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The 2024 NBA Draft 1 Season In... · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Now the season's almost over, I think it is a
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Speaker 1: perfect time to talk about the twenty twenty four NBA Draft,
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Speaker 1: and someone that doesn't do a lot of college basketball
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Speaker 1: or draft stuff in general, I really rely on certain YouTubers,
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Speaker 1: rioters and NBA draft nerds to really get me locked
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Speaker 1: into a draft class. And before this class even a
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Speaker 1: step foot on the floor, most people looked at it
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Speaker 1: as being one of the weakest draft classes in recent history. Now,
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Speaker 1: whether or not that's true or not, it's not really relevant.
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Speaker 1: I think we need a little bit more samplicized before
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Speaker 1: we get to there. But I can say just based
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Speaker 1: on these sixty to seventy games we've seen from these rookies,
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Speaker 1: there's some really interesting and intriguing young players, and I
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Speaker 1: I can agree with when people talk about it being
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Speaker 1: one of the weakest draft classes is that there's nobody
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Speaker 1: that has showed me in these sixty games that one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent they will be a future All Star. Right,
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Speaker 1: there's some guys I'm like, yeah, he could do it,
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Speaker 1: he might do it, but I'm talking about with one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent certainty, like you think about previous draft class.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Victor wimen Yamo, you saw that immediately the
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Speaker 1: moment he stepped on the NBA floor, Plo, benk Hero
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Speaker 1: going back, like Kay Cunningham, Evan Mobley, Anthony Edwards. I'm
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Speaker 1: just looking through these draft classes, John Moran, Jion Williamson.
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Speaker 1: Once those dudes touched the floor, and even before that
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Speaker 1: you had Luca Dantas and Trey Young. Once those dudes
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Speaker 1: touched the floor, you immediately looked at it and said, hey,
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Speaker 1: I think I can build my team around this dude,
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Speaker 1: and that we haven't seen that yet for the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four class. Maybe it ends up happening, maybe it doesn't. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: when I'm looking at young talent like rookies, where we're
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Speaker 1: talking about a sixty seventy game sample size, I really
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Speaker 1: don't care about the counting stats. I don't care about
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Speaker 1: the points, rebounds, assists to shooting splits. Because I'm watching
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Speaker 1: these young players, I'm looking for flashes. I'm looking for flashes. Now.
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Speaker 1: The reality is, every time you see a flash, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean that that player is going to actualize that potential.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean because this player looked good in the
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Speaker 1: pick and roll on one possession that one day he'll
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Speaker 1: turn into to Lucadntis to Trey Young. But I do
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Speaker 1: really look for the flashes rather the jesty overall stats
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Speaker 1: because reminder, a lot of these dudes are coming in
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Speaker 1: fresh out of college. A lot of these dudes have
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Speaker 1: one year of college experience, or some dudes in this
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Speaker 1: draft class and zero years of college experience. To stay up,
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Speaker 1: went to go play with the G League, which is
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Speaker 1: a crazy thing, and they got canceled. So it's hard
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Speaker 1: for me to be like, oh man, this player is
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Speaker 1: not good or cannot be good because in his rookie
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Speaker 1: season he's shot below this from the field, or he's
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Speaker 1: efficient here. Because we're really just looking at the flashes,
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Speaker 1: and then you look at those flashes, you try to
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Speaker 1: convince yourself, hey, is this something I can see this
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Speaker 1: player doing a lot long term, and then that's where
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Speaker 1: it gets really difficult, and I'm actually pretty bad at that.
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Speaker 1: But either way, I want to talk about these dudes.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start off in Washington, because the Washington will
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Speaker 1: just have four rookies that are really intriguing. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: start off with the three that they draft themselves. Shout
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Speaker 1: out to A. J. Johnson, who's been doing some pretty
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Speaker 1: cool stuff over the last couple of days or last
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Speaker 1: couple of games. But I really want to talk about
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Speaker 1: their own draft picks because again, Flashes Flashes Flashes. My
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Speaker 1: favorite of their three rookies, and that's between Alex sar
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Speaker 1: Kyshawn George and Bud Carrington is George. It's George. George
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Speaker 1: is sitting there, and I just feel like most people
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Speaker 1: have not realized it because the Washington Witars and themselves
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Speaker 1: don't have a lot of structure. They'll lose on any
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Speaker 1: given at night by forty plus points. But like, I
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Speaker 1: really really like Keithshan George is a prospect. I think
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of good defensive upside guys in
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Speaker 1: this twenty twenty four draft class. Where you look at
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Speaker 1: Resa Cha Castle Star Buzealis. I feel like Eve's Missy.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm forgetting some dudes a Ryan Dunn. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Keithshan George is towards not at the top, but towards
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Speaker 1: the top end of Like when I look at Keishan
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Speaker 1: George's defender as projecting of how good of a defender
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Speaker 1: he can be. And the reason I say that is
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Speaker 1: because I think he's got really good instincts on both
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Speaker 1: sides of the ball. And when you have that instinct
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Speaker 1: and that level of effort, I just feel like that's
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Speaker 1: just such a good match. We've seen recently that he's
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Speaker 1: been involved as a ball handler a lot more. And
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Speaker 1: I guess he grew up as a point guard as
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Speaker 1: I was just doing a little bit of research on him.
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Speaker 1: He grew up and then hit a growth spur. So
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Speaker 1: I see times or he is in the pick and
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Speaker 1: roll and he's making really good decision after really good decision,
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Speaker 1: and I like that. I've seen him guard guards, I've
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Speaker 1: seen him guard bigger wings, I've seen him do a
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Speaker 1: lot of different things. Is showcasing some of that potential versatility,
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Speaker 1: and I like that. If you think of about Alex
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Speaker 1: Sar and his defense of ceiling because I think I've
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Speaker 1: seen Alex Sar switch on to guards and hold his own.
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Speaker 1: I've seen him play really good drop coverage and hold
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Speaker 1: his own. So like, when you think about the upside
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Speaker 1: defensively of that team between Sar George Blau, again, depending
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Speaker 1: on what this pick looks like for them in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five, they have a nice young collection of talent.
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Speaker 1: Now I look at George, I don't know if that
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Speaker 1: upside is to potentially an All Star or something along
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Speaker 1: those lines. But when you think about a team having
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Speaker 1: three first round picks, you feel like one or two
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Speaker 1: of those guys may not pan out to be in
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Speaker 1: anything at the NBA level. And I feel good with saying,
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Speaker 1: through the first sixty something games of these young guys careers,
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Speaker 1: that all three of them project to be not just
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Speaker 1: NBA players, but like real rotational players for the foreseeable future.
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Speaker 1: And that's really good. Staying with the Wizards, Alex Sar
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Speaker 1: as of late, in his last ten games, he's averaging
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Speaker 1: nineteen points per game. And then again, I don't really
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Speaker 1: think about the numbers and stuff, but this is for
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Speaker 1: the people that care about the numbers. He's shooting forty
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Speaker 1: five percent from the field thirty seven percent for three
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Speaker 1: and one thing that I've noticed a lot that he's
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Speaker 1: been doing it. Let me see if I can find
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Speaker 1: a clip of it. He's been getting rebounds and he's
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Speaker 1: been coast to coasting it. He's been coast to coasting it.
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Speaker 1: And so of these times, I think it's handled for
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Speaker 1: somebody his size and not projected to be like a
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Speaker 1: you know sometimes we see these big ass guards. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's not projected to do anything like that. For him
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Speaker 1: to have at tide of a handle as he does
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Speaker 1: sometimes it is really impressive stuff. I'mna see if I can
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Speaker 1: find which game was that what I watch him recently
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Speaker 1: when they got the ass dogged. It's kind of the
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Speaker 1: thing for it, right U was that the I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: find I'm gonna find this clip pod on I found
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Speaker 1: the clip. I'm a preference by saying it's not as
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Speaker 1: cool as I hyped it up to be now that
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Speaker 1: I've watched it again, But damn it, when I was
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Speaker 1: watching this in real time, I was pretty impressed with
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Speaker 1: this play window Carter. He gets there to get the block,
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Speaker 1: he gets the ball and he's trying to go coax
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Speaker 1: to coast. You can pause it right here and say, hey, hey,
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Speaker 1: big fella, maybe we shouldn't be doing this at this
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Speaker 1: moment of time. But watch this, Cory, y'all go over
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Speaker 1: the seat where youre going, Cory Joe. They reviewed it
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Speaker 1: and it went off his knee, so that was a turnover.
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Speaker 1: But just talking about flashes, and every time I watched
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Speaker 1: the Wizards earlier in the season, I just kept thinking
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Speaker 1: to myself, if this guy ever got to the point
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Speaker 1: where he was just an average NBA offensive player, then
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Speaker 1: that's a really good overall NBA player. And as we've
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Speaker 1: seen over the last couple of weeks or so, that
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Speaker 1: offense is starting to turn the corner a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Zachary Rishild say, might be again, brother, I'm so sorry,
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Speaker 1: I'm simp pronouncing that wrong. Might be the least talked
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Speaker 1: about first overall picking the history of the sport. And
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Speaker 1: that's okay, that's okay. He's been progressively getting better and
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Speaker 1: better and better, and just last night he had his
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Speaker 1: career high night, which is thirty six points. One thing
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Speaker 1: about Reese, I say sorry, coming into this was like,
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Speaker 1: hey man, last year when he was overseas he shot
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Speaker 1: really well from three, but the three years before that
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Speaker 1: he was pretty dreadful. So the question was was his
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Speaker 1: shooting in that one year the outlier or can he
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Speaker 1: really build on that shooting So far the season, we're
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Speaker 1: talking about thirty five percent, but the shot has looked
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Speaker 1: better and better throughout the year. I really do love like,
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Speaker 1: out of all different places that he could have ended
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Speaker 1: up him playing alongside Trey Young. I think it's so
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Speaker 1: much of a blessing because you have an offensive engine
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Speaker 1: in Trey who can any given night give you a
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Speaker 1: nineteen and nineteen game. He did that last night. By
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Speaker 1: the way, nineteen and nineteen don't sleep on trade. And
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Speaker 1: because you have somebody that is so elite with the ball,
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Speaker 1: it gives you so many opportunities. Now, teams are not
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Speaker 1: guarding Resache. At matter of fact, let me do this
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Speaker 1: one more time. Re zahe is what basketball Riezache. They're
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Speaker 1: not guarding Riza se is if he's Kevin Durant. He
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Speaker 1: gets a lot of lot of open looks. But one
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Speaker 1: thing I like about him is that he's not content
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Speaker 1: with just sitting at the corner and just waiting for
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Speaker 1: his open looks to end up coming to him. I
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Speaker 1: think he plays very well off the ball, where he's
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Speaker 1: doing backdoor cuts, he's setting screens, he's doing a lot
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Speaker 1: of the smaller things that an overall stat line won't
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Speaker 1: pick up. And now that the jump shooting is starting
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Speaker 1: to catch up to that again, really good NBA player.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna talk about his bizealous because I feel
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Speaker 1: like that's all I've done over the last month. But
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Speaker 1: he's been really, really good, so he's been certain into
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Speaker 1: the starting lineup. My only complaint is that the man
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Speaker 1: that is sixty nine sixteen don't grab enough rebounds for
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Speaker 1: my liking. I feel like I'm sounded like my dad
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Speaker 1: because that's something my dad would say about somebody his size.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, he's just don't rebound the ball well. He
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Speaker 1: has ebbs and flows with his jump shooting. But when
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Speaker 1: the jump shooting is going and he can go coast
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Speaker 1: to coast as well and finish a lib and do
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Speaker 1: all of the stuff around the rim, he just opens
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Speaker 1: up the game, not just for him but for the
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Speaker 1: team in general. Next, let's go to the probable rookie
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Speaker 1: of the year. Now, one thing about Steph Castle is
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Speaker 1: that because we've had the windy injury and everything. His
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Speaker 1: workload has just got so much, so much larger. So
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Speaker 1: like on the night to night basis, some of the
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Speaker 1: stuff does not look good on the stat sheet, but
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Speaker 1: again we're looking for these flashes. And one of the
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Speaker 1: things coming into the draft was people talked about how
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Speaker 1: much of a dog he was defensively, and I've done
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Speaker 1: a few shoots with Steph Castle. That's been my boy.
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Speaker 1: The dude is just a big ass guard, right, and
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Speaker 1: sometimes you see him get switched on to bigger players.
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Speaker 1: And again we talk about a rooie, so I don't
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Speaker 1: want to act he turned into Draymond Green as an
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Speaker 1: undersized defender, but you see, like, oh my god, you know,
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Speaker 1: you put him into some actions he can hold his
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Speaker 1: own against so and so who's sixt' seven, you know,
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Speaker 1: and those are the type of things that's really interesting.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what this overall long term workload looks
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Speaker 1: like alonside the Aaron Fox, a Victor Wibbin Yama. But
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Speaker 1: it's been a few games where like Steph Castle as
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Speaker 1: a rookie went individually on like an eight to oh
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Speaker 1: run and a spark in the game, and some of
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Speaker 1: that has jump shoot. Some of that is getting to
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Speaker 1: the basket, and you're like, yeah, I understand it, Donovan Klingen.
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Speaker 1: I've been wanting Donovan Klingen to really get unleashed. Unfortunately
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Speaker 1: we only get bits and pieces of that. But you
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Speaker 1: already see what type of big man defender he could
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Speaker 1: potentially be. And somebody say, again, as somebody that doesn't
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Speaker 1: really look at the stats, his are pretty glam and
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Speaker 1: you feel it when you're watching the game. And that's
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Speaker 1: why I'm just gonna use these stats to back up
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Speaker 1: when I'm saying opponents affect the field goal percentage is
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Speaker 1: down about three percent when he is on the floor,
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Speaker 1: which is insane. Seven to two big fella, and when
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Speaker 1: you have a seven two big fella, that's herolded As
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Speaker 1: a defensive orient to guy. One thing you asked yourself
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Speaker 1: is like, what type of defense are we talking? Are
11:03
Speaker 1: we doing some dry coverage? Are we doing this? Are
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Speaker 1: we doing that? And what does that look like for
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Speaker 1: the opposing team? Teams don't go to the rim with
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Speaker 1: Donovan Klingen is out there. This right here, this minus
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Speaker 1: four point five. I want to put this perspective. This
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Speaker 1: is team's opponents of shooting frequency. I want to put
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Speaker 1: this into perspective because teams are shooting way more mid
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Speaker 1: ranges when don VD Clinking is on the floor. Right
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Speaker 1: this seventeen eighteen season is Rudy Gobert's first defensive player
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Speaker 1: of the Year. One of the greatest things about Rudy
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Speaker 1: Gobert as a defender is his rim deterrence. And we're
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Speaker 1: talking about a rookie and Donovan Klingen has numbers that
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Speaker 1: is somewhat similar a percentage point off of what the
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Speaker 1: first DPO wife of Rudy Gobert looks like. Now eventually
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Speaker 1: DPO wif Rudy Gobert gets up to eight percent, which
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Speaker 1: is fucking disgusted, Like it's crazy that he deterred people
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Speaker 1: from going to the rim that much. But this is
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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about with Donovan Klingen. That's why I
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Speaker 1: want him to be unleashed a little bit more. But
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Speaker 1: they doing the things over there in Portland. I think
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Speaker 1: Ron Holland has found his role pretty early on this
12:00
Speaker 1: high energy guy. Get into it with anybody here. We
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Speaker 1: just saw a really big scuffle just yesterday and I
12:05
Speaker 1: did find it interesting that the one game against the
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Speaker 1: Pelicans or kay Cunninghill was a lay scratch. We had
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Speaker 1: a twenty six five and five game from him, and
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Speaker 1: some of that was just him being this runner, this runner,
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Speaker 1: this running and transition and what we've seen over the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years, whether it be the Thompson twins
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Speaker 1: and so on and so forth, some guys that might
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Speaker 1: not be insane in the half court can increase their
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Speaker 1: offensive value just by being a super great fast break player.
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Speaker 1: And Ron Holland has found that role already. In the
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Speaker 1: hopes is of course that the jump shooting comes around
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Speaker 1: with it. You have some rookies that I have not
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Speaker 1: been able to watch nearly is enough, Like kl Philapowski's
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Speaker 1: overall stats look amazing. I have not watched a full
12:43
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz game in the year of twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: maybe even further back than that, Like, I have not
12:50
Speaker 1: been locked in on them at all. So my fault
12:52
Speaker 1: of Jazz fans. Maybe you got some of the steals,
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Speaker 1: because I know Isaiah Cole is doing some cool stuff
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Speaker 1: as well, but I can't even give an opinion on that.
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Speaker 1: You do have your rookie is that you know are
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Speaker 1: not getting enough time just yet to have a full
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Speaker 1: evaluation all like Rob Dillingham was a part of the
13:05
Speaker 1: rotation when they were dealing with a bunch of injuries,
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Speaker 1: but since then he's not getting a ton of play.
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Speaker 1: Now that the Hornets are bad have they've been bad
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Speaker 1: for a long time, We're starting to see Tajohn Salon
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Speaker 1: jump up a little bit in the rotation, so that's interesting.
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Speaker 1: Reached Shepherd is another one of these guys. Obviously Nicola
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Speaker 1: Topitch hasn't been able to play, and guys like Dev
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Speaker 1: Carter and so on. And I didn't even mentioned like
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Speaker 1: Jery McCain, who was probably gonna run away or Rookie
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Speaker 1: of the Year if he was able to stay healthy.
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Speaker 1: I want to say my apologies to these rookies who
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Speaker 1: I know have been hooping, but I don't have an
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Speaker 1: opinion on him just yet. Austin Edwards. I think I
13:38
Speaker 1: mentioned Cayle Filipowski already, Jacobe Walter, Dean Bona, Eves Missi,
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Speaker 1: who at one point was the leader for Rookie of
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Speaker 1: the Year. I did a whole little segment on my
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Speaker 1: podcast on Quentin Post, so I don't want to go
13:50
Speaker 1: too deep into that, but Quentin Posts, I really love
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Speaker 1: what I've seen from Khalel War and flashes. One of
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Speaker 1: the thing that I've been asking for for a long
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Speaker 1: time is to have another big fellow alongside Bam on
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Speaker 1: a Bayo, because Dobam Metabio is one of the most
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Speaker 1: versatile defenders in basketball. He's just really undersized to play
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Speaker 1: the five full time. And we, finally, after years of
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Speaker 1: me asking for this, have a center alongside Bam that
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Speaker 1: you project to be a really good front cord for
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Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. And I still haven't figured out what
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Speaker 1: to think about Zach Edy. I still don't know. I
14:18
Speaker 1: still don't know. Shout out to Jalen Wales, who you
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Speaker 1: know is starting to cool off as a shooter over
14:23
Speaker 1: the last couple months or so. But like coming onto
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Speaker 1: the scene as a second round pick and wreaking that
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Speaker 1: much havoc defensively was pretty dope. I mean, he did
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Speaker 1: that whole face guard Steph Curry thing a few months
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Speaker 1: back and held Steph Curry to what's zero points. I
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Speaker 1: want to say that I can't get to everybody. Let
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Speaker 1: me know what you think about this year's draft class man. Underrated, overrated,
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Speaker 1: We'll see, I guess