17 Burst results for "Max Christie"
BBALL BREAKDOWN Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on BBALL BREAKDOWN Podcast
"They view him as a three and D prospect down the road. He did not shoot the ball well in summer league and I talked to him about that and sort of the mental component of adjusting offensively to the NBA level and kind of how you deal with not shooting the ball well and he kind of talked about some of those things compounding, but if you have any interest in the Lakers or max Christie definitely check that out on the athletic. Next week I'll have a story on the depth chart and talking to some people about how they see the current rotation playing out. So and then I also had a recent Austin Reeves feature a couple of weeks ago kind of talking about him and the season he had and what he's been working on for next season. So definitely check all those out on the athletic check me out on social at yovon buja, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, so yeah, man, thank you for having me on. Great talk. Awesome. I'm on. I'm on SnapChat, by the way. Go out there and people are like flocking to SnapChat all of a sudden. So go watch all of our videos there. I'm making like three and a half minute versions and people seem to love them. So check it out there. But again, make sure you check out all bond writes. The Austin Reed space was really, really good. I love the stuff you talked about with his brother, who's also a pro. You can imagine them going at it and the one on one. You describe that a little bit like this in the video of that one. And who's the better player there. But, you know, we'll have to keep, we'll come back and talk about awesome reasons another time because he was one of those guys a little bit like Caruso, who I didn't think was an NBA player. And through the course of at least recruits, a couple of years kind of convinced me and certainly is now convinced me completely. And then Reeves comes in there again. I'm like, yeah, he's only on the floor because Kendrick nunn is heard and because Trevor Reeves always had so many injuries. But yeah, listen, LeBron loves him for a reason. In the Bron loves this guy, right? Yeah. Yeah, no. He's solid. It's funny.
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"max christie" Discussed on Cancelled
"It's going to be important for him to get that shot to start falling. Again, not for the same reasons as Taylor Horton Tucker though because he's more of a Danny Green style where his ability to stretch a defense is going to be important. Otherwise, if he can't, then his defensive abilities on the other end are going to go to waste because you're not going to be able to have him on the floor offensively. Nobody's going to defend him. If he can shoot a respectable percentage from three, and I do believe he ultimately will, he could be a three and D defender in the mold of the aforementioned Jay Crowder, a Danny Green can be more of a two guard version of that two or three. I think that's ultimately what we're looking at here with max Christie, but he's got to be able to knock down that shot. Again, I'm not out on him, but it just wasn't a great summer. And a lot of his value on the offensive end of the floor is going to be tied to that shooting percentage. So he's got to get better there. But again, the Lakers invested the 35th pick in the draft. They traded up. They paid cash. They gave up a second round pick as well a future second in order to get him. They're going to do what they can to develop him. It just was a little bit underwhelming of a summerly debut despite the admittedly really good defense from max Christie. So something to watch between now and preseason can max Christie get that shot falling in 19 years old wouldn't shock me if he came out in September when we start, well, I guess October 1st week of October is preseason. If he comes out at that point and his shot is looking a bit better, he's looking a bit more confident because I know he's going to put in the work. But again, summer league, a little bit shaky for the 35th pick. Let's talk a bit about Kendrick nunn. So
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"max christie" Discussed on Cancelled
"So we spent a couple seasons ago. The 2019 2020 season, we spent a good chunk of the season explaining why Danny Green was valuable. Because he doesn't do a lot of stuff that pops off the floor to you. Right? A lot of his value comes with like his off ball defense and stuff like that. Max Christie is like that. And in terms of his skill set, what he's ultimately going to bring, the stuff that he does really well, particularly right now, defensively, it's not always stuff that shows up in the stat sheet or stuff that is going to pop off the screen. So it's going to be easy to miss. Now I won't say that he was incredible in summer league. I wish he would have shot better, just like everybody does. But I think the stuff that he did really well is stuff that a lot of people would miss. And that's unfortunate, but I still think in 19 and that wingspan, he's got something. If it all clicks with him, he could wind up being a pretty valuable three and D style player. The skill set is very obvious. It's just can he get it to a high enough level. And again, 19 years old, it's not going to be this season. It might be next season. It might be the season after we'll find out, but you can't look at him and say, this is a guy that you can just plug in right away. I don't think he's that. No, no, and I'm just saying he's that. I had so leave me alone, but again, and here's my last thing on Christie, because you brought up the defense in the off ball stuff that he does. I brought this up in the playback stream we did, again, appreciate him by the came in from that always a ton of fun. If you watch, you just closely watch Christie play defense, or you watch film, find me a dozen or a large group of players that guard from behind better than max Christie. I'm saying I'm legit saying that. As like a lock and trail guy. It's a lock in trail guy. Gotcha. You can not. You can maybe find like, whoever the ten best defenders are in basketball, a perimeter, probably those guys, and then after that, I dare you to find me like 5 or 5 more. That's how good Christie is of being a lock and trail. And maybe I'm over exaggerating, but yeah, so whatever. Let's move on. I'm Harris said you guys should try to do a poll like huff or Gabriel. I don't have a poll capability right now or if I do, that would be a cool feature actually. Yeah. I'm looking to see if there happens to be anything, but I do not see that capability in here. I can put one up on our YouTube channel, though. I can put one up on the YouTube channel to run it, but as far as one that gets everybody in from Facebook and all of that. I'll do one on YouTube after the
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"max christie" Discussed on Cancelled
"The problem is what you can do is you can take that mid level exception and you can take your second round pick or your undrafted player, whether it was Taylor Horton Tucker, Austin Reeves. In this case, max Christie, you can offer that to them. And you can sign them to a three or deal to a four year deal. And then you've got that player on a minimum salary for three or four years. Now, I know people are looking at max Christie and saying, why would you do that? He has it looked that good in summary. I would contend he's actually looked really good defensively, but on the offensive end, which is where we probably pay the most attention. Yeah, look, the shot making hasn't been there. The decision making hasn't really been there. So people are looking at it right now and saying, well, why would you want to give them more than a two year contract? But look, this is how you wind up in an advantageous situation if you are an organization. If you give a guy a three year deal a four year deal and you understand that it's going to take some time for him to develop, then in year three, in year four, when that guy gets through The Rookie struggles, gets his legs under him and then finally starts to really pop. Then next thing you know, you've got a guy that's producing well above his contract value and that's how you can win the financial game in the NBA. If you're only offering a two year deal, then what happens with max Christie is he goes through The Rookie struggles. He starts to look a little better in his second year. And then you've got to pay him. You got to pay and the same thing happened with Taylor Horton Tucker. Same thing's going to happen with Austin Reeves next summer. The Lakers are going to have to pay him. Why? Because they didn't offer that three year deal. Here's the thing, your risk is very low in that situation. Let's say you pay a guy three years, four years. He's a complete bust. It doesn't work. It's a minimum contract. Who cares?
Lakers Nation Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"All right, let me see what else we've got going on here. You know, one of the things we would be remiss if we didn't talk about this before we ended the show. The summer league squad. We talked a little bit about Cole swider, The Amazing Spider-Man. But what are your thoughts on sbj? Scottie Pippen junior, he's, he's impressing me, not to say he's been this just breakout star or anything. But he's been better than I thought that he was going to be coming in. So I tweeted out last night, it was very random it was kind of late too. Surprise scale our responses on it. Basically, as I say, what's the general consensus of Scottie Pippen junior a month Lakers Twitter and bat in an NBA fans? A lot of those kind of the consensus always a good player, you know, blah blah blah. He's performing well as a couple of Nintendo thinks he's a workup on good two way player. He's done well in some league yada, yada, yada. I think he's, I think he's been fine. I think he's a good score who really does a great job of drawing contact and getting to the free throw line. I think he has some defensive instincts, but I do think people need to pipe it down a little bit. I've seen a lot of people say, hey, give the last Ross response to him. He should be playing rotation minutes. Pipe it down. I won't even say that about Christie, which everybody thinks I am the biggest max Christie fan in the world. I want you to say that about him. Let's pipe it down a little bit. I just think there's a lot of things they need to work on. They used a little bit raw. I think he is a little out of control, not Russell Westbrook esque, but kind of, he gets out of control and transition with driving to the basket. He tries to go for the home run passes instead of, hey, just a dude right next to you. Hit the single, maybe we'll get a home run. If he hits the three or whatever. Just out of place sometimes defensively gets blown by. I just think there's a lot of, there's a lot of work that needs to be done, which is okay. He's a summer league player who got a two way contract, this is not the end of the world. But I think he needs some development and I just temper some of your expectations. People are getting a little too wild, but don't want to sound like a Debbie downer while it's got.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"It was a lottery pick last year, who would not only was a lottery pick, but has now a year of NBA experience under his belt and max did not look out of his element at all defending Moses moody. I think that was the biggest takeaway in regards to the Lakers 35th pick. Of course. And I was high on max Christie. I think I thought day one was gonna be really good defender. I didn't think it was gonna be that good. I thought tonight what he showed again is the second game of summer league, blah, blah, blah. But I don't think anybody could really expect a rookie a 19 year old player playing his second game against semi MBA competition, locking up and shutting down. For the most part, an NBA rotation player, because that's what Moses moody was last season was a rotation player who was kind of in and out based on some of the injuries and situations that the warriors had. He played a law in that Dallas series, I recall so you're facing an MBA player in max Christie held his own and then some his defense of ability and also, I think everything I showed in the breakdown on max Christie, we saw tonight, especially defensively, his ability, and it stands out to Trevor because you watched max Christie like fight around squeeze and maneuver around screens that he watched somebody else, yeah, this is different. There was the one play Christie gets put into a pick and roll with Moses moody as the ball handler. He gets screened. He locks in and trails behind moody stays in the play and then moody tried a little dump off pass when I forget who the big was. Maybe it was Jane off. I'm not sure. It comes over to contest moody and max Christie is right there stepping into that lane to get the steel. It was just a smart play and it was exactly what we've been talking about with him defensively. So that was great to see. And the chat's talking about he's a low key player. Yeah, he's an underrated passer in playmaker as well out of ball screen. So I thought this was a great performance. I didn't fully watch the earth game, but I'm a little bothered like max, you gotta shoot a little bit more like I feel like you got a couple of looks. They passed down. I'm hoping that's not him getting in his own head a little bit after the first game. I just shoot, man. Shooter shoot. And I thought he had a couple of looks that he probably should have shot, but it's okay. So second game, I think you'll just and again, tonight, defensively, he was incredible. Yeah, absolutely. Demetrius Jones, would you rather have the Indiana trade or Kyrie so the union trade being some rumored deal miles Turner and buddy healed? Kyrie might expect the long-term contract at the end of the season. What do you think, Sean? Would you rather just do a trade for straight up, just do Kyrie Irving Russell Westbrook for Russ and picks or whatever it is for Kyrie and it's Seth curry or Joe Harris, something like that, or would you rather just do the Indiana trade that we've heard is maybe the backup plan, which is miles Turner and or buddy healed? That Kyrie Irving deal for short, especially if the asking price in terms of picks is even the same or more brandy and which is what we've heard from past room or deals with the pacers. It's kind of Kyrie gives you a chance to win a title..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"max christie" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Where I'm like, this dude's like a week from being out of the league. That's the kind of the challenge. These numbers do just so we're all on the same page. These numbers that you're seeing here, these are the actual salary amounts. These cap hits will be slightly lower. Those will be reflected on the team salary pages on spa track when we update the team salary pages. So you'll see that there and then. But in this case, so the big one is Lonnie walker. I would have liked to have seen them get him to take slightly less to be able to give max Christie a three or four year deal. That would have been ideal. But I don't want to do it as much as like losing him over that. That's not worth it. To me, you know, in that situation. So this is not one where you're going to freak out all over, you know, all right, well, couldn't get max Christie more than a two year deal. You can work things out. There's a ways to make that work. They'll probably give him an option on the second year that they can decline. Then make them restricted, make a longer deal the next time around. And they'll figure out a way to do that. But I like Lonnie walker for them. I think kind of nice to have another on ball creator. I can really go get a bucket, especially on that second unit. It felt like so many times for the Lakers last year, the second unit just fell apart once the game guys were out there. They couldn't score at all. So I think I have them walker there. It's good for that. I think won toscano Anderson is a fantastic signing. I think he's your big switchy wing. I think he is going to play a ton for this team. And I think by the end of the year, he's probably the top wing coming off the bench. If not starting. I mean, let's see. Trades. We don't know, but yeah. Yeah, and I like, I like that as well. 6 6 for one just got away Anderson. So he can certainly do that..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Could see him in more of a role with the bench unit. But sure, is he going to accept that? All right, yeah, there's your rotation, right? You start him out 5 first 5 minutes, LeBron AD, do their stuff, sit them both, have rest with the bench unit, have that all the way up from the beginning of the second, maybe a couple of minutes in the fourth, and then you go back to the stars. And you close that with that line up. Yeah. That would be the path. Billy will rusty worth a lot more midway through. If he plays well, if he plays well, then see right now, every team that tries to that the Lakers tried to trade with, just say, you're desperate, give us your first. That's the conversation, right? But if he plays, if he at least fits a little bit, the Lakers can go into that negotiation and say, yeah, I mean, hey, we'll give you a big expiring contract, but we don't have to. Like he's fitting okay, so, you know, we're not giving up future first or anything like that. It changes your leverage. It's not so much that he's more valuable. It just changes how much you actually need to pull off a deal. Right. I think Russ is technically a worth a lot more if one of these teams with long-term salary struggles and is looking like a play on team or just going to miss the playoffs outright. That's probably when you can strike with the red deal. Yeah. I was just thinking about this. If they bring monk back, does that mean they're like really high on max Christie potentially making it impact year one? If that's the case, I don't mind it, per se. But I think there's some steps you have to go through to get there, but I don't think max is going to play much year one, to be honest. I think if he does, and again,.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"How are you doing? I'm doing all right, Trevor. As always, thanks for having me back on. And I think the streak is over. Hopefully some magic is left in there and something can get done by the end of the week though. So you predicted the Lakers would pick Darby to him his head coach. You predicted max Christie with 35th pick, both those things came true. You also said Kyrie would be a Laker by Sunday. That does not look like it's going to happen. So what happened today? How did this all go down? Why is Kyrie Irving now staying with the Brooklyn Nets? Well, first off, I'm a bonehead for changing it because my original prediction or my original thought, the whole time was being staying in Brooklyn, then all of these reports. I bought it. I bought it too. Especially after all the reports from shams, the guilds had a couple of things that came out today as well. Oh, now come on, this Kyrie about to be a Laker. And then Kyrie opsin. I think sham supports that he's intending on bypassing potential trade options, stay committed for the fourth year with Kevin Durant. I think the fact that he wants to take a medic to Katie is for the least upcoming year. The last year under contract, I think that kind of make me think, yeah, this is probably not going to happen. Technically, it's still possible. They could do it opt in entry, which he did. Do we opted into his contract? And they could trade them, but the Lakers, I'm sorry, the nets have no interest. This seems in anything the Lakers can offer right now. Russell. Russell Westbrook. Right. I mean, because that's what would have to be. And that's not even shot at brush. That's just, that's what would have to be in the trade would be Russell Westbrook. When we talked about Russ to a third team, 13 sending stuff to the nets, but that's complicated hard to figure out. But.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"For everything Lakers. It's fun Friday. Let's go. Post draft fallout, the NBA draft last night was a blast if you're with us over on the NBA front office show. That was a lot of fun. We got to talk a lot about the Lakers, all the pick that they made at 35 with max Christie. We got to talk about undrafted free agents. We also got to break down the entire draft with Sean Davis and Keith Smith. Today, we're going to talk about the Lakers where they go from here. We'll talk them here. We'll talk a little bit about their draft as well. The players that they brought in, talk about summer league, we'll talk about, well, I have a feeling we'll talk a little bit about Russell Westbrook, trade possibilities, all that. And so much more. Thank you guys for joining me coming in from YouTube from Twitter from Facebook. It is a solo show just me, but never really just me. It's me and all of you who are joining in live. If you're listening to the podcast version of this over on Apple podcast Spotify, wherever it is that you list a podcast, please make sure that you do rate review and subscribe. Already seeing a lot of questions and comments coming in, people want to talk, Lakers, basketball, I guess, because I have a feeling we're going to spend a lot of time on the trade possibilities and the Kyrie Irving situation. Let's talk a little bit about the draft. So the Lakers. First and foremost, this is what we were hoping would happen. They traded into the draft. They got the 35th pick. That's what we wanted. We wanted to see the Lakers take the money that they still had sitting left over begging to be used and by a draft pick with it. And they did. Now they had to give up a future second, but when you're getting 35th pick, yeah, usually it's the case. You got to give up. Something more than just cash and the Lakers did that. And they got a guy that they wanted rob pelinka talked about it in his presser after the draft said, essentially, they had a group of players that they believed would be there at 35. And would not be there if they got a later pick. And max Christie was one of those guys that they really had their eye on. I think this is an interesting pick for the Lakers. I like it. I like, of course, time will tell if it works out. But essentially, if it works, in my mind, you're getting kind of a player and look, he's 19. We'll see how he develops. But right now, what I envisioned for him in this can change what I envisioned for max kirstie right now is something between kentavious Caldwell Pope and Danny Green. If that makes sense to go with players at Lakers fans would be familiar with three and D style player, but he's also fairly adept at coming off of curls. He's got great balance. He really squares his shoulders beautiful, beautiful shooting stroke. I mean, I'm talking like Steve Makai Luke had a beautiful shooting stroke.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"max christie" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"You're going to have, you're going to be able to play the yeast only 19 card like Celtics and Jason Tatum. And continue to do nowadays, even though he's 24. He's only 24. It's still the joke is that he's only 19, but we'll run with it. But yeah, I like the two. I thought that was a good get. There, but plenty more to come on the Lakers. I saw some, you know, we don't need a young project, but you kind of do. Yeah, it's not bad. Even if max Christie ends up 11th, 12, 13, 14, 15th guy on your roster, that's not a bad thing, right? You have them. A little lower on your eye, probably more 13 to 15. But lower on your offs are probably play some in south bay. Develop them and do your thing that they've done all right. Would that in the past? So by, you know, you need to at least sell young development products for sure. All right, the Memphis cruise from active night for the grizzlies. They had two first round picks. They flipped and moved and traded and did all sorts of stuff, and still finished with two players picked in the first round. But they also picked up a player in the second round and they picked up Danny Green kind of sorta we'll see. But anyway, what they did in the draft, Jake laravia, out of weak force, Ford with range, can do a lot of different things. Think of kinda Kylie Anderson, but obviously clearly much, much younger. I blew this on our live show, but he is younger than I initially thought. There were reports, apparently, somehow, something happened where Google had him. And that was wrong, and they found out just weeks before the draft and had to tell everybody like, no, no, no, no, no. He's not, he's 20. 'cause that matters in the draft. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. The 1999 birth year in his birth year is actually 2001. David roddy, too. The other guy, that's the guy that got with the pick from Philadelphia. Rugged forward scoring kind of guy he's kind of been the guy who's been great in college, but then those guys don't always translate to the pros, but Memphis has had success with those guys in the past, so he kind of like cam. And then they bought a pick from San Antonio with a future second and they got Kennedy Chandler. I'm a point guard. So I think what the grizzlies did was, oh, I'm sorry, and then Vince Williams, a wing out of VCU, one of the four seniors drafted. He went with the 47th pick. I guess his app might be more of a two way situation. But what Memphis did here was, by virtue of trading the Anthony Melton, and then replacing him with cheaper salary, they kind of protected themselves or opened the door if they decide Kyle Anderson, thanks for what you've done. Moving on, tires Jones, little expensive for what we want to do, moving on. They've kind of now added their depth behind those guys plus things up in Memphis, I don't know what you've seen or not. Maybe this is already out there, maybe it's not. They can pretty easily create in the range of about $23 million of cap space. Which is kind of terrifying. Yeah. How do they spend that on those?.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"But at the NBA level, I haven't been able to fall in love with him, though, 'cause he's just hasn't been efficient from outside the paint. So in that sense, I don't love the pick. I don't love him as a prospect, but I mean 6 four 6 5 can post up for you too. It'll be intriguing to see how they use him next to Bradley Beal. If they bring Beal back, I'm sure we're gonna see a lot more of the off ball stuff like we did when he was with John wall. I think my fear with him are solo is he's like two inches too short for where I want him to be. And I worry about the short shooting guards sometimes. I'm a Gary Harris was like the perfect example. It's like 6 foot 6 Gary Harris would have been unbelievable. 6 foot three Gary Harris. Always felt like an issue and Davis just seems he measured, he measured better than you might have thought, though, because I felt like when I watched him play, again, I think it's really like when I watch ivy and somebody else is supposedly the same size as him. I go, I don't know, I've just looks like a bigger person to me. The way he's built. Some of the other stuff. Davis measured just under 6 6, all right? And for those reasons. Is that true? Or no sneakers? No, but it's the sneakers thing, which is what we use across the board still. I remember they said they were going to change at KO, but they were back to sneakers now for NBA measurements. Well, the thing is, is what everybody else coming in was with the sneaker measurement. I don't know then why we're supposed to treat the newest class as two inches shorter inch and a half shorter across the board. It doesn't make any sense. And we also keep everybody on the sneaker measurement. No matter how much taller they get, you know, there's guys that grow after the fact. So he's also got the 6 and a half feet, it's wingspan, which can make up for some of that size. Here's what's important about the shooting numbers. All right. He was 43 and 30%. All right, 43 overall 30.6 from three four attempts per game. Last season is a freshman he was 44 and 39% from three in the splits, less shots. But this was not a very good Wisconsin team. And he had to save their ass on so many possessions that I look at some numbers with players and I go, okay, is this a great reflection of who he is as a shooter? Hell, like max Christie from Michigan state. I like his form. He's never goes in. And maybe we'll get to him later in the first round. With Davis, he takes some bad shots, but he also had to take a lot of bad shots. So I don't know if that shooting number is a true reflection to him. His rebounding is insane. He plays basketball like a football player. So I think the mental part of it, he has a chance, but I'm with you. I always felt like he was as a starting guard in the NBA for ten years. That would be pretty amazing because I'm not sure that's what I see right now. Reboot your credit card with Apple card. It gives you daily cash back real cash you get every day on any purchase you make..
Game Theory Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"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..
Game Theory Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"So here would be my question like are you more excited about Payton Watson or max Christie with Christie as shown over the last little while? Just because Peyton saws in the defense and I think the versatility defensively that he brings and paired with the offensive maximum grape, but I would take paid Watson or him right now. I am more excited about max because do it. Max has, you know, we talk about paid Watson's defense and Payton's a better defender, like he's stronger. But like Michigan state has max Christie gard the toughest guy on the opposing wing. Like he's taking a really, really tough assignments every night and he's doing a pretty good job, I think. Kind of has to do though too, right? Next to Tyson walker, like types of walkers, not going to guard up the lineup, like he has to do. You could use Gabe Brown. Like, yeah, pretty, and then like slide around guys. There are other things you could do to make it work, but he's doing it, and he's doing it well, I think. He's defending in a pretty reasonably high clip. At 16 points against Michigan on 5 of 8 shooting, three three from the line. He had, you know, 12 points against Wisconsin. He had 16 against Minnesota at 21 against Nebraska, like he's had some really positive games. But let me spit it back on you. His last 5 games from the field. 5 or 8, one for 8, 5 or 7, one for 8, 7 for 12. If the consistency comes around, we get more of those 5 a games with the very pretty shooting mechanics, which he gets to fairly easily fairly comfortably regardless of what the kind of like screening and shooting action is. I get it. I mean, he had a three and was fouled in that Michigan game and didn't seem to face him. And then he can drive. He can spin and get to his move. It has a little bit of fadeaways can stop at a dime for pull ups, talk about who guards the other team's best weighing our guard. And then you saw some of the dog in him. Late I mean, he was blocked by Musa diabate. They came down they're jabber and he's like, hey, man, scoreboard. You're not 50. Shut up. You're not 15, like get over it. I didn't know max really had that..
Game Theory Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Like maybe if he is a wide open spot three, but I definitely don't buy him off a pull ups right now. I don't love his defense, either, but they often play him on like twos and threes as opposed to ones. Just because he's a little bit bigger than javon early and even at times like Jaden shackelford depending on what the matchup is across the two and three position, they just play small. Yeah, this is like a pure, let's hope the athleticism comes together because his feel is fine. I think like he sees the game. He's just like inexperienced from having play not played a ton of high level basketball yet. He comes from a very small school in Alabama and just hasn't gotten that experience. So we'll see. I think that this is a pure will see pick in a pure take him in prey. Yeah, I've cooled on him. What it's attracted me in the open court, he's one of the top picks. I'd say like with Atari ease and type. Once a half court game, uneasy, the reads from pick and roll are touch and go. But 8 turnover game against Tennessee really stuck out to me. I want to be able to capture that speed and tools and stuff while showing how to be a change of pace player. It has to be more than three to four while plays a game. It'd be a little bit more of a combo, shot needs to get there. Yep. Okay. You are up at number 28. This is a pre draft thing and a guy said we weren't going to draft. I'm still going to do it. I'm going to take max Christie out of Michigan state here. I know he's off your board. I know why. Michigan states won 7 straight, his emergence has been one of the main reasons spent double figures, 5 of those 7 games looks more comfortable in that role he is now. He's knocking down threes in the move. Getting to the free throw line a little bit, being active on the glass. He's not ready. He needs strength. He's playing time. Take him ahead of schedule knowing he'll progress in your G league affiliate with your right developmental coaches and whole piece..
Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"For all these teams, I think it's awesome, but it is hard when Michigan states got some unproven feasts and some freshman plan and their talented max Christie is really talented. Yes. But we were talking yesterday. He just kind of blended it. And honestly, when you look at their roster for Michigan state, he needs to be a star. I really think he need 'cause you have like Joey Hauser. Marcus Bingham gave Brown. What we saw from Tyson walker, they're really good in their roles. But I'm looking at this and at times they're throwing the ball into Marcus Bingham and like as if he's shack. And he's gotten better, but I just don't feel like that's a sustainable way to beat good teams. What is with that with that group rob, what do you do? What is the number one option? Because Tyson walker wasn't good and you can tell. AJ Hogarth was pretty good. He pushed the ball, he did some good things. You know, Malik hall was where you go with you. I have before the game I would have said, it's gonna have to be max Christie. Because I watched the exhibition game and he looked really good and you read some of the stuff that Tom has always put out about how he thinks he's gonna be a star and I mean, all the recruiting stuff and he's got the tools. There's no doubt. And for a freshman you get thrown into that atmosphere and now, I mean, the duke freshman did, and they look pretty exactly. But I just think that I look at their team and I'm like, they are missing a cassius Winston. And if you had a guy like that, and then you put these guys around him? They'd be great. But they are missing right now and maybe mass Christie grows into that. But they're missing a star. Whereas I feel like the other elite teams in college basketball, they have one. Michigan state to me looked like the 7th best team in the big town. You know, like maybe they finished a little better, you know, maybe it's joking, can work it so they finish 5th or 6, but to me, when you watch them, you just said, unless max Chris Christie, all of a sudden becomes an alpha dog, which I don't think that happens overnight. That'll take time. Maybe, you know, by Big Ten play, he'll be better. Right. And I will say it is not fair for us to judge Tyson walker off of one game under she gets 2000 the first half and you're thrown into the biggest game of New York..
Game Theory Podcast
"max christie" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"He still had ten shot attempts with three for ten he had 9 points two four from three rounds two turners, just just looked like a freshman. He did. I mean, he missed his first couple of jumpers. I like his feet, he's got to rip through well, baseline, and mist. And he didn't worry about it. He kept firing. He wasn't scared. He finally knocked down like his 5th shot from the top of the key. And then he kicked out or shot or two, which I thought was the right decision, which he didn't force, like some of those past, some of those shots that he passed out to kick out in high school at rolling Meadows in Illinois. He just like go up because he would do everything, so you could tell that he sort of like evolved his game already under coaches and coaches allude to that and practices and talk to NBA scouts that he's pulled him and said, hey, you know, you're not going to take as many wild shots here. That's not the way we do things. But yeah, there wasn't like a ton of stuff necessarily drawn off for him. He did kind of have like a baby hook in the way and he missed, but I liked how he uses length to extend. He cut baseline the second half, kind of made his own look for a short lay in and similar to Thai Thai just overmatched strength wise, even from like the gar possession. If we were texting during the game, he had to get a rebound, just kind of got like knocked out of the way. I'm not worried. I like the Shoal, the tools. I like the shot making. I like the offensive second side creation that is able to do. It's going to take time. The concerns I had were still there, but it's more just about like physical concerns, as opposed to his actual basketball ability. Yeah, and by the way, this doesn't get easy. For Michigan state. They play western Michigan, their next game, but they play butler in a basically a week because today is Wednesday now. The week after that, they play Loyola Chicago, who's going to fucking get in his shit. Basically. The week after that, they play Louisville, who those guys are going to try and really get into his Jersey and bother him. So we're going to learn a lot about max Christie in the coming weeks here. I don't understand why their offense wasn't as opposed to having Christie stand in the corner for the most part and like baseline cut and wait for spot ups, like I was waiting for, okay, let's run some like pin downs for Christine Gabe Brown. Right. To try and get either mismatches to drive or just open three point shots. Right?.