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"I really think that I think that ivy is in like a different stratosphere than Keegan and Ben Matthew and I really like Mather and a lot. I shouldn't say he's in a different stratosphere than Ben. But if Ben was to go like 5 or something like that and then you have Keegan 6. I would rather have IV, I think than brogden and Murray because I think that highly of Jaden and his upside and the fit there moving forward. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. I don't know what to do there yet. To me, like that is, that's what I don't know. The kings are the hard one right now. And the pacers are like the second hardest one because I've heard a lot of different names there too. From sources around the league in terms of who they could like. I think that they would take Mather in at 6, but I'm not a 100% clear on that. I'm with you. And I would throw a Detroit in there too. I feel more comfortable. I felt more comfortable three weeks ago about who they would pick than I do today. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, this is what happens. Yeah. Okay. We've got what else here with the Indiana Pacers. Is the question is like, are you are you fully actualizing Malcolm Brogdon's trade value if you just do like 6 and four for 6 in brogden for four? Or like constructions around that where it's like frog and goes to the wizards and you get ten and then at 6 and ten for four and it's a number of different things, right? Like essentially you're trading brogden and 6 for four. I think you are because I think that Malcolm is that good or I think that Jaden is that I was gonna say if you think Jaden's that good, you just go get your guy. But like let's like game playing this out a little bit more. Like if you're the pacers, maybe you can get number 6, you take Ben Mather in number ten, you take Johnny Davis or something like that. You know the back core of tyrese Halliburton, Ben Mather and Chris duarte, Johnny Davis with miles Turner in the middle. That's a pretty fun core. That's a really interesting one, I think. I'm with you. I think that's the route that pacer should go..
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"We could be lower. I don't think he's a zero. I don't have him being drafted. I have his top 100 guy. I'm probably one of the few albums top 100 guy to be honest. I like Brady manic enough, but if you thought it's a way I wouldn't hate that by any stretch. All right, Jacob, where are we at? My disagreement here is going to really make Matt's head just explode because it's also going to make my UNC alumni explode as well. I'm higher on AJ Griffin than I am Johnny Davis. I'm sorry. Like I get it? It's not because I'm anti Johnny Davis. It's more like the long ball so valuable. You know, AJ sharp 4.1 a game, John David shot 3.9, 45% compared to 30. They're both, I mean, Johnny's a little better defender, but I just think AJ ceiling is higher. He's two years younger. I don't think taking him above Johnny is a bad thing. So I have AJ Griffin at 12. You would have thought I had about 212 based on the vitriol I ever received by having him 12th. My Adrian Griffin hang up is this. If he doesn't shoot it, what is he? What does he do? Because we just talked about the guys that get 8 shots against Kentucky's game, right? Johnny Davis is shooting 28% of the field. He's still going to defend. He still got a rebound, still going to compete, not that AJ doesn't do that, but we talk about the defense as a problem. Playing off the ball, he can cut a little bit, but the creation of the dribble, he's not like a great passer. So if the three point shot, he rolls out and he's shooting 31% from three, how does he stay on the floor? I think I might also have PTSD from watching his ceiling game at the dean dome. That's true. But it's just like, if he can ever learn how to create and get to his spot, I just think like his ceiling is so high..
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"I don't know. He is shooting 51% of the field. 49% from three. It's about like a hundred attempts now. We're getting there where it's not like completely crazy. I don't think he's going to finish the season shooting 50%, but above 40s not that wild of a guess of prediction. He's setting himself up to be a future number two or three guy. I don't watch them and think this is the guy you go for is your number one option. It's a very confusing arc based on high school the preseason to hear now, luckily we still have a month or so left of basketball to get more tape and see these attempts and see how he is consistently and that's why I have Johnny Davis a spot ahead of him because Davis has just done it and I did a night out for all season long. Okay, you're up at number 7 penny. I'm at number 7, I think this is where we diverge a little bit. So I'm gonna go with Keegan Murray from Iowa. We don't really diverge. I had a really? As well. Unfortunately. Text messages all weekend, like I was an idiot and I always gone down the wrong place, but here's my song. He's just safe. I think it's kind of he's very sick. It's fine. You know what you're getting from a multi positional front court guy at 6 foot 8, 23 points, 8 rebounds, two blocks of steel and half a game. Stuff's a stat sheet. I'll ask a lot for him and he delivers. He scores a transition. He scores in the half court. He's up to 37% from three after starting the year pretty slow. And I actually like his defense. I think he's pretty aware off the ball. He can switch without issue, sniffs out bad crossword passes. Can he get lazy at times and get stiff and upright to maybe save himself for the offensive end? I think that's reasonable. But I see some small ball 5 finisher scenarios down the line for him. And you can't count them out. That Penn State game, he didn't play well. And I found a way to have a tip in at the buzzer to send it overtime, hit a big three. I think you can kind of feel safe. It's a good word to know what you're getting when you're drafted from here. So I love his off ball offensive game. I think he is so smart as a cutter. I think he's so good at finding those little open areas. Iowa on the ball to get him good offensive half court possessions does a great job of kind of emptying out one side of the court and allowing him to just have space to operate and he's really good at taking advantage of those opportunities. Really smart intuitive offensive rebounding like glass crasher. Really just he's such a smart intuitive offensive player. And I think he translates that to the defensive end as well. I think he's a really smart intuitive defensive player as well. I worry about the foot speed a little bit more than you do. That Ohio State game like put some flags up in my brain a little bit. Guys that attack him. I think it's the guys that attack him in a straight line. And a lot of those guys exist in the NBA that can attack in a straight line because it's the best athletes in the world. I think those are the guys that get Keegan. I think Keegan also gets caught on screens a lot..
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"He takes these long kind of looping lines toward the rim. To try and get by guys. And in the NBA, that's when the help comes to get you. And reels in and ropes you in. And it's a lot harder to gain separation when you don't have that suddenness necessarily. And you take those longer looping lines because guys are athletic, they can recover a little bit more easily. And the help is almost always going to get to you when you take those like wide angles toward the basket on your drives. Right. Look, I think Johnny Davis is going to be like a high little starter. I love the way he defends. I think the shot is going to be fine. Like I think he's a better shooter than what the numbers indicate or whatever. I think he's going to make shots in the NBA. He just takes a lot of tough ones right now. And that's totally reasonable given what his role is. The other thing I want to call out with Johnny Davis is Bart torvik noted this part Bart's statistical website is fantastic. You guys should go look at it. But in games against top 50 opponents, Wisconsin has played 12 of them so far. Johnny Davis isn't just the best player in the country. He is like drastically the best player in the country. It's not really all that close. He's averaging 25 points, 9 rebounds, two assists. Shooting 41% from three in those games against the top competition. When the games get tough and when the best opponents play Wisconsin, he's been at his best. That's a lot to me about how good Johnny Davis is. I think that when you take that with the overall production, you take that with he's not a bad athlete by any stretch of the imagination. Like he'll be an average athlete in the NBA. With the shooting with the defense with everything else he brings to the table. Yeah, I wouldn't take Johnny Davis at 5 necessarily, but I have him at 6. I really like Johnny Davis quite a bit. Yeah, and the other kind of call it is like he hasn't been taking or making threes. He's been taking one or two in the last like 5 or 6 games. Again, this is like if you're the defense is allow you to drive, you're getting to laying in two games going at 14 free throw attempts. That's fine. I think a lot of stuff's going to expand. I do worry a little bit kind of what you said about NBA defense. The bumps that he has going to land to push off a Big Ten guard. That's different if tomorrow Derozan. Lengthier, bigger, stronger two guards, threes. He's not going to have the same impact to hit over the top. So you hope the three kind of gets back to where it needs to be, the mid range shopper stays where it is still a really high floor and an island a lot right here in the draft. Okay. Let's take a quick commercial break. Now that we're outside of the top 5 and move forward here.
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"He takes these long kind of looping lines toward the rim. To try and get by guys. And in the NBA, that's when the help comes to get you. And reels in and ropes you in. And it's a lot harder to gain separation when you don't have that suddenness necessarily. And you take those longer looping lines because guys are athletic, they can recover a little bit more easily. And the help is almost always going to get to you when you take those like wide angles toward the basket on your drives. Right. Look, I think Johnny Davis is going to be like a high little starter. I love the way he defends. I think the shot is going to be fine. Like I think he's a better shooter than what the numbers indicate or whatever. I think he's going to make shots in the NBA. He just takes a lot of tough ones right now. And that's totally reasonable given what his role is. The other thing I want to call out with Johnny Davis is Bart torvik noted this part Bart's statistical website is fantastic. You guys should go look at it. But in games against top 50 opponents, Wisconsin has played 12 of them so far. Johnny Davis isn't just the best player in the country. He is like drastically the best player in the country. It's not really all that close. He's averaging 25 points, 9 rebounds, two assists. Shooting 41% from three in those games against the top competition. When the games get tough and when the best opponents play Wisconsin, he's been at his best. That's a lot to me about how good Johnny Davis is. I think that when you take that with the overall production, you take that with he's not a bad athlete by any stretch of the imagination. Like he'll be an average athlete in the NBA. With the shooting with the defense with everything else he brings to the table. Yeah, I wouldn't take Johnny Davis at 5 necessarily, but I have him at 6. I really like Johnny Davis quite a bit. Yeah, and the other kind of call it is like he hasn't been taking or making threes. He's been taking one or two in the last like 5 or 6 games. Again, this is like if you're the defense is allow you to drive, you're getting to laying in two games going at 14 free throw attempts. That's fine. I think a lot of stuff's going to expand. I do worry a little bit kind of what you said about NBA defense. The bumps that he has going to land to push off a Big Ten guard. That's different if tomorrow Derozan. Lengthier, bigger, stronger two guards, threes. He's not going to have the same impact to hit over the top. So you hope the three kind of gets back to where it needs to be, the mid range shopper stays where it is still a really high floor and an island a lot right here in the draft. Okay. Let's take a quick commercial break. Now that we're outside of the top 5 and move forward here.
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"He takes these long kind of looping lines toward the rim. To try and get by guys. And in the NBA, that's when the help comes to get you. And reels in and ropes you in. And it's a lot harder to gain separation when you don't have that suddenness necessarily. And you take those longer looping lines because guys are athletic, they can recover a little bit more easily. And the help is almost always going to get to you when you take those like wide angles toward the basket on your drives. Right. Look, I think Johnny Davis is going to be like a high little starter. I love the way he defends. I think the shot is going to be fine. Like I think he's a better shooter than what the numbers indicate or whatever. I think he's going to make shots in the NBA. He just takes a lot of tough ones right now. And that's totally reasonable given what his role is. The other thing I want to call out with Johnny Davis is Bart torvik noted this part Bart's statistical website is fantastic. You guys should go look at it. But in games against top 50 opponents, Wisconsin has played 12 of them so far. Johnny Davis isn't just the best player in the country. He is like drastically the best player in the country. It's not really all that close. He's averaging 25 points, 9 rebounds, two assists. Shooting 41% from three in those games against the top competition. When the games get tough and when the best opponents play Wisconsin, he's been at his best. That's a lot to me about how good Johnny Davis is. I think that when you take that with the overall production, you take that with he's not a bad athlete by any stretch of the imagination. Like he'll be an average athlete in the NBA. With the shooting with the defense with everything else he brings to the table. Yeah, I wouldn't take Johnny Davis at 5 necessarily, but I have him at 6. I really like Johnny Davis quite a bit. Yeah, and the other kind of call it is like he hasn't been taking or making threes. He's been taking one or two in the last like 5 or 6 games. Again, this is like if you're the defense is allow you to drive, you're getting to laying in two games going at 14 free throw attempts. That's fine. I think a lot of stuff's going to expand. I do worry a little bit kind of what you said about NBA defense. The bumps that he has going to land to push off a Big Ten guard. That's different if tomorrow Derozan. Lengthier, bigger, stronger two guards, threes. He's not going to have the same impact to hit over the top. So you hope the three kind of gets back to where it needs to be, the mid range shopper stays where it is still a really high floor and an island a lot right here in the draft. Okay. Let's take a quick commercial break. Now that we're outside of the top 5 and move forward here.
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"He takes these long kind of looping lines toward the rim. To try and get by guys. And in the NBA, that's when the help comes to get you. And reels in and ropes you in. And it's a lot harder to gain separation when you don't have that suddenness necessarily. And you take those longer looping lines because guys are athletic, they can recover a little bit more easily. And the help is almost always going to get to you when you take those like wide angles toward the basket on your drives. Right. Look, I think Johnny Davis is going to be like a high little starter. I love the way he defends. I think the shot is going to be fine. Like I think he's a better shooter than what the numbers indicate or whatever. I think he's going to make shots in the NBA. He just takes a lot of tough ones right now. And that's totally reasonable given what his role is. The other thing I want to call out with Johnny Davis is Bart torvik noted this part Bart's statistical website is fantastic. You guys should go look at it. But in games against top 50 opponents, Wisconsin has played 12 of them so far. Johnny Davis isn't just the best player in the country. He is like drastically the best player in the country. It's not really all that close. He's averaging 25 points, 9 rebounds, two assists. Shooting 41% from three in those games against the top competition. When the games get tough and when the best opponents play Wisconsin, he's been at his best. That's a lot to me about how good Johnny Davis is. I think that when you take that with the overall production, you take that with he's not a bad athlete by any stretch of the imagination. Like he'll be an average athlete in the NBA. With the shooting with the defense with everything else he brings to the table. Yeah, I wouldn't take Johnny Davis at 5 necessarily, but I have him at 6. I really like Johnny Davis quite a bit. Yeah, and the other kind of call it is like he hasn't been taking or making threes. He's been taking one or two in the last like 5 or 6 games. Again, this is like if you're the defense is allow you to drive, you're getting to laying in two games going at 14 free throw attempts. That's fine. I think a lot of stuff's going to expand. I do worry a little bit kind of what you said about NBA defense. The bumps that he has going to land to push off a Big Ten guard. That's different if tomorrow Derozan. Lengthier, bigger, stronger two guards, threes. He's not going to have the same impact to hit over the top. So you hope the three kind of gets back to where it needs to be, the mid range shopper stays where it is still a really high floor and an island a lot right here in the draft. Okay. Let's take a quick commercial break. Now that we're outside of the top 5 and move forward here.
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"Way to fight through that. And then off the ball too, he gets in a stance on the ball. He's ready to make a play. It reverses, stands right up. He's looking around, he's active, but then when the action comes back, he's getting down back in his stance, he's going to crack by another screen. It's like, if he just stayed in that a little bit longer, he'd set him up better positionally to not be hampered or hit with an off screen and then trying to fight around it. It's a double into a ball screen and that's where it hangs up. He's going to work at it. That's a part of his game that he needs to really fix. But we're talking about are these guys good enough? We've just spent 20 minutes talking about how good they are and that's why I think they're both really good options in the top 5. I don't have a problem with these guys like a lot of other people do. I think they're both really good options in the top ten. This is what I would say. You don't want it, but I say this, it seems like we've done the three years now. If they're not the top 5, who is not, they almost like, they almost have to be. And I'd be okay with either. And currently a slight edge and not to go hips are slide edge to Johnny Davis from me. It's very fluid. I'm not saying to write it in a sharpie and put it on the big board yet, but there's still a lot of basketball you played. I think there's more of a chance that Johnny makes it based on everything that he does rather than saying, well, J 90 has to figure out the off ball defense. You really have to figure out pick and roll progression. Johnny Davis, it's like, does he create enough separation to get off a shot that already looks good? That's already good off the bounce..
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"They just kind of slotted Marie bouille, who's like a 6 foot one guard on hyun Jin Lee and said, okay, just shoot over the top of them. And try to separate from them. And Lee struggled with that, he struggled with the pressure that bougie kind of got on him by getting up under him and crawling into his space. I think that's probably a bit of a concern for him. He needs to be able to deal with smaller defenders. He needs to be able to punish them just by shooting over the top and he didn't really do that again, San Francisco, and then it was much of the same against New Mexico state, New Mexico state, just kind of like out often. It felt like that's a really, really physical team, Christians, head coach there, kind of preaches that level of basketball, right? Like that's just kind of who he is and that's what that program is all about. He got kind of stuck up against some bigger, more physical defenders, like teddy Allen, Donnie Tillman, both of whom were at high majors previously. Johnny mccance who's like this 6 foot 7 bigger, stronger senior who's been at New Mexico state for a while and plays the center position for the most part. Next to their other big dude whose name it, I think is like mcnair or something. So they had more size that they could punish Lee with and I don't think he really dealt well with that either. Those are the kind of strong NBA level wings that he's going to be forced to play against, but look, I do like hyung Jin Lee, and I think that he is a very real NBA prospect in a way that deserves to be talked about more, which is why I highlighted him early in the season. I did have him as a late first coming into the year. I would say more in the top 45 range, which, like I said to start, I really does place him highly in the mix for a potential first round pick. So that was a lot of questions from you guys. Thank you so much for giving me content to talk about today. That was really great. I really had a great time answering questions. Penny and I are going to do this on every episode going forward. We're going to answer at least three questions. We'll figure out a segment name for it long term. Maybe we'll do two prospects of the week next week when penny is back and we get to talk a little bit more about stuff. Other than that, penny just sent me a beautiful, beautiful message that is him drinking a white claw hard seltzer surge. He's drinking the cranberry flavor. This man knows me all too well. He knows how much I enjoy white claw, and everyone shoot penny, a Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to everyone else. Thank you all for listening until next time, we will talk soon. By..
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"Usman dang, max Christie, are you still most optimistic about? I think that my answer on that is going to be max Christie. And I think that that is going to be because a we've started to see some signs from max Christie last night, he was really, really good. I know that he has a 48.4 shooting percentage right now, but against Oakland, he dropped 17 points. He had 11 on 6 shots against Louisville. He had 18 against butler earlier this year. There have been some flashes there and as we know just throughout the history of the Michigan state basketball program, these guys do tend to get better, they tend to really make leaps throughout the course of the year, whatever Tom is a does. He builds toward the end of the season not toward the beginning of the season. I think that just based off of that track record, I would take max Christie. I think that the UCLA rotation is probably just a little bit too cluttered and I thought that Peyton Watson was kind of more raw than max Christie was coming into the year. Another guy for this might be Bryce McGowan's. I think that Nebraska's situation just might not be very good. Frankly, I don't like what I've seen from Alonso verge at the point guard position. I think that McGowan's going to have to take a ton of contested tough pull up jumpers, and I'm not sure that he's a good enough shooter yet to make those consistently. Also, he struggled around the rim a little bit, so I don't think I would take McGowan's usman dang. He's shown some flashes for New Zealand I've watched all of their games. You know, it's just a limited role there and it's harder in the NBL, the NBL's a more skilled league. It's a tougher league. I think it's just more difficult to be successful there. Then it is in college, but it wouldn't surprise me if by the end of the year he was playing really well because I think that just in general, the NBL does prepare guys in a real high level. Just because of the physicality that it presents. So as you get used to that throughout the course of your first professional season, we've seen even guys like terrance Ferguson who did not like play exceedingly well over there. They got better throughout the course of the season. Lamella lamella ball got better throughout the course of the season. I think that there's just an adjustment period to playing over here in Australia that it just isn't quite as big of a shock as it is to play in college basketball. The other guy is interesting within this conversation. I do think is AJ Griffin out of duke. We have seen some flashes from him as well. We'll be very interested to see how much we see out of AJ Griffin. As the season progresses and two of his last three games, against South Carolina state he had 19 points on 7 of 8 shooting against Appalachian state. He had 11 points. Look, I don't know what to do with AJ Griffin yet, but I think that he might be the highest upside guy out of this group that I think could really take a leap by the end of the year..
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"That scheme would fit really, really well with Jalen durand, not to say that they need some high level forward slash center because flow and Jonathan Chan will cha cha have done really well so far this year. But I do think that an upgrade there wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. And I think for jaylen Duran, we'd see everything that we need to see for him. Because right now, Memphis, jaylen Durant does not have a point guard. And the thing that we've seen from him when he has gotten reasonable service out of ball screens and by service, I mean, passes out of short roles, passes on lobs particularly toward the rim. Duran has been an elite finisher this year. He has put up numbers. You go back, you watch that Alabama game. I think that that was one of the best signs that we saw that jaylen Duran is still maybe not quite as polished as what we thought he was, but he is someone that can make an extremely high level impact if only because he is dealing with physical tools that so few people on Planet Earth have. He just turned 18 years old. He's 6 foot 11 he's a 7 foot 5 wingspan. He is capable of at least like handling the ball a little bit. He doesn't even post moves, but if you short roll him, he can make some passing reads. He can put the ball on the deck once or twice to get to the basket. I think that this is a no brainer. I would frankly love to see jaylen Duran in a different situation. That's no slight it. Penny Hardaway, that's no slight at their coaching staff. They just don't have point guard and I don't think that we're seeing the optimal usage of what we could see from Jalen Duran, which kind of leads us into this next question here, which I think is interesting. It comes from it's Justin Ramos. He asks, how does Jalen Duran compare to other lottery centers of recent years specifically? How does he comp to guys in the mid lotto like Wendell Carter and yeka Kong Wu or surefire studs like Evan mobley or Deandre ayton? I see him as a level below Evan mobley pretty easily. I see him as a level below Deandre ayton pretty easily. He is somehow smaller than Deandre ayton and just doesn't even have the skill or the movement, lateral agility that Deandre ayton did. I do see Jalen durran more as a it's funny. I don't mean to compare them just because both of them went to Memphis, but I do see him in James wiseman as being somewhat similar with Doran maybe being slightly ahead. Just because he's physically stronger and I think that he moves just a little bit better than what James wiseman does. In the case of these mid lottery centers, comparing him to Wendell Carter is interesting because Wendell Carter is somewhere 6 foot ten, 7 foot four wingspan, just doesn't have the explosive pop, the Jay Lin Duran does, but does move his feet probably just as well. I think that Wendell Carter was probably a little bit more skilled than what Jalen Duran was, but again doesn't have quite the same level of physical tools that Duran does. Not Duran is nowhere near where Carter was the shooter coming out of duke..
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"Up, another guy that I got a lot of questions about and I do want to answer at least one of them because I think Johnny Davis is really interesting. Zack tran at Zachary trend 19 asked, can you see Johnny Davis moving into the late lottery slash mid first round discussion by the end of the year? If so why, if not, why not? I'll be honest, I think Johnny Davis is there right now. I would probably have Johnny Davis right around the number 15 mark on my personal board. The why is that his athleticism and strength combination? I think translates really, really well to the next level. He's somewhere in the 6 four four 6 5 range he has long arms. He's strong as hell. He's tenacious. He switchable one through three, I think, defensively. He could have some problems with some of the quicker ones at the NBA level, but I don't really see him having too much trouble with twos and threes. And I think that his strength level particularly might even allow him to be a manageable player down onto the threes and fours that are a little bit bigger and longer than he is. So on the defensive end, I'm a big fan. Offensively, we've seen some real shot creation stuff that I think will translate pretty well to the next level, not to say that he's going to be like a primary option for anyone. But I do think that he is someone that will be able to attack in a straight line off of a closeout whenever he gets a reversal. He's going to be able to knock down shots, I think, in a pretty reasonable clip. I kind of see him as a guy that if you're in that ten to 15 range, I think he's a totally reasonable pick right now in the other part of the Johnny Davis experience that I think has been really, really good is the consistency..
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"He thrives as a pick and roll creator who can spray the ball out to shooters. And for him to be as successful as he's been thus far with a roster that just does not fit what his skill set is in any way shape or form. I think pistons fans should be ecstatic even though they have not won many games. I think they've won 6 games this year. I would be really pumped about what I've seen from Kate Cunningham so far. I think all of the athleticism and ball handling has translated in the best possible way. I think that over his last 9 games, ten games, he's averaging like 20 points, 6 assists, 6 rebounds, like it's really remarkable what he's been able to do over the course of his early career since he's gotten back from that ankle injury early in the year. So the best thing for me is I would want shooting around Kate Cunningham. I think that additionally, jabari smith's athleticism does translate really well next to the deep bay. If Sadiq bay ends up being a longer term keeper and even though he is not shot the ball well to start the year, I do think I would continue down the road with Czech bay because he is a player that while he's not a crazy athlete, I do see him as someone who is strong enough to defend multiple positions at the three and the four. Who I do trust to shoot on some level and hopefully be able to make some higher level decisions throughout the course of his career, maybe as he slotted back into a role that has a bit less usage than what he's currently forced to do with the pistons right now. So I would I think I would take jabari Smith. I think he has the highest upside of anyone in this class and I think that he's a really nice fit with kade Cunningham with their front court pieces. The question for me is more. Jamaica Smith also fits with Isaiah Stewart. I should say as well just because Isaiah Stewart is someone that isn't necessarily the best athlete, but the more that I watch, Isaiah Stewart and Kate Cunningham offensively, the more I do think that Isaiah Stewart's really gonna have to shoot the ball long term because he's just not at all a threat as a vertical spacer in pick and rolls. He just ends up kind of taking up space in that mid range area where kind of really likes to operate and that's a concern to me long term. I really don't like the shape of this pistons, roster, around cape Cunningham. I frankly don't know that there are any like, oh my God, you have to keep this guy, players on this roster. I would continue down the roads to deep bay, and Isaiah Stewart, but the rest of the guys on this team, I don't know that they're necessarily going to be a part of the next Detroit Pistons like playoff team, or certainly maybe the next Detroit Pistons top four seed in the east. So it's kind of where I'm out on the pistons. I would look to move Jeremy grant if the deadline, I would look to move as many of these older veteran players for whatever assets I could. And then I would try to rebuild this off season via free agency where they project to have quite a bit of cap space, and I would really focus on shooting athleticism and defense. I would not focus on some of the things that Troy weaver has focused on thus far as a general.
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"johnny davis" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"I mean, Dyson Daniels just completely and utterly shut him out of the game in such an impressive way. He's been awesome. Throughout the course of the G league season defensively, I think I'm a little bit higher on Dyson Daniels than where the general consensus is overall right now. I love his passing ability. I think he's more of a secondary ball handler and if he's gonna be that, the shooting is gonna have to work itself out. I think that the key for him is just playing with better bend and that includes as a ball handler as well as as a shooter as well. He just doesn't get any bend and it just looks so stiff and mechanical coming out of his hands. I think that once he gets with a great shooting coach, they can kind of fix some of these issues. I don't see anything wrong with the touch with Dyson Daniels. It's more just mechanical in terms of what he has to figure out. Nothing's broken there. So I see Dyson Daniels is like a good 5th man 6th man and you know at the end of the day and this draft class to me, that's like end of the lottery at the very least top 20 level. So Dyson Daniels, I'm a big fan, frankly, I think outside of scoot Henderson. He's been the league ignite prospect that I've been most impressed with throughout the course of this season. So, yeah, I really like what I've seen in a large part of that is the defensive side of the floor. Okay. This next question here is about the pistons. It is from demon 21. This question is realistically just kind of representative of a lot of different questions. I got about the pistons. It felt like pistons fans are really engaged in the draft process right now already for obvious reasons. There's a lot of excitement around the pistons right now, but the team is not very good and I don't think it's been very well built. So there's going to be a real enthusiasm I think to get better pieces that fit around cade Cunningham and this question kind of gets it that idea. So can you share some thoughts on what you would do slash like to see the pistons do with their locked in top 5 pick and over the course of the next year? Would you like to see Jeremy grant traded second year guys progress or lack thereof? Jabari, the best option with kade and their other non elite shooters and athletes. So essentially what demon 21 is asking here, what I trade Jeremy grant, would I take jabari Smith at number one? Who would be my number one prospect right now for the Detroit Pistons? And would in general what I do? I think the number one thing the pistons have to do over the course of the next year is fine shooting. This offense is so messy. Anytime that you watch them, there's no space for Kate Cunningham. No space for the guards to operate at all. It's a bunch of athletic dudes out there. There's some tough defenders out there on the court, Jeremy grant. I think just still doesn't quite get the respect as a shooter as what his percentage is would indicate that he should..
Game Theory Podcast
"johnny davis" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"To that 2020 NBA draft class with LaMelo Ball with Anthony Edwards with all of those guys, I think that I would feel like LaMelo Ball is a level ahead of where I had where I have all of Paulo jabari Smith, Chet holmgren, but I would say that I would have palo ban Caro and jabari Smith and chat homegirl certainly ahead of where I had James wiseman and Anthony Edwards at number two and number three. So I hope that that kind of gives a gauge of where we're at in this 2022 draft class by comparing them to the 2021 and 2020 classes. Okay. Let's go to this next one here. The best guard defender in the 2022 class is essentially the topic here. And Alex, who's handle is draft film school, asks the question is Dyson Daniels, the best guard defender in this class. Look, among players that I think are likely to be selected, I think Dyson Daniels is really up there. If I was kind of crafting like a top group, he would definitely be in it. Let's say that kadari Richmond is probably out of this conversation because he has not been nearly good enough at this point to where he looks like he'll be a 2022 prospect. I think he's shaping up more as a 2023 prospect if he ever figures out the offensive side. I probably would have could already Richmond a level ahead of Tyson Daniels if we're being honest, but his offense is just nowhere near good enough at this stage to really be able to enter the 2022 draft class. In terms of best guard defenders, I would say that Johnny Davis also stands out. I thought he's had a really, really strong defensive season for Wisconsin as well. And we'll talk about him in a second here with a follow-up question that's going to be coming. But I really like Johnny Davis, but the thing about Dyson Daniels is that I think that his size and his length and his toughness and his overall quickness, whereas Johnny Davis is more of a strong defender. Dyson Daniels is a bit quicker and I think even slightly more tenacious on that end. I think he's going to be able to handle lead guards in a way that Johnny Davis may not be able to or players like Johnny Davis may not be able to. I'm trying to think of other guys that even really fit into this conversation here. It's kind of hard to even find some in this class. I don't think this is the best class when it comes to high level guard defenders. There's no davion Mitchell in this class in my view. I don't even think that anyone really hits the high level defensive upside on the perimeter of Jalen suggs who ranked it number two on my board last year in large part due to his potential defensive acumen. So yeah, I think that the question here from Alex over at draft film school is apt. I think that I probably would have Dyson Daniels as of right now as the top guard defender. I love the way that he slides his feet. I think he switchable one through three. I think that he's really disruptive with his length at the point of attack. The way that he handled, for instance, the thing that stands out to me is often our first impression, right? And the first game that I watched Tyson Daniels play with the G league ignite this year was against south bay, they played against Mac mcclung and some of those guys. And look, Mac mcclung is not an NBA level player in my opinion..
Game Theory Podcast
"johnny davis" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"The last guys before him, I believe may have been Deandre ayton and Luka Dončić in that draft class. Guys that are just like hyper elite prospects. I didn't have any tier one guys in the 2021 NBA draft process, including Anthony Edwards, lamella ball, all of those guys. So I would not have any tier one prospects in the 2022 NBA draft as of right now. I'm sure that penny and I at the end of the season will probably go through this and answer this question in a bit more detail. And try and rank prospects compared to other draft classes and all of that fun stuff because that's a really good gauge in terms of how good these prospects are is we kind of dive deeper and deeper into the NBA draft season. But I would say that I certainly would not have any prospect in the 2021 NBA draft or any in the 2022 NBA draft class. In my top three in the 2021 class, so I had kid Cunningham one Jalen sucks to Evan mobley three Jalen green four, I would not have any of jabari Smith Paul ban Caro chat home grand Jaden ivy within that top three. I think that you can make a case that jabari Smith is pretty close right now for where I am to that Jalen green ish level. I would still probably take Jalen green even given the kind of concerns that we've seen, removing that, removing the context of his struggles early on with the Houston Rockets, just remembering what he was with the G league ignite last year as a high level scorer who put up a bunch of points and had an immediately translatable skill set in terms of shooting, shot creation ability to get to step backs, explosive athletic ability, body control, everything like that. I frankly think I would still rank jaylen green just slightly ahead of the jabari Smith palo banquero class at this point. So I think that once you get into all of jaylen green, Jonathan, Scotty Barnes, I think that I would probably take Paulo over where I had Paulo and jabari Smith over where I had Jonathan kuminga and Scottie Barnes last year in that third tier kinda all to themselves. Whether or not I would take Chet in Jaden ivy. I think that those two right now are pretty close to that level. I think I would probably default more toward jet holmgren being ahead of that group. So it'd be a ranking of. Cade Cunningham, Jalen suggs, Evan mobley, followed by Jalen green, jabari Smith, Paula banquet, Chet home, grin, and then I think I would have both come in Barnes ahead of Jaden ivy right now. So it's a weaker class at the top. I think that that's the best way that I can frame this. It's just a very, very tricky class right now to evaluate if you have a top 5 pick if your team is going to end up with a top two pick in this class. I don't think it's quite as strong as what the normal draft is..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"johnny davis" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"You company houston young successful entreprenuer. Musk welcome back to another week of oil money. Podcast with myself. Johnny davis and use of chowdhry this week. We got pete marshall. Vp of land at iron orchard. Thanks guys hello. Hello says and let me let me say first before we get going that intro. That is on the song. The song is very very impressive. So the first time i heard the song i literally first of all the best part about song is it doesn't say don his name. So that makes actually. That really upsets donnie. But i actually thought it was a joke. The first time i heard it because i was like this is so lame. This is a joke. Help your name out. Yeah i. I actually thought it was legitimate joke. I thought the digital wildcatter guys were just like a prank on. Yeah i thought so just like this is so stupid and then i got so many people be like. Hey we love the intro. And i was like screw you okay. Good and then so many people kept saying. I'm like you know what maybe it is pretty good so then it actually got a good love it. I think it's great. It's just missing a couple of important words. At this point saw concerned i mean important is objective in this situation but no it it is. It is a cool intro and we definitely need to add a big dog's name in there so what we'll get there but peterman Obviously thank you for so much for coming on this week And having us or having us having a your gummy flustered those man did thank you for having us on your body yes. I'm flustered so no no you know i've known you so i met through kind of some. You know just naturally we just start talking about some deal flow stuff you know. There were some some basic Some feels that it just made sense for us to talk to each other me and talk to each other and it was one of the most genuine conversations i've had anybody in oil and gas will know you can immediately pick on a genuine conversation and you can immediately pick up on a conversation that is you know what we're both here to make money. We bowl really. Don't wanna be here and you know it is what it is right me and pete where the complete opposite. It was genuine conversation. We talked about everything from how we were feeling that they how we're feeling about the industry how we felt about the deal and it just honestly it just kept on growing and growing and growing now pete. I would consider a very good friend to us. If i mean i is very organic Nothing was forced and those relationships are hard to decipher what they really are..