17 Burst results for "Jd Davison"
Game Theory Podcast
"jd davison" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"There were. Why would you not go and get like pick 45 and take Kendall brown or something like that? Right, and use him. These last three roster spots given how set Boston's rotation is right now. These are purely developmental spots. There's no reason to not use these in order to try and take just wild card swings on guys like maybe Kendall Brown. Guys like, yeah, I think Josh may not actually went 45th, right? Why not take a flyer on just like X, Y and Z, like I'm trying to think of any other guy that there were a number of guys in this draft class, like JD Davison, who they actually ended up picking, where they could have given end of roster spots, guaranteed deal maybe there's only like a 20% chance it works out. You do two of those. And you have a 40% chance of maybe finding a rotation player, which is pretty high. Once you get to two of those, that's pretty valuable, I think. Yeah, I think probably something else to factor in the equation was yuhan behren coming over from France and having his rights from the year before essentially using that as a second potential placeholder. I'm not sure if he's going to come over. But for what it's worth, I think, I don't know this. I would venture he probably stays overseas. But I think that that's another back pocket card to have for next year. And they go through the same thing. So I think if I was if I was Boston, I would want to stay over there because I would want his clock to start one year later in terms of his free agents in terms of his player control clock. He's he's a little bit of a ways awake still. I do think that like by the time he's 24, you'll probably actually be, if not an NBA player, like pretty close to an NBA player. But I would rather start that clock a little bit later if I was Boston. I would venture he probably stays overseas. The last thing I want to talk
Winning Plays
"jd davison" Discussed on Winning Plays
"Get the bonus and get into the action. It's been online where the game starts. Okay, so who do you got next year? I was hoping you go from. What do you got? Well, one, I think people kind of figure he's only 19, like it's only like, I think I tweeted it was like three months older than JD Davison. You got to, you know, I really respect them in a lot of ways. He had like, I think, in game two, he airballed, I think, a three pointer, and a couple of possessions later, maybe literally the next possession. He put it up, and he sunk his. So you can see, you can see so much good things. That I'm like, I'm so like, you know, some people were just maybe a little down on him just because he did have a tough start. But like I said, that don't, this dude is like an NBA athlete. And I don't think you can, I don't think you can argue that in any ways. And I think the mindset is good, like he's still very raw product, but I think you feel really great because he's just 19 years old. Give him, you know, maybe a year or two oversee still who knows maybe they want to bring him. Maybe they want to bring him on one of the two way contract spots. Maybe not this year but next year kind of deal, but you look at you and I'm like, this guy is clearly athletic clearly, you know, has kind of that mindset that maybe some players are missing in terms of just going for the next play, can keep playing and everything like that. So overall you know, like kind of like Sam, my viewpoint hasn't changed too much. I think there are some things he does a little bit better compared to the last year. I think he's stuffing the stat box a little bit more. Just, you know, 6 three pounds a game to assist 1.5. It's a game.
Celtics Beat
"jd davison" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"Yeah. If he could have actually given you minutes this year in the postseason, right? Instead of pressure who we all know in the finals went poll, like that would have been major if you had another shooter last year. Yeah. And it's like pitching in, it's like pitching in baseball. You can never have enough shooting in this league right now. The way the game is played in the way the reliance on three point shooting and how it can dig you out of a huge hole, I mean, how many 20 point leads are blown this year. I think it was the most in NBA history and I don't have a number, but remember just any 20 point lead is not safe because a team can get hot from three point range, all of a sudden there's a 15 to two run and that other team's right back into it. So, you know, if you can have a guy a dead eye shooter like that, but to your point, shooting off movement is a terrific one because like think about the guys they have, none of them are like smart will take movement. Put the confidence going in is always a funky road, you know? It's always, it's always if he's standing still, I feel way more confident than what but like sometimes they'll take these out of the head of the shot clock heats and they go in. So the smart it's almost like how's he feeling that day? But Derek white, we all know is not a movement shooter. We know that Al Horford is set three point shooter grant named set three points. That's a great point about the movement shooter. And Hauser seems like a guy whose shots hard to block and doesn't need a lot of time to get that off, which in this particular league is ginormous, you know? Yeah. So no doubt about it. So I'm interested in him and I'm interested to see what davisson can provide going further because, I mean, he is an absolute freak of an athlete. So that is enticing, just to see what he could possibly be able to do. I mean, look, and I don't want to sound like I'm like super high on the guy, but I am at least let me put it this way very intrigued on what he possibly could provide down the road. I said on the podcast two weeks ago that the high end version of JD Davison is like, I watch him and I see a little Dennis with junior in there. You know, like there's a guy that's super athlete, athletic, really quick with the ball in his hands. Get downhill. You know, if you drafted a guy that went, like, I think you went 8th in the maths that year at 53. It's not bad. Again, as you said, that's worth a shot. He has traits that translate in like, if you find a guy in 53 who's probably not going to make the NBA at any point, but if he has NBA final four, athleticism at Middle East will help. And again, now every pick is Nikola Jokić here. There's going to be a lot of duds in the second round. So I wouldn't shock me if you didn't pan out at all. But again, I'm not sad about it. I understand why it's not playing, but Yama das another guy I wish we could be able to see because another guy with length at the guard spot who can provide a little pick and roll ball handling, maybe some shooting, but definitely some defense.
A List Podcast with A. Sherrod Blakely and Kwani A. Lunis
"jd davison" Discussed on A List Podcast with A. Sherrod Blakely and Kwani A. Lunis
"First summer league, which is where we get to see the future of the league over. And you got it? I might be there when I pull up. Oh shit. Oh snap. Maybe, maybe I'll surprise you guys on next week's episode of deila's podcast. But who are you looking forward to? If you want to list off some of the names on this roster, but honestly, the names that are standing out right now are Sam Hauser, Matt Ryan, just because there's a falcon named after him not necessarily because of his own credentials. Trevion Williams, I think Gary is the kid that you mentioned a little bit earlier about potential wild horse we look at what might happen. So is there anyone that specifically stands out? I want to see Sam. I want to see Sam housing because Sam Hauser is the one guy that they have already invested a decent amount of time, energy and resources and he's also the one guy that has a skill set that they could use. Even when all the changes and all the additions that they've made, Sam has the potential to help them from day one of start of the season. And I'm curious to see how he's going to operate when if we're being honest and real, he's got to be their go to guy. At least early on. And I'm curious to see how does he handle that? And obviously, you know, as we learn from Peyton Pritchard, what you doing similarly does not necessarily translate into the big leagues. But I will say this about Sam, I do believe he's one of those guys that he's a rhythm shooter. And if he gets into a nice flow nice rhythm, hopefully he can bring that over into the regular season. And he's, again, a guy that was hurt in a playoff last year who I thought that there was some opportunities if he were healthy. They would have seriously considered throwing them out there. And by the time he got healthy, they were already kind of in their routine of sorts as a rotation and he just didn't make a ton of sense to bring him out there. But Sam's a guy that I'm looking really forward to checking out, seeing what he can do. You even mentioned your guy, JD Davison. You wrote a whole piece on him for a full court..
Celtics Beat
"jd davison" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"It's not about a guy that can get everyone into the offense and get Jason and Jalen. He's your shots. Has whatever. They don't need a point guard. Davis in any way. What? I said they just drafted JD Davis and they don't need a point card. That's my second hot take. My second hot take is to the southern strap dentist with Judy at 53. I hope you're right. Because I've watched him and I'm not saying he's Dennis with junior, but like if he had genesis or his career, given that at 53 is not bad, I like the upside. He's working with lethal shooter, so he's getting better at that. He needs way way more seasoning at being an actual point guard, but he's explosive as hell. And that's fun. And to get that sort of trade at 53 isn't bad. I'm not over the David roddy thing. But I'll get there. I thought JD Davison was Jell-O green. That's what I thought it was. Part two, but we'll see, I guess. I'll find out. So I forgot, so after hearing you have it, I forgot that there will be comments to this. So this is the market. I feel like the market smart deniers, it's like the QAnon people. We've talked about this over text. And I really want to stand it. It's like almost like a sociology experiment. With this one human being, people can not understand that he is imperfect, right? Why can't he be a good basketball player? Good point guard, average you? Why can't you just be a good basketball player and be imperfect? Like, do we do that with any other player? I mean, I don't understand it. I was at Kaufman's house for game 6 and at some point during the game when they were getting killed in the third quarter. And I looked down and said, Marcus smart has not accepted a three. Yeah. Like, what will people complain about? He has not attempted a three in this game, and they're losing by 17 points. It is just amazing to the point that I think you just have to tune them out. He's a very good man. He's a very good guy. He's a very good basketball player, right? He's imperfect and he's very good, just like really all of them. He's part of his largest team structure and he's very valuable. Why can't we just leave it at that? He's on a good contract. It's just the whole thing is just dumb. And he really is dumb. It doesn't matter what position she played. You're right. Pointed him into the future. He's just a good bathroom player and you want good basketball players on the floor. Can it be that simple? Like, why can't it be that simple? He's a good basketball. And he's a tremendous defender. He's not just a good basketball player. He is an all world defender. So what is the point because he's because he's not a great three point shooter? I mean, it's maddening. It's madding that salt expanse to feel this way about this guy who is literally throwing his ball all over the court every night. One might even argue that not Celtics fans. I don't know. I just have always had this theory that if you have decided that you're against Marcus smart, I just would bet my life that you're not watching these games. I think there is, I think there's Celtics fans maybe they're not really good basketball fans. I think there's just a misconception about what it takes to be a good player, like how you bring value to a team, right? And I think that in 2022, if you're not shooting 44% from three, you suck. Well, I mean, we don't need to go down this rabbit hole..
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"jd davison" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"I believe it was against Georgia if I remember correctly. But I think he could run point. I believe in him as a point. I probably think that's his better role long term for the NBA. I'm in on Thai time. Oh, the Cavs took mobile's brother. Are they going with the Thanos signing to make sure mobley's? I like it. Take the brother. All it does is increase your ads. The Celtics took JD Davison, guard from Alabama. Oh, wow, he's a fiery, he's a fiery player, Bill. You're going to love him. Good. Is he going to be afraid to shoot in a game must win game 6? I wouldn't describe it as afraid of anyway. Okay, good. Yeah. Okay, one more, one more thing before we go. One more winner loser. What OKC did? I was thinking about it. After we did part three, and one more winner for me than you guys, any leftovers. So OKC, stockpiling all these picks, right? Everybody's making fun of them, including me. Like, what are you gonna do with all these picks? Presti is just waiting for the moment when he could just kind of throw the three quarters at somebody for a $2 bill, which is kind of what happened today. He gets this number 11 pick. For three picks that just weren't going to be in the latter end right at a circumstances, right? What does he care? He's got 20 more picks. The Knicks were in a situation where they're trying to create cap space, whatever, but this is why I guess you get all these picks waiting for this moment. So to be interesting to see if it works out or not, they took chat home grid. They took dang. They took Jalen Williams. They have so many picks. They took a second jaylen Williams. They're just like doubling the names of guys they have on the team. They're going to have two jail wombs now. They're going to have double the names of different people, but I really like what they got going. And they still, as we covered in part three, they still have a chance for French Vic, because it's not like this team is going to be too good. But I really like that they did. Winner for me, kos. I'd say they're the winner of the drafts. I.
Game Theory Podcast
"jd davison" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"To me about Dale and Terry, particularly. That's the military's brand. That's who he is. He's competitive. He's like, I had an energy guy. You talk to people around Arizona. He was the guy that brought the energy in the building up, right? Like, this is who he is. And this is a weird choice from him, not to play. This comes from someone that like, look, I've been high on Dale and Harry, like the whole process, right? Like he's been the guy I watch for in the tournament, like I have a first round grade on him right now. Like I was like, what are we doing here? Like, why are we, why are we not going through with this? The guy that, you know, you could maybe make a case for not helping himself is Leonard Miller. Leonard Miller was probably the worst player during the 5 one 5 setting, I thought. His situation is so much drastically different than all of these other guys. Like I'm sure that's the guy that people will point to. Oh, you can hurt yourself by playing 5 on 5. Later Miller has like very rarely played high level competitive basketball at this point. Like you go back and you watch those Ontario scholastic prep league games, it's just not, it's not the same as even like high level high school games. It's not the same as college games to be sure. It is, it is a level and a half below what you will find, even at the highest level of high school games where it's playing a national schedule, IMG is playing a national schedule, plenty of these schools are playing national schedules. And this isn't to say that year 40 or you did not play that. I mean, they went and played in the national prep showcase. But he was such a central force for that team that he never really learned how to play in a team concept. And I thought, that really showed up in the combine. I mean, his defensive rotations were nonexistent. He didn't know where to go. He just didn't know what to do. And that's okay. I don't think that this makes Leonard Miller a worse prospect long term. It's what we expected to see largely, I thought from him. It's just, I thought that if one person was going to hide, it was going to be him, I guess. And I actually respect him more because he decided to play and was competitive about it. Even though he might not have been ready to play. Yeah, I think the for him, there's really no downside to going out and playing, right? Like if he's projecting himself as a guy that needs to be a first round pick this year and has to stay in this draft, maybe like a JD Davison, a Peyton Watson, where there's still that mysterious upside that they had from a long time ago and they don't want to ruin that. Then you can understand not playing Miller, it's not that he's a loser from this prospect because this process because he didn't play well. It's valuable for him to have the feedback of, here's what you need to work on. Go back to college, go to someplace, Kentucky, wherever for a year or two. Is the other one? Yeah. Go to the ignite for a year, work on these things in a more professional organized setting. And next year, you're probably going to end up being a lottery guy, because let's face it..
Game Theory Podcast
"jd davison" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"I don't think they've played well over the course of the last month and a half of the season. No. And the courts have been bad too. Like they asked Nate oats about javon Quinn playing and he made some comment like, oh he shows up on time that he'll play. So it's not the team. It was a year ago. I don't know if herb Jones was really actually Superman, like he's showing the NBA, like he was the guy that melded it all together or maybe shot primo. What do I know? But I circled them too, but I don't even know who to pick for an upset because Rutgers Notre-Dame selfishly. I hope it's not her name, so we can see Blake Wesley. He match up against JD Davison and shackleford and Alabama's guards, but Rutgers and stuff. And they're a great at home too. And they beat Purdue on that half court heave and run Harper junior hasn't quite reached the levels he was his last year in the beginning of the season, but still a really tough team to draw in that first four bubble matchup for Notre-Dame. Well, there's there are a couple of guys here that are going to match up really, really well with Blake Wesley, I think Rutgers has two really strong perimeter defenders and Caleb McConnell specifically. You might imagine probably will get the match up on Blake Wesley, but Paul mocha is really good defensively as well. And I think that he'll probably see some minutes on Blake Wesley too. I actually kind of like Rutgers there. Rutgers, I think, is just a really tough physical team that will cause Notre-Dame some issues. And as much as I want to see Blake Wesley play against Alabama's guards, you know, I think that the bigger tests for him in the NCAA tournament actually comes with Rutgers. He matched up with Jade and ivy in Purdue. They put him on the best offensive player in the big tent night after night. Yep. And that's going to be a really fun matchup. That's one that I'm really looking forward to from a prospect perspective. I'm writing a thing on the prospects that will be forthcoming. The best matchups in the NCA tournament essentially that prospects face in the first round. And I'm really looking forward to that one. I think it's going to be phenomenal. I'm really, really excited. Let's move down, do you have any thoughts on Texas tech? Like I actually really like Texas tech kind of throughout the straw here. Yeah, I do too. I have the winning a couple of games, I like their style. I like how that turned shame junior's like an afterthought that they've all bought in. And Frank for schiller made this point that the identity of the team is back to what the Tex tech team was like a year or two ago, like Chris beard left, but the still kind of mantra of were under recruited. We were trip on our shoulder, Adonis arms, and school forever. Kevin mccullers just mad that he's there. They've all bought into whatever the magic pixie dust they have in that locker room..
Game Theory Podcast
"jd davison" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"That they're generating and I am baffled by it in a lot of ways. This is like the concern I had about them taking severe Wheeler. Like all of the severe Wheeler concerns bore themselves out on the court against Notre-Dame whenever he's the one running the show as opposed to sci-fi Washington at the end of this game. And I understand why there is a hesitancy based off of quality of competition with Tai Tai after we saw the bad duke game where Trevor kills just completely locked him up. Right. And yeah, kills did a phenomenal job on Thai Thai. Now, here's what I will say. Tie tie is a high level shooter. That's all translated so far. Like he's shooting 38% from three. He's a good mid range shooter and he's shooting 80 plus percent of the foul line. We believe in the jumper with tie tie, right? Yeah, I do. Certainly the mid range and we're shooting 38% from three and once you balance that, I was even higher after that bad dude came so yes. Still with it. He's playing essentially as a two man and has like a two to one assist turn of ratio. He's averaging three and a half assists per game, something like that? And in the moments where he gets a chance to make plays, like there's a real vision there, right? Like we've seen quite a bit. And on top of it, he's 6 foot three with like a 6 foot 9 wingspan, 6 foot ten wingspan, something like that. He has real positional size he is real positional length. He has real change of pace ability off the bounce. Like, I don't think he's quite as good of a ball handler as Kennedy Chandler and as he's probably pretty close to JD Davison in terms of technical craft, ball handling ability wise, he's probably a little bit better to be honest. JD's just like a lightning athlete and is like crazy out of ball screens. With his ability to get downhill, but tie tie in terms of technical craft, probably a lovable Kennedy Chandler, but he's so much bigger and longer and stronger that he just has a real, he's a real marginal advantage in those moments that Kennedy just doesn't have that like ability to fall back on because of the size. I think he's a better finisher at the basket. I love the way process is the game. I do think he like, look, if we're calling Jade ivey, a point guard. Or if we're calling Jaden IV a two guard like there's no way we should be calling tie tie it point guard either. They're the same to me positionally. Like they might place in point, they might place a mothball, we'll see, but I think they're both points at the end of the day, like personally. I think they're both going to play a lot of one. And I really have seen nothing from Thai Thai or since that duke game at least. That gives me cause for concern. The duke game was a worry. But he looks pretty good outside of that. I think he's been great. And then on top of it, like lest we forget the track record of Kentucky guards outperforming their collegiate trust the data production is pretty high. We've now got the manual quickly, who was great in college, but like, you know, a guy that we did not have a huge positive expectation of success in the NBA..
Game Theory Podcast
"jd davison" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"I think he actually drives transition play like in some respect. He is like a really athletic guard for sure. Who can do that? But he turns the ball over in crowds. He isn't really a scoring threat or outside of transition right now or outside of being a spot shooter. Like I would imagine that he's averaging what like 9 and a half points right now, probably many of those. Yeah, three of those per game come off of a spot three. And then what do we think three more of those per game come out in transition? Maybe it gets like a bucket and a half in transition a game? Yeah, and the transition thing is weird too, because defensively, he's pretty lax. Oh away from the ball. He seems to interest it a lot too. What he is active he'll die if I'm passing lanes because he wants to get on transition like you said, but when he's misses on those other play, then it's 5 on four. So it's like I like the thought of him diving in and being a disruptor, but I also don't want him totally diving out of plays and gambling and giving your team a disadvantage on the other end. The same time we're saying, he's the best one he's scoring in transition. Like that's how he goes out and does it. So what's the balance there of you want to run? You want to get steel. You want to pressure the ball, but I also don't want him away from the ball, standing straight up and kind of looking lost in space and beat for backdoors too. Yeah, no I would prefer that he stayed solid on defense. Like, I know that I know that there's room to gamble, and I think there is like a middle ground for it, but I would prefer that he stays more solid and defense and he's not there yet right now. Look, I've just spent now like probably four minutes like shitting on JD Davison like he's an incredible athlete. And I think he is like a very real pick and roll passer, but like to me, this is not a top ten pick based off of what we've seen so far. No, I don't think so either. I don't. I feel like anywhere that I look around the Internet, like outside of myself and outside of you, I don't that's where I see him. That's where I see him ranked. I feel like people are looking at, oh, he's shooting 56% from the field and 36% from three and he has 5 assists per game and 5 rebounds because he's a great athlete and we can extrapolate that if he wasn't next to javan queen early that he could have a higher usage rate and could average 15 and 7 per game, but I just don't know that I see that based off of what I've seen on tape so far and that's concerning to me. To me, he looks like a good late first round pick flyer right now. Yeah, I currently have in 26. It's probably too low and he has played better than that. I've kind of moved the top 15 in skies around. But just like scrolling through the names, again, a free agent. I don't know where a lot of these guys fall in Goran dragach, Alfred Payton..
Game Theory Podcast
"jd davison" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Okay. Let's go to Chet holmgren next. Yeah, so check has been a bit more of a mixed bag for me. He is 7 foot one, 7 foot tall, something in that range, 7.6 wingspan. An utterly elite defender. I don't really think that there's any argument against that. What we've seen so far from him has been genuinely impressive. Like you even look at the Alabama tape. I thought he was excellent defensively in that Alabama game. I thought he was absolutely outstanding. I know that they lost, but they lost because a lot of their perimeter guards and wings and players out there. And especially drew Timmy, who Alabama repeatedly attacked with ball screens, just struggled defensively to manage stopping Alabama from getting into the paint and then driving and kicking or stopping Alabama from getting some open off ball three point looks. So I think people look at the loss to Alabama. They look at the loss to duke and come away a bit less enthused with chat. I came away from the Alabama game with no slight toward jet holmgren. You look at the way JD Davison, who consistently got into the paint against Gonzaga's perimeter players, you look at what happened when chat rotated over. I mean, JD Davison just was like, no, I'm not going. There's a lot. There's a lot of those clips where guys from the land and it's like, yeah, I think I'm gonna go back here now. I'm not gonna come out here to try this. And like JD Davison's like an aggressive guard. Tries to pull the rim off. Yeah, like really can attack and like, he could probably dunk on chat if he gets the right angle on him. So like, you see a guy like that kind of pull away. There were times where chat like came over in JD like when panic even. And with like throw the ball away. So I think that chat was excellent defensively in that game. I think he's been outstanding defensively the entire season. I'm more worried about the offense than I was coming into the air though. And I'll let you kind of take the floor from there. Oh, see, I've been enthused with everything because I've seen this play here for, I don't know, three, four years now of going through our circuit that watch them in high school and watching the USA basketball. I see like it's just building blocks. Every one of these is a step before say hey didn't play the last ten minutes what was up with that? I don't know. He's probably learning that he has to play harder and offense. He has to rotate more on defense. He's still a freshman. He still has to figure it out. The weight thing is what I think scares a lot of people and especially so you go back and go back to you back to the duke game and power bank cares and posts he dunks because dunked on by Mark Williams. Chuck keeps coming back for more..
Game Theory Podcast
"jd davison" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"6 16 in the top 7 and again, we can kind of like split hairs on if these guys are really the lead guards are not but Ben Simmons, Christine, buddy hill, Jamal Murray, then in 2015 we had D'angelo Russell, made a moody a year before Alfred prayed in one tenth. So anyway, just like rifling off those names because I'm looking at it and I'm scrolling through your mock and I'm looking through my notes. And I'm like, I don't know who the guy is. I had, I did the paw with Andrew and Alex the other day and they're like, do you take a job rant could you come up, I'm sorry, not traumatic cheese. Jane ivy could become a point guard in that mold. I said, I don't know, but it's an interesting question because we've talked about it is Tati Washington, the first guard off the board, like I just need a little help here if I'm going as crazy as you are. This is a this is a really good question. I would say that going into the draft. Let's say, you know, I did not necessarily think of Ben Simmons as like a quote unquote point guard even like coming into that class. So let's take him off the board. Take him off. Your body's not a point guard. It was Christ on it was Jamal Murray. Wade Baldwin. Had some steam. Like, to me, a little bit later. Yeah, the 2016 group is the one. Like that, that's the one that's really bad. If you take Ben Simmons off the board. Even 2015, like there was a lot of steam behind D'angelo Russell. There was a lot of steam behind Emmanuel moody as well, like people thought they could be a top 5 pick. So I understand what you're saying. And I think that it's not wrong because then you go down, campaign. I had campaign like in the 20s. Terry Rozier would go 16. I had him in the 20s. Jaron grant, delon Wright, tyus Jones, but like we're getting into like non lottery guards, which is not the crux of your question. Is this the worst? Now I'd say like the handful of guys. Tai Tai Washington, Kennedy Chandler who's talked about JD Davidson, Sean Montero, do you count him? Do you count? I would for what it's worth. I would put Jaden ivy in this conversation. See, if you put you in, I mean, there I think it changes it just a little bit. Not a ton, but doesn't make it as the bottom falls off. Do you count usman dang? Like probably not, but no, he's not a point. He's the they're not even the breakers aren't. A little bit better than it could be. If you include ivy, I still think it's the darkest it's been in 5 years anyway. Yeah, if you don't include ivy, it's definitely a fact. If you include IV, so you definitely don't include Jaden hardy, is like a combo like point shooting car. Ceasefire. Yeah. Yeah, I mean Jayden's firing that thing toward the rim. And it'll go a little bit more of the time. If you're lucky. So the names that I'll consider here to answer this question. I will consider ivy. Because I think that he is going to play point. I mean, we have talked about how much better his distribution skills have gotten. Yeah. I think long term he's going to be a point. Thai Thai Washington. Do we count dice and Daniels who's playing point for the elite right? Legally. Yeah, good point. Sure. Throw them in there. Not so throw them in there. Jean Montero may be Kennedy Chandler, maybe JD Davison, although another guy that I think has been a bit underwhelming..
Game Theory Podcast
"jd davison" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"I am impressed with what I've seen from a shack baji this year, and I think he looks like a potential top 20 pick. Just based off of athletic traits, 6 foot 5 of the 6 8 wingspan, high level defender, 30 7 to 40%, three point shooter and his really improved off the bounce this year. All of those traits typically says top 20 pick. He transformed his game. Yeah, he's more assertive. He creates more of the dribble, has improved craft there too. And he's a leader, similar heels on one of the better teams in the country. I believe in his defense. He looks like a rotational NBA guy to me. 16 does feel high, but it's hard to it's hard to slot him lower right now with what he he's done and he took. He took what was told to him by NBA personnel and said you don't do enough. You drift too much. You have all the tools you have 4% body fat, make it work on the court and he has so far this year. Totally. You are up at number 18, I believe. 18, I actually think you're higher in this guy than I am. So I'm surprised he has to come off the board. I'm gonna go with JD Davison from Alabama. No, I'm lower. Really? I have him like pretty low. Actually. Yeah, I've been like late 20. All right. Well, for me, for my money, as good as they come when the game is up and down. He's better making quick decisions. This is a wild analogy. He's a better making these decisions when the train is like going off the tracks and three seconds than he is like the train pulling off the track in like 30 seconds. What do you have to overthink it? He has like quick Twitch ability. He's like Denzel and flight whenever he has the life. Have the plane flipped. He makes decisions upside transitions. Like, am I gonna dunk it or pass it last second? Like the half course not his friend. It's not awful, just the processing is different. I like the way I've ever used him and those dribble weaves hand offs. They utilize the speed. He makes the right reads, his passes can have too much flare at times. He cuts, he uses. His score. The jumpers out there. The 18th here, I think the pick. He's a super high upside guy. I was actually crushing him to uvea text and for me to take him and you to crush me. It's his full harmony. Pro Nirvana first reached together as a tandem on the show. Oh my God, yeah, I am 20 8. It looks like..
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"jd davison" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"It's going to be hard to play both Zack eaty together. If there's a big man tandem that I think can make it work, I wonder if it's them, even if it's not the ideal way that Purdue wants to play. Yeah, no, I get it. It all makes sense on paper to me. It's just what I look at that and it's kind of like, all right, I need to, I need to see Jade ivey. Go out there and be better than a 26% three point shooter, right? I need to go, I need to see Eric hunter be a guy that gets out there and is making the shots. And if they do it, trust me, I get it. I have them in my top ten. I know how good they are. It's just one of those things where it's like, if those shots aren't going down, all of a sudden that cork is really, really small, really, really quickly. Okay, number three, who is your national player of the year pick? I'll give a few more odds from our good friends at bet MGM. Drew Tam 6 to one palaban Kara 7 to 100 Dickinson 8 to one. Remmy Martin ate one, Chet holmgren 9 to one. Kofi coburn, ten to one. Oshea baji, Marcus car, calling Gillespie, Johnny juzang, 16 to one. JD Davison is 20 to one. Good lord. Jaden Gardner is 20 to one. Oh man, we're starting to get we're starting to get some aggressively bad numbers here, sorry, better than you guys. Can we talk about remmy Martin as the third favorite to be the national player? What are we doing here? Would you ever Remy Martin as a top 50 player in the country? I honestly like buying, I would not. I'm not a fan. Well, my answer is Robbie Martin playing is running Morton or his army Martin playing the way that it builds self point guard is going to be asked to play. And I think that those I don't think that those two things, like the Venn diagram of those two things are two separate circles, about 8 feet apart. So that's kind of where I'm at with it. I would not Remy Martin playing is remmy Martin is not a top 50 player in the country for me. He's going to put up numbers, but those are empty calories. He's lucky charms. I need a guy that's gonna be like a nice bowl of raisin bran or something. I don't know what that right there that reference is what happens when you have your kids by yourself all the entire weekend. Yeah, I was going to say that's a wild wild reference. I mean, look, I don't know where I was going with that. The easy pick here, I think is true to me. Like he's just gonna put up numbers. And they're gonna be good and they're gonna win 29 out of 31 games or whatever in the regular season..
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"jd davison" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"The shot is a little bit flat. He's great on the brake. He just needs to make an impact and make basketball plays when the game is actually played slower and we know how fast Alabama likes to play. We know how many threes they want to take up. But when the dimensions of the court change, it's not a track meet, how is he able to make his imprint on the game? That's always been my concern with him. Once he gets a college level. Which, by the way, it's going to be really interesting. To compare and contrast him in Kennedy Chandler this year, I think. Right. Because Kennedy Chandler is a lot of the stuff that JD Davison is in JD Davison is a lot of stuff in terms of tools that Kenny Chandler just doesn't have yet. I would venture Kennedy Chandler's more successful season this year than JD Davison. I would venture that JD Davison if it hits. I mean, that guy's upside is just higher because he's 6 three. He's a real athlete like he has real vision. He can distribute like there's just enough there. And playing in Alabama's offense is going to help him long-term. Again though I just wonder if he's a two year player, not a one year player. Yeah, it could be. You kind of have my brain spin a little bit 'cause you're absolutely right. Like if you say it's a lot I said if you combined usman garuba and Albert Schengen, it's the perfect 5, and now you're talking about the perfect point guard on the SEC. Like you had the exposed to this has four general notes how to play and make the right reads. It also could be a situation where if they both GoPro Kenny Chandler could have a better season statistically and more minutes played and you just have these tiny pockets of windows of the JD Davis and experience and sculptures can't pass on him for a guy who's maybe a little bit smaller, just hoping that it does hit, and then all of a sudden you have this crazy explosive two way guard who hasn't played a lot of basketball. He takes some time to develop them and maybe it hits what you need to be a couple of years down the road. Yeah, I was talking to an NBA executive on the phone earlier this week. And one thing that we kind of brought up was the idea of comparing the NBA landscape to startups and people that like live in the startup world and startup investors. Startup investors will invest in companies not like they're going to fail probably 7 out of ten, 6 out of ten, right? But the goal is to hit the one that can like 50 X or a hundred X your money, not to find the one that will just like three X your money because you feel like it's an it's a little bit, right? The goal here is in many ways, is very ants. You want to find that high level variants and you want to find that high level upside. JD Davison has that if it works long term in comparison to someone like Kennedy Chandler in my opinion. Oh, it's a hundred. We'll just see the hits. It's a hundred. Right? But you also have to balance that and it's a great analogy. Number one, where are you drafting? And then number two, how hot is your seat as a front office as a general manager? You can take those kind of chances, albeit maybe a little bit more calculated..
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"jd davison" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Like he didn't really become a point guard until he was like a junior in high school. Realistically. So I kind of think that ty ty Washington has a very scalable game to playing both on and off the ball. If anything, I'm more worried about him playing on the ball because I'm just worried about the separation that he can get from NBA level length and talent. Like that might not work. But I think he's going to be really good this year. I think he's going to be really, really effective for Kentucky this year. He'll find his way on the court and they're not the same and don't take this so literally, but I felt that way on Kelvin Johnson, out of high school too. I didn't really know what his position was, but I knew I wanted him out there. And that's how I feel about Titan. You want him out there. He'll figure out. It's sort of like that Internet sensation from a few months ago. Is he a basketball player or is a hooper? He's a hooper. He's going to go out there and he'll be fine. He's going to help win the games. He did it in high school, he'll do it in college. I just don't know what the position will be if and when the next level comes along. Okay. The final SEC point guard here is JD Davison. I would say JD Davison is the one that we have the most questions on right now. NBA scouts who have been down there to Alabama have also had some questions so far. Not in terms of the overall talent, just in terms of is it going to be like is he a one and done or not? Like they totally buy the athleticism like the guy can live in the paint and he's 6 foot three and he's just like a ridiculous athlete. Like his leaping ability is real. But it's just he came from like small town, Alabama and hasn't played a crazy amount of super high level basketball yet. Like even by high school standards, he has not played like a high level of basketball yet. So the questions that scouts have raised for me and I think they're reasonable are just simply Kenny shoot, which is always been a question with him. How comfortable is the jump shot? And second, how comfortable is he going to be running an offense when the jump in competition level is just going to be really, really high for him from day one? And when the court's cut in half and you're the half court because he has played so much up and down so we're very small town and you're right. He just hasn't had the reps, the repetitions of playing a large number of bigger time games because he went to a grassroots tryout to play on his team and then make it who I built. That's unheard of for a kid like this, just because no one really knew about him. And he has this super explosiveness like highlight level, how that real jumps off the fast break and if he gets a step, he's going to try to take off and jump. He's an energy guy, really on both ends and another sort of late riser. I actually like his vision and he could pull up a little bit when his band does go under screens..
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