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New York In A Brunson State Of Mind · Front Runner Podcast Collective

• 0:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: New York.
• 0:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You waited fifty-three years for this, and it finally happened.
• 0:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: About that for a second.
• 0:30
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The sacrifice that it takes in an NBA championship.
• 0:35
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Go.
• 0:37
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: What's good everybody?
• 0:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Welcome to Frontrunner Podcast Collective.
• 0:57
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This is where we talk like friends, argue like cousins, and still walk out smarter than we came in.
• 1:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Convinced, I am your host, your occasional hoop therapist, and your absolutely favorite bad influence when it comes to completely reckless NBA overreactions, that low key make perfect sense.
• 1:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We are setting the table.
• 1:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We're getting all the film room observations, grown conversations about how players, coaches, and front office are actually moving in this time continuum that we call hoop life.
• 1:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The blank checks, the contracts, the locker room rumors, the PR spin with the actual verify receipts.
• 1:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We're bringing you the jokes, the advanced math, and the exact barbershop ammo.
• 1:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You need to take back straight to your group chest and completely nuke the argument.
• 1:59
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Numbers and a point of view.
• 2:01
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This is your spot.
• 2:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Let's go.
• 2:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We are going to do the New York Spurs an autopsy on what happened.
• 2:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But we're going to celebrate the New York Knicks for a second.
• 2:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Okay, and how we're going to do that is one one way and one way only.
• 2:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We're going to start from the beginning.
• 2:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: New York sits on top of the basketball world because of one man who chose a ring over the back.
• 2:37
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Jalen Brunson.
• 2:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Remember that he signed the contract for four years, 104 million.
• 2:45
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Then he took an extension for four years, 156 million.
• 2:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But he left 113 million dollars on the table for roster flexibility that built the championship core around him.
• 3:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So the New York Knicks, after 53 years of walking through the desert, made it out and made it out with the Larry O'Brien trophy.
• 3:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now if you ask anybody, if you ask anybody who works around this business who is really in tune with what's going on, you ask them about any all NBA player taking less money.
• 3:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Not not just a haircut, not just uh, you know, a slight underpay.
• 3:37
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We're talking about a lot of money.
• 3:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We're talking about a hundred over a hundred million dollars.
• 3:43
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The answer in the modern era is zero.
• 3:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They kept Hart, which they traded for him in 2023, the deadline.
• 3:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They got Bridges.
• 3:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: What New York said about the picks now?
• 3:59
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Eft and picks, that's what they say.
• 4:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They get Mikhail Bridges from Brooklyn.
• 4:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They gave up a bunch of first round picks.
• 4:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And then they went out and got Carl Anthony Towns.
• 4:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And the reason why I want to bring up that situation is this.
• 4:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The forgotten villainovanick, shouts out to our guy, Dante DiVincenzo, who's going through his Achilles injury and what have you.
• 4:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Well, he was basically the uh the casualty of war to bring in the absolute peace that they needed to allow Jalen Brunson to be able to probe the paint like he does, be able to go ahead and put on his myriad of moves and allow him to just do magic in the paint.
• 4:51
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because of Carl Anthony Towns' spacing capabilities, the New York Knicks are a championship team at this present time.
• 5:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It all flows back to Jalen Brunson, who was the finals MVP.
• 5:09
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Make no mistake about it.
• 5:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We live in an era where you can say that the little guy can't win a championship.
• 5:18
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Well, if the team is built around him specifically, it's curtailed to him and to him only, you can win.
• 5:30
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So there is a pathway for the small guard to win.
• 5:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But Jalen Brunson's numbers in the finals was ridiculous.
• 5:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: 32.6 points a game, 4.2 rebounds, 4.6 assists.
• 5:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: In the game 5 clincher, my man scored 45 points.
• 5:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I repeat, 45 points.
• 5:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: 45, by the way, of the 94.
• 5:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So it wasn't just 45, and they put up 136.
• 6:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: No, no, no.
• 6:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They needed every point that he could score.
• 6:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He shot over 50% in that game, 14 of 27 from the field.
• 6:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But what my wife will love more than anything on this planet.
• 6:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Free throws in her mind are free.
• 6:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: 13 of 15 from the free throw line.
• 6:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He scored 15 of his team's final push in the fourth quarter.
• 6:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: In game five.
• 6:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They trailed by 10, by the way.
• 6:35
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And we'll get into that because that's a that's an overlapping narrative that continued to happen during this series.
• 6:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Tieding NBA record for points by a rogue player in a series clinching game.
• 6:51
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was beaten down very badly.
• 6:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He hobbled off the court after landing on Wimby's foot in the third quarter, which was clearly a landing zone violation.
• 7:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And we'll get to Wimby a little bit later as we talk about the San Antonio Spurs.
• 7:09
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: History will tell us that guards, especially small guards, don't win in the NBA.
• 7:19
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But our guy standing at, they list him as 6'2.
• 7:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We know he's not 6'2.
• 7:25
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's probably more like 5'11, 6 feet at the most.
• 7:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But he's one of four players in NBA history to win a finals MVP.
• 7:37
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That height or shorter.
• 7:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He joins a list of Isaiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons back in the day, the Bad Boys.
• 7:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs.
• 7:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And Stephen Curry.
• 7:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You might have heard of him, right?
• 7:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The most dangerous shooter in all of the NBA.
• 8:01
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The greatest shooter in NBA history.
• 8:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That guy.
• 8:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Coach Mike Brown said this.
• 8:05
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Everybody kind of mentions his name in passing.
• 8:09
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They do not seriously enough, but he's a freaking one A.
• 8:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's a he's an MVP candidate all the time.
• 8:18
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And um Brunson said this.
• 8:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I put in the time and the effort to be the best player I can be for this team and for this organization.
• 8:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And that's another running narrative with Jalen Brunson, is that he was uh He was so humble through the whole situation.
• 8:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He never got up, he never got down, uh when the we had interviews and what what have you.
• 8:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He seemed very poised in every aspect of the situation, which is not lost on me.
• 8:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's one of those things that you sit here, you think about, and you go, look at the other side, and we'll get there.
• 9:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Trust me, we'll get there.
• 9:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If you're tuning in to hear what happened to San Antonio, we will get to the mess a little bit later.
• 9:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Shout out to Leon Rose, the next president, who came over as an agent.
• 9:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was an agent, he was a top agent at CAA.
• 9:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He had uh he decided to go ahead and do the agent to front office move, which sometimes works, sometimes it doesn't.
• 9:35
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Leon Rose never talks to the media.
• 9:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Like never.
• 9:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's been there six years.
• 9:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I think he's put out a couple statements, but Leon Rose getting in front of Mike just doesn't happen.
• 9:49
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But shouts out to him because he constructed this team around Jalen Brunson.
• 9:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was Brunson's agent before taking over the GM job.
• 10:01
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's Jalen's godfather, by the way.
• 10:05
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Rick Brunson, his dad, which was another uh storyline in this NBA finals.
• 10:13
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He obviously was on the coaching staff, and he was, you know, played for the Knicks in 1999, which was their last finals appearance, which is crazy.
• 10:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I walked right to to half court and shook Mick Johnson's hand and then turned around, and my dad was there, and it felt emotional from that point on.
• 10:35
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Words from Jalen Brunson.
• 10:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now we can talk about the Nova Knicks, but Josh Hart's contributions, Mikel Bridges' contributions, cannot be overlooked.
• 10:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They all obviously played together, they won national titles together.
• 10:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I cannot believe it.
• 10:58
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: How many times have you played like 2K and you had your favorite college team, right?
• 11:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And you tried to piece together some of the dudes that came out of that college and and and tried to put like a good team together.
• 11:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I know I have done it.
• 11:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: For Shilly as an all-star, it's incredible the testament of the coach's impact.
• 11:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And we're talking about one Jay Wright, who deserves a lot of credit.
• 11:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Jay Wright, if you think about it, he was ahead of the curve in college.
• 11:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was doing five out spacing when uh that was not cool in college, and now it's just basically adjusted to Jalen Brunson's kind of rhythm and what have you, and this is why this team at this specific moment is the NBA champions.
• 11:51
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's because of all the minute details that they put together.
• 11:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yes, Mikel Bridges did cost a lot of first round picks.
• 12:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yes, they did make a bold move with Carl Anthony Towns.
• 12:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yes, they did splice together having Josh Hart on the team, but it's still the others.
• 12:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You know, it's still Mitchell Robinson, which we'll get to.
• 12:19
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He had an incredible offensive rebound to basically seal that deal.
• 12:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But I do want to hit you with a couple things.
• 12:25
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We did tell you that it was 53 years ago.
• 12:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Let me give you a couple things that were going on at that time.
• 12:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The Knicks had obviously Walt Frazier and Willis Reed.
• 12:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If you are a New York Knicks fan, you know all about these gentlemen.
• 12:45
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But for the for the people out there and for the young people out there who do not know Walt Frazier and Willis Reed, these were the cornerstones of that championship team.
• 12:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Walt Frazier was the coolest dude walking Fifth Avenue at that time period.
• 13:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The median household income in 1973 was $10,500.
• 13:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Today, the median income is $90,000.
• 13:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Zach Harper from The Athletic ranked this particular victory as the fourth all-time scorch drought behind the Cubs, the Red Sox of 86 years, the curse of the Bambino, and the 52-year drought that the Cleveland Cavaliers had.
• 13:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Fat Joe said this.
• 13:35
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I've seen Hasidic Jews break dancing with black kids outside the stadium.
• 13:41
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This is the greatest unification of New York City you've ever seen since 9-11.
• 13:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They outscored their opponents by 273 points during that streak.
• 13:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That's an average playoff margin of victory of 14.9, which is the NBA record.
• 14:00
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And I'm just gonna say this close with the Knicks Jalen Brunson leaving that money on the table.
• 14:10
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You can sit here and say, you know, that's that's the cause and effect and what have you.
• 14:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: All that it's not just the money that was left on the table for me.
• 14:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's just him.
• 14:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's just what will it take for us to win?
• 14:30
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Let's do that.
• 14:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: What do I need to do for my team to get over the hump?
• 14:37
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'll do that.
• 14:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Do I need to defer to Carl Anthony Town so he feels like he's part of this team?
• 14:49
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Well, I'll do that.
• 14:51
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: When Mikhail Bridges was struggling with his confidence in the in in the season, and when, you know, there were rumors and there was whispers about, well, maybe we need to trade Mikhail Bridges, you know, at the end of the year, because obviously it's not working.
• 15:10
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Did Jalen Brunson take a step back?
• 15:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yeah.
• 15:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Did we see more offensive versatility from Mikhail Bridges and then regain his confidence?
• 15:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yeah.
• 15:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The money that he left on the table was excellent, and it did it did help spur them holding and hoisting the Larry O'Brien trophy.
• 15:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But it's all his sacrifices, it's all his leadership, it's his stoic behavior during press conferences and post-game interviews with Lisa Salters that we sit here and we go, Wow, man, this dude is Stone Cold Killer.
• 15:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So here's to the group that won the NBA championships, the 2026 New York Knicks.
• 16:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I mean, the the absolute picture out in in New York City when they won was absolute euphoria.
• 16:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: As a Lakers fan and somebody who has tasted the victories and had them in abundance in my time of being on this planet, seeing New York City lit up like that is great for basketball.
• 16:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It is great for basketball.
• 16:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I think what Jalen Brunson did is a blueprint for your whoever, your superstar, your son, you know, your offensive son or whatever the case may be on your team to sit there and go, hey, listen, I could take every last dollar.
• 16:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Or, hey, if I take 10 million less, is there any does that help us?
• 17:00
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Maybe you don't have to take, you know, $113 million off a four-year contract.
• 17:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Maybe you don't have to do that.
• 17:10
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Maybe there's a way of you doing this, and you know, you're only taking like eight million and it impacts them from being over the salary cap or the first apron or whatever the case may be.
• 17:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Maybe it gets you a you know a tax-exempt mid-level person, somebody worth like six, seven million dollars, and they are the rebounder that you need or the guard that puts pressure on the ball that you need.
• 17:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Doesn't have to be a ton of money to build you a championship team.
• 17:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's just the minute little details that Jalen Brunson puts in every single day to make himself the best player he can possibly be and lead the New York Knicks to this level, which is the championship level.
• 18:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This road is not for everybody, and I don't think we'll start seeing this.
• 18:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This is not a trend that I think we will see in the NBA.
• 18:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But I think there should be some players who think about this more than they do now.
• 18:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I would say that.
• 18:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Alright, let's get to the San Antonio Spurs.
• 18:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The Spurs have better players, the Knicks had a better team.
• 18:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That's the whole story.
• 18:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, Wimby, let's get to it right now.
• 18:37
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Careers high across the board, 25 points, 11 rebounds, 3.1 blocks.
• 18:43
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He led the league in blocks third consecutive year.
• 18:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: MVP voting.
• 18:49
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This man had a game in the Western Conference Finals where he scored 41 points, 24 rebounds, and 5 blocks in a double overtime thriller against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
• 19:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He wiped tears of joy away after winning game seven against OKC, which we thought at that present time was going that that matchup was basically going to solve who was going to win the NBA Finals because we thought the winner was coming out of the West.
• 19:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And I'm not going to get up here after the fact and tell you I thought differently.
• 19:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: No, I didn't.
• 19:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I thought the winner of OKC and San Antonio were going to be the winners of the NBA Finals.
• 19:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I was proven wrong because sometimes a team that is cohesive, a team that knows who they are and what their responsibilities are and where they stand on the team is better than a bunch of guys who are just trying to figure it out.
• 20:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And I don't mean that as shake.
• 20:05
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I mean that as something that this is something that the San Antonio Spurs can learn from.
• 20:10
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Game five, when we had 19 points, 14 rebounds, five blocks, but he missed two critical free throws because he was just gassed.
• 20:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He played 44 minutes in game four.
• 20:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And he was visibly exhausted in the fourth quarter per Jarrett Weiss of the Athletic.
• 20:36
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: After the finals, he said this it's not painful.
• 20:41
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm not running away from that.
• 20:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm using that to fuel me.
• 20:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: During the series, personally, I I think I could have been better in recovering from high of the uh conference finals.
• 20:58
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm 22 years old.
• 21:01
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This is my first finals appearance.
• 21:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Hey, is there any question?
• 21:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Will Victor Winbayama be back to the finals?
• 21:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: No.
• 21:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now you can tell me all the things because I hear it, I've heard it already.
• 21:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We have no idea when he's gonna get back to the finals.
• 21:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And could it take him a couple years?
• 21:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Absolutely.
• 21:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Could because OKC still is that team, and we we're not we're not going to shortchange the champs from last year.
• 21:36
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They were missing Jalen Williams, they were missing AJ Mitchell, who became a very critical part to their team.
• 21:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: There are tweaks that they can make to their team to make them more formidable.
• 21:51
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And do they have the ammunition to do it?
• 21:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You are absolutely right.
• 21:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They do.
• 21:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They have the they have all the ammunition.
• 21:59
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They need to get themselves back to the NBA finals.
• 22:05
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So OKC and San Antonio are two teams that I will say right now, you know, we can go ahead and do early overreaction.
• 22:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Do I think that San Antonio and OKC are two teams that are absolute contenders next year?
• 22:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You can bet your ass on that.
• 22:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But Victor Winwayama will be back.
• 22:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: How the Knicks ward him now two ways.
• 22:36
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Cat Towns just being a five out shooting destroyed the Spurs and their drop scheme.
• 22:45
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Whimeby couldn't stay at the rim where he was a where there is a legitimate three-point threat at center position, pulling him out.
• 22:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was out here guarding guards.
• 22:58
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was out here guarding wings.
• 23:00
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Shit, he was out here guarding the popcorn vendor.
• 23:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The dude that was bringing the beer, he was blocking shit, he was blocking beers to patrons along the way.
• 23:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: There's nothing that Victor Wingbayama didn't do to try to bring his team to a championship.
• 23:19
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But the veer switches, Brunson getting downhill fast enough to force Wimby to switch onto him, sending Fox or Harper onto Kat.
• 23:30
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And basically he was just gassed.
• 23:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I want to bring this up.
• 23:36
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: 434 in game four.
• 23:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He floats back into the paint.
• 23:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This is Wimby.
• 23:43
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Way out of position.
• 23:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It appears to forget Ananobi is behind him.
• 23:49
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: OG drills a three.
• 23:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: At 130 left.
• 23:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He couldn't rotate across the paint to contest the crucial Brunson floater because his legs were gone.
• 24:00
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The Spurs tried to zone in the third and went back to man in crunch time.
• 24:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The Knicks broke them in both ways.
• 24:09
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The Spurs were and how they lost this their processes.
• 24:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Cause in the first quarter, they came out like a house on fire.
• 24:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: In every game.
• 24:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Brunson did that.
• 25:30
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It was just the eroding of the leads.
• 25:35
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The eroding of the confidence of the San Antonio Spurs that we saw every single game.
• 25:43
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Did you think I was going to come on here and tell you that San Antonio is this team that is so screwed up and whatever?
• 25:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: No, we're not going to overreact like that.
• 25:58
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The future of the NBA is Winwayama, but there are some developments that need to happen.
• 26:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He needs two moves, go to moves, before next season.
• 26:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Cannot get worn down by spacing and physicality that he can't solve.
• 26:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: My man needs like a Dirk Novinsky 17-foot fadeaway.
• 26:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Remember, this dude, they say he's 7 foot 4.
• 26:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This dude's like 7'6.
• 26:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We know this.
• 26:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Something without explosion eliminates physical mismatches and what have you.
• 26:41
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The 22-year-old Frenchman who can already do what Wingley does doesn't need to be taught basketball.
• 26:49
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He needs to be taught counters.
• 26:51
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That brings me to my next thing.
• 26:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They signed you to a four-year $229 million extension after being traded from the Sacramento Kings.
• 27:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Okay?
• 27:13
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Media hundreds and podcasters were calling for Dylan Harper to start games four and five.
• 27:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because we got tired of seeing Fox make critical blunder.
• 27:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Um one in specific with 10 seconds left to go in game four.
• 27:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He tried to lay it up instead of dribbling out and drawing a foul.
• 27:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: What a grave error that was.
• 27:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And now for the Harper Castle of it all.
• 28:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm gonna say this right now.
• 28:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm not gonna get hyperbolic about this because I what I watched the tape again, and my first thought was Harper's ready.
• 28:36
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Give him the keys to the castle.
• 28:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: No, that pun was not, you know, because castle's there too.
• 28:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But what I will say is this they do need a veteran guard.
• 28:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But I don't know if you need a veteran guard that's gonna be making 50 million.
• 28:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You need a guard that's gonna cancel, uh, coun uh counsel these two guys, Dylan Harper and Stefan Castle.
• 29:05
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Are they ready to run NBA offensive at this point in time?
• 29:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I don't think so, but I do think they're close.
• 29:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They need an OG guard that will be more than willing to share the knowledge, more than willing to share the sugar, more than willing to give them like little nuances and little cheat codes to the game that will help them immensely through their processes at this point in time.
• 29:41
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Dylan Harper had 25 points in game five.
• 29:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This dude is 20 years old.
• 29:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The same night that De'Aaron Fox is struggling from the field 3 of 15, Dylan Harper is getting to the paint at will.
• 29:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Game four, this dude didn't even touch the ball for the last 10 minutes of the game, which is absolutely criminal.
• 30:05
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If De'Aaron Fox is the point guard that is like in tune with his team, right?
• 30:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because that's what I think of a point guard.
• 30:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: A league guard will go, you know what?
• 30:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Dylan Harper hasn't touched the ball in a minute.
• 30:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Let me make sure he gets the feel, make sure that he gets a good shot.
• 30:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Get him coming down off a pin down and getting downhill into the paint.
• 30:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Oh, Stefan Castle has to touch the ball in a minute.
• 30:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Let me get him a nice little easy little mid-range.
• 30:36
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Let's do some spang, pick, and roll, and get him into that mid-range and see if he can go ahead and knock down a shot.
• 30:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: By the way, I have a 7 foot six absolute alien at center.
• 30:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Let me make sure that he's touching the ball consistently.
• 30:51
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: De'Aaron Fox was a grown-up on that team.
• 30:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's 29 years of age.
• 30:57
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yes, he's been in Sacramento, so that might have stunned his growth as a quintessential league guard because just the processes in Sacramento have been toxic and have been like just dumbfounding for a long period of time.
• 31:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But I expected more from De'Aaron Fox.
• 31:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I expected that he would be the calming influence on a team that was absolutely think about this.
• 31:25
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Think about this.
• 31:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Other than De'Aaron Fox in the starting lineup, and then also including Dylan Harper.
• 31:35
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: None of them dudes can rent a car.
• 31:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Not one of those dudes can rent a car on their own.
• 31:45
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You gotta be 25 to do that.
• 31:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Dylan Harper dropped 25 in the closeout game.
• 31:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The media wanted him to start games four and five.
• 31:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Alright, well, exec we told you, said they will go ahead take De'Aaron Fox off the hand if you give me three first-round draft picks.
• 32:01
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Do I think that Fox cost Victor a championship?
• 32:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: No, but he wasn't helpful.
• 32:09
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was not helpful.
• 32:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Do the Squares need to build around Harper and Castle and allow their developmental runway to flourish?
• 32:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, but I do think with a caveat, they need to see if they can figure out a way to get a point guard or league guard that can help those two guys grow.
• 32:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because you could stick you could stick Stefan Castle at the three, Dylan Harker at the two, and then mix and match, and allow those guys to touch the ball and have times and spurts where they are actually the uh the lead guard.
• 32:57
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But they definitely need an OG point guard that has like the Jedi mind tricks and what have you.
• 33:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: When we need a DM Fox next to him to win, or does he need space to let him in the next generation breathe?
• 33:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's a $229 million question, actually.
• 33:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Y'all discussing your group chats about that situation.
• 33:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Alright, now we need to get to the next segment, and I'm super hyped about this segment.
• 33:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We call this segment the full court press.
• 33:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We need to get ourselves ready and understand that now that the championship is over, it is time to worry about trades and reckless speculation about what's going on.
• 33:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But we got real, real news and notes.
• 33:58
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And just because I'm that guy, I'm gonna give them to you.
• 34:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So, let's start with Giannis because that's where we need to start with.
• 34:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Milwaukee ownership wants a decision before the 23rd and 24th of the draft.
• 34:13
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That means they want to trade him.
• 34:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Bill Simmons said that the Celtics made a firm offer in the last past week, scaring the whole entire NBA world.
• 34:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Both Miami and Boston reportedly have made firm offers in front of the Bucks before the NBA draft.
• 34:36
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now the Miami package, everybody's heard it, is Tyler Hero, Khalel Ware, Jaime Hawkes Jr., the 13th pick, and plus unprotected first in 2026, 2029, and 2030.
• 34:53
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Giannis reportedly is focused on Miami, on Miami personally, but I think that he would prefer to be in Boston because Boston, even if they do give up what they want to give up, which is Jalen Brown, plus picks, plus role players, i.e.
• 35:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Sam Hauser or Peyton Pritchard, they would still be better left as far as the cover being knocked bare to go ahead and get him to contendership, which that's what he wants.
• 35:30
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The critical problem with Jalen Brown being moved is this.
• 35:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Jalen Brown makes $57.1 million.
• 35:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Giannis makes $54.1 million.
• 35:41
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Cap matching is a big issue, so it will take a third team to go ahead and get that done.
• 35:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Milwaukee reportedly has zero interest in keeping Jalen Brown.
• 35:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They are in a full rebuild, folks.
• 35:57
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Get ready for long winners and get ready for Milwaukee Brewers baseball in the spring.
• 36:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Y'all need to talk about the Green Bay Packers up there, and y'all also need to talk about the Milwaukee Bucks.
• 36:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I mean, Milwaukee Brewers up there.
• 36:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because right now, you guys are not going to be winning a lot.
• 36:19
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Let's keep that in mind.
• 36:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The other team that we heard about is the Atlanta Hawks.
• 36:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And they hold favorable swaps rights on Milwaukee's 2026 and 2027 first-round picks.
• 36:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And they are per they are positioned to benefit regardless of which direction this goes.
• 36:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The potential role that Atlanta be playing is being the facilitator in a three-team deal, structuring sending Jalen Brown to the Atlanta Hawks, and Atlanta sending assets to Milwaukee.
• 36:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's being courted by Miami, Boston.
• 36:59
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Some people say still Golden State.
• 37:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Some people still say there's another Dark Horse team in there.
• 37:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And I'm not just talking about Minnesota.
• 37:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm talking about there's another Dark Horse team in there.
• 37:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: As far as we will have more information on that on Friday.
• 37:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But both these teams have monster packages.
• 37:18
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But here's the question that nobody's asking out loud.
• 37:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If the best package wins, so Miami wins, if a person if it's a personal choice wins, Giannis is already in Boston.
• 37:36
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Can Miami up their offer?
• 37:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Is there a third team that can get involved and make this happen for them?
• 37:43
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Is Cortland the piece that Miami needs to get this taken care of?
• 37:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Does somehow, and actually here's the thing.
• 37:53
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: For my Lakers fans out there, I want you to listen closely.
• 37:57
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If Miami wins this and Giannis goes to Miami, we're involved.
• 38:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The Lakers are involved.
• 38:10
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And it's not a three-team trade, it's a four-team trade.
• 38:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The Lakers get Khalel Ware in this deal.
• 38:18
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Milwaukee would end up with some of their picks back from Portland, who who own some of their picks, and a Laker pick.
• 38:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Probably something like 2031 or 2033.
• 38:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But that's just a little, you know, food for thought.
• 38:36
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So you know what's going on.
• 38:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, let's get to the other angles of this deal.
• 38:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Alright.
• 38:43
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We got a Clipper situation growing.
• 38:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Perkant Afstaff.
• 38:51
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Giannis to Boston.
• 38:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Jalen Browns to the Clippers for the number five overall pick in this year's draft.
• 39:01
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Tim Milwaukee.
• 39:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So the Clippers want a taste of this.
• 39:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The Clippers acquired the number five pick from the Indiana Pacers in the Zubach deal in the last uh trade deadline.
• 39:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This structure solves Boston's problem.
• 39:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Milwaukee doesn't want Brown, so LA absorbs him.
• 39:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Camp mechanics are still the sticking point because of the fact that the Brown contract is a little bit more than the Giannis contract, but if the Clippers got involved, Cristo Changel is fixed.
• 39:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, the Kawhi factor and all this, we still waiting on um news on the circumvention of the cap regarding Kawhi Leonard.
• 39:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So I wonder how that's gonna work.
• 39:58
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I wonder.
• 39:59
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We will see.
• 40:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We will see.
• 40:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So if Jalen Brown lands in La La Land and not to the Lakers, which we don't have enough to get him, uh, because we definitely don't have a number five overall pick in this year's draft, which is absolutely stocked, and we'll get to it in a second.
• 40:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But is the pick because it's not in the top four, is that pick tantalizing enough to get the Clippers over the hump to be in this deal?
• 40:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I don't think so.
• 40:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I think the Clippers holding the the number five pick in a loaded draft is a key piece to unlocking a lot of deals.
• 40:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Just not necessarily the Giannis deal.
• 40:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I can understand the Clippers moving on from that pick, maybe getting more picks back, because people want to be in this draft instead of other drafts.
• 41:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But I wouldn't I wouldn't take this deal if I was the Bucks.
• 41:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We're gonna talk a lot about a lot of teams coming up, but before we get to the draft, I want to talk about one other thing.
• 41:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I knew this day was coming.
• 41:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I I knew it was coming.
• 41:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So the Brooklyn Nets have made an offer to Austin Reeves.
• 41:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So it's uh four years, $178.5 million dollars.
• 41:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Brooklyn is ready to max out Reeves and create real leverage when it comes to pushing the Lakers to do something.
• 41:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And the time is coming.
• 42:00
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So here we are.
• 42:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, with all that being said, we gotta talk about LeBron.
• 42:10
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So LeBron is wanting his money.
• 42:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Or he'll go and play for the Warriors.
• 42:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Or we just stop this.
• 42:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We can just stop the drama.
• 42:25
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Hey man, if you want to play for us, cool.
• 42:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If you don't want to play for us, that's cool too.
• 42:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The thing about it is is that LeBron is forty-one, he'll be forty-two early in the season next year, uh, towards the end of 2026, so the lucka era is here.
• 42:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I mean w we're not gonna sugarcoat the whole situation.
• 42:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And it sure it and the thing that is is bothering me is this, is that you live in Los Angeles, your family is entrenched in Los Angeles.
• 43:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Could you easily move back to Cleveland?
• 43:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, you could.
• 43:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Do you want to?
• 43:09
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: No, you don't.
• 43:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Do you want to take a flight from San Francisco to LA to see your kid and your wife, or whatever?
• 43:19
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Man, I I guess you could do that.
• 43:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's not far.
• 43:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Is Bronny going with you?
• 43:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because that's gonna take a trade.
• 43:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And Golden State's gonna have to give up a real asset to take on Bronny.
• 43:37
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So with all the breadcombs that are leading to this situation, I think what LeBron really wants is the one thing that the Lakers don't want to give him is that he wants agency in what the Lakers are gonna do if.
• 43:59
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He takes less money.
• 44:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But the last time he had agency in what the Lakers were going to do was Russell Westbrook.
• 44:10
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And we know how that all turned out.
• 44:13
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So pardon the Lakers.
• 44:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Pardon Rob Kalinka for being a little bit skittish.
• 44:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Also, under new management, under new ownership.
• 44:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So guess what?
• 44:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Guess who guess whose job, you know, is on the line.
• 44:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Would you want to give autonomy to your second best player?
• 44:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Or with all reports being said, they want to build around Luca.
• 44:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So of course, it's what Luca needs and what Luca wants.
• 44:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And that's not a bad thing.
• 44:58
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because when it's built around him right, he got to the NBA finals.
• 45:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And he was a scary dude.
• 45:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was just scary.
• 45:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So I don't believe that LeBron wants to leave.
• 45:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I don't believe that when push comes to shove, this dude's gonna get max money.
• 45:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's hard for me to really stomach that situation.
• 45:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I understand that he's worth a lot of money.
• 45:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I understand that he's worth a lot of money to this franchise once he decides that he wants to retire.
• 45:30
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I get all of that.
• 45:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But you're not willing to take a pay cut at this advanced age.
• 45:49
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You can sit there and say, hey, back in the day, I'm not taking a pay cut because you were the sun in the s in the solar system.
• 46:01
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Right?
• 46:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But now your piece.
• 46:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now are you an integral piece?
• 46:09
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, I will give you that.
• 46:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You averaged 20 points a game, six reruns, six assists last year.
• 46:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You did work as as a 41 year old.
• 46:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But to sit here and talk about how you need agency and what's going on and how it's gonna work for you when you have a 27-year-old Luka Doncic who just came off averaging over 30 points a game last year.
• 46:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That's a little far-fetched for me to believe.
• 46:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We are going to pivot to the draft.
• 46:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And what we're gonna do is we're gonna talk about players right now, and then we're gonna do a really big draft situation on Friday and next Tuesday before the NBA draft.
• 47:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So we're gonna have wall-to-wall draft coverage in the next two pods, but this is a little taste to whet your appetite for what's to come.
• 47:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And I can't wait to get into it, so let's do it.
• 47:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We are going to start off with right now, because I took a composite of what's going on with all the rumors that are going on around here.
• 47:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And AJ DuGansta is the number one pick in the draft as of right now.
• 47:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So, what do you get with AJ DuBanster?
• 47:43
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm sure you've heard all the stuff, but let's give it to you anyway, because people like height, people like wingspan, people like standing reach, they want to know the numbers, so we'll give it to you.
• 47:58
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: AJ Dubanster is six foot eight and a half, two hundred and seventeen pounds.
• 48:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's uh has a seven foot and a half wingspan.
• 48:09
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's the best combination of upside and floor in this class.
• 48:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Our guy Sam Vicini has him as his number one overall dude in the draft.
• 48:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: One of only two players in college basketball history with 25 points, 50% field goal percentage, and average eight plus free throw attempts a game.
• 48:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Michael Beasley was the other guy.
• 48:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And that dude was a problem.
• 48:49
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Couldn't get it together in the pros, but absolute beast in college.
• 48:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The numbers go as such is scary.
• 48:57
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: 25 and a half points a game, almost seven rebounds, and almost four assists.
• 49:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now shooting percentage was 51% from the field, 33% from three, and 77% from the free throw line.
• 49:13
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: There's a lot to him, and this is the thing that I want to get to, is that he shot 46.9% on mid-range jumper.
• 49:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He shot 50.7% from 10 to 18 feet.
• 49:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That's NBA starter level production.
• 49:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And then the thing that we just talked about is is the foul drawing.
• 49:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was he did this in the under 19 uh international games where the U.S.
• 49:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: won the gold medals.
• 49:45
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This dude was constantly getting to the free throw line.
• 49:49
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And I'm not talking about flopping, I'm not talking about exaggerating, I'm talking about sheer speed and power getting to the rim, and you had no other choice but to foul this dude.
• 50:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's a rare wing at any level.
• 50:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, they'll there will need to be some passing growth when it comes to it, and he did do that throughout the season.
• 50:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was a four and a half assist guy in his final ten games.
• 50:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So you can see that he went, you know, he still he steadily went up and up throughout the his collegiate uh one year in college, so that's good.
• 50:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Some of the concerns about our guy.
• 50:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Three-point shooting, thirty-six percent is uh thirty-three point one percent at college.
• 50:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was uh only thirty point one percent in catch-and-shoot situations, so there is some growth that needs to happen there.
• 50:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: His handle is a little loose uh versus chest to chest defenders.
• 51:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He doesn't always separate beyond a contested pull-up.
• 51:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: His defensive anticipation uh for the athletic profile that he has, he only averaged 1.1 steals and 0.3 blocks for his physical tools.
• 51:25
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That doesn't even seem right.
• 51:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Just my opinion, and my opinion only from watching the tape.
• 51:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So he's gonna have to get better with his anticipation, he's gonna have to get better uh with his reads off rotation off ball.
• 51:41
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Vicinny says that his floor is Jalen Brown uh Jalen Brown's pre-breakout, uh 22 points per game score a switchable on defense, messy off-ball, still borderline, all-star value.
• 51:57
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: His ceiling is all NBA MVP track wing.
• 52:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So all those things are in there.
• 52:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Here's what I'm gonna say is that um he's he's a guy that I think wants to be great.
• 52:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's gonna put the work in.
• 52:19
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm really shaky on just the rotations off ball.
• 52:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, I think that once he gets into an NBA program and they say, okay, this is the this is the defensive game plan, and these are the principles to the defense that we want to play, and then you can allow the athleticism to kind of just play out.
• 52:45
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I think this will get better.
• 52:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But the 0.3 blocks per game for somebody as athletic as AJ DeBansta is absolutely baffling to me, and I don't understand it.
• 52:57
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I don't.
• 52:59
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So, what do I think of AJ DeBansta?
• 53:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Uh, if you pull up one of the most statistically dominant freshmen seasons that we've ever seen in college basketball, looks great.
• 53:13
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But when you start poking at the numbers and when you start trying to figure out who he is and what he is, there is a lot of room to grow.
• 53:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, that could also sound devastating.
• 53:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That could also sound very scary as far as what he could be, and I think that at some point he'll get to certain levels, but I wonder about the defensive end.
• 53:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I wonder does that all come around?
• 53:43
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because some players just don't have the aptitude for some reason to play defense compared to their athleticism, and he might be one of those guys.
• 53:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That doesn't make him a bad player, it doesn't make him not an all-star, it doesn't make him not an all-NBA player.
• 54:05
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: What it makes him is that you're gonna have to put some pieces around him on the defensive side of the ball.
• 54:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We're doing it for Jalen Brunson.
• 54:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I guess we can do it for AJ DeBanster if he's scoring high 20s or low 30s.
• 54:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because he does have that capability.
• 54:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He has the capability of scoring 30 points a game.
• 54:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Just due to his free throw attempts that he's gonna have.
• 54:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, let's move on to the most polarizing guy in this draft to me.
• 54:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And people will sit here and say, oh well Vince, you're being a curmudgeon, oh Vince, you're being old, but before you before you jump on me, let's give you the scoop on Darren Peterson.
• 54:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Our guy is standing at 6 foot 4 and a half inches, 6 uh 9, almost 6 foot 10 wingspan, and he has a standard reach of 8 feet 7 inches.
• 55:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, there's no doubt that this dude can be an elite shooter with all NBA scoring guard upside, a la Donovan Mitchell on the attacking style.
• 55:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The Kansas Tate was a absolute it was breathtakingly uh scary because it just did not look like the same dude in high school.
• 55:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It was it was like I don't even know who that dude is, type of situation.
• 55:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, the numbers at Kansas 20.2 points a game, 4.2 assists, uh, yeah, 4.
• 55:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, 4.2 rebounds a game, and 1.6 assists a game.
• 55:53
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: On 44, 38, 83 splits, he was 47.7% on catch and shoot threes at Kansas on four attempts while drawing the toughest defender every single night.
• 56:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was forty-two percent on pull-up threes at prolific high school on five attempts per game.
• 56:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The floater gain was at 41% on two attempts per game per synergy.
• 56:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: His mid-rate his mid-range growth was 42.9 at Kansas versus 26 to 37% in his high school in AAU settings.
• 56:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was an active defender, but here's the concerns.
• 56:43
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They kind of said that he was a lead guard, but that really collapsed at Kansas.
• 56:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, we're gonna talk about the injuries and and what have you in the sp in the spacing role a little bit later on down the line.
• 57:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: His limited rim pressure was also alarming.
• 57:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Under two and a half ram attempts per game, for somebody as dynamically athletic as Darren Peterson is, it was alarming to see his athleticism just get sapped.
• 57:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Just it looked like literally like old school Space Jams when the monsters took the NBA powers from all the NBA All-Stars in Space Jam.
• 57:36
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I was like, I don't even know who this dude is.
• 57:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: What is going on?
• 57:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, durability and availability was a problem all year.
• 57:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If it wasn't the hamstring, it was the quad.
• 57:49
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If it wasn't the quad, it was an angle sprain.
• 57:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If it wasn't an angle sprain, it was the flu.
• 57:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: There was all types of situations where Darren Peterson could not be on the court.
• 58:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, character due diligence.
• 58:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm gonna uh shout out our girl Kristen Peak, who is one of the best in the game.
• 58:13
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: She's a tier one when it comes to uh knowing these guys and knowing following them around high schools and going to gyms and being at gyms at 6:30 in the morning and talking to AAU coaches, talking to high school coaches, and talking to the college people.
• 58:30
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But Kristen Peake says this his aloofness has come up in team uh draft meetings, he's a projected top three.
• 58:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Um, but the guy in high school is more of who Darren Peterser is, and she says that his competitiveness and his will to win is something that was that was always on display in high school, and she doesn't doubt that that's who the guy really is, and this was just a weird year at Kansas.
• 59:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Kristen Peak, she is good.
• 59:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We love her uh analysis and we love what she does.
• 59:10
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Keep on doing your thing.
• 59:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, here's my here's my deal.
• 59:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Peterson is camp reportedly says they're only working out for the Washington Wizards.
• 59:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Note to Utah, Memphis, and Chicago.
• 59:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That means you will be drastic drafting him without hosting him.
• 59:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The Harden Kawhi precedent stars who are drafted by teams.
• 59:37
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Um, and I'm I'm taking a little uh give me a little wee leeway on the analogy here.
• 59:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: There's a lot of times where teams draft a guy and they never see him.
• 59:51
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They never have him in the building and whatever the case may be.
• 59:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Usually it's not with one of the top three or four picks.
• 59:59
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Usually it's with somebody set ranked is is selected 17th overall.
• 1:00:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Usually it's somebody picked 25th overall, something like that.
• 1:00:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But it's never the guy who's drafted in the top three, especially in a stack draft where we're talking about supposedly generational talents and things of that nature.
• 1:00:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So I'm I want to go ahead and give you that overall view before I get into this.
• 1:00:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's saying basically non-Washington teams taking Peterson top three uh are making a talent bet and uh a disengagement and risk bet uh simultaneously.
• 1:00:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Here's my thing whether the Kansas deal was a real injury, low management, or the creatine defense that uh Derren Peterson or Derek Peterson's camp wants to give you, he was being paid to play at Kansas.
• 1:00:58
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was paid to his star level, he was paid to his what they envisioned him to be at Kansas, he was paid to lead a Kansas team to the Final Four and what have you.
• 1:01:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But that did not happen, and then here's the thing that I want to go ahead and close this out with.
• 1:01:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If you are a president or a vice clerk president of player personnel, and you're holding a top three pick, and your investigator, your investigators are telling you the aloofness keeps coming up in team meetings, how do you sell this to your owner on this kit?
• 1:01:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The talent is undeniable.
• 1:01:51
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I will sit here and say, hey, if Kristen Peake is telling me that the high school tape is more like what the guy is gonna end up being, I believe that.
• 1:02:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But can you really risk taking a guy sight unseen, never having him in the building?
• 1:02:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And I want to bring this up because people say it doesn't matter, it does matter.
• 1:02:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We're talking about Utah and Memphis here.
• 1:02:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Okay, we're not talking about Los Angeles, and I know people are saying, oh well, of course you're gonna shine up Los Angeles because that's where you're from and you like the Lakers and blah blah blah.
• 1:02:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: No, no, no, hold on.
• 1:02:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If this was Portland, this would be a problem.
• 1:02:37
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If this was Indiana, this would be a problem.
• 1:02:41
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You know, another like uh, you know, me shit, maybe even San Antonio.
• 1:02:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now they got Wendy, but it's different now.
• 1:02:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But if it was just San Antonio, and there are no shades to these cities and these basketball hotbeds, but we all know that free agency does not come around for places like this.
• 1:03:09
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Free agency doesn't land a generational talent like LeBron or Lucas not going to Portland.
• 1:03:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's not going to Utah.
• 1:03:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's not gonna be spending his basketball season in Memphis, no shade to those areas, no shade to those franchises.
• 1:03:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You know and I know that free agency is not your back.
• 1:03:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It is draft and development.
• 1:03:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But can you really stake your reputation to a guy who was getting paid at Kansas, played only 20 games, took himself out of games regularly, and also took himself before games out of the game with big opponents, like prime time games and what have you.
• 1:04:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was getting paid to play at Kansas.
• 1:04:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You're gonna pay him in the NBA.
• 1:04:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: My thing is this what happens if something goes wrong in that NBA city that's not New York, that's not Miami, that's not like Dallas, Texas, that's not like Houston, that's not like Atlanta.
• 1:04:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm gonna I'm gonna leave LA out of it, okay?
• 1:04:40
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm gonna leave LA out.
• 1:04:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: How about, you know, if it's not San Francisco, if it's a place like Indiana, if it's a place like Memphis and Utah, who do have the picks behind the Washington Wizards, and I find it interesting that the only place that he will visit, the only place that he will work out at is in DC.
• 1:05:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Which is a major metropolitan.
• 1:05:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Movers and shakers are all around that place.
• 1:05:11
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm sorry, Memphis, I'm sorry, Utah.
• 1:05:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It is what it is, it will just be really hard for me.
• 1:05:19
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I don't deny the talent, I don't think that he's a bad guy, but there are questions to me, and I might be all by myself on this, and this kid could come into the league and be awesome, and you could tell me about Ace Bailey not wanting to go to Utah, and he was in he wanted to go to Washington and was completely obliterated that he didn't, and then he played well in Utah.
• 1:05:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It all worked out.
• 1:05:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That's great.
• 1:05:53
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That's great, but we know they not they're not all built that way.
• 1:05:59
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So again, buyer beware when it comes to Darren Peterson.
• 1:06:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now let's get to Cameron Boozer.
• 1:06:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Cameron Boozer is pretty close to a can't fail offensive prospect.
• 1:06:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The only reason he's not number one is his skill set profiles as a number two type of star.
• 1:06:19
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That's what our guy Sam Vincend uh said.
• 1:06:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: First player in college history, any class to average 22 points a game, 10 rebounds, four assists on 55% field goal percentage, over 20 plus games per sports reference.
• 1:06:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yes, sir.
• 1:06:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Our guy was sick with it.
• 1:06:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was absolutely sick.
• 1:06:43
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This dude was a bucket, and it was just instant offense.
• 1:06:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: 22.5 points a game, 10 rebounds, 10.2 rebounds.
• 1:06:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He also was basically like the point guard.
• 1:06:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: 4.1 assists on 55.6% shooting overall from the field.
• 1:07:01
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But here's the other thing.
• 1:07:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He shot 39.1% from three.
• 1:07:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He shot 79% free throws on the defense.
• 1:07:10
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The rerun rate jumped from 2.8 to 5 on offense with him on the floor.
• 1:07:19
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The uh shooting breakout 39.1% from three at Duke, 38.2 on catch and shoot, 42.6% on pull-up.
• 1:07:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: As a senior, high school senior, in real volume, you know, he shot he shot real he shot it really well there too.
• 1:07:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's just been this guy all his life.
• 1:07:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Hit as a passer, again, with consistent as he can absolutely be.
• 1:07:51
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And there's the best part.
• 1:07:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was almost 2 to 1 on assist to turnover rate.
• 1:07:58
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Reads, rotations, hits the extra pass.
• 1:08:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's looking for a great shot, not a good shot.
• 1:08:05
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's a team defender, 1.4 stills a game, uh, and one uh or 0.6 blocks at Duke.
• 1:08:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now in high school, he had 1.5 stills a game and 1.4 blocks in his high school, but he was physically more dominant than everybody in high school, so it's kind of take those with a grain of salt.
• 1:08:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I think he's closer to the college numbers.
• 1:08:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But the one thing that I want to say about this, about caller uh about Cam Boozer is this the 10.2 rebounds for me is the biggest thing.
• 1:08:41
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because if you can rebound in college, you can rebound in the pros.
• 1:08:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's effort.
• 1:08:45
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That's what it is.
• 1:08:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And here's the thing that's gonna play wherever he goes.
• 1:08:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This dude is going to rebound.
• 1:08:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Is he gonna score?
• 1:08:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I think the scoring will won 100% come.
• 1:09:00
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But he's gonna rebound at a high level.
• 1:09:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And if you don't think that's important, I give to you the San Antonio Spurs who lost four games and one in the finals.
• 1:09:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You gotta rebound at a high rate.
• 1:09:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's just a thing.
• 1:09:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I didn't make the rules, it just is what it is.
• 1:09:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The concerns is his limited vertical explosiveness.
• 1:09:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Not much pop off of one or two feet.
• 1:09:35
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Uh 25-26 was his uh worst finishing uh season statistically.
• 1:09:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He struggled against length.
• 1:09:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: See the Virginia tape when he went against on on USO.
• 1:09:49
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's stiffer in the hips versus uh guards and wings in space.
• 1:09:54
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So he's gonna have to be like a team uh he's gonna have to be a team defensive type of guy, center field type of dude playing free safety.
• 1:10:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: People say that he doesn't have self-creation or uh his shake is limited.
• 1:10:09
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I think that's because that he put on like 15 to 20 more pounds uh as he got to college.
• 1:10:18
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If he goes down back to about 230, I think you'll see some of the wiggle and some of the athleticism and some of the flexibility come back to him.
• 1:10:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So it will really depend on what the team thinks and what have you.
• 1:10:33
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: They might allow him to play at 250 this year, and then make the decision on what he could and should be in the following years.
• 1:10:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I'm gonna say something, and it might sound hyperbolic.
• 1:10:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Boozer is Jokic Light.
• 1:10:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He he might be a tier below that, but the offensive hub, the multi-time, all NBA production potential, if the defense defensive fit resolves itself, he did everything at Duke.
• 1:11:08
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Point guard, best remounder, clutch basket, made the right pass, always had a timely score when the other team was on a run.
• 1:11:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was an absolute leader.
• 1:11:24
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yes, they didn't win the the tournament, but he took him as far as he could.
• 1:11:30
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He took him as far as he could.
• 1:11:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So Gameron Boozer to me might have the highest floor of anyone in this draft.
• 1:11:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Percentage says he's a can't fail offensive prospect.
• 1:11:41
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He's historically efficient.
• 1:11:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He passes, he rebounds, he shoots.
• 1:11:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The knock on him is that he won't blow past people athletically.
• 1:11:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I again still push back on that because it's not that he is out of shape at 250.
• 1:12:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This dude is built and get some of that get some of that um explosiveness explosiveness back, yeah.
• 1:12:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I think so.
• 1:12:12
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I think he could do that.
• 1:12:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now he might have the not have the the basta upside or the Peterson ceiling.
• 1:12:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But if you take Boozer, you're gonna sleep well at night.
• 1:12:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because of his floor.
• 1:12:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You know what you're gonna get.
• 1:12:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, he might not ever reach the heights of Debasta, or he might not reach the ceiling of what Darren Peterson can be, because there are things out there about Darren Peterson that people are saying that Peterson is Kobe Bryant-esque.
• 1:12:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I don't think you should ever use that unless you are absolutely sure.
• 1:12:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Cause Kobe Bryant was a maniacal worker.
• 1:12:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Kobe Bryant didn't want to miss games.
• 1:12:59
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This dude walked off the court after he tore his Achilles.
• 1:13:03
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He walked off the court under his own power.
• 1:13:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He didn't have two dudes helping him to the locker room.
• 1:13:10
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That dude walked off the court like he was taking a Sunday stroll with a torn Achilles.
• 1:13:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, it was is he a legend?
• 1:13:19
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yes.
• 1:13:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But Peterson only played 20 games at Kansas, so I don't want to hear about his Kobe S type situation.
• 1:13:26
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I don't want to hear it.
• 1:13:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Here's what I'm gonna say about uh Caleb Wilson, and then uh we're gonna close this out.
• 1:13:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I like Caleb Wilson.
• 1:13:35
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I think obviously because of the injury, we didn't get to see the whole the whole situation with him.
• 1:13:41
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But I do have some questions, but the numbers were uh astounding.
• 1:13:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He averaged damn near 20 points a game.
• 1:13:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He also was a high rebounder guy.
• 1:13:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was nine and a half boards, 2.7 assists, on 57.8% field goal percentage, but that was all basically close to the rim.
• 1:14:00
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He shot it at 68.2% at the rim.
• 1:14:05
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: My man had 66 scintillating dunks, second in the country, first among major, high major freshmen.
• 1:14:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He averaged 2.8 offensive rebounds a game as a non-center.
• 1:14:22
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: His relentless glass pursuit was absolutely astounding.
• 1:14:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I loved it.
• 1:14:28
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was second behind AJ DeBanza in free throw attempts per game at 7.5 as a freshman in the country.
• 1:14:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: His athletic tools speak for themselves.
• 1:14:43
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: 1.4 steals a game and uh 1.5 blocks.
• 1:14:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was absolutely explosive on rotations on the weak side.
• 1:14:53
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Here is my pushback.
• 1:14:56
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: His jumper at this point in time is theoretical.
• 1:15:00
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He only had 27 attempts from three offseason.
• 1:15:06
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He hit 25%, 26% of those.
• 1:15:09
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He only shot 31.5% on all his jumpers per synergy.
• 1:15:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: His free throw shooting was only 71.3, and that's the one of the biggest indicators on whether you think that his three-point shot will come around.
• 1:15:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's usually if they're shooting a low percentage from three-point land and they're shooting like 80% from the free throw line.
• 1:15:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You're like, you know what?
• 1:15:36
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's just mechanics.
• 1:15:38
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The touches there, it's just mechanics.
• 1:15:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But the 71.3% does not leave me warm and fuzzy on the inside.
• 1:15:49
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The mechanics are hitchy.
• 1:15:52
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That's the only way I can put it.
• 1:15:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: There's a pause at the top, and his leg kick from momentum needs a full season of a shooting rebuild.
• 1:16:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But there's no question about if this dude is gonna bang the boards, get off of the rebounds, and put backs.
• 1:16:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, he did this at 6'9, 210 pounds at college.
• 1:16:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Um, if he's gonna do this in the pro game, uh his athleticism is gonna have to play and play up because there are gonna be more physical dudes out there that he's gonna play with.
• 1:16:35
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Now, they talk about his defense, and I will say this.
• 1:16:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I thought in the open court or in the perimeter, his hips looked really tight.
• 1:16:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And his turn and chase and pick and roll coverage Um showed that his hips were tight because he never really he didn't get back to his um his assignment, which is a big rolling to the rim.
• 1:17:02
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: The other thing I will say is this is that if he was on the weak side and he saw somebody coming down the lane, he was gonna get you.
• 1:17:13
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: He was gonna either deter the shot, block the shot, or put you so off balance that you definitely weren't gonna make that shot.
• 1:17:23
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Is he athlete is he worth the top four pick?
• 1:17:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:17:29
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But this is a bigger bet than the surface numbers suggest.
• 1:17:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You're betting on the work ethic and you're working, you're betting on the offensive polish that is to come, not the production you already seen.
• 1:17:44
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Because here's the thing: if he can't space the floor, then he is a in the not a corner, he's not he's in the dunker squat the whole time.
• 1:17:57
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And if you don't have a stretch big, which there aren't a lot of those out there, this is not the guy for you, unless he can improve the three-point shot.
• 1:18:10
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So that's the case on our guy, Caleb Wilson.
• 1:18:14
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And with that going on, we're gonna close this out.
• 1:18:17
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• 1:18:56
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• 1:19:00
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• 1:19:07
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• 1:19:12
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• 1:19:26
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• 1:19:29
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• 1:19:33
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• 1:19:36
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• 1:19:45
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• 1:19:49
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• 1:20:08
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• 1:20:11
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• 1:20:13
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• 1:20:21
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• 1:20:55
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• 1:21:04
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• 1:21:11
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