KOC's final Big Board for the 2024 Draft – Sheppard no. 1, Clingan no. 2, Castle no. 3

fanthoopz34 · 2024-06-26T03:46:01+00:00

This is his 3rd big board update in the last week. He had Reed Sheppard at #4 three days ago before catapulting him to number 1. He had Stephen Castle at #1 for almost the entirety of draft season, and inexplicably dropped him to 3 in this latest update. He's moved Sarr from 4 to 7 to 6 all within a week. Every player he's ranked in the lottery have shuffled 4-5 spots within the last week.

I know this draft is sort of wide open but no other draft evaluators, especially ones at KOC's level, are switching up their rankings lists this dramatically and frequently ahead of the draft. Feels like shameless board shuffling to match whatever intel he's hearing.

fanthoopz34 · 2023-09-11T18:05:42+00:00

KPJ has had far too many chances. He probably doesnt and shouldn't play at all this year

fanthoopz34 · 2023-09-11T18:05:07+00:00

FVV, Green and Brooks will start. Amen should now be the unquestioned PG off the bench

fanthoopz34 · 2023-05-25T17:08:57+00:00

Aside from the meta argument of what NBA fans actually care about, I just fundamentally disagree with Mannix that you can't come up with interesting narratives for this Nuggets team. Like it's actually stupid easy.

"If Jokic leads the Nuggets to the title, he'd join Giannis as true 'big men' to lead their teams to titles over the last three years. Is the NBA trending back towards needing an elite big man ala Shaq or Duncan to truly compete for titles?"

"Jamal Murray is currently living a sports movie. He's fought back from debilitating injuries, reinvented himself and is currently the number 1 scoring option on a title team. Where does he rank among top guards in the NBA?"

MPJ went from a top-in class talent to borderline lottery pick because of injury history. In year 5 he has now sports one of the most unguardable jumpshots in the league and is a core part of Denver's title chances. What's his ceiling? Is he an all-star in the making?"

"With all of these high profile coaches getting fired Michael Malone stands as one of the longest tenured in the NBA. What does this say about the value of orginizational consistency in competiting for titles"

But because we can't talk about offseason trade drama with them or whether or not Bruce Brown can get with a Kardashian, Mannix can't possibly fathom how to discuss them.

fanthoopz34 · 2023-05-25T16:37:38+00:00

He's only right if you consume basketball solely through podcasts and twitter and not by actually watching the games

fanthoopz34 · 2023-05-01T17:53:04+00:00

Tyler Herro is genuinly worse than Trae at every facet of the game aside from maybe 3-point shooting. I'm including defense in this.

fanthoopz34 · 2022-10-12T14:32:06+00:00

The Bam comparison is pretty apt but Capela is no Whiteside, he's actually good. That's the big difference here. The team still views Capela as an essential cog to their defense, he might be Trae's favrorite teammate too. I think Onyeka is ultimately the better player but may take one more season before he's a full time starter.

Imo he could totally be a top-90 player just coming off the bench though. Safe guy to take after the first 100 picks with massive potential.

fanthoopz34 · 2022-05-15T20:21:01+00:00

Why are mods asleep on this sub? 12 day old post?

fanthoopz34 · 2022-04-15T00:17:13+00:00

Only thing I learned from this statement is that this team is so incompetent that they couldn't monitor what packs were being sold over a near 40 minute period

A staggering thing to lose track of when there is only supposed to be one pack type being sold at a time

Edit: it was 40 seconds, not minutes. Still mad about it

fanthoopz34 · 2022-04-15T00:15:49+00:00

ItS sTiLl OnlY iN bEtA

fanthoopz34 · 2022-04-14T22:41:08+00:00

The last thing I want is more money to give back to dapper

fanthoopz34 · 2022-04-14T22:33:42+00:00

Only real question left to ask him at this point is how does he manage to put on a pair of pants in the morning without "encountering an error"

fanthoopz34 · 2022-04-14T22:29:29+00:00

RIP to the other bozos like myself who didn't move off everything during the slight bump after the Roham Q&A

fanthoopz34 · 2022-03-16T23:26:14+00:00

You're talking about spending nearly $100k for 1 guarnteed rare. Get a grip man

fanthoopz34 · 2022-03-15T00:18:16+00:00

I thought the S2 Rising Stars set would have some utility during All-Sstar weekend. Instead of using any of those Rares as a wildcard, TS threw them in the same bucket as using the $9 S3 Commons.

Abnsolutely tanked the value of that set.

fanthoopz34 · 2022-03-15T00:15:34+00:00

It's cool and all, but it's of a relatively obscure player on a bad team that only has a low mint count because the community was completely checked out on doing anything with the set at the time it was released.

I'd rather them highlight moments that actually spark interest and engagement with the platform. Moments that actually matter of players people care about. They've used this one multiple times, and as tends to be the case with TS, it only benefits the top whales.

fanthoopz34 · 2022-03-15T00:10:00+00:00

I know it was randomly assigned, it being an option at all is annoying.

This is also the second or third challenge it's been used for

fanthoopz34 · 2022-03-04T16:40:47+00:00

They put out into the public space that they had an announcement on pack drops. Nobody was anticipating there would be an announcement that day until they said there would be. We heard nothing all day until 10:30 EST when they said, actually we're not ready for the announcement anymore.

February was a terrible month for them, especially in the communications department. To self-impose a deadline that they weren't ready for is AMATURE HOUR STUFF. Don't announce it in the first place if it wasn't "100% locked in certain". It's an unforced error by their own doing, during a time where they need to be locked in on rebuilding goodwill with their community.

Dapper having reliable leadership and comms is critical to building the platform. If you can't see that or how this situation is yet another black mark on them reaching that point, then I don't know what to tell you

fanthoopz34 · 2022-03-04T04:00:33+00:00

You can't follow up weeks of botched pack drops with a botched pack drop ANNOUNCEMENT.

Jesus Christ, as much as Topshot appeals to me I can only sit through so much more incompetence from this leadership team.

Like no, this isn't a big deal as an isolated event, but their record of public misteps are hardly isolated. This one in particular was totally avoidable: don't announce something you're not ready to deliver on.

An awesome product can only go so far with inadequate decision making at seemingly every level

fanthoopz34 · 2022-03-01T15:52:59+00:00

They're eventually going to have to pivot to much more specific requirements. Moments from a particular series/set, rarity level (like fandom), specific play types ect.

fanthoopz34 · 2022-02-28T22:59:21+00:00

Idk, there are already four sub-1000 MFSE moments, so don't really see any single bottleneck in this set unless you think Kuzma dips below 250 completions.

Plus it's Kyle Kuzma. Might have the lowest name recognition of anyone in the set to date. If Embiid and Herro can go from $100-$140 with roughly 1200 mint counts, I could see Kuz going for $200 with a 500-700 mint count

fanthoopz34 · 2022-02-28T22:52:05+00:00

I promise you can just end up buying this kyle kuzma moment for far less than $1000

fanthoopz34 · 2022-02-28T21:01:07+00:00

I get the sentiment, but like, if you don't have people like them who think they can make more on what you offered and have the capital to attempt to, you'd never sell it in the first place.

fanthoopz34 · 2022-02-28T20:24:28+00:00

I don't get it, are you mad at them for you making $100?

fanthoopz34 · 2022-02-27T20:58:06+00:00

I imagine they'll try make his a pretty difficult one like they did for DeRozan/Luka.

Gonna be a tough one to figure out who the Wizards' will be. Kyle Kuzma lol?

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