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The Breakout Candidate For Every NBA Team · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: One of the most fun parts of the offseason is
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out which player is going to break out.
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Speaker 1: You know there's going to be a bunch of them, right?
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Speaker 1: It's so cool to plant your flag and make that prediction.
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Speaker 1: I remember three years ago, I predicted Jalen Johnson's breakout.
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Speaker 1: Now he's an All-NBA player. I also predict that Wendell
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Speaker 1: Carter is going to break out. Still a good player.
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Speaker 1: Just the breakout thing didn't really work out. But it
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Speaker 1: is one of my favorite times of the year. And
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Speaker 1: Bleacher Pork put together an article, every NBA team's top
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Speaker 1: breakout candidate. What we're going to do today is react
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Speaker 1: to their article. But I also have my own 30.
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Speaker 1: And I want to see what me and Greg Swartz
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Speaker 1: have in common when it comes to predicting breakout players.
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Speaker 1: I got one favorite team. It was actually tough. Honestly speaking,
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Speaker 1: your favorite team might not have a breakout player. And
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Speaker 1: it hurts. It hurts when everybody comes back exactly the same.
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Speaker 1: Trust me. I know. But I did try to pick
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Speaker 1: somebody for all 30 teams. Let me know who you
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Speaker 1: think the breakout player for your favorite team is going
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Speaker 1: is going on? Don't tell me y'all picked Dilly as
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Speaker 1: the breakout player for Chicago. Don't tell me you picked Dilly.
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Speaker 1: They had to because he's on the thumbnail. All right,
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Speaker 1: so starting off in the Atlanta Hawks, I know they're
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Speaker 1: going to have to go order my guy for the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks, which is Asa Newell, and their guy is
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Speaker 1: going to be Asa Newell. Remind, I have not seen
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Speaker 1: this just yet, so if we have a bunch of overlap,
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Speaker 1: that's just coincidental. And honestly, A lot of teams don't
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Speaker 1: have breakout candidates because some teams are just old. It's
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Speaker 1: rare that you see a 32-year-old breakout. It can happen,
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Speaker 1: but it is also rare. Asa Newell is one of
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Speaker 1: those guys, you know, coming off a season where he
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Speaker 1: didn't play a ton. So you kind of are betting
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Speaker 1: that he's going to turn into a rotational NBA player
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day. What does breakout look
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Speaker 1: like for a guy like Asa Newell? I think for Asa,
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Speaker 1: breakout for him is just being a true normal part
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Speaker 1: of the rotation. Next we got, next team we got
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Speaker 1: is the Celtics. I think we're going to go two
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Speaker 1: for two here. It's got to be Hugo Gonzalez. One
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Speaker 1: of my favorite corner crashes in the entire NBA. He showed, again,
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Speaker 1: just like a lot of people on my list, so
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Speaker 1: many different flashes. He was an advanced stats supernova as
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Speaker 1: a rookie, which is very rare in the NBA. Granted,
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Speaker 1: he does play for the Boston Celtics, and Boston Celtics
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Speaker 1: role players' advanced stats are going to look great more
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Speaker 1: times than not. But he did show you a lot
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Speaker 1: of different things, and I think he's going to be
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Speaker 1: ultra important because you never really know, now that you've
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Speaker 1: got Paul George on the team, what type of health
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Speaker 1: he's going to have. I think Hugo Gonzalez can be
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Speaker 1: one of those guys that is like, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: their breakout player. It is one of those teams also
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Speaker 1: that don't have a ton of young players. One breakout
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Speaker 1: player I picked for them last year was Jordan Walsh,
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Speaker 1: and he had more. Oh, not last year, two years ago.
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Speaker 1: Was that two years ago? I don't remember. Whenever Jordan
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Speaker 1: Walsh first got to the box himself, I was like, ooh,
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Speaker 1: I like that pickup because that guy is a gritty,
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Speaker 1: crazy defensive player. And then he had his moments. And
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Speaker 1: I think Hugo Gonzalez is like a real staple in
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Speaker 1: this rotation. Next, we got the Nets. It's got to
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Speaker 1: be Jaeger or Jerome. Jaeger or Jerome. Got to be. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I am all in on this fellow, by the way.
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Speaker 1: I watched so much of his tape this offseason. Honestly speaking,
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Speaker 1: in real time, I wasn't watching a lot of Brooklyn Nets.
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Speaker 1: My priorities were straight. You feel me? If there was
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Speaker 1: two games on and one of them was Nets versus
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Speaker 1: whoever and one was, I don't know, Lakers versus whoever,
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Speaker 1: opposite sides of the coast. They were really playing together.
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Speaker 1: But you get what I'm saying. I usually prioritize the
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Speaker 1: other game. But throughout this offseason, I've been craving NBA.
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Speaker 1: I've been craving basketball. So I've watched a lot of
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Speaker 1: Yegor Demet. And I'm all in. Obviously, in summer league,
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Speaker 1: he looked great too. And what you want from your
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Speaker 1: year two player is to go into summer league and
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Speaker 1: look like he's not supposed to be there. And there
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Speaker 1: was many moments of that. I didn't know that he
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Speaker 1: was going to be as good of a three-point shooter.
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Speaker 1: Eddie ended up being in his rookie season. His passing
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Speaker 1: is obviously really good. His vision is really good. I
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Speaker 1: think the swing thing for him is getting to the
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Speaker 1: basket and finishing at the basket. He obviously has a
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Speaker 1: size to be able to do that. Maybe not the
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Speaker 1: quickness and the speed to beat that first-level defender all
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Speaker 1: the time, but I am all in on Jaeger Droman
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Speaker 1: going into next season. So, so far, three for three.
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Speaker 1: The Hornets, this is a different kind of breakout. So far,
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Speaker 1: we've got super young player going into year two. We
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Speaker 1: got basically super young player, and we got super young player.
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Speaker 1: My guy for the Charlotte Hornets is not one of them, oh,
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Speaker 1: he just needs to be a rotational player. My guy
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Speaker 1: is Brandon Miller. And they got to Jean Salon, which
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Speaker 1: I'm sure Hornets fans would love to see a breakout
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Speaker 1: for him because they used, what, the six pick? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: six pick on him a couple years ago. And let's
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Speaker 1: just say it hasn't been amazing. The reason I picked
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Speaker 1: Brandon Miller is because they obviously, and he's also a
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Speaker 1: guy that's going to come up in a different video
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Speaker 1: later this week. Obviously, when they traded away LaMelo Ball,
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Speaker 1: a lot of the question has to do with, like, okay,
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Speaker 1: what happens now? Obviously, they're taking a big bet on
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Speaker 1: Conk and Nipple. They're taking a big bet on Brandon Miller.
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Speaker 1: And Braylon Miller, as you know, is a really solid
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Speaker 1: scorer in the NBA already. He gives you great flashes
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Speaker 1: of defense when he needs to be locked in. But
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Speaker 1: it's hard for me to picture what his ceiling actually
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Speaker 1: is in the current state of playmaker that he is.
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Speaker 1: And with no lamello ball, they're going to be asking
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Speaker 1: him to step up to another level playmaking-wise. Again, he's
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Speaker 1: not ever going to be lamello ball as a passer.
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Speaker 1: But in order for him to hit the ceiling that
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Speaker 1: the Charlehoines need him to hit, he has to evolve
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Speaker 1: on the next level from that part. He also has
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Speaker 1: dealt with a ton of injuries. A lot of them
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Speaker 1: he played through with the shoulder injury next year. This
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Speaker 1: is an offseason where I don't think he's dealing with anything,
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Speaker 1: so hopefully he can come in and kill. But when
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Speaker 1: I think about breakout player Brandon Miller, if I'm predicting it,
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Speaker 1: his breakout was like, oh, my God, he's in all-star conversations.
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Speaker 1: And that's what the Charlotte Hornets are baking on. Next
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Speaker 1: team is the Bulls. I went Leonard Miller. Yeah, they
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Speaker 1: went Dilley. We saw it in the thumbnail, which we
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Speaker 1: have to talk about Rob Dillingham. I went Leonard Miller
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Speaker 1: because he basically was a guy playing for a Minnesota
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Speaker 1: Timberwolves team Over his career so far, he's competed for
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Speaker 1: a championship, competed for a championship, competed for a championship. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: he's a part of the big time trade with Rob
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Speaker 1: Dillingham in order to get here in Chicago. And in
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Speaker 1: the 20, 30 games that he played, he was a
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Speaker 1: energy big, even though he don't look 16 on court,
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Speaker 1: but a true 16 big. He's flying over the court.
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Speaker 1: He's making shots. And I think he went from when
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Speaker 1: he was in Minnesota and limited amount of time, averaging
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Speaker 1: like three points per game. Then he got to Chicago,
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Speaker 1: he's averaging like 12. And obviously there's a logjam now
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Speaker 1: that we also got Caleb Wilson on the team, but
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Speaker 1: he just looked like a guy to me that is
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Speaker 1: a real NBA player. I don't know what that means necessarily,
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Speaker 1: but in Minnesota, you kind of questioned that because he
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Speaker 1: couldn't get PT on a team that was looking for
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Speaker 1: more wings and bigs. They got Rob Dillingham though. As
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Speaker 1: a Bulls fan, if Rob Dillingham turned into anything this season,
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Speaker 1: I am so very happy because right now, I got
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Speaker 1: so much love for Rob, obviously. I think the internet does, too.
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Speaker 1: But he doesn't do anything well as an NBA player
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Speaker 1: as of today. He is a negative passer for his position.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't hit his three-point shots. He doesn't hit his
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Speaker 1: mid-range shots. He doesn't finish at the rim. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: get to the rim. And for a guy to be
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Speaker 1: a point guard, because that's what he is, he also
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Speaker 1: hasn't been able to create for himself at any level, right?
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Speaker 1: All of his made baskets from last season... were assisted.
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Speaker 1: So playing off the ball. And I just don't know
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Speaker 1: a world where a guy that is six foot one,
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Speaker 1: six foot even, can really play off the ball unless
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Speaker 1: his offensive output when it comes to scoring is just
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Speaker 1: so high. And Rob hasn't been able to do that.
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Speaker 1: Now he's only 21 years old, so I'm not giving
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Speaker 1: him hope. Damn it. I want him to become something.
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Speaker 1: But I just don't know how much faith I have.
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Speaker 1: Like when I think about the Bulls core, I rarely
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Speaker 1: think about Rob Dillingham actually being a part of it.
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Speaker 1: I think it's more likely that Rob is not on
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Speaker 1: the team next season when he's you know, eligible for
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Speaker 1: restrictive free agency than he is, you know, to, to,
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Speaker 1: to blossom. And I, again, I pray he does. I
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Speaker 1: also thought about modest because this is going to be
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Speaker 1: a really good swing year for modest. Now, now you're
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Speaker 1: not going to know everything from a year three player,
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Speaker 1: but we're going to see sooner rather than later, whether
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Speaker 1: modest is a 10 year starter in the NBA or
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Speaker 1: a two time all star in the NBA. You know
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Speaker 1: what I mean? Like this is the type of season
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Speaker 1: that's going to be able to unlock to see exactly
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Speaker 1: what we have in modest was Ellis. Okay. Next team
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Speaker 1: we got is the Cleveland Cavaliers. I got Tyrese Proctor,
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Speaker 1: and so do they. Okay, me and Greg has been shooting. Bro,
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Speaker 1: there was a time when Tyrese Proctor actually looked really good,
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Speaker 1: and I think Cavs fans will tell you that too.
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Speaker 1: The 22-year-old former Duke standout had a solid rookie season
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Speaker 1: in Cleveland, making 35% of his threes and averaging 18 points,
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Speaker 1: four rebounds, five assists, and a steal and a half
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Speaker 1: per 36 of play. That's basically my argument as well.
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Speaker 1: I also thought about Jalen Tyson, who they could really
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Speaker 1: use having another step-up season after he just had a
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Speaker 1: step-up season. because they're going to need some extra shooting.
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Speaker 1: And I think Jalen Tice can provide some of that,
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Speaker 1: especially if Peyton Watts' three-point shooting wasn't real for last year.
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Speaker 1: But Tyrese Proctor was my answer, too. Shout out to me.
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Speaker 1: Dallas Mavs was a tough one, bro. I went with
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Speaker 1: Rish I say. They went Derek Lively. It would be
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Speaker 1: so good to watch Derek Lively play basketball again. It's
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Speaker 1: been a long time, man. Breaking out that three-point shot
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Speaker 1: in the final is something I'll never forget about. But
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Speaker 1: because a big fella and foot injuries very rarely mesh well,
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Speaker 1: I'm praying that he can get back to being the
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Speaker 1: impact defensive player that he was in his one rookie season.
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Speaker 1: I went with richard say because there's now that he's
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Speaker 1: on his second team him being a first round pick
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Speaker 1: is done a first overall pick is done like in
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Speaker 1: the literal sense obviously it's not but i mean like
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Speaker 1: his expectation attached to being a former first overall pick
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Speaker 1: is over because he's on his second team now he
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Speaker 1: can really find out who he is in the nba
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Speaker 1: find out his role does that mean he's going to
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Speaker 1: be a seventh man for the rest of his career
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Speaker 1: does that mean he's a good starter Does that mean
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Speaker 1: he blossomed into an all-star? I don't know. But I
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Speaker 1: think the pressure on him is just gone now that
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Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks basically gave up nothing to get him.
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Speaker 1: This is a win-win for the Dallas Mavericks, at least. Nuggets,
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Speaker 1: it was a tough one. They don't have a lot.
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Speaker 1: You can go like Drew Strother. I went with De'Ron Holmes,
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Speaker 1: and they went Strother. I went De'Ron Holmes just because
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Speaker 1: with no Valanchunas, I know they brought in Marvin Bagley.
10:37
Speaker 1: Marvin Bagley was actually pretty solid last year. Nobody cares, though.
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Speaker 1: But De'Ron Holmes is a guy that I really loved
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Speaker 1: coming out of the draft. Obviously, he dealt with the injury.
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Speaker 1: Was that his first summer league game or in the
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Speaker 1: offseason workout? And since then, he just hasn't really had
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to really play. But he showed me small
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Speaker 1: flashes in the minutes that he did play to make
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Speaker 1: me feel like he could be a rotational player. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot to be desired on one side of the ball,
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Speaker 1: but whatever. Julian Strother, if he can come in and
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Speaker 1: score the ball. Because he had that playoff moment a
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Speaker 1: few years back. We had like four threes in the game.
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Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, Jew, let's get it. Let's get it.
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Speaker 1: And no Peyton Watson, no Tim Hardaway Jr. This is
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Speaker 1: an opportunity for Strother to really step up. I ain't
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Speaker 1: mad at this pick. Next, we got the piss. It's
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Speaker 1: got to be Ron Holland. Yeah, another guy that was
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Speaker 1: drafted really high in his draft class, just like Tijon Salon.
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Speaker 1: He showed way more than Tijon Salon. I'm not putting
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Speaker 1: them in the same class and, like, same caliber of player.
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Speaker 1: But when you use a fifth overall pick on a guy,
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Speaker 1: you want him to be more than, like, the sixth
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Speaker 1: or seventh man on the team. I love what he
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Speaker 1: can bring with his energy and his defense, but my goodness,
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Speaker 1: they really need him to be way more for them
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Speaker 1: to maximize that value of the fifth overall pick. If
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Speaker 1: you squint enough, you'll see that Holland did go 10
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Speaker 1: of 19 from deep over his final five regular season games.
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Speaker 1: That's what we doing? That's such a small sample size.
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Speaker 1: If the jumper looks better, you can have a breakout year. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: come on, Ron. We rooting for you. We rooting for you.
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Speaker 1: The Warriors... It's a tough one, too. I went pods.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about Brandon Pajemski. I feel
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Speaker 1: like we do that enough on this channel. But you
12:09
Speaker 1: know what he has been able to do sometimes. You know,
12:12
Speaker 1: he got his first 30 piece a little while ago.
12:16
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot to say about pods. Next,
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Speaker 1: we got the Rockets. Reed Shepard was on the thumbnail.
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Speaker 1: I also had Reed Shepard. Cool. I think he is
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Speaker 1: a really good candidate for a breakout player. Because now,
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize he finished sixth and most improved player
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Speaker 1: last season. Huh. Look at that. So he did jump
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Speaker 1: up to 13, 13 and a half points per game,
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Speaker 1: three assists last season. I think another opportunity now that
12:39
Speaker 1: they got Freddie back into that lineup going to this
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Speaker 1: year where Reed could kind of relax just a little
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Speaker 1: bit more and really do the things that we know
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Speaker 1: he can do. I think, man, the 2024 draft has
12:48
Speaker 1: popped up on this a thousand times. And that just
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Speaker 1: shows you how bad that class really was on paper
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Speaker 1: and what it turned out to be in actuality. We
12:57
Speaker 1: need all of the class to break out now. A
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Speaker 1: little tough. Pacers, I went Jairus Walker. I don't even
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Speaker 1: know if... Okay. Dang, we got so many of the
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Speaker 1: same people. But the Pacers are one of those teams
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Speaker 1: that don't have a ton of young guys, so Jairus
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Speaker 1: Walker makes a lot of sense. The 2304 result, a
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Speaker 1: bump in both rebound and assist percentage in his third
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Speaker 1: year while averaging a career-high 11 points per game. Shout-out
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Speaker 1: to him. Walker has been a consistent outside shooter at 38%,
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Speaker 1: who can play either four positions. They're going to need
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Speaker 1: something like this when they're dead peace. They also brought
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Speaker 1: in Kelly Oubre, obviously, so they got, you know, some threes.
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Speaker 1: It's a guy that can play some three as well. But,
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Speaker 1: you know, one of them guys... Going to be up
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Speaker 1: for an extension very soon. Oh, they're also talking about
13:34
Speaker 1: the contracts where Obi Toppin can get traded because of
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Speaker 1: the money associated with Obi Toppin. And if they have
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Speaker 1: to do that, then Jairus Walker has to be a
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Speaker 1: guy to step up. Jairus is one of my favorite
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Speaker 1: players in his draft class. It has not actualized completely,
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Speaker 1: but I still hold out hope. Next, we got the Clippers.
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Speaker 1: I went with Kobe. They went with Yannick Conan Niederhausen.
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Speaker 1: Not mad at it. Another big fella that's coming off.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if he had a back injury or
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Speaker 1: a foot injury, but... Either way, a foot injury. Boom,
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Speaker 1: there it is. Again, I don't like big fellas that
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Speaker 1: have foot injuries, but I'm hoping that that was nothing.
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Speaker 1: I went with Kobe Sanders. Bro, Kobe, hold on. Let
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Speaker 1: me see exactly what his stats ended up being. Kobe
14:08
Speaker 1: Sanders had a lot of moments last season. I'm like, whoa,
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Speaker 1: this guy's a real NBA player. And now that the
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Speaker 1: Clippers are definitely not playing for anything, I think it's
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Speaker 1: an opportunity for Kobe to really go out there. He's
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Speaker 1: averaged seven points per game, two rebounds and assists in
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Speaker 1: the half, 46% from the field, 40% 0.1% from three
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Speaker 1: as a 23-year-old rookie, so he's on the older side
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Speaker 1: of things. But my God, I really enjoyed his game.
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Speaker 1: Him being 6'8, with something I didn't even realize in
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Speaker 1: real time as I watched. I think that's my breakout
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Speaker 1: candidate for them. I did like what Yannick Coney Niederhauser
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Speaker 1: was able to do right before he went down with
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Speaker 1: an injury. Niederhauser had an excellent rep protects potential and
14:42
Speaker 1: averaged 11 points, 7.5 rebounds, 2.5 blocks on 6.6%. Overall,
14:48
Speaker 1: in the six games he played, 20 or more minutes. Yeah,
14:51
Speaker 1: give him the minutes, man. Next, we got the Lakers.
14:53
Speaker 1: A tough-ass team to pick. Their whole team is brand new.
14:56
Speaker 1: And when you have a brand new team, it's hard
14:57
Speaker 1: to have a breakout player because whatever. Mamou basically had
15:01
Speaker 1: his breakout season last year for the Toronto Raptors. Colin
15:03
Speaker 1: Sexton averaged like 24 points a game once upon a
15:06
Speaker 1: time on a bad Cavs team. Quentin Grimes had his
15:09
Speaker 1: moments at the end or the second half of the
15:12
Speaker 1: season two years ago. He averaged 20 points per game.
15:14
Speaker 1: So who is the guy you pick? I would have
15:16
Speaker 1: brought it. Damn it. Oh, Jaden Hardy? Hmm. Um. Hardy
15:21
Speaker 1: shot 42% from three while averaging 12.5 points in 20
15:24
Speaker 1: minutes off the bench. Okay. I didn't really realize he
15:27
Speaker 1: had that good of a run when he was in Washington.
15:29
Speaker 1: Maybe I should have locked into Washington a little bit more.
15:31
Speaker 1: I went with Bronny, though, man. Bronny, go get some
15:34
Speaker 1: rotational minutes, fool. Next, we got the Grizzlies. I went
15:38
Speaker 1: with Cedric Howard. They went with Walter Clayton Jr. I
15:40
Speaker 1: actually saw rumors that Clayton Jr. might get waived because
15:43
Speaker 1: they have too many roster spots or they have a
15:45
Speaker 1: roster spot for him maybe. I hope that's not the case.
15:47
Speaker 1: I got a lot of love for Walter Clayton Jr.,
15:48
Speaker 1: But I went with Cedric Howard, similar to like Brandon Miller. Obviously,
15:52
Speaker 1: Brandon Miller is a better ball player. But like when
15:54
Speaker 1: I think about breakout for Cedric Howard going into this year,
15:57
Speaker 1: maybe this is my bias he's playing because that's my dog.
15:59
Speaker 1: But he talked about how a lot of this offseason,
16:02
Speaker 1: he prepped as if he was going to be the
16:04
Speaker 1: number one option. He said he wasn't going to be.
16:06
Speaker 1: He doesn't know exactly how the season is going to
16:08
Speaker 1: pan out. But he's prepping for on-ball opportunities. And you
16:11
Speaker 1: saw that in summer league where he basically was a
16:14
Speaker 1: point guard alongside Javon Small. And I think a lot
16:17
Speaker 1: of that when it comes to development is going to
16:18
Speaker 1: be really important. He had a solid rookie season. I'm
16:21
Speaker 1: a firm believer in his jump shot, even if the
16:23
Speaker 1: percentage didn't look good his rookie season. I think it
16:25
Speaker 1: was like 31%, 32%. Where if I think about breakout
16:27
Speaker 1: player for Cedric Howard, I'm thinking to myself, that's a
16:30
Speaker 1: guy that can turn into an all-star. Now, it might
16:32
Speaker 1: be too early to think about all-star for him because, again,
16:35
Speaker 1: he's coming off a super young season. But when I
16:38
Speaker 1: think about breakout for him, I'm like, oh, we're going
16:40
Speaker 1: to look at him and be like, oh, he can
16:41
Speaker 1: create for his own self and be– the top scorer
16:45
Speaker 1: on a team, even if that team may not be great.
16:47
Speaker 1: I got belief in the Grizzlies being a solid regular
16:50
Speaker 1: season team, though. Oh, Miami Heat, they win Nikola Jovic?
16:54
Speaker 1: I thought for sure, like we got a lot of
16:56
Speaker 1: overlap here. I thought Pele Larson was for sure consensus
17:01
Speaker 1: breakout candidate. Really solid season last year. As you know,
17:05
Speaker 1: as he fans know, the swing thing for Mr. Larson
17:08
Speaker 1: is going to be if he can make a good
17:10
Speaker 1: enough amount of threes. He was a 32% or 33%
17:11
Speaker 1: three-point shooter last season. He's a team that could use
17:15
Speaker 1: some extra three-point shooting. It wasn't him last season. Maybe
17:18
Speaker 1: this is the year. I watched one FIBA game that
17:21
Speaker 1: he was a part of, and I said on the podcast,
17:23
Speaker 1: the brother looked like Michael Jordan. So I'm drinking the
17:25
Speaker 1: juices on Pele Larson. And he's just such a good connector,
17:29
Speaker 1: the perfect kind of Miami Heat player, if you will. Like,
17:31
Speaker 1: they always find these guys that can just connect and
17:33
Speaker 1: do this and can do that. He plays super hard. Yeah,
17:37
Speaker 1: he plays hard. He can finish at the rim. All
17:39
Speaker 1: of the things you really need. Nikoli Jovic is a
17:41
Speaker 1: candidate because they paid him a lot of money. And
17:44
Speaker 1: he didn't really play much last season, which sucks when
17:48
Speaker 1: you give a guy $ 60 million and he just, I
17:51
Speaker 1: won't use the word out of the rotation, but let's
17:52
Speaker 1: just say less important than what you wanted him to be.
17:55
Speaker 1: And so I guess I can understand, but I thought
17:57
Speaker 1: Larson was like consensus. Next, we got the Bucs. Kaleo
18:00
Speaker 1: Ware has to be him. I think I saw some
18:02
Speaker 1: rumors that him and Miles Turner are going to start
18:04
Speaker 1: together because they want to do this showcase for Turner
18:06
Speaker 1: and hopefully find somebody to trade for him, get some
18:08
Speaker 1: extra capital, and then move Kaleo over to the five.
18:12
Speaker 1: I saw a stat. that Kaleo Ware was the best
18:15
Speaker 1: above-the-break three-point shooter at his size in the NBA last season,
18:20
Speaker 1: which makes sense if you look at these splits. In
18:23
Speaker 1: his 34 starts a season ago, Ware averaged a double-double, boom, boom, boom, boom,
18:28
Speaker 1: in the splits of 53%, 40%, and then 75%. Obviously,
18:33
Speaker 1: whatever was going on with him in Sproster was what
18:36
Speaker 1: it was, where he would have moments where he played
18:37
Speaker 1: a lot and moments where he played none. I'm having flashbacks.
18:41
Speaker 1: Because he had a game against the Bulls last season.
18:43
Speaker 1: I don't even know what he finished with in that game.
18:45
Speaker 1: But I felt like I was watching, like, Dirk at times.
18:48
Speaker 1: And I'm being hyperbolic. But one of his games, yeah,
18:52
Speaker 1: he had a game in November against the Bulls where
18:55
Speaker 1: they put up 143 points on us in regulation, by
18:58
Speaker 1: the way. And in that game, Kaleo Ware had 20
19:00
Speaker 1: and 14. He didn't even hit a three in that game.
19:03
Speaker 1: Maybe it was another game against the Bulls where he
19:05
Speaker 1: was even better. Yeah, he had another game against the Bulls. Oh,
19:09
Speaker 1: this is the one. February 1st against the Bulls. They
19:12
Speaker 1: went 134-91. We only put up 91 points in an
19:16
Speaker 1: NBA game. Disgusting. We were down 21 points going into
19:18
Speaker 1: the second quarter. In this game, Kaleo Ware came off
19:22
Speaker 1: the bench and in 18 minutes had 17 points. Just
19:27
Speaker 1: came in and said, hey, if Coach ain't going to
19:28
Speaker 1: play me, I'm going to make it happen. And I
19:31
Speaker 1: think all of that ended up being, yeah, in the
19:33
Speaker 1: second half. Yeah, he can get on the heater. And
19:36
Speaker 1: I love a big fella that can get on the heater.
19:37
Speaker 1: It don't happen often. I guess the Bucs just got
19:41
Speaker 1: off a guy like that. Bobby Portis is a big
19:42
Speaker 1: fella that can get on the heater. And now they
19:44
Speaker 1: replace him with Kahlil Weir, a younger guy at 22
19:47
Speaker 1: years old. Oh, Minnesota. I went with Yohan Berengi. They
19:52
Speaker 1: went with Cody Williams. Another second-team guy from what draft class?
19:56
Speaker 1: The 2024 draft class. He did have a better season average,
20:01
Speaker 1: 16 points, four rebounds, four and a half assists in
20:03
Speaker 1: his final 19 games. That's what was surprising to me
20:06
Speaker 1: that the Utah Jazz traded him. Because, yeah, I remember...
20:08
Speaker 1: You know, again, I wasn't watching a ton of games
20:10
Speaker 1: in real time when it came to Utah Jazz. But
20:12
Speaker 1: I remember watching the highlights and the moments of him
20:15
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season. He just played
20:17
Speaker 1: with another level of confidence. I think a lot of
20:19
Speaker 1: his rookie season, he just wasn't confident. And you can
20:23
Speaker 1: argue that maybe in his year in Colorado that what
20:26
Speaker 1: he was showing wasn't super real. But I just feel
20:28
Speaker 1: like he came into the NBA and was like, oh,
20:30
Speaker 1: this is the big leagues now and I'm not ready
20:31
Speaker 1: for it. And the second half of the season, he
20:33
Speaker 1: was just more poised. And I'm surprised to see him
20:35
Speaker 1: get traded away and now Minnesota can have this thing
20:37
Speaker 1: where they can compete for a championship but have this
20:40
Speaker 1: flyer pick in Cody Williams. But similarly, while Leonard Miller
20:44
Speaker 1: wasn't as highly touted and highly drafted as Cody Williams,
20:47
Speaker 1: they are a team that's trying to compete. And if
20:49
Speaker 1: you are trying to compete for a championship, do you
20:51
Speaker 1: have minutes to give to a guy like Cody Williams
20:55
Speaker 1: who you don't know on one day if he's going
20:57
Speaker 1: to look like an NBA player or not? Maybe in
21:01
Speaker 1: the defense of Cody Williams... They could use just extra
21:04
Speaker 1: bodies to that position specifically in the regular season. And
21:06
Speaker 1: they have enough talent around him where even if he's
21:08
Speaker 1: not great in his moments, he can still just give
21:11
Speaker 1: Kaminga and give Trey Lyles and some of these other
21:13
Speaker 1: guys that may plan this four position a little bit
21:17
Speaker 1: more time. But Cody Williams is not a bad pick.
21:19
Speaker 1: If he does break out, by the way, oh my God,
21:21
Speaker 1: the Jazz is going to be really upset about that. Next,
21:23
Speaker 1: we have the Pelicans' Jeremiah Fierce. They went Derrick Queen.
21:26
Speaker 1: It was one of the two. You knew it had
21:27
Speaker 1: to be one of the two. Queen, again, we all
21:31
Speaker 1: know is like Just a unique player in a sense
21:33
Speaker 1: that he can be a highlight machine without jumping. He
21:36
Speaker 1: can be a highlight machine without, you know, hitting a
21:39
Speaker 1: logo three-pointer. But the passing chops that he has, he's
21:42
Speaker 1: such a smart ball player. He closes out possessions well
21:45
Speaker 1: with his rebound and all of the things above. He
21:47
Speaker 1: even go viral on Twitter talking about, do you hate
21:49
Speaker 1: me because I'm slow and fat? Which, shout out to
21:53
Speaker 1: Derrick Queen. But yeah, they say right here, Jeremiah Fierce
21:56
Speaker 1: and Derrick Queen are both reasonable breakout candidates here. Fierce,
21:59
Speaker 1: may have to wait another year because of Jordan Poole,
22:01
Speaker 1: and then, of course, DeJounte Murray, which I like that
22:04
Speaker 1: argument for picking Derek Quay because it is kind of
22:06
Speaker 1: a logjam over there. But Jeremiah Fierce, I remember, hold on,
22:09
Speaker 1: let me pull up the stats real quick. Look at
22:11
Speaker 1: the jersey, huh? The man's jersey says zero fears on
22:15
Speaker 1: the back. That's so tough. And I'm almost 30, but
22:17
Speaker 1: that's so tough. Yeah, the last, let's go to last
22:22
Speaker 1: 10 games of the season for Jeremiah Fierce, for what
22:23
Speaker 1: it's worth, they were 1-9 in those 10 games. He averaged. 24-5-4, only,
22:30
Speaker 1: I'm going to say only, only 1.8 turnovers. He shot
22:36
Speaker 1: not great from three, but he got to the foul
22:38
Speaker 1: line seven times per game in that little stretch. So, like,
22:41
Speaker 1: I'm just intrigued a little bit more because he did
22:43
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to start in some of those games
22:45
Speaker 1: because the Pelicans weren't playing for anything, so players were
22:47
Speaker 1: sitting out. And I think he is potentially going to
22:50
Speaker 1: be good enough where you have to really think about
22:52
Speaker 1: him being a starter sooner rather than later. So I'm
22:54
Speaker 1: not mad at Derek Queen, but I also like Jeremiah Fierce. Next,
22:57
Speaker 1: we have the New York Knicks. It's got to be
22:59
Speaker 1: Moe Diawara. There's no other option but him. Everybody else
23:01
Speaker 1: is either older or have already broken out. It's got
23:03
Speaker 1: to be Mr. Fab1. I remember one of the first
23:06
Speaker 1: tweets I saw after the New York Knicks won a championship,
23:08
Speaker 1: and I wish I screenshotted it and I could give credit.
23:11
Speaker 1: One of the first tweets I saw after the Knicks
23:13
Speaker 1: won was somebody saying, I'm so happy we won a championship,
23:16
Speaker 1: but the league don't even know we got OG on
23:17
Speaker 1: an OB 2.0 just sitting on our bench ready to hoop.
23:23
Speaker 1: And I ain't saying that's what Moe Diawara going to be,
23:25
Speaker 1: but I really did like him as a ball player
23:26
Speaker 1: when he did play. The 6'9, 4, has a strong
23:30
Speaker 1: defensive skill set and will be called on even more
23:32
Speaker 1: while sharing the second unit with Andre Drummond instead of
23:35
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robbins. Diawara also connected on 57.6% of his corner
23:38
Speaker 1: three points last season, proving to be a reliable kickout
23:41
Speaker 1: option for Jalen Brunson and others. Next, we got the Thunder.
23:47
Speaker 1: I went with Kaysen. They also, oh my God, I'm
23:49
Speaker 1: actually pissed that we got the same answer. Kaysen's going
23:51
Speaker 1: to be asked to do a lot more this season, strictly. Like,
23:53
Speaker 1: no Ludor, no Isaiah Joe, no Aaron Wiggins. Just a
23:56
Speaker 1: lot of Kaysen Wallace, an all-defensive college player. If he
23:59
Speaker 1: can shoot the way he did his rookie season, I'm
24:02
Speaker 1: so happy. Shout-out to Kaysen. Hold on one sec. Shout-out
24:04
Speaker 1: to Kaysen. Ignore that I need a haircut. Kaysen DM'd
24:07
Speaker 1: me like a week ago and said, hey, bro, you
24:08
Speaker 1: want a hoodie? I said, hell yeah! So, hold on.
24:11
Speaker 1: I got it looking weird. Hold on, hold on. Shout-out
24:13
Speaker 1: to the boy. Shout-out to the boy. Shout-out to Kaysen
24:16
Speaker 1: and the brand, man. Got love for you. Also, he
24:19
Speaker 1: asked me if I needed a hoodie. The thing was
24:21
Speaker 1: at my doorstep like 24 hours later. That boy get
24:24
Speaker 1: that expedited shipping. Shout out to Kacen and the guys.
24:28
Speaker 1: All right. Orlando Magic. I went Jace. They went Jace. Cool.
24:34
Speaker 1: They just need Jace to be able to do some
24:36
Speaker 1: of the things he did in college. He was a
24:39
Speaker 1: No mistakes kind of player. He hit all of his
24:40
Speaker 1: three-pointers in his rookie NBA season. He didn't hit many
24:43
Speaker 1: of his three-pointers. They just kind of could use some
24:45
Speaker 1: of that. And it would make it easier for them
24:46
Speaker 1: to figure out what the hell is going on with
24:48
Speaker 1: Anthony Black's extension or Jalen Suggs' money because they're already
24:53
Speaker 1: one of the most expensive teams in basketball. So if
24:55
Speaker 1: they can have a guy on a rookie contract in
24:56
Speaker 1: Jace Richardson be a guy that can play real rotational minutes,
24:59
Speaker 1: then it makes it easier to maybe cut salary on
25:01
Speaker 1: Jalen Suggs or whatever happens with Anthony Black. He's actually
25:05
Speaker 1: one of the most, believe it or not, one of
25:07
Speaker 1: the most important players in On this list is Chase
25:10
Speaker 1: Richardson for whatever the hell the Orlando Magic is going
25:12
Speaker 1: to do. All right, next we got the 76ers. I
25:15
Speaker 1: just went with Vijay. Who else are you going to pick?
25:19
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown? You're going to pick Tyrese Maxey to average
25:21
Speaker 1: 50 this season? It's got to be Vijay. If all
25:24
Speaker 1: the readers you know, I don't need to talk too
25:25
Speaker 1: much on Vijay. He already had a really good rookie season.
25:28
Speaker 1: The reason I picked this, though, because we also had
25:30
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxey on the pod. And we were asking him about...
25:34
Speaker 1: The one ball thing, you know, the biggest question mark
25:37
Speaker 1: or biggest piece of criticism for people when it comes
25:39
Speaker 1: to the 76ers, like, hey, Maxie is a super high-users player.
25:42
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, super high-users player. LeBron James, super high-users player.
25:45
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid, super high-users player. And then you got the
25:47
Speaker 1: fifth guy, one of the better rookies in his draft class.
25:50
Speaker 1: So who's going to be making these sacrifices? And then
25:53
Speaker 1: we immediately was like, well, Vijay probably will because he
25:55
Speaker 1: is the youngest of the group. And Tyrese Maxie was like,
25:57
Speaker 1: yes and no. Because he told a story about when
25:59
Speaker 1: he was younger to the league and the 76ers acquired
26:02
Speaker 1: James Harden, how... James Harden made it a priority that
26:06
Speaker 1: the young Tyrese Maxey still got his shots and still
26:08
Speaker 1: was able to develop. And Maxey said, that's what I'm
26:10
Speaker 1: about to do to Vijay. So there's still a world
26:13
Speaker 1: where Vijay has a breakout year, even though he's playing
26:16
Speaker 1: with four other All-NBA players. Is that crazy to say?
26:19
Speaker 1: That's a crazy sentence. Next, we have the Suns. Mal,
26:21
Speaker 1: you watch. It's got to be him. Summer League, he
26:24
Speaker 1: was disgusting. I don't know, bro. I really liked him
26:27
Speaker 1: coming out of the draft. But then I get so
26:31
Speaker 1: taken aback by some of these super raw centers. Because
26:35
Speaker 1: when they have a rookie season where they can't hit
26:37
Speaker 1: the rotation or they look awful, I'm like, that's it, GG's.
26:40
Speaker 1: And then the man went to summer league and dominated,
26:43
Speaker 1: straight up dominated, and hit all of his threes. And
26:46
Speaker 1: now that Mark Williams is out with an injury, it's
26:48
Speaker 1: basically also Iguodoro and him sharing that center position. And
26:52
Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, he's him. Mr. Now you watch, dog. Anyway,
26:58
Speaker 1: Blazers have to be School Henderson. Oh, they put Donovan Klingin.
27:01
Speaker 1: Love it. Love it. Donovan is definitely more important to
27:05
Speaker 1: the Blazers than School Henderson. Now that the Blazers got
27:09
Speaker 1: 17 all-star point guards on the team. But yeah, Donovan
27:12
Speaker 1: Klingin needs to have a better season than what he
27:14
Speaker 1: did last year. I really enjoyed what he did last season.
27:16
Speaker 1: But I will always remember the Jared Allen game. I
27:20
Speaker 1: will always remember the Jared Allen game. Where Jared Allen,
27:22
Speaker 1: who let's not act like Jared Allen is this super,
27:25
Speaker 1: super quick, swift on his feet center that is being
27:28
Speaker 1: sneaky around the rim. There was a million times... How
27:31
Speaker 1: many points did he score? Bro, Jared Allen had a
27:33
Speaker 1: 40-point game against this guy. And what Jared Allen was
27:37
Speaker 1: doing was just beating him down the court and ceiling.
27:39
Speaker 1: He had 40 and 17. He even took a three
27:42
Speaker 1: in that game. He was feeling some type of way.
27:45
Speaker 1: Donovan Klingin. I really... I am a big fan of
27:47
Speaker 1: Donovan Klingin, though. One thing... One thing that bothers me,
27:50
Speaker 1: I think I may have talked about this before, is
27:52
Speaker 1: the amount of centers that is just like, I'm just
27:55
Speaker 1: going to shoot him. I'm just going to shoot him.
27:57
Speaker 1: And I know the idea of a stretch center makes
28:00
Speaker 1: so much sense. And listen, David Klingin, he had a
28:02
Speaker 1: 34% on him. So actually, I guess I'm more thinking
28:04
Speaker 1: about when Edie was doing it in his five games
28:06
Speaker 1: that he played. I think there's just more value. with
28:10
Speaker 1: you setting off ball screens and being a presence down
28:13
Speaker 1: low than it is for a big fella to shoot
28:15
Speaker 1: threes and not make threes. You know what I mean?
28:17
Speaker 1: But he shot 34% in the sophomore season, so I'm
28:19
Speaker 1: not telling him don't do it. I'm not telling him
28:21
Speaker 1: don't do it. But it does bother me when, like,
28:24
Speaker 1: there was one game. I'm about to go through this
28:25
Speaker 1: game log again. Yeah, the last two games of the
28:27
Speaker 1: Spurs series. Don McLean is going against Victor Wibinyama. Foul trouble.
28:32
Speaker 1: Y'all know how it is. His last two games, he shot,
28:35
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, let's just take the whole series. Game one
28:38
Speaker 1: of that series, he attempted three threes 0-3. Game two,
28:42
Speaker 1: he was one of six from three. They won that game.
28:44
Speaker 1: That's when Victor Wamiyama went down. But my 7'2 center
28:48
Speaker 1: took six threes and only made one. Then game three,
28:51
Speaker 1: he attempted three threes, one for three. Game four, one
28:54
Speaker 1: of six. Game five, two of seven. He took 25
28:57
Speaker 1: threes in a five-game series. 25 of them. And I
29:00
Speaker 1: don't think he's ever had a five-game stretch where he
29:02
Speaker 1: did that before in a career. But I guess because
29:05
Speaker 1: of the stakes are high, the defense is more amped up.
29:07
Speaker 1: If you're talking about the Spurs in the playoffs, where
29:09
Speaker 1: it's like, this is a shot I got, so I
29:10
Speaker 1: got to take it. And I just remember watching like, oh,
29:12
Speaker 1: I don't like a lot of these shots. Next, we
29:14
Speaker 1: got the Sacramento Kings. I went with Sacramento Kings. I
29:18
Speaker 1: went with Neal Clifford. They won Maxime right now. Not
29:20
Speaker 1: a bad candidate. He just had a really good rookie
29:23
Speaker 1: season out of nowhere, 42nd overall pick. I went with
29:26
Speaker 1: Neal Clifford because he just feels like an NBA player,
29:28
Speaker 1: another one of them connecting type of pieces. He's one
29:30
Speaker 1: of the older guys that got drafted in his class,
29:32
Speaker 1: but I ain't mad at right now either. Dylan Harper
29:35
Speaker 1: is my pick as well because he is a stud already,
29:38
Speaker 1: putting pressure on on what the hell those lineups is
29:41
Speaker 1: going to look like next season. How much do you
29:43
Speaker 1: know Fox? Do we see a comparison to Dylan Harper?
29:45
Speaker 1: Is there a world where all three of them play
29:46
Speaker 1: minutes together? How do you divvy it up where everybody
29:49
Speaker 1: is satisfied and everybody's contributing? I trust Miss Johnson to
29:53
Speaker 1: make the decisions at the right time and everything, but
29:55
Speaker 1: Dylan Harper is a stud. You saw that in the
29:57
Speaker 1: postseason last year. The Raptors, I went with Jacoby. They
30:00
Speaker 1: went with Colin Murray-Boyles, who, like, I was listening to
30:04
Speaker 1: Zach Lowe's pod, and they were talking about the center
30:06
Speaker 1: rotation in Toronto and talking about, like, man, if Jacoperto
30:11
Speaker 1: can't bounce back, it becomes really thin at that center position.
30:13
Speaker 1: And that's true. But Murray-Boyles can also play the five.
30:18
Speaker 1: Him and Scottie Barnes playing together last year in the postseason,
30:21
Speaker 1: you saw some amazing stuff. And now you add on
30:23
Speaker 1: the fact that Kawhi Leonard is in there too. So
30:25
Speaker 1: I ain't mad at Murray Boyles. He came in as
30:27
Speaker 1: like a really elite level defender already. And with another
30:30
Speaker 1: year under his belt, some of those units can be insane.
30:33
Speaker 1: I went with Jacoby though, because I think his three-point
30:35
Speaker 1: shooting is going to be super important to the team.
30:36
Speaker 1: He had his moments within the playoffs where I think
30:38
Speaker 1: he had one game, he had zero points. He had
30:40
Speaker 1: other games, he had 20. So he's kind of like
30:42
Speaker 1: a feast or famine type of player sometimes. But I
30:44
Speaker 1: do like the three-point shooting that he can provide. And
30:46
Speaker 1: on a team like this, when you talk about Scottie Barnes,
30:48
Speaker 1: who at times afraid to shoot him or just don't
30:51
Speaker 1: make him at all, A guy like Jacoby can be
30:53
Speaker 1: super important. A couple more teams. The Jazz and with Bryce,
30:56
Speaker 1: they win Ace Bailey. Of course they win Ace Bailey.
30:58
Speaker 1: He was a fifth pick, and now he might be
30:59
Speaker 1: coming off the bench, and he was really good second
31:01
Speaker 1: half of the season, 20 points per game, five rebounds,
31:02
Speaker 1: two and a half assists, a block and a half,
31:04
Speaker 1: and his final 12. And I like them because they
31:06
Speaker 1: were using him in the actions as if he was
31:08
Speaker 1: Larry Marketing. Like we're talking pin downs. We're talking about
31:11
Speaker 1: Tim not having to dribble, and obviously he had possessions
31:13
Speaker 1: on ball as well. But I like that they're like, okay, Ace,
31:16
Speaker 1: we know you can't create for yourself. We know you
31:18
Speaker 1: can take these heavily contested mid-ranges, but I want to
31:20
Speaker 1: see what you look like if you had zero dribbles.
31:22
Speaker 1: And they ran him like Larry Markin in a lot
31:23
Speaker 1: of those games where he looked like his best or
31:25
Speaker 1: in times where he didn't have to create. Now, they're
31:27
Speaker 1: going to need people to create. So I'm not saying
31:29
Speaker 1: pigeonhole him to that type of player. But I'm happy
31:31
Speaker 1: that Will Hardy and company is like, let's just see
31:33
Speaker 1: what you can do here. But I went with Bryce
31:35
Speaker 1: Sensabaugh because Bryce Sensabaugh averaged 24 points per game in
31:38
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. Just straight up, I
31:41
Speaker 1: only see the rim type of player. And not a
31:44
Speaker 1: lot of those guys exist in the NBA no more.
31:45
Speaker 1: I've been infatuated with Bryce Sensabaugh as a ball player
31:48
Speaker 1: since like his second year in the NBA. And this
31:50
Speaker 1: is a team that's trying to compete for a playoff
31:51
Speaker 1: spot nowadays. And I think having a guy to come
31:54
Speaker 1: off the bench that can be like, I can give
31:55
Speaker 1: you 20 right now. Could be important. I don't know.
31:57
Speaker 1: I'm just a Bryce Sensible fan. And the last thing
31:59
Speaker 1: that was, I had three players because how can you
32:01
Speaker 1: pick one? They want Trey Johnson. I want Will Riley,
32:04
Speaker 1: Trey Johnson, Keyshawn George. One of those guys is going
32:06
Speaker 1: to break out. You can already that Keyshawn had his
32:08
Speaker 1: breakout moment last year. But I think there's another step
32:11
Speaker 1: to him. Trey Johnson, he's one of my favorite players.
32:13
Speaker 1: I say that about everybody, huh? He's one of my
32:16
Speaker 1: favorite players in the draft class. I just I value
32:18
Speaker 1: a guy that could just straight up shoot it. Last year,
32:21
Speaker 1: he shot 36 percent from three as a rookie on
32:23
Speaker 1: five and a half attempts. I'm not mad at that.
32:26
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at that at all. And another team
32:29
Speaker 1: that could use as much shooting as they can get.
32:31
Speaker 1: Trey Johnson can do that. Will Riley in the second
32:33
Speaker 1: half of the season. I'm a guy that does, you know,
32:36
Speaker 1: fall for bad, bad team second half stats guys. I
32:40
Speaker 1: can fall for it. I ain't going to lie. Sometimes
32:42
Speaker 1: I think that those can be a precursor to like
32:44
Speaker 1: a breakout. For example, second half of the season a
32:47
Speaker 1: few years ago, Kobe White, Kobe White, and they planned
32:51
Speaker 1: for nothing. Kobe White averaged like 25 points for the
32:53
Speaker 1: last 30 games. And it's like, oh my God. And
32:55
Speaker 1: then he ended up being second and most improved player
32:57
Speaker 1: the next season. He should have won it, Maxie. I'm sorry.
33:00
Speaker 1: It should have been Kobe White, but it wasn't him.
33:02
Speaker 1: And in the second half of the season, if we
33:04
Speaker 1: look at the last, ooh, he got a two-point game
33:06
Speaker 1: in here, so it's going to bring these averages down.
33:07
Speaker 1: In the last 22 games, The Wizards were 1-21. They
33:12
Speaker 1: were 1-21. But in that time, 16 points per game
33:15
Speaker 1: for Will Hardy. Will Riley. Will Hardy. Will Riley. And
33:18
Speaker 1: that's with a game where he had two points. And
33:20
Speaker 1: at one more game, we have five points. You get
33:21
Speaker 1: rid of those games, which you shouldn't do. But if
33:23
Speaker 1: you get rid of those games, those averages look crazy.
33:26
Speaker 1: Got to the foul line a few different times. Like,
33:27
Speaker 1: I'm in. So there's one breakout candidate for every team.
33:31
Speaker 1: You let me know what you think. Shout out again
33:32
Speaker 1: to my boy, Kasem.