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"It's really tough because truth couldn't shoot, right? If he was like sub 20% from three or something like that, he was small. Unbelievable as a passer, but you get into workouts with bigger guards and you see the length and the size. It's harder to adjust. I don't know if that guy's there. Kenny Chandler's like a better shooter than Sharif was and I'll see him tumbling in far in the second. I don't know because if there was a guy I wouldn't put him in the top 20 or so of my board that felt really strongly about. Yeah, it feels like the drops have kind of already happened like if Kendall Brown is there 40 like that's not impossible, but I don't know if he's expected as like a mid first anymore. Well this is a hard one. I don't know, I think this is on your mock and not your draft guy and we covered this last year too is that the second round is a dice roll, right? There's a lot of two way contracts on non guaranteed stuff long term. So once you crack 30 though, there could be some actually savvy agents that say like we're good. We're going to slide down. So if Kendall Brown goes, I don't want to pick on him. If player X goes, it's starting to go 27th and go 40th. That might have been their own doing too. Like you don't have to overreact and say, I can't believe this guy slid so much. He may have split to his own self made decision of a team where he thinks he can go and earn minutes and get into rotation faster. Yeah. I'm going to take one real quick from Ellison or cot on Twitter. Vince Williams drafted or undrafted. Undrafted. I think that he fits right into this mix, right? In terms of like, look, Vince Williams is probably going to be on a two way to start next season. And whether or not that means drafted or undrafted, we'll see, right? I like Vince Williams. I had him as a priority two way guy for me. In the draft guide, as you can see, one of my top, I think, ten names, 12 names, something like that. Yeah, I like Vince Williams. And the shooting is interesting. He's a good defensive playmaker. Teams have some worries about what he'll look like whenever he's matched against quicker guards. I think he actually guards a little bit better up the lineup as opposed to down the lineup. But yeah, I like Vince Williams is an interesting dice roll as a two way, whether or not that means he gets drafted, I don't know. Yeah. Possibly, I would say no on drafted, but possibly yes on making splashes some relief. Someone has chocolate. Zach, you're up. So at trust the void wants to take a little bit of a step back and wants to know, what do you think so far about the G league preparing and helping these prospects get to the NBA? Matt, you go first. Great. I like it. I actually enjoy the program. I've been to their games in person. The biggest thing about the GB is they are prepared. It's the rubber is beating the road faster. And you better be ready..
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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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"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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"And I do want to say is again kind of like an early holiday issue to set Thanksgiving where we thankful for, I did want to thank you Sam for allowing me to be on this platform with you and talk draft stuff. And also just kind of being out at events when people come up and say, hey man, we love the show. Love you guys talking and stuff and it's weird because I honestly like I plug in, I feel like it's us just talking the draft and then you forget that people listen to it on the way for work and whatever else to make fun of us and inform or what have you, so I do appreciate that stuff. It's crazy. But I'm glad to be here and recording every so often with you. So that's it. You stank, watch home alone. Batter score penny. We need to be too positive here. We need to come up with something that people can say to you in the wild when they see. That's all. Yeah, they have some password. Yeah, there will be a password for Matthew penny when people see him at events and things. It's great. It's always like offsetting because I'm like, I'm just watching games, man. I don't know. Yeah, there's legitimately nothing that I enjoy more than hearing that people come up in a costume. It's not a cost. It's like it's honestly, man, it's just wild, so I don't know how we got here. It's the best. They're like legitimately quite a few people to listen to the show. So it's so nice. Please continue to bother Matt penny in public any time you see him. He enjoys it. I get a kick out of it. It's my favorite thing on the planet. Seriously, because Matt is the best, please go rate review subscribe. We need to we need to figure out something to do with ratings and reviews that would be fun because that would be could be a way to just get the listeners a little bit more involved. Maybe we'll brainstorm some ideas. Brainstorms, ideas from that, maybe a question section right in, do stuff and read the best reviews. I don't know. There's something there. There's more. Yeah, at some point, we probably need to actually think about like, how to promote this podcast in a way that we currently don't really do. So thank you all for finding this podcast. Somehow, even though it's just like in the wild and I don't know how people find it. I really appreciate all the listeners. I'm very, very grateful and very thankful for everyone who listens to the show. But we'll be back next week. I'm gonna do a couple of NBA shows next week. For sure, as well as a giraffe show. Maybe like a full stop feast week recap with penny and I next week. But until then, and until next time, we will talk soon. Bye..
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"This is good. You can imagine 15 people sitting around like a long conference table thrown out ideas like that's it that include heist. How do we do the home, we're back, party again? It's not for me. What if it's home alone, but without all of the things that made it likeable in the first place? How about we completely reimagine this? Yeah, what if it's what if it's home alone but TV movie? Yes. That's basically what a call. Oh my God. Yeah, this is the last one. So the last three have been like essentially TV movies. I'm counting home sweet home alone as a TV movie because it's on Disney+ and depressing. Yeah. Then again, they're like, look, I spent like my last three days binge watching Selling Sunset, which is like just the greatest thing on the planet to me. Yeah, it's different. I did watch a couple other things. I watched I started watching Tiger king season two, as a mistake. Shouldn't have done that? Yeah. Laura asked me if I wanted to watch that with her and I was like, I think I'm gonna pass. I think you're good. I think we're gonna add the shark or jump the Tiger, I guess. And then I watched the the Kid Cudi document around on Amazon Prime, which for me, if you do anything that talks about like artists, creative process, like in the studio, like the beat came to be like this or that lyric was that and that guy just turned the synthesizer, like, I'm in. They did that for about half the movie. So I enjoyed that. Interesting. Yeah, I mean like that is one place where our college overlap was probably pretty real, like Kid Cudi was definitely a thing when I was in college. Like, man on the moon was unbelievable then I sort of revisited it after the documentary of like, I forgot how good this was start to finish. Yeah, that was a thing in the like, you know, what late 2000? 9 was men on the moon, I think. Yeah, to even like 2012. Then again, like I went to college in Ohio. So I would imagine that the shelf life for Kid Cudi was a bit longer there. Didn't hear the new stuff. Yeah. 'cause like, yeah, I don't even know when the last time Kid Cudi came out with an album was to be honest. Yeah, it depends because he's done some group stuff. He sent us all and stuff. He's kind of bounced around. Yeah, it looks like he has a 2015. Oh God, he has a lot of new music. Yeah, the last thing I listened to was probably in 2013 and then like he has 2014, 2015. I've missed the last four basically. I'm kiddie. So what can you do? This is me proving my my lack of hypnos, maybe when it comes to that. Shut down. All right, I think that we're going to call it there. This wasn't too bad. We did like one 20. This is a normal episode. I think a new record. New record for us. Okay, penny, tell the people where they can find you, I think we're going to have some good stuff here coming up in the next few days, just to maybe make some make some audiograms, maybe even like promote the podcast on social media. I like that. Yeah, I did one today. I'm on Twitter..
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"Not necessarily to me who had him at 27 to start the season, but I think that people would consider him underwhelming. And then the potential for guys like tyrese hunter, Tara and Armstrong, X, Y, and Z right. Yeah. Too deep at this point. Yeah. So. I think the answer is probably fat. Thinking back on this. Just for it is here and now too, because 2019 all right, it's John morant. Kobe white. If you're not a huge Kobe white fan, you're not a believer in derisk Garland. Maybe. It's not even close, I don't think. It's so far ahead of these guys. Like Darius Garland and Jade and I here, like pretty close, I think. In terms of prospects. And then you throw fucking job around on there. There's no chance. I mean, do we think Jade and IV and D'angelo Russell are like pretty close, like I D'angelo Russell at I think four or 5 that year and he went number two. Yeah, it's hard because again I'm not trying to change the past, but I think those more of his game has changed some since the NBA. I think the new stuff is different. Slowed him down quite a bit. And then like you still have moody a and then like the big group below. So it's basically like moody versus all of these other guys. And like all of these, too, because he was potentially going to be a thing. Like people were surprised he slid down to where he was. Yeah, I really, really liked him. I missed I missed on him. I would say fact to this question, but it's a really good question. And I think it's close. The problem is that I'm just I think that there are some people who would answer fiction to this question. Because I think that there was more steam behind moody a than there is behind high tie right now. Maybe if we include Dyson Daniels, it might be fiction, I don't know, like I don't know if Dyson's gonna play point at the NBA level. I think he's probably more of like a two. Yeah, this is like the most like equivocating like hemming and hawing answer in the history of game theory podcast more. Yeah, it'll be it'll be a lot of editing and I'm sure circling back when people saw you forgot this guy that guy, but it would be good brain candy for you to dive into the notebook and see where we went wrong. This is definitely a podcast that I edit substantially too. Let me tell you. You know what this is, and this is cross sound funny. I'm gonna go to bed and wake up at 6 a.m., my son's screaming for me to go pick him up, and I'm gonna look at my phone and I'll say text from Santa Fe and he'll be like, this is gonna be something..
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"6 16 in the top 7 and again, we can kind of like split hairs on if these guys are really the lead guards are not but Ben Simmons, Christine, buddy hill, Jamal Murray, then in 2015 we had D'angelo Russell, made a moody a year before Alfred prayed in one tenth. So anyway, just like rifling off those names because I'm looking at it and I'm scrolling through your mock and I'm looking through my notes. And I'm like, I don't know who the guy is. I had, I did the paw with Andrew and Alex the other day and they're like, do you take a job rant could you come up, I'm sorry, not traumatic cheese. Jane ivy could become a point guard in that mold. I said, I don't know, but it's an interesting question because we've talked about it is Tati Washington, the first guard off the board, like I just need a little help here if I'm going as crazy as you are. This is a this is a really good question. I would say that going into the draft. Let's say, you know, I did not necessarily think of Ben Simmons as like a quote unquote point guard even like coming into that class. So let's take him off the board. Take him off. Your body's not a point guard. It was Christ on it was Jamal Murray. Wade Baldwin. Had some steam. Like, to me, a little bit later. Yeah, the 2016 group is the one. Like that, that's the one that's really bad. If you take Ben Simmons off the board. Even 2015, like there was a lot of steam behind D'angelo Russell. There was a lot of steam behind Emmanuel moody as well, like people thought they could be a top 5 pick. So I understand what you're saying. And I think that it's not wrong because then you go down, campaign. I had campaign like in the 20s. Terry Rozier would go 16. I had him in the 20s. Jaron grant, delon Wright, tyus Jones, but like we're getting into like non lottery guards, which is not the crux of your question. Is this the worst? Now I'd say like the handful of guys. Tai Tai Washington, Kennedy Chandler who's talked about JD Davidson, Sean Montero, do you count him? Do you count? I would for what it's worth. I would put Jaden ivy in this conversation. See, if you put you in, I mean, there I think it changes it just a little bit. Not a ton, but doesn't make it as the bottom falls off. Do you count usman dang? Like probably not, but no, he's not a point. He's the they're not even the breakers aren't. A little bit better than it could be. If you include ivy, I still think it's the darkest it's been in 5 years anyway. Yeah, if you don't include ivy, it's definitely a fact. If you include IV, so you definitely don't include Jaden hardy, is like a combo like point shooting car. Ceasefire. Yeah. Yeah, I mean Jayden's firing that thing toward the rim. And it'll go a little bit more of the time. If you're lucky. So the names that I'll consider here to answer this question. I will consider ivy. Because I think that he is going to play point. I mean, we have talked about how much better his distribution skills have gotten. Yeah. I think long term he's going to be a point. Thai Thai Washington. Do we count dice and Daniels who's playing point for the elite right? Legally. Yeah, good point. Sure. Throw them in there. Not so throw them in there. Jean Montero may be Kennedy Chandler, maybe JD Davison, although another guy that I think has been a bit underwhelming..
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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..
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"That's kind of the name that I've been wondering. Is he kind of the Sean Marion ish guy that just makes such a significant impact off the ball that he's just insanely productive, even if he's not getting more than 11 shots a game. And I'll leave it this before going to the next question. It's a good comp too because the three point shooting stuff for Sean Mary didn't come on until a little bit later too. His review shot 18% from three. Second year 26% does third year hits 39, there's 30, 34. So it kind of hits that rhythm. It gives kind of like proof to your point. They might take some time for Kendall Brown, but he doesn't have to be like the shooter day one of the NBA. Yeah. Okay, let's take a quick commercial break and then we'll get to your next fact or fiction..
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"I think that his ability to move around who's really at length as well at 6 foot 8 is really kind of transformed their defense. They're just much bigger this year while maintaining the same level of athleticism, like it's crazy and Kendall Brown, the thing that I like about Kendall Brown. And by the way, I would say that I think this is the question that I posed for now is a fact. Everything he does translates so well to the next level. Like he is comfortable handling the ball and attacking a closeout. He is an awesome switch defender who can guard one through four pretty easily. You go back and you watch him deal with cards. He has no problem slide his feet. He has no problem doing that. Passing ability. He's an excellent passer. He's had a tennis game. Do you have a triple double in that nickel steak game? I know he had Tennessee. He was a rebound. Rebounds, yeah. He gets like 7 or 8 points a game just by cutting and grabbing offensive rebounds and getting out in transition. But you put him in the corner like he can pump fake attack a closeout. He's shown the ability to make the occasional three this year. He's not making one per game, but like when he takes them, I'm not going to say I feel great about it because I think that he's still pretty hesitant to take them. But I think the release at the top is pretty clean, even if he has like a little miniature kind of gather and load into the shot hesitation. It's almost like he has like a little hitch where he's trying to find the seams on the ball. This kind of what I've said, I don't even know if that's I don't know if it's accurate that that's what he's trying to do, but that's what it looks like. He's trying to do whenever he tries to catch and go up for a jumper in a semi fluid motion. So he finishes everything at the rim because he's an elite level athlete. He's a great defender. You could put him onto an NBA court right now and I don't think he would look out of place as the fourth or 5th best player on the court. And by the way, that's a really, really high floor, I think. He's ever shoots the ball at a high level. The ceiling is through the roof, right? He's no question. I mean, the guy right now, he's shooting 70% of the field. 77 zero. So he's taking high percentage shots. I know a lot of stuff around the rim. He'll take an occasional three and occasional mid range jumper, but he's not one of these prospects that's having this identity crisis where, oh, man, I'm a three. I thought I was a four. I'm gonna take some jumpers that can prove I can shoot. He's taken, double digit shots once in games and like every game be 6 or 7, 6 or 9, four or 5. He's averaging still like 14 points. Correct. I mean, he had 12 points today on 6 or 7 shooting, not like complete eye popping stuff, but was a difference maker and helped force Michigan state into 1920. That's the type of thing that he does. And he's been in double figure scoring every single game, despite the fact that, for instance, today he took 7 shots against VCU, he took 9 shots against Arizona state. He took 5 shots and still ended up in double figures..
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"That was played at a crawl. I think there were like 60 possessions in that game, probably. And he thrived just making decisions, making the right pass, making the right read, he had 7 assists versus one turnover. The ability to play at different tempos, the ability to play at different play styles really, really stood out to me in a very positive way for Jaden ivy. Okay. Yeah. Any other strong thoughts here on IV before we go? No, that's good. He can play anywhere. He's going to drop in any type of offense, and he showed that place low play fast, play middle past he's there for it. Okay. My fact or fiction, here we go. Kendall Brown has solidified himself as a top 8 pick. In the 2022 NBA draft. I feel like we're enough odds from MGM right now. 8. Well, I had IV and I have to, I have to update my own kind of personal master board here. I had IV up to 5. I had Kendall Brown knife and I'd say one, two guys I bumped down. I want to say fiction, but for right here right now, the draft was tomorrow. I'm going say fact. He has another guy who had those early games and he didn't know who was for real or not because he had the vision. He exploded the rim. He cut backdoor. He moved well in space, but he's continued to follow up and even when the numbers aren't necessarily jaw dropping. He's still making winning plays and getting up and down and putting the pressure on the defense. I felt like paler and credit to Scott drew, you win a national championship. You lose some first roundish guys who were complete culture carriers and they're like, ah, let's kind of run the same playback with different personnel and do some tweaks and here we are again. We just want another championship to start the season. But for Kendall Brown, it's just a piece that has evolved if the jumper gets there too. It's an absolute no brainer for me, but who's on the board right now? It's him versus the next prospect. He's done too much and showed there's still so much just scratching the surface of what he is for me to say he's not there right here on November 26th. Yeah, I kind of got like, I don't wanna say killed, but people questioned this whenever I said it, but I brought up the idea that Baylor could lose Davy on Mitchell and Mark vital to of the finalists for national defensive player of the year. Last year and actually be better defensively this year, I think that they are better at offensively this year than they were last year. Yeah. The cool thing is it's so different though, too, right? It is not as based in Mark vital of being the anchor and rotating. It's like flying around and you don't know which guy in the wing is gonna kind of like get into flexion, jump on a loose ball cause a trap and they just keep coming at you too. Yeah, listen to these numbers in terms of defensive rating so far from Baylor. 84 9 77 four 56 one 73 5 against Stanford, who is a high major team sort of, I guess. 92 against Arizona state 87 four against VCU in 90.8 today against Michigan state. They've yet to allow above 92. Points per 100 possessions in a game this year. They are so good defensively because they fly around and I think Kendall Brown is an enormous piece of that. I think Jeremy shohan is an enormous piece of that as well, by the way..
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"kendall brown" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Matt, you'll support me. It'd be great. So please just go subscribe. You will see there that I've Jade IV at number 5. So I have to say fact on this. On my updated mock draft if only because I just did it on my personal board, I think I would have them 6 to be honest. But his game against North Carolina, I thought was one of the absolute best prospect games. I've seen a player play this year. I would say that a couple others that stand out there, Kendall Brown against Stanford, I thought was outstanding. I thought that Paulo banker against Kentucky in that opener was outstanding. I thought Johnny Davis against Houston was really really good. Kind of sneakily. There have been some other really, really great ones. Don't get me wrong. Osha against Michigan state, I thought was really great too. There have been a number of them, but I really, really thought that Jade and ivy, that three play stretch that he had with like 9 minutes left in the game where grabs and goes, like, hits a cross wing kick out Stefano itch at full speed for a three, grabs and goes, hits. I think Isiah Thompson on a cross corner kick for a wide open three and semi transition. And then takes a dribble hand off on three back to back plays, gets to the basket, finishes through contact and one. Basically like 9 points in a minute that he was responsible for that took a tie game to a 9 point game and it was like it happened before you could blink. It was something that I feel like he could only do. If the question was, is he the best garden in this class? I think I would say yes right now to be honest. He's the guy that I feel most confident in in his game translating to the next level, but I also buy the shooting in a way that some people don't. You look back through his history. He has a positive high school shooting history and you look back at his college numbers and they haven't been particularly strong, but he's been a very confident shooter. I've talked to Big Ten coaches that have been like, yeah, you know, we thought that the play for us was to just go under every ball screen and leave him open. But then you go back and you watch that North Carolina game. I mean, he hit a disgusting hesitation crossover pull up, going toward his right from three that it was like, wait, like if he can do that, then it's just totally curtains. So yeah, I think that right now, I would have to say fact, it's on the borderline, but I would say fact, what do you think? I fact I have them at 5, definitely the top guard for me. I've just been so impressed on how he's worked on his game. Like the passing stuff was never there. Turns less than two assists per game last year it's up to like 4.6.
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"kendall brown" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"I get it, like, teams don't want to go on the road, teams don't want to leave the state unless it's like an MD type of deal, but the campus is the fans, just adds that extra element to that you can't really capture at the pro level. Yeah, no, the atmospheres have been so great. And part of me wonders like is it because the fans just like went so long without being in the arena in like a real tangible way. That the atmosphere is just a little bit better. Or is it just that these games are greater and therefore have been more exciting? I don't know, but I think it's absolutely so, so great. The coaches have decided to play these marquee games. I really hope that they continue going forward into the future. Crispier, who has long been one of the most significant proprietors of staying in Texas and not scheduling marquee games. Like you go back through his Texas tech history. I think he's scheduled to non conference games on the road throughout his tenure there. I loved hearing him say, this is what college basketball is all about. We should schedule these marquee games on the road in Spokane, plague Gonzaga there. The elite team should play one another at college campuses. Like that was so great I thought. So hopefully there's a fact when that schedule came out and said it was at Spokane and now it has to be wrong. Somebody just type that up on that has to be in California and Vegas at Madison Square Garden. I love that quote from him too because he's always sort of said he embodies that toughness and wanted to play anybody and now he's he's actually doing it. It's not at the Hall of Fame classic in Kansas City or something like that. Going to the actual school and it revs up. TV stuff, it revs up fan bases. We had a fake UMass. We beat. We had like a home at home against Yukon. They always beat us, but we caught them one year and then we finished the home at home. Yeah, I don't know if we're going to drive down the road and play that game. Make it happen. The regional rivalry is the natural rivalries. It's good for everybody. It's so so great. Okay, penny, you are up next. Let's dive into your set of questions. Okay, I'm taking a look. I also want people that are listening to know that Sam and I don't know each other's questions. So if we have any overlap, that's right. And if we seem ill prepared that's because we are aside from our knowledge of taking notes, Sam and his 50 page notebook, meet on my every evolving Google Doc, my first question, my first fact or fiction statement is Jaden ivy of perdue has solidified himself as a top 5 pick. Okay, this is a fun one. I don't know if he's solidified himself, but I have him there right now. So let's say let's say fact for now. Look, I listed Jade and ivy at number 5 on my mock draft today that went live. Please go subscribe to the athletic. We have a great deal right now. Go subscribe to the athletic. Use, I think the promo code game theory, you will get a $1 per month for one year subscription. It's the best way to go subscribe..
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"kendall brown" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"There are a lot of exciting freshmen that have been really fun. Guys, I'm trying to think off the top of my head like tyrese hunter and Tara and Armstrong, California baptist. Jordan Hawkins at Connecticut. These guys that weren't necessarily top 50 recruits that have kind of broken out in a really exciting. Number three, I think the transporter is really helped, like the portal being as good as it's been for teams and allowing guys immediate eligibility. It allows more good players to play immediately and on top of that, also, I think just gets guys into better fit situations that make more sense for their skill set. Oftentimes, the first commitment for college players, I think, often can be ego driven and prestige driven. Whereas the second time you commit, I think you're oftentimes looking a bit more about play style and just getting on the court, right? So I think guys tend to find their level and guys to find better tend to find better situations. Whenever they decide to enter the transfer portal, as a general rule, not necessarily as an all encompassing rule. The third thing, I think that like the NI L thing has certainly helped. Borderline players, you know, like Terrence Shannon or hunter Dickinson, or guys like that in college, like that's going to be valuable like no question. Fourth, I think that college coaches have generally been much more aggressive in terms of scheduling this year, which I love. It's great. It's so, so important, I think, to play these really great games. I mean, like you said, so many of these marquee matchups, I can't remember a season where we had so many positive marquee matchups. I really hope that coaches take this to heed. And understand the college basketball has some real momentum right now for the first time that I can personally remember. And I think it's in part because fans are excited about seeing good teams play one another. Having said that the 5th thing is that it's just really good to see fans back in the stands, isn't it? Like, it is, and it's kind of like a segue elite frog where you're saying too. Let's get these games on college campuses. I love neutral site is great. It's my Vegas, several Las Vegas. It'll be a lot cooler if this is a camera indoor. It'll be a lot cooler if this was out in Gonzaga or you saw at UCLA and I complained because at UCLA game against Villanova was on so late. I mean, I was up. I watched it. But polypeptide was rocking. It was like it was ten years ago. These games matter, let's get something at every field house that means that we get something to fog Allen. I love the marky stuff..
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"kendall brown" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"I started the first I didn't start relax. I played the first game and start with had a basket. So that was a exciting beginning to the year. Appeal forget. I'm actually going to go with fact that this is the most exciting. And this might just be recency bias because we haven't had a traditional blast like year or two, but it feels now now today it's also the end of all these tournaments and guys seem cooked. Like they seem absolutely spent out there. Like you can't seems really tired. I just watched Kansas state and date one on a crazy buzz of eater, but oh shy about she had like a fast break toward the end, and he dumped it, but barely, it's just legs. You just played so much of this tight window. But it's been exciting. It's been very unpredictable by Dayton winning today after losing all these buy games and Kansas looking great and therefore and they lose. You've had these marquee matchups where Gonzaga is now going against duke tonight. They played UCLA. UCLA played Villanova, Villanova was at there. And then I was at well he and son. You had almost an NCAA atmosphere for Villanova, Tennessee, Purdue, North Carolina. So a stars are almost aligning with these preseason tournaments, these marquee matches to start really good players at the top and it's wide open. That's what makes college basketball so fun. There's not a team right now. They say that's a definitive champion and we've also had history teach us that things change in the tournament. Like Gonzaga was a runaway, then Baylor was a buzzsaw that they were an underdog there. I'm glad it's off and running. I've been watching basketball since ten o'clock this morning. So it's a beautiful time to be a college basketball fan. Yeah, so I agree with you that I think that it's fact. I think this is the most excited that I've been to watch a college basketball season start in so what I've been doing this job now for 7 years, something like that, 7 or 8 years. And this is definitely the most excited I've ever been about college basketball. And I think there are a few reasons for it. Just in terms of the actual logistics behind why this is happening. So you just kind of look at a number of the things that are happening within the ecosystem of college basketball. Players are older. This year, obviously, there's not as much. There are fewer mistakes. It feels like fewer like mind numbing like disaster plays from freshmen. And that's because it's been harder for freshmen to break into the lineup. Having said that there are also some really, really fun freshmen that this 2021 freshman class, you know, better than I do obviously. I would say that it wasn't maligned, but it wasn't a line because there was some real depth there for teams to get excited about. Like guys that would be ranked around a hundred. Maybe the hundredth ranked player was probably a little bit better this year than what the average is. But the top end, I think, was a little bit less exciting for people and were as big of the reason for that is why because we've been saying for a while that there isn't a number one pick in the 2022 NBA draft realistically right now. So I think that this freshman class has been pretty strong in terms of depth..