Draft March Madness Draft Watch: Spurs Prospect Tracker

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Oh no. #3 went down

Dude looks like Dwight Schrute’s cousin
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Holy shit he does look like Mose :st-lol:

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Peat with a nice turnaround J right there. Needs to go to that more often. He actually has nice touch within 8-feet (which makes his inability to shoot 3 or FT's that much more puzzling).

Edit*: He just did it again. Keep feeding him until they prove they can stop it.
 
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Koa reminds me a lot of David West - same build and so comfortable going for that midrange shot
 
I'm not keen on taking another non-shooter like Koa Peat, especially I'm wary of bad free throw shooters whose misses from 3 are all over the place. If the Spurs had better spacing overall then maybe, I think he's a lot more talented on offense than Sochan, but the good news is the draft will be after the playoffs and Spurs' shooting will for sure be thoroughly tested, and I'd expect that result to be a key input into their drafting strategy.
 
Posted this a while back in the Draft Prospects thread, but Koa Peat's closest comparison is college Aaron Gordon imo. Gordon was definitely a better defender and rebounder, but Peat's the better offensive player at this point in his career, so they're not exactly alike, but def some similarities there. David West isn't a bad comp either though. Paul Milsap too.

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Peat, Krivas, and Burries all taking over for Arizona, as they should. Kharchenkov too. Arizona is the most talented team left in the tournament imo. No reason for them not to win it all. Duke and Michigan will be tough though. Illinois too.
 
Ariel said:
I'm not keen on taking another non-shooter like Koa Peat, especially I'm wary of bad free throw shooters whose misses from 3 are all over the place. If the Spurs had better spacing overall then maybe, I think he's a lot more talented on offense than Sochan, but the good news is the draft will be after the playoffs and Spurs' shooting will for sure be thoroughly tested, and I'd expect that result to be a key input into their drafting strategy.
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Yup that's the major concern with him. There's obvious talent there to be developed and molded, but if that 3PT shot never develops, then he'd likely be another bust and a wasted pick. The FT% is a big red flag to me though, and doesn't really make sense given how nice his touch is on his midrange turnaround J.
 
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Yup that's the major concern with him. There's obvious talent there to be developed and molded, but if that 3PT shot never develops, then he'd likely be another bust and a wasted pick. The FT% is a big red flag to me though, and doesn't really make sense given how nice his touch is on his midrange turnaround J.
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I don't think he'll be a bust, I see a solid NBA player but one who in the Spurs could result in diminishing returns given the context. At the end of the day if you can't develop him on the rookie scale deal it's a loss either way.
 
Duke-UConn should be interesting today - Mullins vs Evans used to be a market inefficiency to me when Mullins was mocked in the late lottery while Evans was a second rounder. Now it looks like they're mocked in approximately the same range which seems about right to me - both are high volume 3P guys (~15 3PA/100, >80%FT) with lanky frames, approximately the same age. Both were 3 level scorers in high school, Mullins offers more steals/blocks but Evans' actual defense is undersold by his numbers. Evans is more athletic I think, but Mullins has the purer shot. I would take Carr above either of these guys, but might not be a bad consolation prize if Carr rises out of the Spurs' range from his combine measurements which will undoubtedly be crazy.

Also, if Tarris Reed can give some approximation of what Day'Ron Sharpe is doing for the Nets, he would really be an ideal 3rd string center as his primary issue on defense is that he fouls a lot which I don't really care about if you're playing as a third string big. They seem extremely similar to me - same height, same weight, same wingspan, good shotblocker, good ability to defend in space, underrated passer. Sharpe is like a 92nd percentile defender on Crafted and 61st percentile as an offensive player, so this would really be an excellent outcome for a mid-second round pick.
 
Mara, Morez, Yaxel vs Ament at 1:15PM on CBS

Reed Jr, Mullins vs Evans at 4:05 PM on CBS
 
Ariel said:
I don't think he'll be a bust, I see a solid NBA player but one who in the Spurs could result in diminishing returns given the context. At the end of the day if you can't develop him on the rookie scale deal it's a loss either way.
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He could* be a solid player in time if he develops his shot, but undersized PF's who can't shoot the 3 are pretty antiquated players. And it's not like he's an elite rebounder or shot-blocker or anything either. He's a solid rebounder but nothing spectacular, and he doesn't block a ton of shots either. Idk. There's talent there no doubt, and maybe he becomes a good role player down the line, but I'd rather roll the dice on a safer prospect personally.
 
If Yaxel wasn't such a knucklehead... but he's probably a mid lottery pick anyway.
 
Tennessee has no business being this deep in the tournament
 
Yaxel has scored or assisted on 14 of Michigan's last 17 points. 10 pts, 4 assists, 2 rbs and a steal so far. Michigan suddenly up 19.
 
I'm not surprised Michigan is trashing Tennessee, I just didn't expect it this fast.
 
One of the things about NIL that's made March Madness a little different is that the top teams are too good. I don't think we're going to be seeing double digit seeds making the final four anymore, top end talent is just too good. Like, there's no way more than 4-5 teams in the country can realistically deal with a Mara-Yaxel-Morez frontcourt. It probably makes for better games in the later rounds because there's more high quality basketball being played, but the Cinderella story is probably all but gone moving forward.

Also, I wonder if college coaches of big programs should be hiring mini-GMs to help build their teams and look for undervalued talent in the transfer portal, since NIL has basically made the upper echelon of college basketball into a mini-NBA with 1 year contracts.
 
SpursBills said:
One of the things about NIL that's made March Madness a little different is that the top teams are too good. I don't think we're going to be seeing double digit seeds making the final four anymore, top end talent is just too good. Like, there's no way more than 4-5 teams in the country can realistically deal with a Mara-Yaxel-Morez frontcourt. It probably makes for better games in the later rounds because there's more high quality basketball being played, but the Cinderella story is probably all but gone moving forward.

Also, I wonder if college coaches of big programs should be hiring mini-GMs to help build their teams and look for undervalued talent in the transfer portal, since NIL has basically made the upper echelon of college basketball into a mini-NBA with 1 year contracts.
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SpursBills said:
One of the things about NIL that's made March Madness a little different is that the top teams are too good. I don't think we're going to be seeing double digit seeds making the final four anymore, top end talent is just too good. Like, there's no way more than 4-5 teams in the country can realistically deal with a Mara-Yaxel-Morez frontcourt. It probably makes for better games in the later rounds because there's more high quality basketball being played, but the Cinderella story is probably all but gone moving forward.

Also, I wonder if college coaches of big programs should be hiring mini-GMs to help build their teams and look for undervalued talent in the transfer portal, since NIL has basically made the upper echelon of college basketball into a mini-NBA with 1 year contracts.
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Agreed. I'm a Texas fan and we made it to the Sweet 16 this year as an 11-Seed which was awesome before ultimately losing to Purdue at the buzzer, but I also knew that we wouldn't have stood a chance against Arizona's loaded team had we advanced. Arizona of course blew Purdue out of the building last night. The teams that have spent heavy in NIL and have really high-end talent across the board like Arizona, Duke, Michigan, etc. are just too stacked. These lowers seeds simply don't have the horses to compete.
 
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Did #13 really think he was going to make that dunk????
 
Also, even though Charlotte is by far the best fit for Yaxel both basketball wise and character-wise because having a personality like his next to a domestic abuser (Bridges), a guy peripherally involved in a murder (Miller), and "Lamelo Ball" absoutely fits in some weird convoluted way, I can totally see why Miami would have interest in him.

The Kel'el Ware pick basically showed that the Heat are super interested in the "I can fix him" value play prospect - talented dudes who drop further than they otherwise would for reasons that are not basketball-talent related, and who they feel that "Heat Culture" would help to fix
 
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Mara confidently steps into a 3-pointer. Only his 3rd made 3 of the year. Just one of those days for Michigan.
 
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