personally, I think it's a lot easier to pick up a point guard who can handle those responsibilities that you can get, that's an abundance in today's playing field. Something that's not is players who can, big players who can stretch out the floor and not be completely unplayable

or cone like Jonas Valentine's is and there's only so many players like that available in the market today and in this NBA draft the only guy who's like that is Daron Holmes I'll take that I really like I really like Duran Holmes I think that he is a very

very good prospect I tell you guys when I see him I feel like if you added 15 to 20 acuity points to precious to Chua that would be that would be Duran Holmes and that's a great player right that's a great player right

That's a great player to have. So I wouldn't be upset with that. I would go in a different direction because I think that New Orleans has to switch it up. I think that either C.J. or B.I. is going to go. Now, if you trade B.I. And you think that you can get a guard back, then okay, go with Holmes. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah.

But if you are a little bit unsharing, you kind of want to keep this core together. I mean, at least keep B.I. and Zion together. go get the guard and then you can kind of reset and like the Zion, the point Zion thing could be, you know, what it is where it's more of like a secondary thing. Yeah. I think that makes a ton of sense and the only thing I can think of that makes more sense

is the fact that Dalton Connect is a Laker. I'm sorry, I couldn't say what a straight face. You think you're funny. Can you tell us what Adam Silver is like? The pick is Missy. They're going with the center. Baylor's... Whoa. Hyper athletic center.

They're not taking... Are you serious? I'm serious. You look like somebody who shot a dog. You look horrible. No, that is shocking to me. That is so shocking to me. I wasn't expecting this pick. Let's get some athletes, man.

Exactly. Let's get some athletes, yeah. Okay. I'm cool with it. You have Zion an athletic freak at the 4th. You just played a whole bunch of years with Jonas Valentunis at your center. You said, we don't want that anymore, right? We want everybody to jump as high as possible.

And Missy is that. So I'm cool with that. then? I, this is, this is not a bad pick. It is shocking, but it's not a bad pick. But when Duran Holmes is right there and you see, well, okay. People have size concerns there. Size concern makes sense because Larry, Larry Nand Jr. was getting slutted out on all ends of the court, bro. And also, Yonis Valenciunas cannot hold his own. And he is so limited, of course. So I guess he does give you a clear advantage. He can move and he is like a brick wall. But, yeah, I mean, listen, Duran Holmes is a very interesting.

prospect as what can be a stretch five. He is not prototypically large, and Zion Williamson is not the best rim protector, not the most mobile defender, not the strongest defender, period. You got to have a shot blocker next to him. Which is so crazy. It would be nice to have a shooter next to him.

That would be amazing. If we get a stretch five there one day, please do it. Maybe Brooke Lopez is available. Maybe they can still do that, and Missy could be the backup. But like you said, get some athletes in there. Seed McCollum, not athletic.

Brandon Ingram, he's not, he's athletic, but he's not above the rim type of player. Yeah, we know what you mean. It's really just Zion. You got to build on top of that. I understand that. I don't hate this. I don't hate this.

I don't like this at all. I think genuinely you missed the opportunity to get someone in Duran Holmes who has a rare skill set in shooting at that size and also isn't just like a complete zero on all ends of the court as well. This is cool, but you can find centers like him anywhere. Yeah, well, here's the thing. Next up is the Phoenix Suns. And we are officially on Brody James' watch. Because this is one of the places where he was rumored to have some interest of some kind. That was a couple weeks ago.

It's died down a little bit. Now there's more vibes that he might be a second round pick. Not impossible for Bronny James to be the 22nd pick in the draft. I don't know who the hell they're going to pick because they're in win now mode. Is Brony even in the building? I don't know if he can. We haven't seen him once. I would Bronny go to green.

No, no, no. Yeah, we haven't seen him win, so zero chance for sure. Listen, the sons were putting that out there probably because they were trying to be like, hey, Braun. he interested in Phoenix and Rich Paul came out and shut that shit the fuck down but maybe they're so interesting

22 is a little rich for my blood but it's wouldn't be like Oh wait no there's been a trade though because now it's showing the Nuggets logo at 22 Yep yep Ooh they traded it up

Okay and Shams leaked the pick of course but the Nuggettrip's 22 Okay I'm gonna guess The trade is number 28 number 56 and two feature second round picks Okay okay

So for the Denver Nuggets to trade up, what do they see in their roster, like, we got to adjust this immediately? Like, what aspects of the roster are you trying to, like, strengthen up? You know, there's not a clear glaring weakness with their top of their lineup. Bench death, period. They have zero bench, and all their bench players are wings, so they don't have a backup point guard, really, or backup big. Literally, every bench player they had was between 6'5 and 6'9. So they need to find one end of the spectrum and add some playmaking or interior help.

I would go, are we going with Kyle Filipowski here? I wouldn't do so necessarily. I don't like him on this team, specifically. He's a great prospect. He can shoot a little bit, and his scoring is very, it's a question mark, but you can envision a way he can be successful in the NBA, but I don't think he'll be very successful with this team specifically in what they're going for.

me personally I think they're probably looking for oh my god did they get Isaiah Collier that'd be sick that'll be nasty here's what I will say are they going with homes here's what I will say don't think it's a Laker but also the sons are on Brian James watch they can't pick him the 22 that they would look like a fool traded back to 28 noticing you think Bronny's going at 28 you look less foolish trading back to pick them than you do to pick him at 22 That is true. You look a lot less foolish.

You look at a good process where you identified a guy you wanted but you knew that was too high. So you got some extra assets than picked your guy? Not impossible. Isaiah Collier is still not picked. In my mind, he is like...

You know what's going to happen. I don't think... I don't think Collier is going to get picked here at 22. Wow. Now, at 23, you have Milwaukee. And Isaiah Collier in Milwaukee behind Dane.

Interesting. That kind of moves me a little bit. They definitely, they need creation. They need, they need talents. They need talents. They are very, very limited in how they can make their ceiling higher and how they can add talent of any sort into that roster. They are in asset hell.

Very little options going forward. And even if you don't think Collier is like what they need, win now mode, if he can have that chance of bursting, that could be the one thing that can make them have like a next level up. Yeah, so I like, yeah, I like Collier at 23. At 22, I do think that Denver, it's about time. You got to go and get somebody behind Yokic. And so that's why I would...

He's not bad. Yeah, I would go get some type of big, whether that's Philipposki, whether that's Holmes, right? Anybody who can just be a big body and play 10, 12 minutes a game, go ahead. And you can play in Denver, and it'll be okay. As I would call, you're on this scene would be so nasty. I would love this pick. I couldn't even imagine that. It's a bit of a weird thing, for sure.

It's not, like, natural at all. Reggie Jackson also picked his player option. So he's kind of linked there. as the backup point guard. Which you're not making decisions long term off of Reggie Jackson player options, but that is a thing to know. He's a good player in each. He did provide plenty of, like, productive moments in the playoffs,

but at the same time, he provided plenty of, like, not productive moments in the playoffs. So, ah, man, they have so many options here. I love that they trade it up. I love that they trade it up. They're being aggressive. They saw last year that their bench sucked, and their bench is one of the reasons why they were. weren't able to advance, you know, behind, uh, advance past Minnesota.

Alongside the fact that they blew a 20-point leading game seven at home, like a lot of things, a lot of things would be different if they just did what they had to do and they probably could have could have got through the Mavs, but that's been the key for Denver throughout this entire like Yolkich thing, which is can you survive the non-yokage minutes and the year that they won the title, you have Bruce Brown. Christian Brown had very, very good contributions off the bench. And now Adam Silver is coming back to tell us who the pick is, but ESPN is playing around and not showing...

The skin went black, but I know the pick. They picked a player who, all the media was saying they promised him, and they were right. Holmes. Dayron Holmes is a member of the Denver Nuggets. No! Back up to Nicole Eokish, feeling the void they had in the front court. It's a fit that was perfect. We've known for weeks they were targeting him,

and they traded out to get their guy exactly what a smart GM does. No, I was trying to be calm. I was trying not to say anything because in two picks the New York Knicks select and I wanted, I wanted Holmes to be in New York Knicks so badly. This, this hurts, this hurts. It's a great pick for Denver.

I'm happy for Holmes. He's going to be fantastic. I really believe in him as a prospect, and especially now that you can play behind Yokic, you don't need to do too much. This hurts. This sucks. creation that he has on that he has at that size and just simply being a threat which

is like Aaron Gordon is not a threat when he's not like 15 not even 15 like 5 feet away from the basket it fills a lot of voids I love this bit for them he can play listen yokech is going to play his 35 minutes a night the 13 minutes he sits Holmes is your center the 13 minutes that Aaron Gordon sits Holmes is your power forward it makes so much sense he can play both positions he's a tweener in a way that you can view negatively if you're some these teams, I need a legitimate five to start for you. This is awful. You got Nicole Yokitch and got Aaron Gordon, and he could fit alongside either of them.

It's kind of like what Nas Reid gives to the Timberwolves, where he can fit alongside either their star bigs. I love that comparison. We're cooking the same thing here. Yeah, absolutely. This is awful. He can stay on the court, play with alongside Nicole Yokich, or if Yokic is on the bench, you can play alongside Aaron Gordon. Or if neither are playing, then he can play, go ahead and get minutes on his own, bro,

because his creation for his size, which is very interesting. And you don't see that often for guys. this big, and this is why I want to be a pelican, but it is what it is. So in the same way, I'm noticing that the Suns traded back to 28, I'm noticing that you're Knicks. I have two back-to-back picks. Yes. They have one point guard in the roster and another combo guard.

Exactly. Isaiah Collier has fell to the 20s. You got two. You can pick that talent gap and then pick a need gap there. Smells like Nick to me. Do you think that I didn't notice that? Do you think that I wasn't sit here two minutes ago saying we can end up with Isaiah Collier and the Ron Holmes and this would be

one of the greatest days in oh my goodness no but I'm with you I think hopefully the the bucks are stupid and they let Isaiah Collier drop again because I would like to see Collier as a New York Nick if we can't get Doran Holmes but no this is okay this is this is interesting who the bucks need the bucks okay so if I'm the Milwaukee Bucks DM and you're sitting down you see the boss and stuff just go ahead and win a championship with all these elite wings and then you sit down and see the New York Knicks go ahead and trade from McCaubert

just unload all their picks and then they go ahead and O.G. and Ninobe, whatever, cool. You need someone, more wings who can beat at that end because I'm sorry, I love him, but Pat Carrington is not cutting it, all right? Marchant, like, Bochamp, cool dude. Great come-up story. But he hasn't shown it just yet on that end.

And me personally, I think Terran Shannon Jr. is like the perfect pick for this team older rookie can go ahead and provide offense and he can get it on his own cat the shoes great too i love him as this big i'm seeing i'm sensing i'm sensing ryan dunn that is nasty if they go right the best perimeter defender on the board yeah he's the best perimeter defender for sure and their defense did genuinely slip once they lost through holiday but i think i need someone who's more NBA ready and cannot be played off of the court and And I think Ryan Dunn can't be played off the court. I understand that.

We are going into a year where Damon Lillard is going to be a year older. And you need defense in your back court. Damien Lillard is not doing anything to help your defense. And even though that the Bucks got it together after Doc Rivers came through, even though the Dr. Rivers is saying, yeah, Dame came into camp out of shape last year. He's going to be fine this year. You're doing all that stuff. He is going to get attacked.

Who do you guys want to see the Bucks pick? What do you guys think the Buc's biggest need is? because there's a lot of options here. Johnny Furphy? He's... Honestly, I'm looking at their lineup. Listen. Too small.

You can't. Just draft somebody. Right? Just draft somebody. Draft somebody 21 or younger. Because you look at their key players and Janus is right at that line. We're like 29, 30 years old.

Dame, old. Chris Milton, old. Brooke Lopez, old. You need just youth on this team. You need somebody who can be here and inject a lot of energy onto the roster. and while you do have championship aspirations

and older prospects and older rookies could help you with that, you need athleticism and you need youth on this team. This would be the funniest Bronny pick if they just pick to him right now. It would be the funniest. It would be so good. The honest is twerking for LeBron so hard.

That's the case, bro. That's so crazy. That would be amazing. It's not going to happen, but that'd be so funny. Another interesting player who does fit some of the things that you're saying is Jalen Smith.

He was a four-who-king. out of the G League night, and of course, like most G. League players didn't have the greatest season. But prior to that, he was with OTE, and he does have those shooting shades, and he big, not necessarily the greatest defensive player and whatnot, but I think he's someone who can make some type of impact. Now, I don't know if that's, like, the greatest move, because they do have Bobby Portis there, and I don't, there are rumors considering them wanting to get off of Bobby Portis for more flexibility and versatility on all ends, but that could be an option. man the spurs traded rob dillingham what do you think they're planning with that first round pick

you think they have a move in they're planning on bringing somebody in with that maybe it's more ammo for sure if but the spurt why wouldn't they pick somebody like what what are they planning that they wanted to save a first or future pick that sounds to me like they have a trade in mind that couldn't get done tonight and they want to keep the picks so they can potentially get it done over the coming weeks they're brewing that's exactly what they're probably doing who Trey or Dejante? I don't know there. I mean, possible.

Zach Levine? I don't know. Zach would be so nasty. I mean, great player, but it's just like, why. Jeremy Grant? Like, who do they want? Like, I don't know. They're brewing right now.

Maybe they're brewing right now. They're brewing right now. No need to force it. I like that they went ahead and traded it because obviously you get basically two picks. No need to force it. No need to force it. Once the plan comes to fruition, I see where they were cooking.

Maybe I'll like it, but. You don't like it? How could I? It's a future pick. Like, until it becomes something, you, a player in hand that we all like the fit. We're kind of excited by the idea of Dillingham and Castle together. Yeah. That means that, I ain't gonna lie. Like, it has to be something brewing. Otherwise, why not pick a guy? Why punt that pick? Unless you just really hate this draft, which that feels hard to believe. Like, there's plenty of players that are quality. You have to be, you have to be cooking up something.

Yeah. I think that for, I trust the spurs. Now, now, now, San Antonio normally isn't a franchise that is out here wheeling and dealing and making a lot of moves. True. However, they had Tim Duncan for 20 years, right? Like, it's easy for that not to be your identity when you have the most fundamental, stable superstar the league has ever seen. Yeah. So it's okay. And that wasn't even their plan with Kawhi.

Like, they were about to build around him, but, you know, stuff went sideways. I think that now you understand when he's here and you need to maximize this window. so they probably will make a trade. Now the bucks are selecting. And who are they? And they select AJ Johnson from Australia, a wing. Wow. I don't know a whole ton about.

So AJ Johnson was a highly touted high school player a couple years ago. He was like a four or five star recruit. And he is, I would say, like, in my eyes view him as like a Jailing Green disciple, super close to Jalen Green and has similar shades of his game. And this is definitely a project pick. He played in the same exact team

that Lamello Ball played for a couple years ago. I mean, he's a speedy guard that who, so I'm looking at the ring of draft guy, a speedy guard who can get wherever he wants using his dribble, shades of Nick Young. Yeah, so I would say like he's in that, that's why I'm saying he's like a Daly Green type disciple. And he likes to get the buckets off. Obviously, super young, skinnier side of things.

He looks like he's 15, bro. First of all, on another note, we have a trade. Again? The Washington Wizards are once again trading back into the first round. They traded for the 24th pick from the New York Knicks. waiting to see the details with the next trade that picked to the wizards god wow they want a say a collier i think so who did they who did he in they so they got damn who did they pick who they picked the end in the first round i forget they got a guard right they got i can tell you

right now why i'm i drawn blakes we are drawing series we see so many players this is embarrassing bro but they what the hell the why is this never refreshing oh yeah yeah so they got bud and they have Kulibali. Do they really want Kali or they're? Probably not. Bob, yeah, okay. Oh. Okay, I know who they're targeting.

So, shout out the Wizards, man. They're being aggressive. They're using the worst draft in the past 10 years to build their young core. I'm like, y'all see this real quick? What do you see? What are you going on? I see a Drew Gooden style suit right here in 2024.

This is very interesting. On the left? No, from, from you man, AJ. Yeah. It's very just like two-piece straight down. I like it. I thought that we weren't going to see this for multiple, multiple years as things cycle back in.

Interesting suit. I rock with it. He's skinny. It gives him a little bit more build. I like it. Good job, AJ. I like the suit. Such an interesting picture of Milwaukee Bucks.

It is. They're at a point. It's kind of crazy, though. Yeah. They're not really rocking with it. Not you. They feel pleaded. You don't lie.

You don't lie. Someone said he is so hot. Not going to lie. Wait, who is? Some of the chat. I guess I'm talking about it. All right. Great job.

But, yeah, AJ in my mind is a project pick, or he's a pick that he's a player that they can potentially flip for more assets. I don't know what that is. But he's, like, pretty much like a bang or bust type of guy in my mind. They're laughing at us as Australia is spelled wrong on the screen right there. Oh, that's not our fault. It's an L-typer. Who did that? That's not us, though.

I didn't do it. Yeah. That's funny. Yeah, man, Washington, aggressive, gets back into the first round. The Knicks, I guess, clearly didn't feel like they have a space on their team for two first round picks. Wait. Oh, snap, they're going to have four picks? Who?

Washington? Because it looked on the screen, it says they have 26 as well. Aggressive! They are building this young court in the worst draft of the decade. You can't do it like them. They don't tank for the Wembe year, but then they go all in for the whack year. I love it. Dude.

Which is fine. Which is fine. You need role players, right? You need role players, and they know we're going to be bad anyways. So you have a chance of getting the number one pick. If they can put all this together, get lucky, and get Cooper Flying next year, we're cooking. Look at the screen, Australia, it's fixed. All cats, we love it.

There we go. Count the production team. Some of the chats at 100% credit for effort. Look at that. We love the production team. Question to y'all, why do you think Isaiah Collier fell so far? I have no clue. I don't know.

I don't know. So one, maybe, a lot of times when this happens, it ends up being like a personality reason. Like, he doesn't test well, doesn't have good meetings of people. We don't really have a way to gauge that. We're not in that. I mean, we spoke to him for five minutes. He was very quiet. Yeah, it was cool.

It was very quiet. Maybe sometimes there's been a knack over the years in different sports. We're quiet people strike certain GMs that have old-school thinking. as, like, not leaders and all this bullshit. Yeah. Maybe there's something there. Maybe people just don't believe in a gem shot. Maybe people think that not athletic enough to be a non-shooter

and they don't think he's going to be a great shooter. I don't know. Which is hilarious because the entire draft is still going to get shooters. And some of these guys are not high-level athletes either. And it's like, all right, we're just going to pick a guy that we, like, we're just going to pick one guy and be like, no, you can't do it. When the other 29 players in the draft in the first round are like, now we actually believe in you so I I don't I don't know why I don't know why he's

fallen but I do think that he can go on to a team and help somebody else okay this has been fixed because now have the Knicks traded for 26 okay okay maybe they traded back okay okay hold on we have some decide yes okay so the Knicks traded 24 for 26 and 51 they traded back to these spots that's good there you go that makes sense okay I also to say how many pieces that was just unlimited yeah damn they're unloading the clip right now bro they're going all in while Everyone's just like, eh, I'm good, bro. So they moved to two spots.

I wonder. So the only reason you do that is if you think the Knicks are about to take somebody you want, I wonder who that may be. Who would the Nix want? What are you looking for on your roster to complete everything? Good pick for the NICS. Real quick, good trade for the Nix. Clearly, they didn't give a shit about whoever the Wizards wanted,

so they'd trade back two spots and still pick back to back, just one spot later, and add the 51st overall pick. And they're quickly going to be a second apron luxury tax team. You need second round picks on team. contracts and the Knicks got themselves another one. You do. I think, so for the Knicks, the things that I want, even though that I like Deuce a lot and he's on arguably the best contract in the league,

it's really either between him or Dante on the best contracts in the league. I would still like to get another point guard because Deuce isn't like a true point guard, right, to run the second option. So that's why when we're talking about like Isaiah Collier being that kind of guy, I would like to see Isaiah Collier on the team. Also, we're going to lose Hartenstein, right? I think so. I think so.

We signed, we re-signed OC, godly, we re-signed OJNobie today. Mikhail Bridges is here. The roster is getting very, very expensive. And if you think that you're going to start Mitchell Robinson, paying 20 to $25 million a year for a backup center is very pricey, and you're going to have to go do that. I would like to see them get a big. I would like to see them get a big that can stretch.

that can stretch the floor a little bit. You know, Mitchell Robinson is a lot of threat. I would have liked to see, again, Duran Home, somebody with a lot of athleticism. But these guys like, you know, Tyler Smith, who can shoot a little bit. True. I think at this point, let's just, let's get some space.

I'm interested in one Jalen Smith, again, who is available around this range. I don't know if he's necessarily a Tibbs type player because of the defensive issues and that's not necessarily his calling card just yet, but you never know, it could be. The pick is in. The Wizards are up.

The Wizards have selected Kishon George. Nice. Okay, he's a great facilitator, big body. He's not necessarily like the... Big body. Huge body. Yeah, I mean, he's like... Drying.

Wide load. 6A, 6,9. He's go ahead and do things with the ball. Large! He's not large. He's on the slimmer side of things. But long, not athletic, can get to where he wants to go on the court at times, not going to be, like, the main focal point of your offense or, like, the second option,

or the third, really, but he's just a really good guy who's not, like, a liability on any end. And that's fine. He shot 40% from three. He doesn't have a quick first step and hasn't worked defensively, but he's not a lost cause defensively. Come become a three-and-d guy that he comes around because the three is pretty reliable. I can't believe they didn't take Collier, though. Like, that is such a thing. I can't pick Carrington and then come out and pick another point guard.

Why not? They're the Wizards. I guess you can. Fuck it. Yeah. Yeah, there are no parameters around this team. What is the vision? Again, they have none.

Again, been out of the vision where it's coming clear. You have Carrington. Maybe you'll be a point guard in the future called Kulabali, split in those playmaking duties, Sarr, and then you have Kisbert and now George in the wing. He's a great player, and he's a good playmaker as well for his size. Yeah, I've seen a shades of Joe Ingalls on the scouting report. Definitely, yeah. So the Knicks, Woe said they're going to select the 25, but they're currently in talks of moving 26.

Okay, that's fine. At this point, I just want to see a pick tonight. They're going to keep trading back, accumulating all the second round picks. And that's fine. Like you said, once you start going into the second apron and as teams start to figure out, right, like, hey, we actually don't have. Everybody's spamming pause because I said the D is going to be reliable. All right. Yeah, shout out the Knicks for an office.

They just continuously find a way to have 1,000 picks in their disposal, making all the smart moves possible to eventually use those picks, two tradebacks to accumulate second round picks. Nakes are doing Nix things. They are. They've been in their bag, right? Leon Rose is in his bag.

I need the NICs here to, while I do like them accumulating a lot of picks, like we talked about today, re-signing an O.G, going out and getting McHale trading five first-round picks. There's not a lot of flexibility over the night. next couple years because we've used all of it to to go get mckell bridges this this draft i feel is very important because now you have to get the the you have to get the bench guys that are going to you know fill out the roster for the next two three years while you have this window and i don't think that i don't think that julius randall is getting traded and so if he's not moving and

this is going to be your rotation these young guys need to come in they need to to produce you might have one spot to have like a project. Everybody else needs to contribute right now. At least one of them. So I need to see the Knicks starting to pick some players. I'm happy that they're picking at 25. If we can get Collier

today would be fantastic. It would be shocking. If he falls into the second round or something like that, that'll be bro. How does Woj's phone work? Because now he just tweeted two minutes later, the Knicks are now planning to pick at 25 and 26. so he got worried that they're on the phone potentially trading it and the two minutes later got told nope no trade

is a man in every room in America yeah he has so many assistants bro that's what it is he's tapped in everywhere so the guys from Game of Thrones like Varys he has a network of spies just at all times ear to the fucking doors everywhere 25 and 26 interesting bro

back to that picture of the next they're currently gonna select that I don't know who yet though they haven't spoiled it maybe they don't even know I mean Flickowski also make sense on this end, like you said, you wanted someone I would like that as well, yeah. Now that Dornholm's gone, this is not necessarily. And here we go.

Stephen A, legitimately, is loud on mute. I've never seen anybody have that talent before. Yeah. I can feel the vibrations through visuals. He's just straight, yeah, bro. Yeah, no, he's so passionate. Bob Myers looks so sick of it. He's like, bro, shut up.

I'm just trying to vibe, bro. Damn. How does Stephen A keep up this energy all the time, man? I mean, he's the face for a reason, bro. Oops and ass. Damn, bro. I don't even want to say, this is, watching Stephen A on mute is, like, even better TV than the volume on. Yeah.

There's, like, abstract performance art where people, like, do, like, the... Oh, my God. Good. How are you this hyped up over the 24th pick? Like, I care, I care, and I'm hyped up, but, like, you don't know this. I love that we don't know what they're saying, but the other two guys are reaction, you can just tell he's on absolute bullshit in the best way. Ears are bleeding like a mug, for real.

He's losing his mind. I see Johnny Furphy. I see a star. He was freaking out. Oh, man. Why should I actually be Johnny Furfee? That's gross. I hope he's screened by Johnny Furfee.

That'd be a hilarious coincidence. I have no idea what he's saying. Honestly, if they were going to make a pick, something that Tibbs would do. Worldwide, I'm telling you, right. He started doing this thing where he, like, points, and it's like a thumb and a pinky. Yeah.

And he's like, he does this. It's the best thing in the world. This man, loves pointing, damn. Man, where are these picks at? I know. They're taking forever. They're dragging this totally, right? This is awesome.

I know, this is in the mind. This is awesome. No, but these picks are taking... Okay, I know one of the picks. Interesting. Okay, cool. I know the 25th pick. All right, cut Stephen A. off.

Who is it? Or are we going to save it to not spoil it? Let's save it. Let's save it. Me personally, if I'm them, considering your concerns, I'm looking either Jaylin Smith, Kyle, or if you want to get interesting, if Isaiah Caller is not your guy,

which he should be in my mind, considering the value, and thinking of what value that Isaiah Clark could add, not even on the court, but in potential trade packages in the future because, you know, things get expensive or whatnot. Yeah. Johnny Furphy, I guess. Okay.

Those are the three guys that I'm eyeing right now, for sure. I'm honestly okay. You know, at some point this year, they're going to tell us to pick. We're still waiting. Yeah. We're just milking it. We're just milking, Steve, A. Another, why is he shaking and has his mouth open that wide?

Oh, my God. What did I just witness? Stephen A convulsing. Yeah, bro. Bro, he's so passionate about Ryan Dunn. Good reason. This is why we watched the 25th pick in the NBA draft to watch Stephen A. Smith, Isos.

Just lose his mind, bro. Over nothing, relax. This pig is probably going to not even get any burn for real this year. It's going to be somebody from a mid-beger he's going to come out. We were, we've been right among this. This Eve, let me say.

He's the fuck he's digging this pink guy. Wait, okay, are we going to commercial or are they telling us? I think he'll go to commercial. I'm telling you the fucking pit. Yeah, good guy. Okay, no, here's, here's Adam right now. Who is the guy?

Mr. Sober is telling us the pick. And the pick is, here we go. I would say it, but I don't know pronounce his name. Look at Stephen his name. Oh. Is it, how do you say his name? The French guard did it? Oh, okay.

Cool. Cool. I'm with that. Now, this, I don't even care about this anymore. I put the camera back. I just want to watch him be so upset about all of this. This is fine. Yeah, they got a French guard.

Give us a run now. What do you think? No, it's going to be a French guard. And if we were watching this, if we had audio, I promise you, he's going to bring up Frank and just be like, we tried the French guard thing once again. Now we're going to run it back. We have 10th anniversary. Why are we doing? It's going to be okay.

Exactly. This is this pick right here is definitely like, obviously a swing pick. This is not someone who... And you have two picks. Two pigs. Tengis pangas. Yeah, exactly.

That is very much like that type of energy. Obviously, you just know what Steve Neath Smith is. But big guy, big guard or whatever, and he can, I mean, personally, I don't like this pick. I don't like this pick. I don't like this pick. Why? I think with the state that the New York Knicks are in right now, you need someone who can add value day one, which is Ryan Gunn, Ryan Dunn type of guy. But although he does.

He does offer vision in all areas and does a lot of things that other people can't do on their roster. Me personally, I'd rather add more versatility and flexibility in terms of trade value specifically. That's the bigger picture for me. Kevin O'Connor's Shades of is Michael Finley, a scoring, big scoring guard who can be a go-to-scorer. We're really a 40, 6-7. And, like, again, that's not bad. It's not like Alec Berks to me. Oh my gosh.

Tibbs keeps him. He keeps an Alec Berks on him. He keeps in Alec Berks on him at all times. So if you have, if you have Mikhail and you have O.G., like, you have wings, obviously, who you can, like, rely on for scoring here and there, especially when you're talking about, like, a second unit, you can keep either one of them out. If you have two picks, this is fine. Bro, Knicks fans are hilarious. They're spamming L's. None of you know a fucking thing about this guy.

You've never watched him. He's never watched him for. This is ting his fingers all over again. They're just like, who is that? Ah! Like, it's hilarious. Oh, man. It's fine.

It's fine. I would have liked Isaiah Collier here. He's still falling, bro. That's so crazy. They can pick him now. They have two picks. That's true. They could.

But the sons are going to be at 28. And if the sons don't take Brani, if the sons can leave the end of the. the first round with Isaiah Collier, it's a win. If Collier's there, they can't pick Bronier. No. No, it would be insane. No, it would be malpractice. You look at your coach in the eye and be like, yeah, I'm picking his backup who didn't do a damn thing.

Like, he can't do that. Quick question. Do the Minnesota Timberwolves still have their 27th pick? I don't know. It says that. Let me find out. Because if they do, hypothetically speaking, then Isaiah Clark is right there. And if you're doing that, you would pick Collier if you got dropped?

If I'm the Minnesota Timberwolves, for sure. If I'm the Timble... But you just pick Dillingham. Yeah, I know, but Dillingham's not like a surefire thing. I like him a lot, obviously. And he is like a surefire bucket, of course, one of the best bucket getters. But in terms of just like all-around game, I think Collier, oh my God, look at Stephen A. Smith. I wish we could hear him so bad.

It's so funny. No. No. I do not agree with the picture. Someone said these industry plans out of France's last few seasons have been crazy. What is going on in France? This is nuts. We're having a generation

to run an NBA prospects in one country. There's something in them baguettes, man. Baguettes is special. Damn. Baguettes got HGGH in them. Something in the water. McHill Bridges is a Nick.

We're talking about a link tomorrow, but man, what a team. What a concept. It's amazing. Amazing. And that's enough for that. Just pure mayhem. Just pure man, bro.

So I guess at 26 now, if Isaiah Claus is on the board, me personally, I'm taking him. At this point, at this point, no, at this point I'm not. At this point, you have, unless you think that you are just going to. Nope, doesn't matter what you think. The Knicks are trading 26 to the Thunder. Guys, what the hell? Okay, now I'm actually mad. Now we actually have to, like, we have to be for real.

We have to be, for real. We are about to spend a million dollars. We're about to spend tens of millions of dollars on this roster. And nobody, if Hartenstein walks and we don't draft anybody tonight that is going to be, or I guess tomorrow, that's going to replace him. I'm going to be upset. Five seconds ago, you're okay with having one pick. You changed your mind.

He said, guys. He's friends with the blenders. Yeah. He didn't know what to think. Because if it was, if it. Playing with his. feelings. Listen, if we got, if we got Pocome, Pekone, I think if we got, we got Pekome here and we

say, okay, he's the project, but then we also got somebody who can come in right now and contribute, that's fine. I also, like, I just want somebody else who can contribute. And if we're going to lose Hardinstein, which I think that we are, we have to. That's not a sure thing at all, though. It's not, but I, right. now, I don't feel good. So, like, where my perspective is at right now is, like, we're probably going to lose him.

If we can keep him and run everything back, hey, we'll be okay. But, this is kind of tough. But for the Thunder now, this is a spot where now you can go and get a big, and you can leave tonight with a guard and a big, and you can fill two holes that you had, right? Two holes that you had in your roster. So I'm okay with that. The Thunder are picking at 26, and we know their pick. It's not going to be someone you know about, I don't think, or really you care about, but it's very interesting.

I'll say that. What kind of player you think the Thunder are targeting right now? They're probably going after a wing in my mind. It's probably a project. Yeah, for sure. Oh, is this the pick on all right now? They pick Dylan Jones at a Weaver State who is a 6'5 point guard senior who weighs 237 pounds. He's massive.

Yeah. Tank. He has shades of Grant Williams crossed with Julius Randall as a forward. That's a point guard. I mean to say that. Wow. No, that's fine. That's fine.

I think for them, I think for Oklahoma City, this not what I would have done. I probably would have gotten another big. But like, to have somebody with this amount of size on them, it's not bad. Because you do have. You do have some skinny dudes on the roster. A lot of them. And to get some muscle in the building is always nice. So I don't hate this.

Wow. I mean, that is definitely shocking. I did not see them being this aggressive over Dylan Jones, who wasn't even projected to be a first-round pick, you know, early second at best. So I guess they see a lot of, obviously, defense and presence and all that and just deterrence when it comes to getting to the rim. So I guess that's a good pick there. But very interesting that they see that this dude can go ahead and add value that they already have on. their roster when he comes to the case of the wonsons of the world and the aaron wiggins of the world

yeah some under fans are going to be pissed that their two draft picks are topitch and dylan jones projects essentially and when you know they're in win alma we need ammo so-and-so their rotation is set they're a deep team already they're not going to be playing these rookies year one picking projects is i think exactly what a team with long-term aspirations of continuing a long title window should be doing so i don't have an issue with the doll it looks weird to some people person that everybody else projected to be a second round pick go this high happens all the time when you get this late in the draft exactly everybody's so close you just pick your guy and if this is their guy you go for it yeah i don't i don't hate i don't hate this so do so we're at 27 now

this pick is minnesota yes okay cool yeah it wasn't involved in that earlier trade earlier trade was strictly feature picks right i will be so shocked if Isaiah caller falls out of the first round Somebody's in a trade-up for him, right? It's going to be, like, Lamar Jackson in his draft, so he comes up and picks him with the last pick. It should be Phoenix at 28. And what if the Celtics get him? Oh, my God.

That would be hogwash, bro. Damn. The hogwash? Yes. The guy is old. Oh, my gosh. He's trying. The Celtics?

Pish posh. How much more does Jason Tatum need? The rules, man. I don't know. They got their scoring punch from the backup guard, which we said they needed. We said they needed a Jordan Clarkson type, so that's good on.

I'm not making a prediction. They did immediately address. They have some back of wings in Kyle Anderson. They got the back of Big and Nas Reed. You can go replace Kyle Anderson, to be honest. Okay, yeah, back of wings. Probably what's on the record. Because Kyle Anderson, man.

There was a time where he's like, you know, Kyle Anderson, he's pretty good. That train has left to build it. He's not the same player that people think of when they think of slow-mo and they think of this, like, very, very productive player. Or even what he was, like, a year and a half ago. If Minnesota wanted to go

And they wanted to up You see something crazy The Knicks trade No, they traded the 26 pick Yeah They didn't get a first round pickback They got five seconds Oh, that is

That is elite They trade 26 for five seconds From the Thunder That span from 2025 2027 Dude Leon Rose is on a generational run right now The Knicks keep a bag of picks on them Okay

Leon Rose is My bad my bad Leon I should have known After everything that's happened today There was no reason for me to be as upset as out. You know, shout out San Presti. He has more picks than any team ever could use in 20 years.

Throw five of them to go get a guy you like. It does not matter. This is a win-win for both sides. Good job, Leon. Five seconds is outrageous, bro. The last time we saw that, a guy traded for, like, Jay Crowder. I think Milwaukee Bucks did that, bro. That's crazy, bro.

Yeah. Holy cow. False man. And I think, didn't the Warriors do that for Gary Payton? Yeah. Yes. That's so nasty. Five seconds being a recurring trade package is hilarious.

Yeah, I guess that equates to a first. first now NBA math five seconds man shut up the Knicks just wheeling and dealing I can't believe two of my guys in this draft and Isaiah Collier and Terran Shannon Jr

haven't been picked yet bro y'all I keep on saying his name you guys are like why does he keep on saying his name because he's nice three levels four can get it done lefty and of course he has size to him as well 6667 can play making all that bro there's no way there's no way

Collider falls out. We're on, forget Brian and Watch. We're on Collier Watch at this point. Somebody has a trade-up for him. There's no way. I would think the Suns would pick him. The Suns need a point guard.

Yes. They don't have any. Damn, and Booker's the only point guard of the roster. But are they going to rely on a 19-year-old, 20-year-old to... It's a long-term thing. But they need youth. They need long-term vision. That's right now...

Evalu, I guess, yeah. If the Suns don't pick him, that would be crazy. Like, that feels like they should be blessed to get... Isaiah Collier at 27, or 28. Yeah, exactly. God, they're dragging this for so long, bro. I just need it so bad. I hate this network. The Minnesota pick, we know the Minnesota pick.

Okay, cool. Any predictions? Man, I don't know these. We're okay. I don't know what these guys are thinking at this point. We're at 27. There's so many guys who leaped up in the late first round, and also just naturally so many guys were kicked out of the back.

half of the first round. They're back. At least that was a brief commercial break. Is that Zach Edie? Yeah. Yeah, that would have never guessed that. Man, that's crazy. Dolphin Connect is a Laker.

You can yap about that now, okay? If you can nap about it any time, now we want to hear it. Why don't the Timberwolves take Brony James? Why not? That won't be a... Why not? I was going to say, that wouldn't be a bad pick. Well, yeah, never mind.

I mean, listen, have you traded for Rob? And, like, you have your point guard and you have your scoring punch. And now Adam is announcing the pick. Isaac, can you tell us what he is safe? I just think Dalton Connect is Chris Middleton in the making. Sorry, can you tell us? Terrence Shannon Jr. is going to the Minnesota. Timberwolves.

Oh, my God. We love to see it. Like I keep on saying, bro, he is an explosive, dynamic score. Can get to the bucket in my thought. In, like, abundance of ways. He gets bucking so many ways, of course, creative on the bounce. Good size to him as well. is the scoring punch that they need

alongside someone like Anthony Edwards. I don't know if he's going to score, but when it comes to taking I don't know if he's going to start, but when it comes to taking away those Kyle Anderson minutes, he someone could do that day one. This team was in the conference finals. I love this. And they added Rob Dillingham and Terrence Chan and Jr. To

some of the best bucket getters in college basketball. The game's about a bucket. They saw their weaknesses. They're doing it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They saw their weaknesses. The game's about a bucket. They actually needed these like

they really did. They really did. They needed hoop mixtape on their bench. And they got it. We're in the rare instances where they have all the defense they could want. Yeah. They have a solid star who's advancing as a playmaker. They need legitimate firepower next to him. So when you throw doubles in him, you're going to pay. And it's specifically needed off the bench. Because the starting lineup is set in stone. Jay McDaniels is awesome. Connolly's awesome. After that, we get to the bench, just not so much awesome. These two guys are young. Maybe they don't contribute in the first couple of years, whatever.

Yeah. This is a long-term play with this team. Anthony Edwards is going to be there for a long time. You've got to build for the future, build a legitimate core to age with him. And this is about as good as you can hope for, I think. Yeah, exactly. When you do have those Car Anthony Towns-type games where he's just, like, not putting up the numbers that you expect me, put up. He puts up 11 points in five hours or whatever.

Anthony Edwards is just left there all alone, and he is getting obliterate. rated on both ends because he, of course, consistently guards the best player on the defensive end. And offensively, he is, like, he is do or die. And so having Terran Shannon Jr. can carry the load and just help make plays and just give Anthony Edwards a breather and allow him to, like, you know, not carry the entire load because of Terran Shannon Jr.'s ability to create on the ball

and break down the defense on all levels and be able to just do a lot of things that no one else was capable of other than Anthony Edwards, ironically enough. It's immensely valuable. And, of course, like Bob Dealingham's nice too. You know what I just realized? If you say that you just realize that Dalton Connect is a Laker, I'm going to be upset. I did just realize Dalton Connect is a Laker.

Oh, my God. But what I also realized is Isaiah Collier was mocked to go to the Jazz earlier in the draft, and they'd pick Cody Williams. The Jazz are up next at 29. If they can get a guy that they were linked to at the 29th pick, Danny Ains, you are unstoppable. Ryan Dunn, I love this. I love this so much.

Ryan Dunn, smaller power forward. He doesn't have any real tools offensively just yet. But defensively, he's a damn dog and he's going to get it in. He's super versatile. He can guard, in my mind, one through fours with how small fours are nowadays. Again, offensively, don't expect too much from him other than, like, cutting and doing the simple things dirty work around the basket. The hope is with him that if he can't shoot, like everyone else that we're saying in this draft, then the value is there

and this is such a bang pick but regards of the fact he can play alongside someone like Larry Mark and Walker Kessler and all the other super guards that they have on that roster

this is a tremendous pick if you ask me bro no no Ryan doesn't go to Phoenix oh he's going to Phoenix yeah yeah what did you think of that all that happened for none

what did you think he was going to Utah yeah oh no no no because you mentioned it so wait Utah's 29 yeah they're next the Phoenix son's got Ryan done next to Kevin Durant

Devin Booker Bradley Bill these guys everything you said applies to the suns way more than does the gas. They need to have so much more than anybody. They have no, they have no dog, no grit, straight buckets. All they got is hezy-hazy tween pulls. Ryan Dunn is the opposite of that.

No he's the opposite of that. But he's got all the dirty stuff they need. He got defensive stance for days, bro. Yeah, he's slapping that ground. He got angles for days, bro. He knows how to go ahead and attach to your hit and all that. Good for Phoenix, though. Yeah, good for them.

Good for them. They needed size, and people a lot of times project it as a five. A big wing is also a type of size that they are desperately needing. What wings are on the roster outside of Kevin Durant? Grace and Allen. Royce O'Neill. Royce O'Neill, who's a free agent. Yeah, I mean, good player, but damn, bro, like.

Some like him, yeah, someone like him could play day one, day one, and he could be a part of those. He will. He will play day one. You have no other options. You're right. Literally no other options. Great pick. Great pick, though, for sure.

You know what's ridiculous? They have five minutes. in between these picks. And I feel like after we get done with the lottery, you should have three minutes to make your selection. Two. Like, let them have five, but if you take all five, you're a jerk. Like, you can't.

No, but that's what I'm saying. Like, you just can't give them that option because why are we taking five minutes? You've had three hours to decide what you're going to do. Do the Celtics think, Brody? That would be the ultimate troll. They're projected, if some people were saying they're going to take Brunay at like 52 right before the Lakers, which would be hysterical, they probably not taking them at 30. They're too smart for that.

Man, that'd be hilarious. That would be the ultimate troll, bro. That'd be amazing. They should do it. They shouldn't do it, but they should. Are they going to take, is caught, listen, man, is Kyle you going to fall to 28, I mean, to 29? That is crazy. Is he going to be a Celtic?

He'll be a nice fit, obviously. He's not like the prototypical Celtics player, because obviously we know what they value versus. and shooting and all that. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Talk about my bad. I did not acknowledge this. Ryan Dunn's suit. Very fire.

Ooh, the suit analysis. Very, very fire suit. It comes across, it has like the double-breasted look where you come across. It's also very interesting that the double-breasted suit has come back inside. It's kind of like the standard now. Yeah.

Right? Because if you have like the single ones and you look like you're selling insurance, you want to have style, and you go to the double- What kind of suit Dalton Connect have on? I don't know, its chain was too. It doesn't matter, but the chain was crazy.

Distracting. It made up. I think he's a standard. With this pick, Isaiah Collier is a member of the Utah Jazz. They got two of the targets they were linked to. He looks upset. He looks upset.

Of course he is. He was supposed to go in the damn near lottery. He goes 29. And also, he's going to Utah, too. Damn, bro. Oh, you wait on night to go to Utah? Oh, going from LA. I know he mad at shit right now.

Damn. When we talked to him at the Combine, he said one of his favorite things to do is go to the beach and just stare and just be in his element. He could be in the mountain. Brother, I got some nice mountains for you. I know people.

Get ready to learn hiking. They're ready to speak Mormon. And you got to have no beaches out there. Oh, man, he's sick to his stomach. Well, honestly, not a great fit. It sucks for him to have to go through this in the moment. It's a good fit. Just like it would have been a good fit to pick that 11,

especially now they have Cody Williams there. You have Lauer Marking there. You have legitimate size, a really smart coach. Now a guard combination of him and, um, Keontay George, there's a vision there. We'll see what happens to Colin Sexton because him and Colin Sexton are very similar to players. If you're the Jazz, you can trade Sexton

and replace him and Collier. Thank you. That means a lot of sense to me. You just said, we'll see what happens between him and Connoisse. I don't give a damn about Colin Sexton. You can go. I think Colin Sexton will look fantastic next Adulton Connect on the Lakers bench.

Honestly, honestly. I think that'd be a fantastic pickup for the Lakers. No. Yeah, don't smile. Don't smile. Let them know. You are upset. Put the league on notice.

I'm going to memorize the 27 players. picked above me like that wide receiver he for sure has wide receiver energy by the way really absolutely is wide receiver i need to see what is wide receiver energy you speak you speak in riddles and parables yeah parables they tweet shit that's just like like poetry they're like though die who holds the knife highs the quietest hands shit like that oh my god they're dramatic and they're divas not to say he's a divo but he's like white receiver energy the sun will burn down the village To feel it's warmth.

There's something like that. Oh, man. Oh, man. It just tweet, it takes a village. Oh, my God, bro. That's hilarious. No, wide receivers are hilarious. No, the backbone of society.

This man is Stefan Diggs. Oh, man, Stefan Diggs is the most wide receiver to ever wide receiver. So the boss of Celtics, that's right? Between him and Tio. Oh, see, my Tio takes a crown. Nobody's ever been more wide receiver than Tio. We got one pick left. One pick left in the first round.

Thank goodness. Chat, who are the Celtics picking? Who do you guys want to see be a Celtic? And isn't Bronny James, because that would be hilarious. LeBron James Jr. sitting up with the Celtics jersey would be hysterical.

That'll be so not fun, and they already are hated. I guess why not? Go ahead and... O'Brien would stand on business. He would... I would love to see it. He would eat.

That's so many. Is that a colleague, man. He's going to be the still-draft at 29. He has to be. That's such value. Absolutely. Value. Yeah, that's insane value right there, bro.

Shout out to Danny Ains, really wheeling and dealing, bro. One of the greatest behind, one of the greatest dudes in the front office, like, history. He didn't do anything. He just sat there and was patient, and he fell to him. Like, yeah. He is a great willing deal. You're right. But in this distance, he didn't even have to be.

He just had to be confident and pick the guy everybody else passed on. He could have been hella aggressive and be like, oh, oh, my God. Like, I got to go ahead and trade up. But, no, he just sat there and we go. There we go. I wonder why he fell. Like, there has to be something we don't know about. I don't know.

Every year, GMs just miss it completely, whether it be like the Tyrese Maxies of the world or the Desmond Badens of the world, and there's so much over-analyzing and overthinking, like, yeah, shot isn't the greatest. Yeah, he isn't, like, a top-tier athlete, but he's not a stop on that. Yeah, but those guys weren't really expect to be high picks.

This is, like, I can't whipmore situation where this guy is supposed to be in the lottery and then over time just plummets for something behind the scenes, we don't know, I hope we find out, because this is pretty crazy. Isaiah Collier was supposed to be, like, a top ten pick. He was supposed to be, like a top five pick last year. Yeah, he was a highly tired of high school prospect, bro. No, it started the season.

We were like, tank for Isaiah Collier for the Spurs. Yeah. Wow. All right, man, we know the Celtics last pick. Oh, we know the final pick of the day. Not Marty James. Damn. That's shut up all.

I was like, what? That would be hysterical. That would be hysterical. Good, man. Okay, so for the Boston Celtics, if I'm them personally, you look at their roster. Of course, you got KP, he's great. The J's Jason Tatum and Browns are not going anywhere for a long time. They're looking to extend Derek White.

Through Halliday, they already extended. Like, their roster is, like, solidified as hell. But what's not is the 38-year-old future Hall of Fame. Thank you. Yes, I'm saying it right now, future Hall of Famer. Al Horford is a Hall of Famer. That is facts. I love to hear it.

That is facts. And I think they need to go ahead and reassure his position because I think I hope it's going to return next season again. I believe I saw those reports. And if that is the case, you need to look big still because, again, he's 38, 39 years old, one of the oldest players in the league. I have one name in mind. And who was that? I'm Kyle Filipowski. I mean, he checks the list.

He can shoot. He's white. He went to Duke. He would be a fan favorite. Everything checks out. He is the perfect self-ex player. He is, listen. You have a bench lineup.

The bench mob that the Celtics fans would have of Pritchard, Hauser, Filipowski, they would love it. That's exactly what Celtics fans need. He once again will be in the conversation. It would be a three-way race for who's going to be the fan favorite? Who's going to be the white guy for the Boston Celtics? And like you said, you have a big man who can play behind two other bigs and KP and Al Horford, learn a little bit

and reassured that position. I would go to Filipowski if I was in Celtics for multiple reasons, so that would be my pick. Yeah, it makes complete sense. If they don't want Flipkowski and they want someone who's a little bit more of a lethal shooter, then again, Jalen Smith is right there.

Hella Young, of course, and he is raw at this point in time of his career. But you have nothing to lose, and he's a simple pick that you can go ahead and have him in training. I feel that. All right. So the pick is in.

They should be panning to Adam Silver right now. We'll see what's going on. Adam, end the night, man. I'll say this. I won't spoil it. It's a white boy. So white boy. Of course it is.

Oh, is it Johnny Furphy? No, keep guessing. Oh, man. I think I know who this is. This is that guard. His name is Slipmore. Slip in my head, too. Yeah.

This is Baylor Shireman. Oh. Oh, he's good. He's good. The senior from Creighton, smoothy lefty shooter with deep range per Kevin O'Connor. Yeah. Oh, they said Sam Houser. We don't, listen, do it again.

They don't believe in your game, Sam Houser? That's so crazy. They don't. Sam Houser should feel disrespect. We talked about, we talked earlier about Reed Shepard, you know, coming in that says a sign that Jalen Green, you're on the way out. Sam Houser, you better come into training camp in shape. You don't have room to mess around. Oh, bad.

They got a white boy. They got a white boy who can shoot from Kramer. And they got the white-iest white boy out here. Listen. Boston knows what they're doing. The rich get richer. The Celtics know what they're doing. No, but this is a good, it's a good shooter.

It's an older prospect. They have somebody who can come in and contribute instantly. And this actually does fit, and it gives them more versatility on the bench. Because now, like, because they had a whole bunch of wings and, like, bigger forwards that they just didn't really trust. Like, you never saw O'Shea Berset play. unless like everybody was hurt, right? Peyton Pritchard was basically unplayable in the finals. And so now that you have Hauser who proved himself

and you have your man's right here, now you have a bench line that you trust a little bit more, especially with the shooting. And with that being said, bashing the first round. And that's the end of the stream. We sat here for a long three hours, watch all these picks. We did.

Wow. What a draft. So interesting. So many players rose like crazy. Zach, and he went ahead and was up there. top 10 picks at easy. The Minnesota Timberwolves went ahead and got a top eight pick and Rob Dillingham. What a crazy draft, bro.

You could have been anywhere in the world. You're walking with us. We'll see y'all on Sunday for free agency, and we'll see you on Friday for this week's episode. Peace. Goodbye. Thank you.