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Draft Night One: Winners, Losers & The Check Austin Reaves Just Cashed In · Front Runner Podcast Collective

• 0:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Night one of the NBA draft is in the books.
• 0:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It was an event, but the offseason is already moving, and the lottery just ended.
• 0:27
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You can't grade what happened on Tuesday night.
• 0:32
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: But you can you can start looking at how the roster is forming.
• 0:39
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Full picture of team by team, the winners, the losers, one story that nobody's talking about loud enough.
• 0:48
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So you know who's gonna do that, right?
• 0:50
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: It's FRPC.
• 0:53
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Let's get into it.
• 0:55
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: What's good everybody?
• 1:04
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Welcome to Frontrunner Podcast Collective.
• 1:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: This is where we talk like friends, we argue like cousins, and still walk out smarter than we were when we came in.
• 1:16
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: I am Vince, I am your host, your occasional hoop therapist, your absolute favorite bad influence when it comes to completely reckless NBA overreactions that low-key make sense, and we are setting the table today.
• 1:31
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We are getting into the film room observations today, and we're talking about the players, the coaches, the front office uh moves, and also those checks, those big checks that just come on in.
• 1:47
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So, we're gonna get you some jokes, we're gonna give you some advanced math and the exact ammo you need in your group chats, you know where to come from when you need to get all the things that you need to get when it comes to all the NBA nonsense that goes on.
• 2:07
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: If you're NBA sicko who wants more, more than highlights.
• 2:13
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: You want context, numbers in a point of view, you found your spot.
• 2:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Let's go.
• 2:21
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So today we're gonna talk a lot about the NBA draft.
• 2:25
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Um, we're gonna also talk about some of these trades that have gone down.
• 2:30
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: There was a signing of Austin Reeves that we will get into.
• 2:34
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We have a lot to go and get into today.
• 2:37
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: So without further ado, we're gonna do what a lot of podcasts do.
• 2:42
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: We're gonna talk about the winners, day one, right?
• 2:46
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And then what we're gonna do, talk about some losers, and we're gonna talk about how some of these uh these these trades have affected the draft, and we're also gonna talk about how the signing of Austin Reeves and where does that leave leave us as Lakers fans are either rejoicing or being completely pissed off because of the fact that they think that Austin Reeves got overpaid.
• 3:15
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: That is a big story here in Los Angeles.
• 3:17
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: Did Austin Reeves get overpaid?
• 3:20
  FRPC Host Vince Carter: And we will get into all of it.
• 3:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But we will start with the draft before we get into all of the winners and losers.
• 3:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The little speculation right before the draft about whether Darren Peterson was gonna go one or two.
• 3:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He said in his interview with uh ESPN that he was salty about not going number one.
• 3:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He felt like he was the number one player.
• 3:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's kind of what you want uh an athlete to say.
• 3:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the thing about it is, is that, and we'll get into it as we go along.
• 3:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't think there was any choice for Washington to make other than AJ Debanza.
• 4:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh DeBanza was clearly the guy that Washington had focused on.
• 4:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm not saying that they did not bring in Peterson for a workout or interview.
• 4:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They did do do so, but at the end of the day, they had to make a decision, and that decision seemed to be fairly fairly easy.
• 4:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Which leads me to my next situation that we need to get into.
• 4:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's talk about the winners.
• 4:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The first winner that we want to talk about is the Memphis Grizzlies.
• 4:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They take Cameron Goozer at three.
• 4:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um, we'll talk about some some of the other stuff they did, which was kind of crazy, but it ended up working out for them.
• 4:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um, Cameron Goozer to me is the safest pick in the draft.
• 4:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was the guy that I personally thought that if you were going to say this is their floor, are you comfortable with this?
• 5:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's a guy I would have said, yep, absolutely.
• 5:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is the person that I want to uh kind of start the re-imagination of the Memphis Grizzlies in as quickly as they can try to jettison off John Morant, which we will get to.
• 5:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think that getting Cameron Boozer, just a good overall citizen, um, a really good player, a fundamental guy, a guy who's really going to take his craft seriously.
• 5:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And, you know, we can say what we want about John Morant and some of the antics and some of the things that he brought to this team in the last two or three years.
• 5:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And the one thing I want to say about it is this is I'm not upset about the mistakes that John made.
• 5:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm upset that they continue to happen.
• 6:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm upset that they he never learned from them.
• 6:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I think when you get a player like Cameron Boozer, who is really, first of all, he's second generation, his dad played in the league, which we all know.
• 6:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You're gonna have less that you need to worry about.
• 6:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You're gonna have uh somebody who's gonna come in who understood his role.
• 6:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He has won everywhere he's gone.
• 6:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um, maybe he did not win the national championship last year, but he did everything possible for Duke to win because he carried them on his back.
• 6:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was like the de facto point guard, and if you think about it at 6'8, 6'9, 250 pounds, that wasn't your go-to situation if you were thinking about Cameron Boozer.
• 6:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Second side initiator, maybe that type of thing, but not the actual on-ball creator, and he actually did a pretty commendable job at that.
• 7:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh, and then when they needed a bucket, he got them one.
• 7:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So you're getting a real solid player, and I think honestly, a guy who can, you know, they say that he is a 20-point a game, 11 rebound a game guy.
• 7:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think there's more.
• 7:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think there's more to him.
• 7:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now let's talk about their second situ their second pick.
• 7:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because they were at 16, they moved down to 21, and they grabbed Kareem Lopez, and they collected five, five, five additional, additional second round picks.
• 7:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I loved it personally.
• 7:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I saw his tape, I wasn't thrilled about Kareem Lopez.
• 7:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm always wondering how a slow plotting dude like this is going to make it when the shot isn't isn't great.
• 7:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There's no specific skill that you can sit there and go, that's what he's gonna do well.
• 8:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He does everything good.
• 8:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There's not a very good skill that you say, okay, we're gonna enhance this skill, and this is where he's going to going to thrive in the NBA.
• 8:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But for what I guess they were looking for, and it's hard for me to shoot down Zach Kleiman and the crew in Memphis as far as their actual like talent assessment, they might have saw something that I didn't see.
• 8:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I've been wrong before, but Cam uh Kareem Lopez was the second pick of the Memphis Grizzlies, and if I'm thinking about how this looks for Memphis going forward, the teardown mandate is clean.
• 8:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh, if Jaw is gone, you know, before the start of the year, there's nothing to worry about.
• 8:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If anything, landing boozer accelerates the conversation um about moving Ja this summer.
• 9:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If you can, I've heard around the league that it's gonna actually take picks to incentivize a team to pick him to uh go ahead and do the acquisition.
• 9:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the moment you have this foundation, this piece, you can start changing the identity.
• 9:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You hit the reset button in Memphis, which you needed to intentionally.
• 9:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Boozer is that guy, and then now you have the chance to go out and start putting your team together.
• 9:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I mean, you got Cedric Coward, you got Jalen Wells, as far as that's concerned.
• 9:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You hope that you can get Ty Jerome back healthy.
• 9:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He only played in like what 15 games last year, which was terrible.
• 9:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think Ty Jerome is a kind of a steadying influence on a young squad like that, and I hope to see them all put together, and if we can get a full participation of Zach Edy, along with Cameron Boozer, along with Jalen Wells, along with Cedric Howard, that lineup doesn't look so bad with all the pieces that they are jettisoning off John Morant to the world, if they can go ahead and get to that point, and then you talk about our guy, uh Jaron Jackson Jr., who's in Utah?
• 10:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: For somebody who's in a rebuild, the start of their rebuild is very promising.
• 10:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So now, what happens if you have to keep John Morant?
• 10:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Do you start him?
• 10:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Do you send him away?
• 10:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Do you want him to even have any sort of influence on this team whatsoever?
• 10:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because I will say right now, I think you start with Boozer, you allow him to become that guy, and you you have him become kind of like the de facto leader of that team, and you just kind of move on there from there.
• 11:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, uh let allow Lopez to find his game.
• 11:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, you're not looking to, you know, break the bank and win a bunch of games this year.
• 11:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's a slow, steady climb to the top again.
• 11:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But I think personally, if you're gonna do this, you definitely don't want to have the distraction of John Morant.
• 11:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So whatever the Memphis Grizzlies have to do to uh get John Morant off the team, I think you have to do it.
• 11:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I mean, obviously, you don't want to give up three first-round draft picks.
• 11:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's that seems to be an overkill.
• 11:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So hopefully, what we can get to is a point where they can find somebody who would want him.
• 11:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And maybe do you trade one of the young players instead of the draft picks?
• 11:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is there a role player that somebody would want?
• 11:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is there another studying influence that maybe you can send along with Ja to somewhere where they can kind of go, okay, we we see this and we can hopefully uh mold Ja into what we need him to be.
• 12:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like if the Miami Heat, I'm not saying the Miami Heat has use for him now, but before the Giannis trade, that would have been somewhere I would have thought could do something with him.
• 12:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now we transition to Milwaukee.
• 12:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, our our people in Milwaukee, they gotta be sad right now, but here's the thing.
• 12:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Milwaukee had two first-round draft picks.
• 12:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Obviously, this is the Milwaukee to Miami Giannis Ante Tacumpo trade, where then they ended up with Tyler Hero, Khalil Ware, Jaime Haquez Jr., and Casparis Yakachunis in the 13th pick overall.
• 12:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And three future firsts, let's not forget that for Milwaukee, because they're gonna need it, need it.
• 13:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then two Miami, obviously, you got Giannis and Titakumpo and Bobby Portis.
• 13:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Milwaukee's draft strategy was built entirely on what came back in this deal, which was the 13th overall pick, which they they found it necessary to have, and I think it was actually a pretty good way they kind of maneuvered around the draft board, and what I want to do for you is kind of take you in.
• 13:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because we got the surprise pick of Mores Johnson Jr.
• 13:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: at 9, and the reason why I bring that up is because we're gonna talk about it later.
• 13:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But then that left, okay, we're at 10.
• 13:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What do we do?
• 13:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Milwaukee has been fascinated with Nate Amit, and actually, I think one of their owners has been a large donor to the Tennessee Balls basketball program, and I think he actually signed a check to get Nate Amit there last year.
• 14:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So what I need people to appreciate is that the front office did what they needed to do, but it was funny, I think they did it in a different order because they did not expect Brayton Burries to be there at 10.
• 14:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So let's go ahead and paint the picture for you.
• 14:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Night of the draft, you come in, you're kind of looking, your pick is coming up at 10.
• 14:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, what's on the board?
• 14:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What's been taken off?
• 14:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Oh my god, Moreas Johnson Jr.
• 14:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: has been taken at 9.
• 14:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That leaves Grandon Berry's at 10.
• 14:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think the Memphis or the Milwaukee office pivoted.
• 14:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They say, Hey, we cannot pass up on this dude.
• 14:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And the reason why I'm telling you, and you're saying, Well, it's Grandon Berry's.
• 14:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like, how good is he?
• 14:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's solid.
• 14:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And you say, Well, solid, you don't want to go for solid at the number 10 overall pick, and I think that's where you're wrong.
• 15:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We see so many of these upside uh swings, and Natamint would be an upside swing, and we'll get to him momentarily.
• 15:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But at 10, you got a solid pick, and I'm gonna tell you right now, if Brandon Berries falls to 11, he goes to Golden State Warriors, no questions asked.
• 15:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, what did Milwaukee do?
• 15:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They said we'll take Brandon Berries out of Arizona, and then the quality of guard tier drop off from there.
• 15:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's a two-way threat who scores at all three levels and defends uh with a ferocity.
• 15:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love this kid.
• 15:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think you got a real like professional at 10, and then you did the up side, you did the upside swing pick at 13, and that was Nathan Mint, and that's who you got for the 13th overall pick, which used to belong to the Miami Heat.
• 16:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, with Nathan Mint, what you get is a ball handler who is 6'10.
• 16:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There is a theoretical 3nd um play on this kid, somewhat like Jaden McDaniels, but I'm gonna tell you right now.
• 16:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I he's very he's rail thin.
• 16:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He did not shoot it well last year, he was allergic to the paint, and so a lot of things are going to have to develop for him to reach the levels of Jaden McDaniels, and also you got to get bigger and stronger to be able to be any sort of like quality defensive player on the opposite side.
• 16:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I think for what they got out of the draft, I like it personally.
• 16:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Taylor Jenkins is taking over this team.
• 16:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh, he doesn't walk into a crisis, he walks into a formula, he's already run.
• 17:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He has a defensive anchor in Miles Turner, who's 6'11, he's a shock blocker.
• 17:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got Khalel Ware, if you decide not to trade him, which it doesn't seem like they will.
• 17:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um, coming in the trade.
• 17:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You also got a 20-year-old, Caspar Jacquesunis.
• 17:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um, and then you got the other, you got the other picks.
• 17:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got Hany Hawkes Jr.
• 17:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: who's a solid pro.
• 17:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I like that kid a lot.
• 17:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then also you got Tyler Hero.
• 17:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Tyler Hero might be on the move.
• 17:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um, now that Austin Reeves has signed his or he has agreed to sign his contract.
• 17:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So the Lakers earlier this morning agreed to terms with Austin Reeves four years, 185 million, and I will talk about this a little bit later, because you know I'm a Lakers fan.
• 17:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But that also opens the door for Tyler Hero to be traded to Detroit because Detroit was the mystery team that was willing to go ahead and back up the Brinks truck for Austin Reeves.
• 18:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Hero decision is a forking roll because I think personally they're gonna go ahead and try to trade him now with these developments starting to happen.
• 18:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think Hero, as far as a shooter, a spacer, which they Detroit desperately needs that.
• 18:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um It also opens up a developmental runway for berries and a man and where Yakunus is also gonna be able to play on ball, which is great.
• 18:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh, and I think personally this is they didn't get the the the great upside pick or the great upside player from Miami.
• 18:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They did not.
• 18:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the trade is not done yet, and you can sit there and tell me, hey, you know, this was kind of a lousy um bag of goods that Milwaukee got back in return.
• 19:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, that all depends on what they get for Tyler Hero.
• 19:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Right?
• 19:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's keep an open mind.
• 19:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We can talk about the trade till you know the cows come home, but everybody's done that.
• 19:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What did Pat Riley do?
• 19:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Obviously, he got the the star player that he coveted.
• 19:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He got Giannis Ante Tacumpo, who was this just absolute freak of nature, uh, and they got Bobby Portis, which is also a good vet, which I like that situation for them.
• 19:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The problem is they have no spacing whatsoever.
• 19:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You sent a grocery list of people out of your organization, so you're looking at a team right now that consists of Bam Ottawa, Giannis Anti Tacumpo, uh Andrew Wiggins, Norman Powell, and Davion Mitchell.
• 20:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, you have no bench to speak of at this point.
• 20:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, you can tell me about Pele Larson, and you can tell me about Jovich and what have you.
• 20:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We really haven't seen the best version of Yovich as of yet.
• 20:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Pele Larson actually played pretty well last year.
• 20:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I like him a lot, but I need to see it for a couple more couple another year or so to make sure to go, okay, this is something that you can depend on, you can rely on this situation.
• 20:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But they need to go ahead and fill that roster and fill that roster quickly.
• 20:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Lot more work to be done, Pat Riley and the crew down there.
• 20:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I have I have hopes that you can do that, but right now that that's a a grade that's incomplete.
• 20:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we're gonna move on to what else is next.
• 21:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Atlanta Hawks.
• 21:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And you say to me, Well, Vince, the Atlanta Hawks, they got Kingston Flemings at number eight.
• 21:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I'm kind of going, y'all don't know, huh?
• 21:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Y'all don't know what they got.
• 21:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What's the one thing that Atlanta needed last year in the playoffs?
• 21:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, mind you, they were the only team to really give New York Knicks any kind of problems until they met the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA finals.
• 21:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But they needed a league guard.
• 21:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And guess what they got?
• 21:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: A league guard.
• 21:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And they got a league guard who he might not be the biggest dude on the face of the planet.
• 21:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's at 6'2, and then he has a wingspan of 6'3, which is not great.
• 21:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But what can he do?
• 21:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He can do a lot.
• 21:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And here's what I want to talk about.
• 22:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You come off of Trey Young and you go, Well, that's a good thing.
• 22:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It is.
• 22:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But what does my guy give you?
• 22:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He gives you on ball, he can get off ball, which isn't something that we wanted Trey Young to do forever.
• 22:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He never did.
• 22:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's not an absolute just black hole when it comes to defense.
• 22:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He will be in the right place at the right time.
• 22:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's a pretty like uh uh strongly built young man, so you got that going for you.
• 22:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then the other thing is this he can shoot it, he can he can create off the bounce.
• 22:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And again, like I said, if you want Jalen Johnson to run some of the offense, which that's what Jalen Johnson was doing last year, now you got multiple ball handlers that you can trust.
• 23:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got multiple dudes out here that can handle the rock and get the rock to where they need to go.
• 23:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, I always use this phrase, so if you are in the drinking game situation, when I talk about share the sugar, this is what I'm talking about.
• 23:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Atlanta got a good one.
• 23:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think his shooting will absolutely continue to develop.
• 23:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think he is nice off the bounce, but the most important thing about our guy, Kingston Flemings, is this the willingness to play off ball.
• 23:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That is a absolute key.
• 23:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love that for him.
• 23:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So kudos to Quinn Snyder and the crew down there.
• 23:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They are really building something that we have probably haven't seen in a while in Atlanta.
• 23:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think they're building a team that can compete.
• 23:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So if they can get a big, you know, because their second pick, they got our guy, man, Zuki Odrafor, they picked him at 23.
• 24:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And let me tell you right now, that dude is gonna defend.
• 24:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't think he can shoot one bit.
• 24:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But if you want to talk about just effort and just pestiness and somebody just getting rebounds, he reminds me of um what was our guy in Denver?
• 24:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Manimal.
• 24:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, that's who they that's who he reminds me of.
• 24:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And if you want to go back a little bit even further, he kind of reminds me of a Michael Cage type of dude, but like obviously he can move his feet.
• 24:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's a really good defender.
• 24:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's he look he's gonna be able to rebound for you.
• 24:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's a tough-minded individual, but he cannot shoot.
• 24:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So you're gonna have to put shooting around him, which for the Atlanta Hawks, that's not really a problem.
• 25:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You can go to a small ball lineup, or you can keep our guy, umgu out there, who can now shoot the three a little bit, and you can still put Zuki Ojafor in the dunker spot and just keep it moving.
• 25:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love this pick for Atlanta.
• 25:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You always want to get you some toughness, and toughness is what they got.
• 25:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the Chicago Bulls, you're a winner because guess what?
• 25:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You picked the only guy you could pick.
• 25:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 25:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No, no shade off the new front office in Chicago.
• 25:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm not trying to I'm not trying to bang on you right now, but what I am saying is this is that the Caleb Wilson pick at four was the easiest thing in the draft to kind once Memphis took Carlos Boozer, which we knew that was gonna happen, like really first eight picks went chalk.
• 26:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Nobody, you know, had any surprises whatsoever.
• 26:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The surprise was at nine.
• 26:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then they got uh Dalen Swain at the 15th overall pick.
• 26:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think they knocked it out the park.
• 26:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think when you look at the team for Chicago now, when you got Nick Claxton that you got from Brooklyn essentially uh for nothing.
• 26:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got you just picked up Caleb Wilson, who's a everybody's calling him kind of a KG light type of dude, a Kevin Garnett light type of dude.
• 26:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I gotta see it to believe it.
• 26:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But people praise him at North Carolina.
• 26:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I have some questions about the defensive uh prowess of Caleb Williams personally, but we we'll have to see.
• 26:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But then again, the the Dalen Swain pick was also a really good pick.
• 26:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got two guys.
• 26:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If if right, if we're if the people in North Carolina are right about Caleb Williams or Wilson, and then you got Dalen Swain.
• 27:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got two defensive players that you absolutely need.
• 27:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think you pair them with Modest Buzelis.
• 27:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You also got our guy Josh Giddy down there, and now all of a sudden you got a supersized lineup.
• 27:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: All of a sudden, you're bigger.
• 27:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The rebounding is not a concern because everybody's gonna rebound.
• 27:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Every last person on that team is gonna rebound.
• 27:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Swain's gonna rebound.
• 27:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Caleb Wilson, Caleb Wilson definitely gonna rebound.
• 27:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Our guy Josh Giddy rebounds, and Midas Boo Zelis.
• 27:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He lives for the putback dunk.
• 27:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He lives for the the highlight where he can absolutely embarrass people.
• 27:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But they are bigger.
• 27:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got a team with you got Giddy, Dillingham, you got Boozelis, you got a Singway that you have from last year, and then the two picks this year.
• 28:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think so far they've been doing really well with what they've been doing.
• 28:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love it.
• 28:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think it's a good way to start, and then you can kind of uh you can start phasing out the Patrick Williams of the world.
• 28:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And if you haven't been with us long here at Front Runner Podcast Collective, I have been a I'm I'm so tired of the athletic big or wingman that doesn't have a necessary skill that you can just you know take home the mama with.
• 28:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Patrick W Patrick Williams is the last guy that I will ever stick my neck out for and say, That's the dude.
• 28:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's the dude I am gonna, you know, I see all the athleticism, I see the jumping ability, oh it's all gonna it's all gonna work in the NBA.
• 29:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm done with that.
• 29:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I won't do it ever again, and it is what it is, but I love what the Bulls have done with their roster with through the draft and also getting Claxton, who again, when you get him for almost pretty much nothing, you can't be mad at that.
• 29:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So why is this all important?
• 29:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You get a center for nothing, and then the fourth overall pick, if Caleb does pan out the way some draft pundits think he will.
• 29:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's there's a split on him.
• 29:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There's a real split on him.
• 29:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um who's my guy?
• 29:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: My guy, um Gavoni.
• 29:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Love I think Gavoni loves him, but our guy Vicini doesn't.
• 29:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Sam Vicini says the hips are a little stiff.
• 30:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He stands up in his defensive stance a little too high.
• 30:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He doesn't get back when it gets to the pick and roll, doesn't get back to the roll man quick enough for our guy Vicini, and I'm gonna tell you right now that those type of things are the things that I was a little worried about.
• 30:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But is there true athleticism in him?
• 30:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes.
• 30:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He doesn't have the longest of arms, he's like six foot nine, almost six foot ten, and you have a seven foot wingspan.
• 30:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So you want a little bit better from that, but you didn't get it.
• 30:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But I will say all of this, everything in totality, you know what I'm saying?
• 30:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If he can just be a better version of Patrick Williams, I think you got something.
• 30:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If he can just shoot the ball, if he can rerun the ball, he can find a way to understand defensive principles and apply them.
• 30:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think we got something in Chicago.
• 30:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Plus, my man put the statement out there like he wants to be the best Chicago bull to ever come out of North Carolina.
• 31:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm like, that is a really high ask that you are putting out there, my man.
• 31:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You might want to you might want to uh retract that statement a little bit because it's a guy by Michael name by the name of Michael Jordan that hit played there.
• 31:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There's a statue out in front of the stadium as far as that's concerned.
• 31:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You might want to go visit that bad boy and understand what you're trying to get yourself into.
• 31:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, let's get to Golden State, shall we?
• 31:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Why are they a winner?
• 31:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Two reasons.
• 31:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Two reasons, and I want to talk about it.
• 31:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: One, did anybody see the uh the back and forth between owner of the Golden State Warriors, Joseph Lacup, and the trigger man for the draft, which was Mike Dunleavy Jr.
• 31:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Oh, we got some drama in the bay.
• 32:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There was video of these two dudes going back and forth about probably who they were picking at 11, and we'll get to that in one second.
• 32:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But it looked like Joseph Laker was not cool with what was going down when it came to the pick, and I don't know if Mike Dunley at Mundy Dunleavy Jr.
• 32:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: had a had a call or not, but my man got on the phone real quick.
• 32:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like, I'm done with this conversation, Joseph.
• 32:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You go be an owner.
• 32:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 32:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You go and deal with the money.
• 32:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm gonna go over here and build this team.
• 32:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Joseph was the hell I will.
• 32:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Why are we picking this dude?
• 32:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What are we doing?
• 32:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are we trading the pick to get better, you know, to get better for steph?
• 33:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Blah blah blah.
• 33:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know what was all said.
• 33:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They did not discuss that in the um interview after they made the pick, but I will tell you, Joseph Laker did not look happy.
• 33:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we we were winners for that.
• 33:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, as far as the pick is concerned, yeah, listen, Yasso Londonberg is one of those dudes that man, you talking about the the evolution of Draymond Green.
• 33:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, I'm never gonna say he's gonna have the actual connectivity on the offensive end like Draymond Green.
• 33:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But this dude can shoot it, he can defend, he can defend on the perimeter, he rebounds the ball well, he passes decent, but the main thing that he does better than Draymond is he can shoot it.
• 34:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So if you got basically Draymond Green, four inches taller, soup still super annoying, still kind of just a just a just an agitator on the defensive side of the ball, play with that edge type of mentality, and then you sit there and you go, okay, well, this is what we're gonna do.
• 34:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And also, I have a 7'4 wingspan with elite defensive tools and a motor that's out of this world when it's turned on properly.
• 34:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I'm gonna tell you right now, he went to the right team for that because uh Steve Kerr and Draymond Green will not be having any laxadaisical play when it comes to the defensive side of the ball.
• 34:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I don't care if Jimmy Butler is not playing at all, that dude will also get in Londa Borg's ass about playing on the defensive side of the ball.
• 35:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's a Swiss Army 9th defender who can step into rotation day one.
• 35:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'd love to pick for an aging Golden State Warriors team.
• 35:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Gold State has had a roster identity questions for two years, but when you add a plug-and-play defender with winning instincts and positional versatility, doesn't require a lot to say, hey, this is what we want to do at 11.
• 35:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So, Mike Dunley, we thank you for sticking to on your on your laurels.
• 35:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Thank goodness you had 10 toes down when Joseph Laker was in your face.
• 35:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But he did what he needed to do.
• 35:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I like the pick for Golden State personally.
• 35:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think this was a good pick.
• 35:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think they did the right thing, and they probably thought that they were getting more resohnson jr.
• 36:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because there was talks about Londenberg going earlier than uh Morez Johnson Jr.
• 36:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And to tell you the truth, I like the upside play with the shot.
• 36:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Which leads us to Dallas.
• 36:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Dallas hired Dusty May, who is the ex-coach of the middle of the Michigan Wolverines, and they on draft night, they were the team that made the surprise move.
• 36:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And what I mean by that is they drafted Moraz Johnson Jr.
• 36:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And you go, well, damn, okay.
• 36:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I I thought he he was gonna make like at the end of the lottery, but nine.
• 36:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's kind of crazy.
• 36:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But here's the things that I will say about Mores Johnson Jr.
• 36:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: when doing the work, talking to people, talking to people who have been able to have insight into that mission program.
• 37:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The reports that came back is that Morez Johnson Jr.
• 37:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: was basically the straw that stirred the drink in Ann Arbor.
• 37:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And what I mean by that is that he was the emotional leader of that team.
• 37:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Dusty May comes to the Dallas Mavericks and kind of in reverse fashion, like when Luca got to the Lakers, they asked Luca what he wanted.
• 37:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Luca said, I want a big that can run, a big that I can throw lobs to, I can just throw it up there and he can just go get it.
• 37:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now they had a you know rescinded trade with Mark Williams, but they showed they showed that they wanted to do it for him.
• 37:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So enter Dusty May, he gets signed to a contract with the Dallas Mavericks, and lo and behold, the college coach drafted one of his guys.
• 38:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not a big upside play, but this is what Morris Johnson Jr.
• 38:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: brings to the Dallas Mavericks.
• 38:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The dude is 6'9, he is 250 pounds, he is a 7'3.5 wingspan, and this is the thing that I like about him.
• 38:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The lateral mobility that Sam Vinny talks about describes as rare for a prospect his size.
• 38:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He also shoots it at almost uh 78.2% from the line.
• 38:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um he is his shot, has a real ceiling to it.
• 38:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's a national champion, obviously, which is great.
• 38:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the thing that I like about Moraz Johnson Jr.
• 38:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: is that it's not only that he has an edge, he has a sense of professionalism to him that he's going to be bringing to this team the whole time.
• 39:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love the kid.
• 39:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think this is a really good pick, personally, and then this is what it allows Dallas to do.
• 39:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You kind of played half and half last year.
• 39:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You were talking about maybe Anthony Davis coming back, you're talking about all these like older dudes on the team coming back, and now you can actually start anew.
• 39:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Daniel Gaffert, who has missed significant time back-to-back seasons.
• 39:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Dallas needed a defensive insurance at a big position before the summer trade window opened.
• 39:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So that opens the door for Gaffert being traded, which then you can bring back more assets if you decide to move on from Gaffert and or PJ Washington if that's what you choose to do.
• 39:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You can now move Cooper Flag to the three, which he then becomes that playmaking wing.
• 39:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That now Kyrie is back.
• 40:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We don't know if Kyrie's back to stay, or Kyrie is back to basically say, hey, I'm here to audition for you can make trades for me at the trade deadline.
• 40:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm not saying he's asking for that, but what I'm saying is that you can start to retool this team around Cooper Flag.
• 40:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I think getting a Morris Johnson Jr.
• 40:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: from Michigan is a good way to start.
• 40:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because you get a kid that, hey, I want to play defense, I want to rerun the basketball, I'll shoot it a little bit, but it's not my main thing, which is my main thing.
• 40:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But what I want to do is make sure we get better every single day.
• 40:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Morris Johnson Jr.
• 40:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: is gonna bring the juice every day.
• 40:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Every day to practice.
• 40:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know who's gonna love that?
• 40:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cooper Flagg.
• 40:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know who else is gonna love that?
• 40:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Dusty May.
• 40:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because it is his guy, and this is what he did at Michigan.
• 41:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So that wasn't all.
• 41:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They took a kid.
• 41:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I like this kid, but they took this kid.
• 41:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um the De La Reza, uh Sergio De La Reya, came from Spain.
• 41:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude is 6'6 and a half, ball handler.
• 41:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is a Bogdan Bogdanovich type, and you know my love for Bogdan Bogdanovich.
• 41:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I wanted him to be a Laker so bad.
• 41:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There was a stretch of like three years when I wanted Bogdan Bogdanovich to be a Laker.
• 41:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And it just never came to fruition for me.
• 41:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But he can shoot it, he can pass, he can work off Cooper Flag without needing the ball, which is exactly what you want.
• 41:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is the profile that you're looking for when you're talking about what are you building around your franchise centerpiece?
• 41:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And De La Rea is that dude that you can do that with.
• 42:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, as far as the rebuild is concerned, where do you go from here?
• 42:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, are you talking about making a trade again for Gafford or PJ Washington?
• 42:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is there types of pieces that you want?
• 42:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: How much developmental runway do you want for Morez Johnson Jr.?
• 42:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So you don't have to make anything, any drastic moves right now.
• 42:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But if you kind of want to get off some money, or if you're looking to go ahead and accrue more draft capital or whatever, you can start doing that for the Gaffers and the PJ Washingtons of the world if you tend to want to do so.
• 42:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I hope that's the case.
• 42:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Personally, I think that would be a great move.
• 42:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We will see how that goes for the Dallas Mavericks.
• 42:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They get a coach, they get a Michigan player, and Cooper Flag is still a great white American, and we love that kid, and we'll see how it all goes down.
• 43:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think it's again, kudos to Dallas doing this transition on the fly, and you're starting to have cleared out everybody.
• 43:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Masai Jerry is there now, he's running point as far as the uh front office operations and basketball operations.
• 43:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got real smart people in the front office, you got a coach that you believe in.
• 43:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got a young team if you kind of blow out some of these vets.
• 43:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I love it.
• 43:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love it a lot.
• 43:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, as some might know, I am a Lakers fan, but I try to be very, very um when it comes to my analyst hat, I try to be very fair.
• 43:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, the Lakers are a team that is looking up at the OKC Thunder and the San Antonio Spurs.
• 43:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We all know this.
• 44:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We all know that they need athleticism.
• 44:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They need a little dynamic dynastim to their lineup and what have you.
• 44:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now I'm gonna say this, and I do this every single year.
• 44:12
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• 44:14
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• 44:15
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• 44:19
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• 44:25
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• 44:30
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• 44:31
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• 44:33
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• 44:36
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• 44:38
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• 44:40
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• 44:50
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• 44:51
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• 44:53
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• 44:54
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• 44:56
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• 44:57
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• 44:58
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• 45:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, there was a guy in this draft.
• 45:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I always try to find one guy in every single draft.
• 45:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, there were a couple I missed a couple times, but out of the last seven years, I've gotten five five out of seven.
• 45:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think that's a good number to get.
• 45:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: People on the ground.
• 45:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm sitting there going, thank you for the knowledge.
• 45:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I appreciate it.
• 45:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But here's the thing.
• 45:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Never in my wildest dreams did I think he was going to be a Los Angeles Lakers.
• 45:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I thought he was going 16th.
• 45:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I thought he was going 18th.
• 45:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I thought he might go 19th.
• 45:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 20th, maybe.
• 46:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, I thought San Antonio maybe trade that pick.
• 46:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know.
• 46:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We'll see.
• 46:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But there was no way he was making it to the Lakers at 25.
• 46:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That was an absolute guarantee.
• 46:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That was the lock of the night.
• 46:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I was like, I love this kid.
• 46:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He won't be there for when we pick.
• 46:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Then it got to be around 21.
• 46:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I'm sitting there going, there is a pathway for Cam Carr to be a Laker.
• 46:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And what did Kalinka do?
• 46:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Or what did Mark Walter do?
• 46:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I'm going to put it to you like this.
• 46:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The New York Knicks are on the clock.
• 46:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They have a 24th overall pick.
• 46:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Then I see, no, no, there's a trade.
• 46:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Lakers have moved up to 24.
• 46:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And with that one slot from 25 to 24, and you know what they did, right?
• 46:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Mark Walter said, hey, big bank tape, little bank, yo, here's some cash, bro.
• 47:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We moving up to 24.
• 47:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Cam Carr is a Laker.
• 47:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And you man, let me tell you something.
• 47:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I was so excited about this.
• 47:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, are there some things that we have to like talk about?
• 47:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes.
• 47:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But if you go look at the tape, if you go look at the highlights, man, they impressive.
• 47:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They are so impressive.
• 47:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And you got a guy who is 21 years of age.
• 47:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So not too, not too old, right?
• 47:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: For somebody who's been been in college for three years, which is great.
• 47:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But he's 6'5, damn near 6'6.
• 47:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's like 6'5 and a half.
• 47:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He has a 7'2 wingspan.
• 47:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's the first thing you need to know.
• 47:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The second thing you need to know is that his dad, Chris Carr, played in the NBA.
• 48:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And not only did he play in the NBA, he was in the 1997 dunk contest with the eventual winner, Kobe Bryant.
• 48:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: R I P R guy.
• 48:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Kobe, we love you.
• 48:20
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Carr, as my guy before the draft, said he was this year's pick.
• 48:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I listen.
• 48:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is Cedric Coward.
• 48:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 48:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is I love Cedric Coward coming out last year.
• 48:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This is my guy.
• 48:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um after the combine, the defensive telepathy and the motion off ball stood out to me immediately.
• 48:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The frame was the one real concern.
• 48:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is a scrawny guy.
• 48:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is 6'5, damn near 6'6, and he's 184 pounds.
• 48:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He needs to put on weight immediately.
• 49:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Somebody go get this dude an in-and-out burger stat.
• 49:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay.
• 49:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Somebody take him to Root Chris.
• 49:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Somebody take this dude to Flemings.
• 49:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't care what you do.
• 49:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But we need, hey, we got Ghost Gym out here, Venice Beach.
• 49:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Alright.
• 49:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We need to go ahead and get this young man bulked up.
• 49:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But other than that, that's the one thing that is a concern.
• 49:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The frame.
• 49:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So strengthen strength and conditioning is going to be a situation where we're going to have to build them up.
• 49:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, with that being said, Sam Vicini said this.
• 49:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He has the physical height and length that the NBA team's canvas, the Glow to find.
• 49:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And the Lakers found it domestically.
• 49:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, the other thing that I want to talk about is this.
• 49:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He was supposed to go anywhere between 18 to 22.
• 49:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Somewhere, well, actually, I saw him in some uh mock drafts.
• 50:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I seen him at like 16.
• 50:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So did he slide a little bit?
• 50:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Maybe.
• 50:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But going up to get him at 24 was so cool.
• 50:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I loved it.
• 50:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um what do the Lakers get?
• 50:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Lakers have been hunting for this profile of athlete for a long time.
• 50:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Long, athletic, projectable shooting wing with defensive upside, and has missed, they missed on it before.
• 50:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, the car has a chance to be the player the Lakers thought they were getting when they picked Dalton Connect.
• 50:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's the organizational learning curve finally paying off.
• 50:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The profile floor is honest.
• 50:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He needs to fill out his frame.
• 50:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Playmaking for others is a little bit limited.
• 50:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But here's the thing.
• 50:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He plays right now, and I will caveat right now.
• 51:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He plays with Austin Reeves, who's going to sign a four-year contract with the Lakers.
• 51:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He plays with Luka Doncic, who's going to spoon feed him shots.
• 51:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know what I'm saying?
• 51:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And if this dude is standing, and he just goes straight up and down, that ball does nine times.
• 51:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I wouldn't say nine times.
• 51:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's gonna he's gonna he could be a sh a 40% three-point shooter for sure.
• 51:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay.
• 51:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um the shot selection is he he played at Baylor last year, and I will tell you that he literally became it was him and um what is the dude's name?
• 51:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Toomede Yasafu.
• 51:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It was those two dudes, and it was nothing else.
• 51:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And if Tomday Yassifu got into foul trouble or whatever, it was it was crazy.
• 51:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So he had to take some crazy shots at Baylor because they were the team.
• 52:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I mean that he was the team and what have you.
• 52:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I personally think that now that you have him in a more suitable role to what he is going to be asked to be doing, I think you got a good one there.
• 52:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I think a couple years from now, I think he can play now and develop into that stalwart defender as we go along.
• 52:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the shot is worth getting them on the court now.
• 52:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The playmaking ability, the self-creation from the second side initiation, where he will be asked to be, because he's gonna be asked to knock down corner threes like it's nobody's business.
• 52:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So when Luca gets him the ball, Pompey, boom, okay, exclude to the rim, and guess what?
• 52:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The dunks are saucy, player.
• 52:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The dunks are so saucy.
• 53:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Rob Kalinka did a great job.
• 53:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I love what he did with this.
• 53:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Doesn't mean that it's all over for you, Rob.
• 53:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's one piece of the puzzle.
• 53:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got a lot to do this offseason.
• 53:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And oh, phase the other phase.
• 53:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You phase one, complete.
• 53:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Get a good draft pick, or trade that pick for a player that fits our rotation right now.
• 53:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Number two, sign Austin Reeves.
• 53:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You did that, love it.
• 53:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We still got a lot more to do.
• 53:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: LeBron is on the horizon.
• 53:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We got to deal with that.
• 53:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is he coming back?
• 53:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Is he not coming back?
• 53:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are we trading them to Cleveland for Jared Allen?
• 53:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't know.
• 53:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We will see.
• 53:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: It's there's a lot going on.
• 53:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Our guy John Hollinger gave this a B.
• 53:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um He talked about him being just a vertical athlete, explosive finisher, um, compact and repeatable catch and shoot mechanics.
• 53:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's what I told you about.
• 53:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: When he has the ability to stand still and just catch the ball and just go up and down, straight up and down, it's a pretty shot.
• 54:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And he has range out to like 30 feet already.
• 54:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like he wasn't shooting just okay, I'm gonna shoot a college three, which is shorter than the NBA three.
• 54:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He shot real threes.
• 54:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Real threes, which was great.
• 54:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Pick up some weight though, that's what I will tell you.
• 54:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Pick up some damn weight.
• 54:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now let's get to our losers bracket.
• 54:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Alright, the losers bracket sponsored by no one.
• 54:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But we are we are efforting to get sponsors.
• 54:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So if you are an NBA fan, are you are you upset?
• 54:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Are you giggling about what San Antonio did last uh last night?
• 54:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because last night San Antonio said, Oh, we got bullied in the final, so we need to go get bulk dudes stat.
• 55:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now I'm not upset about this.
• 55:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I think taking a swing on a guy like this is a good thing to do.
• 55:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But this could define this draft.
• 55:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Jaden Quaintens out of Kentucky, um, who has had some knee issues, it looks like he's going back under the knife, like right now.
• 55:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I think next year is a wash.
• 55:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But if you can get that dude healthy, like back to one hundred percent, and here's the thing do we know that he will ever be one hundred percent?
• 55:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's the question that I have about Quaitens.
• 55:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Other people, other teams had looked at the medicals and said, nah, player, we're not gonna do that.
• 56:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No, we're not gonna do it.
• 56:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But there if there was any team that could take a a swing on Quaytons, it would have been the San Antonio Spurs.
• 56:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And here's why.
• 56:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know who you got, you got Victor.
• 56:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got Victor win by Nama, and then you got Luke Cornette, who, yes, did not show himself what did not represent himself well in the NBA finals.
• 56:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I get you.
• 56:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm with you on that.
• 56:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But Jaden Quaintens is a swing because here's the thing.
• 56:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude is a physical specimen when healthy.
• 56:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He is a pogo stick, he's 250 pounds, and he's a complete athletic phenomenon.
• 56:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: If right.
• 56:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I will continue to put that caveat in, if right.
• 56:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But then they backed it up with they said, no, we're not going with one.
• 56:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're gonna go with two.
• 57:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So they took Terrace Reed Jr.
• 57:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: from Yukon, and here's the thing.
• 57:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's not the greatest shot blocker, he can't guard on the perimeter, it's basically he's a drop coverage center.
• 57:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You're not gonna run offense through him like he did in Yukon.
• 57:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He has an array of like back to the basket moves and things of that nature.
• 57:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: People have have kind of said, like, if you could if you could get him away from the paint, like in the pick and roll situation, and he can throw floaters up there and what have you, it'd be kind of like the same thing as his back to the basket game.
• 57:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We will see.
• 57:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We will see on that one.
• 57:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But Terras Reed for what the San Antonio Spurs was looking for, I I didn't understand it a little bit personally.
• 57:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, is he a physical presence?
• 58:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 100%.
• 58:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Will he get rebounds?
• 58:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yes, he will, if given the opportunity.
• 58:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: My whole thing is is that you gotta play him with a bunch of shooting around him.
• 58:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's hanging out in the dunker spot, which is going to be foreign to him because that is not how he played at UConn.
• 58:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He played as a back-to-the-basket dude, you threw it into him, and he gets you buckets.
• 58:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But we said this about Zach Edy when he came out.
• 58:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: How much of his game from Purdue was going to translate to the NBA?
• 58:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because how many dudes can throw a good entry pass?
• 58:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I'm being real serious right now.
• 58:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The entry pass in the NBA is in a horrific state of repair.
• 58:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And again, he's a backup, so how much how many plays are you running for him?
• 58:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But you got Victor Wingwanyama there, you got Lou Cornette there, getting Terrace Reid basically kind of to keep the seat warm for our guy, Jaden Quainton's, when and if he comes back.
• 59:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because here's the thing with Quainton's talent is the problem.
• 59:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The problem is is he Robert Williams the third not even in just defensive projection, but also in the injury situation as well?
• 59:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because if the knee health questions are unresolved, then they played paid a premium price for this dude that wasn't justified.
• 59:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You could have done something else.
• 59:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You could have got a shot blocked, you could have you could have gone and got uh Chris Sanak Jr., who went 27th, right after Terrace Reed.
• 59:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, if you wanted to double down and say, okay, Quaintness is not the guy because of the injury situation.
• 59:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We went and got Chris Sanach Jr., who is an athletic freak, who could move around the perimeter, who has the ability to block shots, I'm with you.
• 1:00:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're there.
• 1:00:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We're people.
• 1:00:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But this is not what I would have expected for San Antonio to do.
• 1:00:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So I have them in the loser's bracket.
• 1:00:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Sorry to my San Antonio brethren out there, my Coravita family.
• 1:00:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Y'all, yeah, I didn't understand this situation whatsoever.
• 1:00:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, oh, we got to talk about the other loser in this deal.
• 1:00:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What was Phoenix thinking?
• 1:00:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Phoenix Suns to me, what were you doing?
• 1:00:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Suns straight up to get Kowak Pete.
• 1:00:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, now Coach Pete played at Arizona High School, in the high school area in Arizona, also played for the University of Arizona, but then the Phoenix Suns move up.
• 1:00:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They move up to the 30th overall pick, which is the first the last pick of the first round, to select Coe Pete.
• 1:01:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, does he have a motor?
• 1:01:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Some people would say yes.
• 1:01:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The people who worked him out in the uh pre-draft situation would tell you that there were certain there were certain workouts he didn't even finish because due to lack of conditioning.
• 1:01:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's a rare flag.
• 1:01:27
  FROC Host Vince Carter: That's a rare flag.
• 1:01:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Here's the other rare flag.
• 1:01:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He does rebound the ball well, he can move his feet on defensively, but here's the thing.
• 1:01:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's six foot seven.
• 1:01:40
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He has a wingspan of seven foot one, which is great.
• 1:01:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's physically like in shape.
• 1:01:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's like six foot seven, two hundred and forty pounds.
• 1:01:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But he can't shoot.
• 1:01:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He can't shoot.
• 1:01:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And the defense isn't elite enough to carry him, to have him on the court.
• 1:02:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Somebody comp him to Tobias Harris.
• 1:02:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I was like, how could you comp him to Tobias Harris?
• 1:02:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Tobias Harris can shoot the ball.
• 1:02:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Koak P cannot.
• 1:02:12
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, is he a dog?
• 1:02:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like there are clips and highlights that you look at during his tenure with the Arizona Wildcats that will tell you specifically he's a dog.
• 1:02:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I know that's that the type of player, the type of mentality that the Phoenix Suns want around that team, around Devin Booker, and around the other guys they have on that team, like Jalen Green, if he stays.
• 1:02:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But I'm gonna tell you right now, I did not understand this pick right here.
• 1:02:51
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Like, you don't have enough shooting on this team to say, oh, we Coke Pete.
• 1:02:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cole Keat is our guy.
• 1:03:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not with Isaiah Evans on the board, not with Malik Thomas on the board of Arkansas.
• 1:03:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I did not understand this pick.
• 1:03:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So they paid up to get a player that the rest of the league let slide.
• 1:03:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The league had it right.
• 1:03:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Suns had it wrong.
• 1:03:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Unless this dude develops an awesome jump shot, unless there's somebody in that Phoenix organization that can rework that jump shot, I am cool off this situation.
• 1:03:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Oh, okay, so now we get to the Brooklyn Nets.
• 1:03:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: The Brooklyn Nets are a loser for a many myriad of reasons.
• 1:03:43
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And it is not about the pick that they made.
• 1:03:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: One, you're a loser because of the fact that you are in Brooklyn.
• 1:03:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not because Brooklyn is terrible.
• 1:03:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No, Brooklyn is beautiful.
• 1:03:54
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We like Brooklyn.
• 1:03:55
  FROC Host Vince Carter: JJ Reddick lived in Brooklyn before he came to the Lakers, right?
• 1:04:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Love Brooklyn.
• 1:04:02
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Shouts out to Brooklyn.
• 1:04:03
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know, we got love for you here in Los Angeles.
• 1:04:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But the Knicks are the squad.
• 1:04:10
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They've always been the squad.
• 1:04:13
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They were never going not to be the squad.
• 1:04:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And now you are irrelevant.
• 1:04:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not even just a little bit.
• 1:04:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You are so far in the rear view mirror, we can't even see you anymore.
• 1:04:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So that's the one that's one place they lost.
• 1:04:31
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Here's the other place they lost.
• 1:04:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Daron Sharp is basically going to be the the center because Nick Claxton is gone.
• 1:04:42
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And they got nothing for him.
• 1:04:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Essentially nothing.
• 1:04:47
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cash in a top 55 protected second round pick.
• 1:04:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: In a separate move, they got Julius Randle.
• 1:04:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Right?
• 1:04:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And the 28th overall pick.
• 1:05:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So Mikhail Brown Jr.
• 1:05:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: at 6.
• 1:05:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There's some upside there.
• 1:05:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He can feel he can shoot the ball.
• 1:05:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He goes a he's going to have to be the one that shoots the ball with Julius Randle.
• 1:05:16
  FROC Host Vince Carter: As far as that's concerned.
• 1:05:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And Michael Porter Jr.
• 1:05:19
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Because the rest of the point guards they they got.
• 1:05:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Last year, remember they drafted basically five point guards.
• 1:05:25
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Well, four point guards and Danny Wolf.
• 1:05:30
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Still didn't understand that pick, but we'll see.
• 1:05:33
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um now M M.
• 1:05:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Mikhail Brown Jr.
• 1:05:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: or Mikel Brown Jr.
• 1:05:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: is is pronounced Mikel Brown Jr.
• 1:05:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's give this man his credit.
• 1:05:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Um you get somebody who can shoot the ball.
• 1:05:49
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, he had a back injury last year, and I'm not real big on young people having back injuries that debilitate him.
• 1:05:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You know he missed more games than Darren Peterson.
• 1:05:59
  FROC Host Vince Carter: This dude missed more games than Darren Peterson.
• 1:06:04
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And we was on Darren Peterson's ass, yo, about missing games and taking yourself out of games.
• 1:06:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, he did have a legit injury that we can talk about as far as stirring.
• 1:06:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But when you're talking about a young person having such a debilitating back injury that you missed 14 games, that's a super red flag to me.
• 1:06:29
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Case in point, Michael Porter Jr.
• 1:06:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: now plays for the Brooklyn Nets.
• 1:06:34
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And giving away a 27-year-old center who, yes, okay, has slid back a little bit over the last couple years, but he's in his prime, and people are looking for bigs now, and to give him up for next to basically nothing, that is a crime.
• 1:06:56
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Don't like that.
• 1:06:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Do not like that.
• 1:07:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And then they gave so now they did they do some nice little piece of business when you got Julius Randle and you get the 28th overall pick?
• 1:07:14
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Yeah, you did.
• 1:07:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: You got some you got some love there.
• 1:07:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No problem whatsoever.
• 1:07:18
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I just I don't I just I don't know.
• 1:07:22
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't like what they're doing here.
• 1:07:24
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I don't like any of what they're doing here.
• 1:07:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now the last team that is a loser is the Sacramento Kings.
• 1:07:32
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And no, it's not because they got Darius A.
• 1:07:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cub Jr.
• 1:07:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: No, no, no, no.
• 1:07:38
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And it really isn't the Sacramento Kings.
• 1:07:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I want to say the loser is Alex Caravan himself.
• 1:07:46
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Alex Caravan was drafted by the Kings uh 29th overall.
• 1:07:52
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I like the kid.
• 1:07:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: 6'7, 6'11 wingspan, shoot the ball well.
• 1:07:58
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's a movement shooter.
• 1:08:00
  FROC Host Vince Carter: He's been in a winning program, he's been in Final Force three years out of his college experience, the whole nine.
• 1:08:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Here's my problem.
• 1:08:09
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now he has to go to Sacramento.
• 1:08:11
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Let's go to Sacramento.
• 1:08:15
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Who doesn't have like the history of just competency?
• 1:08:21
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But maybe things are changing.
• 1:08:26
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Maybe things are changing.
• 1:08:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Maybe I'm getting a little too strong on the Sacramento Kings about what's going on with them.
• 1:08:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh hold on.
• 1:08:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa was that?
• 1:08:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We just got a break in alert.
• 1:08:41
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Hold on, let me find out real quick.
• 1:08:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Okay, the Lakers just acquired the 56th overall pick in the second round.
• 1:08:50
  FROC Host Vince Carter: What this tells me is that even though they're the 56th overall pick, I wonder if they're gonna move up.
• 1:08:57
  FROC Host Vince Carter: I wonder if they're gonna go from 56 to somewhere else by the time this is all over.
• 1:09:05
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We'll see.
• 1:09:06
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Such a Lakers fan.
• 1:09:08
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But anyway, but Alex Caravan has just been in a winning uh organization since all through his collegian career.
• 1:09:17
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Uh he has gone through the pre-draft um situation before.
• 1:09:23
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They've asked him to get better at defense, they've asked him to get better as far as moving his feet, they've asked him to get better on ball, and he's did all those things, and now he goes to Sacramento.
• 1:09:36
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Not cool.
• 1:09:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: But again, let's give credit where credit is due.
• 1:09:45
  FROC Host Vince Carter: There was a point in the time before the draft was started that Darius A.
• 1:09:53
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cuff was so coveted by the Sacramento Kings that I wondered if they would move up to get him.
• 1:10:01
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They did not, they stayed firm at their draft position.
• 1:10:07
  FROC Host Vince Carter: They took Darius Acuff, they didn't move around, they didn't let Vivek do anything, which that was a that was a thought process, and then they drafted Darius A.
• 1:10:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Cup.
• 1:10:28
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So here's the thing the best part about this whole situation is that you just got better.
• 1:10:35
  FROC Host Vince Carter: And I appreciate that.
• 1:10:37
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So let's go from there.
• 1:10:39
  FROC Host Vince Carter: So what we done today is kind of give you a winners and losers.
• 1:10:44
  FROC Host Vince Carter: Now, Friday, what we'll do is we'll give you an overall situation.
• 1:10:48
  FROC Host Vince Carter: We might start off with one conference and then go to another conference.
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  FROC Host Vince Carter: So we'll get more into the draft more in depth.
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