17 Burst results for "Jeremy Sohan"
The Lowe Post
"jeremy sohan" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Career. He always says the ball in his hands. What's the big deal? Apologies. Apologies to Joe and Brunson and Julius Randle. There are many more apologies in the column, apologies, apologies to the grizzlies, apologies to everyone, apologies to Devin Booker. You'll see it in the column all defensive team. First team guard Alex grew so guard Derek white forward Evan mobley forward jaren Jackson, center brook Lopez, easy speedy, my defensive player of the year ballot was Jackson mobley Lopez in that order, Caruso and white were the best defensive guards done. Second team, this was tough. Guard drew holiday, guard, herb Jones. Over a whole pile of guys that we'll get to. Giannis had forward OG and OB at forward center draymond green. And yes, that means no Jaden McDaniels, no bam out of bio, Noel McHale bridges, no Jimmy Butler, no Dylan Brooks, Noel Kauai, PG, Jared Vanderbilt, and a lot of other guys. I just thought these guys were the most deserving and that front court of Yanis and an OB draymond and then the pile of guys with them like bam and McDaniels, but that was absolutely brutal. And you could argue second guard spot with drew holiday could be any number of guys Luke and Stuart got mentioned in my column, Marcus smart's always there. Jimmy Butler is listed as both guard and forward, Dylan Brooks, listed above garden for it. That's fine if you want one of those guys that's fine. I just like I just feel like herb Jones was the best combination of consistent effort on ball impact off ball impact, rebounding impact. We can agree to disagree on that. No, it sounds great. Dylan Brooks was the one name that I don't like him necessarily. I don't like watching him play. I'm not sure I'd like to be his teammate, but he's a hell of a defensive player. If he had made one that list, I wouldn't surprise me at all. Yeah. I know, again, read the column if you want to see the full list of apologies and mea culpas and all this. And I know a category near and dear to your hard coach 'cause it's the deep cut category all rookie. First team the cuts aren't so deep, banquero, Kessler, wing Jalen Williams, which is the top three in my rookie of the year, although not in that order. Math and Keegan Murray, Keegan and Murray's gotta be first team. I will not hear any disagreements on that. If you want a flip Mather in to second team because you consider him kind of an empty calorie score, didn't help a lot on defense, complete tunnel vision on offense, hit The Rookie wall and collapse for 20 games. That's fine. I get it. He finished actually kind of strong last 5, 6 games, and he averaged 20 points a game for like a long time. As a rookie, that's pretty rare. But if you want to flip them out and put them on second team, here's my second team. Jade and ivy, Jalen Duran, jabari Smith junior, Andrew Knapp, tar Eason. And I've been astonished despite the fact that I love Jeremy sohan, despite the fact that shade and sharp piled up a lot of points and a lot of games that meant a whole lot of nothing. Despite all that, despite AJ Griffin having a really nice year as a rotation player for most of the year and some other rookies like oche abaji and David roddy finishing strong, astonished. That anyone would leave off Tara east in our Andrew no part. I've seen a lot of ballots without either of those guys. They have to, they have to be on second team at least and you have argued that I have the wrong pacer on first team. Yeah, I had nem hard first team. Listen, he was just a better rookie. There's a reason why he started over Mather and in the same position, Mather Norman plays, and that Mark doesn't play that position typically. He's a point guard and tare Easton made my second team. He's going to be terrific. Yeah, I mean, those are the ten, I think. And I like Jeremy very much too, but sharp doesn't deserve it. There are some metrics that happen is the worst player in the NBA this year. He's going to be terrific, maybe. Like he definitely has a ton of talent. I'm excited to see what they do, but I wouldn't have put them on that. We have advanced metrics for a reason. And I like looking at them. No, you did a great job. David Thorpe, this is always such a pleasure. I just love this time of year. I love looking at the film, digging into the matchups and trying to foresee what we are going to see and the cool thing is we'll see a lot of that and then we'll see a lot of other stuff that we didn't necessarily expect to see a lot of desperate ploys, a lot of aggressive ploys, a lot of out of the box plays. That is the fun of the playoffs. You will be chronicling it all at true hoop. You guys podcast twice a week. And you will be writing columns and breaking down all of it, subscribe to true hoop, listen to David by his book. Thank you, sir for this wonderful annual present that you give me. Thanks, Zach. Hey, enjoy the next few months, oh man.
The Lowe Post
"jeremy sohan" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"And now, the low post. Welcome to the low post podcast on a Wednesday morning before all star weekend we are recording this a day earlier than I would like to because of some family travel that I have tomorrow, so there's a million games tonight, knock on wood, nobody gets hurt, nothing crazy happens. Nothing that we need to respond to happens 'cause we ain't gonna respond to it. And so it's time to do a 30 minute deep dive, X's and O's preview of the rising stars challenge this weekend. Kurt goldsberry, how are you? I am great, Zach. How are you doing? What do you got in the rising stars challenge team? I don't know who I am. I'm not sure who. I just watching sohan. My spurs friends are so excited about their rookie and he's got a chance to show the world that he's exciting, which he is. So that's what I'll be watching for in the rising stars challenge. I don't even know who's playing other than how they're breaking up the teams. I got to be honest with you. I don't know that. Is it world versus U.S.? I just don't know. How are we doing this now? I don't know. I won't be watching the rising stars challenge. I do love Jeremy sohan though. I've become a big I'm curious about where his development goes. So maybe I'll tune in to a couple of Jeremy sohan possessions. Okay. Trade deadlines over, Chris herring and I yesterday did the most interesting teams and players for the rest of the season in the wake of all the tumult that happened last week at the trade deadline. I wanted to use your analytical brain, your numbers, your charts, your eye tests, all of it, to do something a little different, which is, let's zoom in on units. Halves of teams, defenses, offenses, that we look at as sort of like, okay, if this seems to be serious, this is the big question. This is the half of the court that they've got to make a leap at or maintain what they're doing at. And we bounce around some suggestions and we're ready to go. I love this. I think of the game as an offensive and defensive thing. And this is a really healthy way I think to look at contender's edge case teams, what's working, what's not, and we both identified a few units across the league that I think will determine how far some of these teams actually go in the two ends, it's always important to remember we're going to get into this particularly for a team like Denver. We're going to talk about their defense. The two ends flow in to one another. So for instance, Denver's half court defense is pretty decent. They're transition defenses is often the case with teams with slow centers is abysmal and a lot of that is like if they turn the ball over a lot, they're going to give up 5, 6 extra points a game. If they take care of the ball, they're going to give up 5 6 fewer points per game. But let's start with the Los Angeles Clippers who just hung one 34 on the warriors last night. They are 21st in offense. 21st, tenth in defense, the guy I have faith in their defense for the most part, quick guards give them trouble. They've got to figure out, are they just not going to play 5 out anymore that mason plumlee is on the team? Do they believe in the viability of those lineups against postseason offenses? But their defense is going to be solid. They're offense being 21st is puzzling and disappointing on some sort of big picture level. This team has been one of the best shooting teams in the NBA since they combined Kauai and Paul George. They are built to be a drive and kick catch and shoot three point shooting machine. There are signs that that is beginning to click into place for them, but 21st on offense is 21st time offense. Mister goldsberry, what are you going to be looking for out of the clippers? Because they're 32 and 28, not great. They're 5th and even now we're 60 games into the season. Teams 5 to 12 in the west. That's 8 teams. Have all of them have either 28, 29 or 30 losses. So it's a traffic jam there, and the last thing I'll say before I turn it over, 60 games in the clippers still have no lineup, not one. That has appeared in more than 13 games this season. So the science experiment rolls on and now they have Eric Gordon mason plumlee on bone silent. What say you? Yeah, I think you outlined it well. I'll be looking for the same thing I've been looking for for multiple years now with this team Zach will Kawhi Leonard and Paul George be out there when it matters. That to me is if the answer is yes, we got a shot. If the answer is no, you don't got a shot. In the indicators back that up, if they're healthy, which is the biggest if west of the Mississippi, this team is as good, if not better than any other team in the west. I would take them to beat Denver right now if you told me we had a healthy Kawhi in a healthy PG in the 60s. Let's hit the brakes right there. That's a record scratch. That's a record scratch. I'm watching the numbers when these guys are both out there. They have an incredible net rating, I have seen Kauai at his apex just win the playoffs. I've seen it on both sides of the court. I have not seen that with Denver. I have a lot of respect for demerol. Talk about their defense. They did, they did embarrass Kawhi and Paul George right out of the playoffs, not all that long ago. I know. And look, if you told me Denver puts it together and beats the clippers this year, I wouldn't be shocked. I'm just saying, the numbers I'm seeing this season with Kawhi and Paul George on the floor together suggest that they are elite on both ends of the court, granted this is a small sample. And the larger point with this team is that it's still a DNP mystery wrapped inside of a load management enigma. We don't know what we're getting and you alluded to that already. I'm trying to see a best case scenario here. So apologies to Denver fans. That's where my head's at out of the gate. If you're telling me, we're whole, we have these nice new trade deadline acquisitions. We've assimilated them. The ceiling is a championship. That's my number one point here. The ceiling for this team is an MBA championship. But it's going to take the kind of availability that they haven't demonstrated. They've been able to have. For years, I like their team on both ends of the court if they're whole. And again, it's unfun and it's not that interesting. The biggest question, are they going to be holes Zach? Yeah, so I'm a sucker. I'm a sucker. I picked them to win the championship. The second they got Kauai and Paul George. And by the way, this is the same thing about the same thing about the sun's trade, brought all this back up. All these trade everything for a star trades. All of this four years later, do they regret giving up Shay guilt just Alexander? Is it a mistake that they did this?
Cancelled
"jeremy sohan" Discussed on Cancelled
"A word on it. Our term on it. And someone else would have to try to get him to guess what that was without actually using that phrase with tons of game shows that have been based around that concept. But in any event, the phrase was triple double. That was what he had to guess. And the host throughout said Russell Westbrook gets lots of these in Jeremy sohan without skipping a beat, said bricks. And of course, that made its way around social media. They later got the right answer. He even had to respond on Twitter and then try to explain that he wasn't trying to take a shot at Russell Westbrook or anything. But in that moment, just a quick blurted out reaction to what does Russell Westbrook get a lot of the answer was bricks from Jeremy sohan. Now, I know Lakers fans, Lakers nation, there's not a good relationship between Lakers fans and Russell Westbrook right now. There's a lot of negativity about Russell Westbrook, probably to the point where frankly we probably go a little bit too far, right? He's probably a better player than we give Russ credit for in general. As a Lakers community, he doesn't have that equity built up with Lakers. You see a lot of thunder fans who are upset at Russ's treatment in Los Angeles, but lakefront, we didn't see we didn't see the good years of Russell Westbrook. We saw last season. And last season was the worst season of Lakers history and Russ was bad. Ross was bad in it. Don't come at me with the counting stats that he put out the 1887 and 8 or whatever it was. Russ was bad. Last season, if you watched the games, if you suffered through them, like we all did. You know, Russell Westbrook was not good last season. There's plenty of blooper reels out there showing you just how bad he actually was. But I still think there's a better basketball player in there than a lot of people give him credit for.
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"jeremy sohan" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"A lot of winners and losers do you have any winners, losers, thoughts? Roman? Anything? Detroit was one that I really liked because of the IV pick and then coming back in and getting to her and later I was tempted to call the grizzlies a loser just because I didn't love that they gave up Dan three mountain. That was really it though. To me, after the top three just wasn't that interesting of a draft, there was a lot of talk about movement that never really happened. John Collins stayed put, Deandre ayton stayed put, you know, it was just a lot more straight picking people than a lot of trades and I think that's just going to take a long time to play out. I think my big take is I'm more neutral on the Knicks than down on the Knicks as many people were last night and this morning. I'm willing to give them a little bit of leeway to see what happens. I would like the Brunson edition for them if they're able to pick him up. So I think that's my big take is like I'm in wait and see mode on the Knicks. Well another loser that I had in my article was just people who want to see trades and we were promised trades. I don't know. I enter the giraffe not really knowing who is who and who's going to be. I mean, no one knows who's going to be a good shout out to James Jones and the Phoenix Suns. Yeah. But trades are kind of more my language, more of my speed. And I was hoping that we could see a John Collins deal or OGN and OB or Malcolm Brogdon or even like a Rudy Gobert trade would have been so exciting. And we didn't get that. So that kind of bummed me out. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, that was a massive bummer. I was on trade watch all night too. I was getting ready to fire off some more trade grades and said we just got this super complicated fix one. Yeah, real bummer about the lack of trade. It's real bummer about the lack of trades. I'm surprised that the hawks didn't do anything. They were rumored to do so many, they were rumored to have so many moves. They had Kevin herders, names out there, John Collins name was out there. Everybody on the roster except for Kong Wu Trae Young and Deandre hunter really were available. We'll still see again, there's a lot of time the off season technically hasn't even started. But yeah, that was another one where I was kind of like, are they really just going to take the 16th pick? And then develop this player. Maybe they will. Who knows? This is where I'm out on the rumor game. Because he just, you know, it's whipping everyone into a frenzy, and it's like, just tell me when it happens. You know? Feel you. A couple minor winners, we just talked about trades. How are there any teams left for you to even mention right now? All right, let's see. I told you I had a lot of winners. The spurs, I loved yes, I loved their pick. Okay, that dude from Baylor. I don't know how to say his name exactly because it's Jeremy sohan. Jeremy. So okay, I love that dude. He's the one player who I remember watching from the NCAA tournament this year. I don't know how I forgot to mention this first is my winner. I totally went to bring him out. I love that guy. I think he's gonna be incredible. And I think he's gonna be absolutely awesome playing for pop. I'm a big so on fan..
Game Theory Podcast
"jeremy sohan" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"And I wonder, you know, at number 21, I mocked Christian Brown at number 21. I wonder if we get another one coming up here with Christian Brown. Because I think of these two very similarly and am a big fan of both of them in the way that they impact the game. Yeah, Christian Brad, one of those guys that you watched postseason and pushed me in that direction. So just rewatch, just rewatch them a little bit. I like Christian Brown two. I moved them up. I ended up having him at right there 29. So a few spots below you. San Antonio spurs on the clock here at 20. There's a minute 30 ticking away. Spurs took Jeremy sohan. We had kinda said, could it be a 5? They're taking somebody else up front. What direction do you think they go here? Is this their talent accumulation? Is this their swing for best on the board? We've talked about malachi random. That's a guy that if he hits could be really good. If you take a wild swing at somebody like Jade hardy, do you take a swing on a more of a small ball 5 at EJ Liddell, you're dispersed GM, what's your move here? Best player available. I'm not thinking twice. For me, that's how I Washington, like I would take time. I know that Josh primo, I know that I have. But I'm apparently for some ungodly reason considering moving Dijon Murray, I don't understand what they're doing there. But also, if you don't move the johnse Murray, tie fits perfectly with someone like that. Very similar. In my mind, not quite as big as Derek white and not quite as good defensively as Derek white, but the offensive impact as is similar, I think, to what Derek white can bring. This was our concern the whole way with Thai Thai. Like he's kind of the one that seems to be dropping just a little bit along with branum, yeah. I don't know. Are we on mute now is the pick in? Now we're good. We're good. I am awaiting. So it's the pickets and we're going to a few last words in here. So I'll let you catch up on the trades, the tweets here, Kemba Walker's being bought out. Is that true or no? Was that a sidebar? I see the Jacob producer Jacob has told us that kem walker is being moved. You know, another guy here that could make sense is Blake Wesley, I think. That's a really good one. Sensible. Yeah, no. This is fun. This is very, very fun..
Game Theory Podcast
"jeremy sohan" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"So I picked, I'm picking both becks now for a home city, didn't realize that. So at 12, I took, so you took chat wanted to bars in the junior at two, which means I'm gonna take a 5 here, if I had jet, I think I would have gone more forest, usman, potentially, I'm sure they're praying that Jeremy sohan gets down to them. But I'm gonna go with Mark Williams from duke with the 12th overall pick here. I think he pairs well, what's your bar Smith junior is that we're in protector behind him at almost three ish blocks per game, a very simplified role of rim running, catching lobs, blocking shots, what he's called upon to play defense out on the perimeter can do that a little bit. Brings more edge more nastiness and if we've created this younger front court unit of Mark Williams in jabar Smith junior with our younger guards and Shay gilded Alexander and Josh kitty, we're young. We are, we're gonna take our lumps, but I like the direction, the cultural take, we're taking those two guys at two and 12 overall. So yeah, obviously I did down to Don yesterday with Andrew schleck's Alex spears to dear Friends of ours. The best of the best. The absolute best people. I, the more I've thought about Mark Williams and Jalen durin to Oklahoma City, the more I don't really love it. And even if they take chatter jabari at number one or two, the reason that I don't love it is because everything that Oklahoma City is built toward at this point has been 5 guys that can grab and go on the break that can play perimeter based offense. That can hopefully defend at a reasonable level, be switchable defensively. That's why they play like Isaiah Roby at the 5. At times, for instance, right? Mark Williams and Jalen Derrick don't really do that. And that's not like a terrible thing necessarily. They can adjust Oklahoma City can adjust certainly. But it is just a, it feels different than what they're doing so far, and I wonder if they would prioritize a center that does something so drastically different from what they want to do in the lottery like this. Totally at the same time, I'm going to point counterpoint here. Usman Jang is too similar and I don't know if I want to put him at the three with the lack of toughness defensively next to jabari Smith. I'd rather just go full nasty boys with regards to the junior and Mark Williams, despite them not playing that way. Obviously they've gone small with Jeremiah Robinson Earl up front. Robia front, like you said. But you can change the pathway a little bit here for a guy like that. And rather than go with another guard or another way in which they have not an abundance, but you kind of have those backward spots filled up pretty nicely. Okay, up at number 13, the Charlotte hornets. Now, I've heard some discussion here about the idea that Charlotte should play off of Cleveland at number 14 and understand Cleveland is.
Game Theory Podcast
"jeremy sohan" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Regarding Armando bake off producers or punching ball right now as UNC alums are like, come on man, we know. I'm sorry. We survive up there. They survived. That's all that matters. They got to the NCAA title game. I think he's so much. He was comfortable guarding Caleb love in RJ Davis out there. He was comfortable guarding perimeter players all season. Offense, it's going to be a project. And frankly, like I don't know if a Damian Lillard led Portland trailblazers team is going to want that project to be honest. Like, I just don't know what their direction is. Like, are they trying to contend now? Are they trying to rebuild on the fly by bringing back Josh Hart bringing back nurkic? Putting someone like Jeremy sohan in the middle of those guys and then letting them rock. I worry a little bit about the an for any simons and Damien Lillard backcourt. I think that Jeremy sohan switchability would really and his help defensive instincts would really help cover for that a little bit, assuming they bring back and for niece simons. I am a big fan. Yeah, I really just love Jeremy sohan quite a bit. And I know that the shot is going to take time. I know the offensive side is going to take time. We'll just have to see how it goes. And they do have that spot there at the four where he can slide in. And if they keep the pieces as they are and they don't make any other moves, I mean, he played a Baylor where guys were getting up shots, right? Like he'll be okay with dame Lorenz and free simons taking 22 shots each a game because he'll still make his impact felt as a slasher as a cutter as a scrambled guy with a rebound and going to the basket, defense he'll be all the floor. So I get that especially from a fit perspective. I had a few ticks lower, but I get it, I.
Game Theory Podcast
"jeremy sohan" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"That's the cleanest fit, per se. I mean, they need something, have a four spot Jeremy sohan could be that guy. They may also need more offense. That's why I didn't pick them because they rank 27th in points scored per game. I know it's a little skewed because Damian Lola didn't play. It's going to get better. But they need to win now, and usually weighing now means an offensive scoring hub and not this defensive hub as Jeremy's all headers. Yeah, you know, like another team that makes sense is the thunder as well. Like the thunder will give him the time necessary. Like if you paired him in Chet holmgren in the front court as your four and 5 and you just let him loose defensively. I mean, that might be my favorite potential pairing that could realistically happen in this draft class. He last till 12, though. Look, I think it's a definite potential outcome, but I don't know that he will last until 12. I think that part of what makes chair so and so valuable is the fact that he can be a fit for a drastic number of teams in the top ten, right? I think he fits really well with the blazers. I think you can make a case if you're the pacers even that like his fit next to miles Turner next to all those guys like really works well. I think you can make a case that his fit with New Orleans is phenomenal with the spurs is phenomenal with the thunder. If you put them with the calves, like continue to just develop those ridiculous defensive wings, right? Find as many of them as you can. You'd have to continue to work on the shooting, but like, you know, if you want to continue to just build the best defensive core in the NBA, sure, why not, right? But the idea of why I like Jeremy sohan is he fits 90 different places in the NBA. That's my extent, it's everybody needs a Jeremy sohan. I'm running down the lottery and it's like he could fit there. There's not really anywhere that stands out that says, now that just doesn't mesh as well as the next one. Right. Who do you want to go with next? Who are we up to? I think we're up to Benedict mathurin from Arizona. Okay. Where do you want to go? Second. I didn't. This was a tougher one for me. I went with the Portland trailblazers and I did because it is a score of size. He is further along than say an AJ Griffin or malachi brand or Johnny Davis. It's a different look than Damian Lillard every simons who had a good year without him there. It's sort of like this combo of the two of them together. I know the blazers also want to win now or make a move to it now. The best move for them in this range is probably a trade. But if they don't and just for this exercise here, Ben Mather in turns 20 as a rookie, so he's like a little bit older than more of these expected lottery guys. I don't know what the timeline is and if we're just purely speculating that they want to win now, but it's more size in the back court. You could say those two are paired up. He's already worked out there. He's been working out really good. The feedback from everywhere is that's the way it's been. Out there during this pre draft circuit..
Game Theory Podcast
"jeremy sohan" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"But just switch. If you're worried about AJ Griffin's feet and who he's able to cover out there, I don't want him to be hunted. You can't haunt Jeremy sohan. You can't. Like you can't really haunt Dyson Daniels. I want to be the hunter, not the hunted. Like, I want to be the one pressing. Like, great. If you hit it to the wing and you say, sohan can't shoot and give a ton of space. Who cares? We'll do a dribble handoff of space back out. I can reverse the ball. You can't really reverse on defense. Like you can switch, but that millisecond that you do, something happened where the floor gets slanted for the other team. You don't want that in the playoffs. I think I agree with you. I think it's part of the reason that Miami has been so successful is that they've been willing to dive into these imperfect players and make them work. Finding all offense, Tyler hero, and making him work Duncan Robinson. And they've gotten pretty far doing that now. In the Conference Finals and max struss is playing up until the last couple of games, at least over Duncan Robinson. Because he's a two way guy, and I think that you can figure out a way to kind of make that work. But I think that it's easier to teach shooting than it is to teach the tools that are necessary to defend on an MBA court. Duncan Robinson, I love the guy and I have an immense amount of respect for what he's built and the money that he's going to make. And his NBA career is phenomenal. I don't think you can teach that. I defend. I don't think he has the frame for it. I don't think he is the quickness for it. You can hopefully kind of teach PJ Tucker to shoot though, right? To take two guys on the heat. So that's kind of where I'm at on it. Okay, post combine narratives, you mentioned Jalen Williams. Feels like a good place to start. Jalen Williams, how high is too high for Jalen Williams? Because it feels like that is now a thing. Lottery, right? Is that probably the highest that I'd say? Like where I have him right now is on my very involved big board here is I haven't 18th. And even that feels like high, but you take the shot at him there based on everyone else that's available as we kind of like a low key crush the top of the draft, but when you start creeping into like ten, 9, could he go that's just seems too much. He had a really good year, I love the offensive versatility as he's like a bigger, stronger wing with long arms, but could shoot, has a handle, really good vision. I don't know if that's really a lot of pick..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"jeremy sohan" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Is what the kings want right now. Yeah. Definitely, I think the most interesting team or one of the most interesting teams to monitor, I think everybody's curious, because like you said, there are a lot of different dynamics going into that. I think it's clear that there is some director from ownership, like hey guys, do we make the playoffs? It's been a long time. We know that Vivek is competitive. We know that he sometimes metals and we'll add one orthodox things that they do as a result. But I put sharp there kind of as a placeholder. I don't know exactly what they'll do. But I also think that they've proven that, like you said, they're concerned. There's some level of concern about avoiding the duplication, to trade Halliburton, obviously they felt like fox with the guy, you know, whether that's because they love it more because they could trade him. I think probably a few different things are here on that. I think they know that they're kind of talking to bonus are going to be what they have to work with now. So I think I would think that probably precludes them from taking Jade and ivy. It doesn't really fit them. He won't be able to become his best self at Fox there, frankly. So yeah, I mean, also knowing that if he's on the board or that Ben Caro are homegrown in the odds of some team further down in the top ten saying, hey, maybe we can come up and get we love one of those guys. Someone they're definitely will be interested in that big. Also because I think Detroit makes a lot of sense drive. I would be surprised if you made it past 5. So kind of knowing the stakes already that will be there. I think, yeah, I expect them to take a lot of calls and explore that stuff. The other player who I'd watch at number four is Keegan Marie from Iowa. Who would be more of a win now pick these older these turns 22 of this year, but was also a late bloomer and I think you had more upside than your typical older college prospect. Like, I don't think there's a risk of it turning into an obi toppin. Situation start next. But yeah, so that's what I'd watch. If they keep the pick, they could take Murray, they could take sharp, who I think would have that side of the buzzer very risky in some ways. And again, also a little bit of ways away. Like you take him, it's not going to get you closer to the playoffs, right? So I think the question is, which of those dynamics kind of went out for that pick? Definitely something that will be unresolved for some time, I think. All right, let's drop down a little bit. The blazers at 7th, the blazers, man. So rough season, their worst in a very, very long time, certainly there were since dame got there, dame had the injury. He's presumably recovering or recovered. He was on the dais for the lottery, which was interesting because that would seem to suggest that damn does not intend to demand a trade. I know he shames us for even suggesting it, but this is a logical discussion these days with where they are. They traded CJ McCollum. There's not Simon's is emerging, but I don't know where the blazers are right now. I don't know what to expect from them next season. And Lillard's patients could run out at some point. Is there anybody that dame should be excited about them getting at the 7th spot is the talent at 7 good enough to make a trade for veteran help? You know, I feel like those are the two relevant questions. Either you're getting help for dame immediately with the pick or you're getting help for dame immediately by trading the pick because if it's not one of those two things, I don't know what you are next season, in which case I have to wonder again about whether dame himself is going. So what is the 7th pick due for them, Jeremy? Yeah, we're on the same page here. Portland was one of the teams that I really didn't know what to make of and I was like, I hope they don't win because I don't know what I'm going to say about them if they if they do. That would have been really weird situation. It's because they are kind of stuck in between two phases where it seems like dame wants to be there and he kind of has them by the balls where it's like I'm going to tell you that he wants out like they can't really rebuild, although I think trading CJ obviously was like a hint like a maybe we know that it's money to happen but yeah, I would expect there was chatter some time ago that they were going to try to do something with the picks and then they thought they thought they were going to have two lottery bits until New Orleans made the playoffs. So then that pick went to Charlotte the Portland was up at one. So I do think that they can get you something because it's in that tier of players where you'll get some of these little bit about whether it's Benedict Mather and actor Daniels, Johnny Davis, those are three guys who I think will go in that range. I really like Jeremy sohan, those are probably the four players who I'm interested in. That range of the draft. So knowing that you can pick from among those guys, potentially maybe someone falls, you don't expect, you know, I would think that there will be some type of market for that pick. I don't know exactly what they'd go get, but I do think that they're tough position having to straddle day wanting to win now and again, knowing that even if she tries hard as you can to win now, you're probably not building a contender outcome in a year. Also hoping that he's healthy, right? And it's like the risk of going all the way into Portland is that it doesn't work out in your 500 team at the deadline. It's like, should we trade it now and just deal with it like arguably should have done a year ago, but he doesn't seem to have so much power over what happens that it's hard for me to see them just going like fully young, right? So Keegan Murray would have been a good fit there, but I don't think he's going to be there at 7. No matter what they do Jeremy, I don't know how the blazers rebound that quickly in a Western Conference where this wasn't like the toughest year for the west, but a lot of that had to do with injuries and everything. So Denver gets healthy, presumably. The clippers get healthy, presumably. The Lakers may be figure out at least they can't be worse than they were. I don't think. A healthy LeBron and Anthony Davis and whatever they do with Westbrook. He's not getting any easier. I'm not even sure I can see a path for the blazers back to the playoffs, maybe not even the play in. And that's with all due respect to dame, who's amazing, but they're in a really weird spot and the west is definitely going to be tougher next season. Let's finish off with the Knicks. They don't move up. They never move up. Poor Nick's fans, waiting for that one miracle. So they're sitting there at 11th. Their record of drafting in the lottery is eh? And you know, I just wonder, you said this draft class, you saw it as deep as maybe ten or 11 players. So that seems like they are right on the edge of whether you're getting an impactful player. What's their hope at 11, you think? Yeah. I think they'd probably like it if one of those guards kind of like fell out of the top ten. Realistically, if that doesn't happen, I think they have to at least think about, you know, I don't know what happens with Mitchell Robinson in terms of the day we got them or not. But is it worth taking a guy like Jim endurance or Memphis or Mark Williams from new and just get younger up front? I'm like add a piece at center to develop the next year kind of stuff in the middle where they had the sort of misfortune of being kind of good a year ago and then everybody thought they had to be good now and then clearly they're not going to be what happens at Julius Randle. We don't know. So they're another one of those teams where it's so hard to operate out of that middle where it's like, yeah, we could try to make the playoffs but like are we really going to do it? But yeah, the two big or one of those things is kind of what I'm looking at. I mean, maybe AJ Griffin called there who some people are excited about. I am less excited about as a prospect. But is it really good shooter at his age with some upside if he kind of gets some of his athleticism back? He's been injured a little bit. So there will be names there that will be picture that you can stand in the fan base and they should be like, okay with maybe the next 13, hey, maybe 13 that one's straight up, Portland is 7 and get a better player. Like, I don't know. But there are two that will probably need to get creative if they want to make a leap toward the playoffs next year. So this cake will at least to be currency to do that. So we'll see. Yeah. All right, great stuff, Jeremy. I know you need to get over to the combine back over to the gym. Everybody find his latest mock draft on SI dot com and all coverage between now and the draft over the next couple of months, always great stuff. Jeremy, thanks for.
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"I do. He can also take it off the rim and push it up and transition to. He doesn't have to get rid of it. So he can create something when the games like spaced out. Yeah. Okay. Actually, weirdly a lot of Jeremy sohan questions today too. I am a big fan though. I think the rest of his game scales very quickly if he shoots it. And because of that, like if he shoots it, he's definitely an NBA starter. Like no questions asked. So I would take him in the lottery. And I think he's a really good starter. If he ends up being able to shoot it at like a 36% clip. Okay, if max Christie stays in the draft, is there a chance someone takes a reach on the potential and what's the highest that would happen? That is from NATO Jacobs. Yes, but it would be like it would be, was the question in the first round or how high? I think that let's ballpark it at first round. Yeah, that's fine. If I were just without knowing definitively, I'd say probably the 26 to 30 range. He needs time. He eats another guy that needs reps. I'd like for him to go back to school. If he doesn't have a first round promise, that's what I would encourage him to do. Yeah. Agree. I don't really have anything else to say about that. I think there's chance he goes in the first. I think there's a chance I end up with him as a top 30 guy, depending on what other guys do. And if they stay in the draft, don't go in the draft. I really buy it as soon as the shooting comes along. And I do think he is going to shoot it at some point. The shot looks great. There's no concern there, really. From draft deeper, our friend Nathan. Is it realistic that we may look back and see Kevin mcculler is one of the top 30 players in this class, really feel like it could happen. Traffic deeper loves them, some chemical color. I actually really like them a color too. I thought it was weird that like, hey, I'm on. It's a draft, but if not, maybe you Gonzaga, maybe Kansas. So this has been like another weird transfer portal, and I story. I do think he can do more offensively than he showed at Texas tech, and that was sort of like scheme based. I have to see more of it. Top 30. Yeah, possible, but I think I have him like 60th right now, so there'd have to be some jumps for him to make. Yeah, I mean, look, if he learns, the answer is, could we look back on him and he could be a top 30 guy? Yes, if he learns to shoot, he could be that. Like if he becomes a 38% three point shooter in the NBA, he probably is a top 30 guy in the class because the defense is as good as it is. Like just straight up. One of the 5 best perimeter defenders in this class. I think I'd probably take Dyson Daniels over him. I don't know if anyone else immediately springs to mind. No..
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"Yeah. We do. We really do. Early in the season, I was kind of like, well, you know, like on what level should we just trust Scott drew, like Scott drew's playing Kendall Brown, just drastically more than he's playing Jeremy sohan, but as the season has over the last 5 games, I think they played like, if not the exact same number of minutes, it's like within two or three minutes of one another. So they're both playing a crazy amount of minutes now. I don't know. I don't know. It's a Kendra also had a great night last night. Like 29 or something like that. It took 1718 shots. So it was more guard based than it generally can be. Yeah. Okay. So you're going to make me go now at number. Yep. Oh, God. This is gross. Number 18, I'm going to go Mark Williams. That's why I had I like centers. This is the this is the opinion of game theory podcast. I love centers. Center theory. No, Mark Williams is a terrific terrific rim protector. He's a terrific rim runner. He's been in double figures, I believe in four or 5 straight games at this point, where he is just comfortable. Like you know that you're getting on a team where he plays as the 5th option offensively. Every single night because they have so many guards and perimeter players that are going out to score. You know you're going to get ten points literally just off of offensive rebounds and runs through the rim and out in transition. It's literally the role he's going to play in the NBA. And we're getting to watch it. He is an incredibly effective rim protector. He's one of the, I don't know, ten best defensive players in college, basketball. Absolutely like that. Great measurements, 7 foot tall, 7 foot 7 wingspan. I think he is still just figuring it out at this point too. Like he is still a higher upside beyond what we've seen so far. As he continues to learn, okay, I need to be in this spot and drop coverage. I need to be here rotationally on the weak side. He still misses a few of those from time to time that I think take him below walker Kessler a little bit in terms of overall defensive effectiveness within the college basketball setting. But his ceiling is higher than walker Kessler on defense because he says the better measurables he has better athleticism. I have him like one spot ahead of walker Kessler right now..
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"Yeah. We do. We really do. Early in the season, I was kind of like, well, you know, like on what level should we just trust Scott drew, like Scott drew's playing Kendall Brown, just drastically more than he's playing Jeremy sohan, but as the season has over the last 5 games, I think they played like, if not the exact same number of minutes, it's like within two or three minutes of one another. So they're both playing a crazy amount of minutes now. I don't know. I don't know. It's a Kendra also had a great night last night. Like 29 or something like that. It took 1718 shots. So it was more guard based than it generally can be. Yeah. Okay. So you're going to make me go now at number. Yep. Oh, God. This is gross. Number 18, I'm going to go Mark Williams. That's why I had I like centers. This is the this is the opinion of game theory podcast. I love centers. Center theory. No, Mark Williams is a terrific terrific rim protector. He's a terrific rim runner. He's been in double figures, I believe in four or 5 straight games at this point, where he is just comfortable. Like you know that you're getting on a team where he plays as the 5th option offensively. Every single night because they have so many guards and perimeter players that are going out to score. You know you're going to get ten points literally just off of offensive rebounds and runs through the rim and out in transition. It's literally the role he's going to play in the NBA. And we're getting to watch it. He is an incredibly effective rim protector. He's one of the, I don't know, ten best defensive players in college, basketball. Absolutely like that. Great measurements, 7 foot tall, 7 foot 7 wingspan. I think he is still just figuring it out at this point too. Like he is still a higher upside beyond what we've seen so far. As he continues to learn, okay, I need to be in this spot and drop coverage. I need to be here rotationally on the weak side. He still misses a few of those from time to time that I think take him below walker Kessler a little bit in terms of overall defensive effectiveness within the college basketball setting. But his ceiling is higher than walker Kessler on defense because he says the better measurables he has better athleticism. I have him like one spot ahead of walker Kessler right now..
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"Yeah. We do. We really do. Early in the season, I was kind of like, well, you know, like on what level should we just trust Scott drew, like Scott drew's playing Kendall Brown, just drastically more than he's playing Jeremy sohan, but as the season has over the last 5 games, I think they played like, if not the exact same number of minutes, it's like within two or three minutes of one another. So they're both playing a crazy amount of minutes now. I don't know. I don't know. It's a Kendra also had a great night last night. Like 29 or something like that. It took 1718 shots. So it was more guard based than it generally can be. Yeah. Okay. So you're going to make me go now at number. Yep. Oh, God. This is gross. Number 18, I'm going to go Mark Williams. That's why I had I like centers. This is the this is the opinion of game theory podcast. I love centers. Center theory. No, Mark Williams is a terrific terrific rim protector. He's a terrific rim runner. He's been in double figures, I believe in four or 5 straight games at this point, where he is just comfortable. Like you know that you're getting on a team where he plays as the 5th option offensively. Every single night because they have so many guards and perimeter players that are going out to score. You know you're going to get ten points literally just off of offensive rebounds and runs through the rim and out in transition. It's literally the role he's going to play in the NBA. And we're getting to watch it. He is an incredibly effective rim protector. He's one of the, I don't know, ten best defensive players in college, basketball. Absolutely like that. Great measurements, 7 foot tall, 7 foot 7 wingspan. I think he is still just figuring it out at this point too. Like he is still a higher upside beyond what we've seen so far. As he continues to learn, okay, I need to be in this spot and drop coverage. I need to be here rotationally on the weak side. He still misses a few of those from time to time that I think take him below walker Kessler a little bit in terms of overall defensive effectiveness within the college basketball setting. But his ceiling is higher than walker Kessler on defense because he says the better measurables he has better athleticism. I have him like one spot ahead of walker Kessler right now..
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"He's on selfish, he'll rebound. Then he'll get a side isolation or two where he'll post a smaller defender or update the finished opposite. Shot's got to get better and that's why the shot and the feet are while he's at 24 and not 14. I'd like the way he sees the game. A little bit ahead and when you watch, you'll notice that as players are developing, even when he's not involved, he's kind of pointing guys right place. So he knows how it's supposed to look. I like his processing speed end of the first round. It's worth taking a flyer on a guy that at the very least keep your offense rolling and make his plays as Mark felt when he has a chance. Yeah, another guy that just needs the jumper. If the jumper comes, he'll play in the NBA for a long time, I think. Yeah, I like this pick actually quite a bit. I think this is good. Okay, number 25. Give me Jeremy sohan. Out of valence. Like it. Okay. And I don't know if this is one of those deals where Jeremy soane, I no idea if he's going to the draft. And frankly, I don't think Jeremy's so in should. Enter this NBA draft. But his tools are real. He's 6 8. He has shown some ability to shoot the basketball. I think he's at 36% from three. His defensive versatility has been pretty strong. I feel really good about him on threes and fours. I would even argue that you can run different types of ball screen coverages with him. I don't know if I feel good about him switching on to ones, but like you can live with them out there on the perimeter. Good passer. I really like what I've seen from him so far as a passer. Athleticism, I don't worry about that really with him. He can laterally move more so than he doesn't have like a crazy amount of vertical pop, but like it's enough there to go up and dunk if he needs to go up and get a lot, right?.
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"I think they are the best defense. I know that LSU right now is rated as the best defense, but putting this way Baylor lost mark vital and davion Mitchell and got better defensively because Kendall Brown and Jeremy sohan and all of those guys came and allowed them to be more flexible. And I think that that speaks to the value of positional size defensively in length and athleticism. Like it is such an enormous benefit that Kendall Brown, like to me, that is the difference between what I would take Kendall Brown over Johnny Davis, like it's much harder to be 6 foot 5 and make a defensive impact. There needs to be 6 foot 8 and make a defensive impact like Kendall Brown kit. And that team, it's like a 40 minute shell drill of rotations, traps, force and fumes into bad situations. And for Kendall brand specifically, he is like so bad. He's like a shark. Like he always has to stay in motion, but he dies if he stops. He never stopped. If you watch him, like he's always moving. Offense defense file called whatever. It's like his feet are smooth and he's on the balls. And he's bouncing around he's trapped and he's running he's cutting through what I am concerned about and what we talked about here a little bit. In the context of a top ten pick is the offense. Yes, he's shooting 70% for the field. Like 71%. He's like second country, which is outrageous, but he doesn't look at the rim on the catch on many possessions. He doesn't try to create unless someone else is creating for him or he catches it versus things shifting defense. He's going to reverse the ball almost as soon as he touches it. Baylor runs that high dribble weave, and he's contentious weaving. Like he'll just weave all day. Like, oh, here we go. And then he'll wait and go back door is a great cutter and he'll catch and dunk it. So because of this, his points per possession and his field goal percentage is through the roof. I mean, there's picking your spots, and there's whatever he does. I tweeted this last week. He had his shot chart is legitimately everything in the paint. He's taken like ten three pointers. He has taken mid range jumper. So in terms of analytics, darlings, I don't know if that's still like the invoke thing. It seems like it changes by the minute sometimes with the NBA. I just for top 5 top 6 until that often gets there. I'm just slow to say he's there for me. He's probably top finished rain. I'm not saying he's 35th or anything like that. I love the tools. So when he brings a table, defensively, it's just, if I was like a contender, I'm trying to think of somebody who would like have a top 5 pick and just need like one connected piece. Good examples like Golden State. Golden State had the picks ahead last year. I would take it with that come and go pick like no problem. Perfect. Like just past a curry clay, pool, draymond, whatever, like, connect that play defense perfect. But for the teams that are there right now and I don't have in front of me, I'd want more of like a foundational offensive guy to get my team going. Yeah. I get that..
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"I don't know if it's working against do Quinn Paul van Cara switches on to you. Well, it will be more reps to see for him. But I'm aligned with there's just a lot to be desired with the freshman wing crop. Well, in like another guy there that Harrison Ingram looked like he was in slow motion against Baylor. Like you're playing against the guys that are jamming the turbo button all game long, and Harrison is going to play slow anyway. He was just this methodical Ford garden affords body where we can cross you up and take it, but it's not the blow by. It's your step behind and I'll pump fake you jump and finish opposite. He's more of like a crafty quick than he'll ever be fast. I don't think anyone's ever gonna say he's fast. No, totally. That's not his game. His game is craft. His game is skill, his game is footwork. Deception, right? Yes, I like deception. Having said that, like, dude looked like he was literally in slow motion against Baylor. Like there's a difference between like, oh yeah, like he's not as athletic as Kendall brown and even like Jeremy sohan. I thought Jeremy sohan looked a lot more athletic than he did. And then looking like, oh, wait like his athleticism is a significant problem. Is he even like tries to blow by? Like Kendall Brown, I'd like multiple moments where he was like a step and a half behind and just recovered to him. Right? Like I'm intrigued by Harrison Ingram. Don't get me wrong, I have a top 50 grade on him right now. But he's really going to have to shoot it and he's only taking two threes a game and making them a 38%, but he's going to win by being an elite shooter. So like it's a fascinating freshman wing class and some of those guys are going to explode and be great..