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Mavs seem expected to do something similar with Flagg/Klay/PJ/Davis/Lively, at least at first

I've been a bit of a broken record about it, but I really think we ought to be starting Kornet at least in these matchups.
 
It's sad to see how empty handed we came away from the 2022 draft class, lots of good players available at the Spurs picks or right before: Dyson Daniels right before Sochan, Jalen Williams a few picks after, then Tari Eason, Christian Braun and Walker Kessler available at Branham's pick, Nembhard available at Wesley's... 😢
 
Ariel said:
It's sad to see how empty handed we came away from the 2022 draft class, lots of good players available at the Spurs picks or right before: Dyson Daniels right before Sochan, Jalen Williams a few picks after, then Tari Eason, Christian Braun and Walker Kessler available at Branham's pick, Nembhard available at Wesley's... 😢
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Let's just pretend that we wouldn't have gotten Wemby, Castle and Harper if we hit in 2022 draft.
A lesson for the future, but I think we came out fine.
 
LeBowen said:
Let's just pretend that we wouldn't have gotten Wemby, Castle and Harper if we hit in 2022 draft.
A lesson for the future, but I think we came out fine.
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For sure, I'd rather have that happen than nail the 2022 draft and miss out on Wemby, but still.

For the record, I was totally on board with the Spurs picks at the time.
 
Ariel said:
For sure, I'd rather have that happen than nail the 2022 draft and miss out on Wemby, but still.

For the record, I was totally on board with the Spurs picks at the time.
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I don't follow college ball that closely and obviously it's easy to rate players after the fact, but those Wesley and Branham picks were really bad.
Jeremy would've been a great pick if he had a functional jumpshot, but wasting 2 FRPs on players that were dumped after three years when so many useful players were picked in #20-35 range is a really bad look for whoever made the final call.
 
LeBowen said:
I don't follow college ball that closely and obviously it's easy to rate players after the fact, but those Wesley and Branham picks were really bad.
Jeremy would've been a great pick if he had a functional jumpshot, but wasting 2 FRPs on players that were dumped after three years when so many useful players were picked in #20-35 range is a really bad look for whoever made the final call.
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It was a time were the Spurs talent cupboard was bare, so they had to take swings. Wesley looked like a very raw prospect with great physical tools who could really pan out if he put it together, shooting was bad but we deluded ourselves into buying his upside dismissing how low a chance it was. It didn't help that he played mostly outside of the radar in Notre Dame, highlights looked great but you need actual tape to make an appropriate eval.

Branham looked like a Rip Hamilton in the making, deadly from the midrange, and again, we thought "he surely can extend his range, he's hard working (according to BWright's buddy who worked with him) so he can improve his defense", and we all know how that went. Sochan's defensive potential we were right about, but saw playmaking where there wasn't and his shooting remained as crappy as advertised. Basically bought into a lot of hypotheticals and passed on more sound players, who maybe didn't have that one skill but were more well rounded and with a more functional archetype. Live and learn.
 
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Also, timvp at ST reported that Wesley had an amazing workout where no one could stay in front of him, not even Dyson Daniels who was on the opposing team. So yeah, we all bought in like crazy.
 
Tyler Smith waived by MIL. He'd be a nice two-way pickup if we could ever get over our love affair with Ingram and Minix.
 
Ariel said:
It's sad to see how empty handed we came away from the 2022 draft class, lots of good players available at the Spurs picks or right before: Dyson Daniels right before Sochan, Jalen Williams a few picks after, then Tari Eason, Christian Braun and Walker Kessler available at Branham's pick, Nembhard available at Wesley's... 😢
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Tari wasn't available at the Bran pick. He was taken 17th.
 
LeBowen said:
I don't follow college ball that closely and obviously it's easy to rate players after the fact, but those Wesley and Branham picks were really bad.
Jeremy would've been a great pick if he had a functional jumpshot, but wasting 2 FRPs on players that were dumped after three years when so many useful players were picked in #20-35 range is a really bad look for whoever made the final call.
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Honestly... it's about on par with the median expectation for a player picked in that range. The Spurs experience (prior to these two) with picks in the 20s is just 99th percentile.
 
Was Malakai thought of as the safe bet that year? The other two were so raw it would have been weird to go for 3 projects when your player development was theoretical at that time.
 
The 2022 draft were swing and misses for sure. There’s still a chance the sochan icon with turn out to be ok but the chance of it being a home run is nil.

Based on our development the last few years, I’d guess Dyson Daniels would’ve died in the vine here. Kessler I never got, and still don’t as he’s like a worse version of gobert who is pretty much unplayable in the playoffs even though he’s a 4x DPoY. Braun is more due to jokic than anything.

Eason could turn out well here but then the lack of structure can’t be good for him. Jalen Williams would be good anywhere though.
 
scott said:
Ariel said:
It's sad to see how empty handed we came away from the 2022 draft class, lots of good players available at the Spurs picks or right before: Dyson Daniels right before Sochan, Jalen Williams a few picks after, then Tari Eason; Christian Braun and Walker Kessler available at Branham's pick; Nembhard available at Wesley's... 😢
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Tari wasn't available at the Bran pick. He was taken 17th.
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Yeah, I know, it was just lazy punctuation on my part (meant that Tari Eason could have been had with no. 9, or trading back from 9, which actually was my preferred choice over using that pick).
 
ambchang said:
The 2022 draft were swing and misses for sure. There’s still a chance the sochan icon with turn out to be ok but the chance of it being a home run is nil.

Based on our development the last few years, I’d guess Dyson Daniels would’ve died in the vine here. Kessler I never got, and still don’t as he’s like a worse version of gobert who is pretty much unplayable in the playoffs even though he’s a 4x DPoY. Braun is more due to jokic than anything.

Eason could turn out well here but then the lack of structure can’t be good for him. Jalen Williams would be good anywhere though.
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Sorry, but saying that Gobert is pretty much unplayable in the playoffs is just absurd. He is still a clearly positive player in the postseason. Offensively, it has looked more and more rough recently, I'll give you that.
 
I do not keep up with OKC at all, but is Topic still out for them? They got dudes named Barnhizer and Youngblood getting minutes?

HOU's lack of depth is going to be a real problem for them I imagine, especially when KD inevitably gets injured.
 
Ariel said:
It's sad to see how empty handed we came away from the 2022 draft class, lots of good players available at the Spurs picks or right before: Dyson Daniels right before Sochan, Jalen Williams a few picks after, then Tari Eason, Christian Braun and Walker Kessler available at Branham's pick, Nembhard available at Wesley's... 😢
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how about Haliburton after Vassel
 
spurraider21 said:
It was honestly really annoying that during this draft cycle i found myself agreeing with rascal quite a bit
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it's like rascal gave the login to someone else. the takes were a 180 (in the right direction) from the usual style
 
scott said:
I do not keep up with OKC at all, but is Topic still out for them? They got dudes named Barnhizer and Youngblood getting minutes?

HOU's lack of depth is going to be a real problem for them I imagine, especially when KD inevitably gets injured.
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He has a testicular injury apparently.
 
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