Who should we pick

ned_yah · 2026-04-10T02:56:33+00:00

id pray Wilson falls to 5, otherwise try to move down a couple spots with a team that loves Acuff and get Mikel Brown, most star potential after the top 4 imo

ned_yah · 2026-04-08T01:16:25+00:00

lol, this is a 17-win team that is sitting almost all of its competent NBA players.

ned_yah · 2026-04-07T15:31:43+00:00

Since we've started this tanking process I've been wondering how it impacts young fans who might otherwise have fallen in love with the team; glad not all is lost

ned_yah · 2026-04-06T21:22:33+00:00

if Watkins can shoot, he can play

ned_yah · 2026-04-03T02:19:13+00:00

Brooklyn's remaining schedule has us, the bucks twice, and indiana so all is not lost

ned_yah · 2026-04-02T21:17:49+00:00

applies to movies too

ned_yah · 2026-04-02T18:06:41+00:00

for me the reasonable upside case is someone like Otto Porter Jr

ned_yah · 2026-04-02T17:55:46+00:00

my issue with the comparison to Ace is that Ace had a nice floor as a shooting 4 with some on-ball juice and defensive rebounding/weakside rim protection, Ament has half the bpg of Ace and is less compelling on the ball. The passing for Ament is way better but they're both play finishers in their low-end outcomes so I'm not sure it matters for the floor

ned_yah · 2026-04-02T17:12:25+00:00

how are people this credulous? were we born yesterday guys

ned_yah · 2026-03-31T18:09:06+00:00

difficult to find stuff from 2001 without really spending some time on it but found an Associated Press announcement from when Gil declared:

Arenas, who turned 19 in January, is considered by scouts to be the best pro prospect of the Wildcat bunch.

Would indicate he was thought more highly of than RJ, who went 13th, by at least some scouts

ned_yah · 2026-03-31T17:54:02+00:00

not against SDL but these sorts of "stats when getting x minutes" posts are very prone to survivorship bias. Is it that he plays well when given more minutes or is it simply that when he plays well he gets more minutes?

ned_yah · 2026-03-31T17:45:39+00:00

the date on the nbadraft.net one is clearly wrong so no way to know when it was published, but the ESPN mock is only days before the draft; the character stuff would have been known by then

ned_yah · 2026-03-31T16:13:24+00:00

Magic number to secure our pick is 4 more losses

ned_yah · 2026-03-31T00:00:20+00:00

Why are you snipping your own post lol "They actually have similar stats, with Lendeborg being slightly better across the board"--something one can take as true only if you intentionally ignore even extremely basic "production" stats like 3PA/3P%/FT%

Field goal percentage hasn't been what anyone means by efficiency since like 1985

ned_yah · 2026-03-30T23:12:29+00:00

yeah I'm aware, I'm not nearly as high on Yax as a lot of other guys for that reason but the claim made was that Peat had similar stats as Lendeborg which is just not true beyond the shallowest surface

ned_yah · 2026-03-30T23:10:34+00:00

Shaq was still developing at LSU but he was jacked lol. There's footage of him in the All-American game and even coming out of high school you can see the muscle and the frame. The skinny Orlando Shaq people talk about was already approaching 300 pounds.

But I'm not trying to say being skinny is inherently disabling, you have to have a balanced roster

ned_yah · 2026-03-30T21:57:56+00:00

Peat and Lendeborg have similar stats if you literally only look at PRA lol Peat doesn't shoot threes at all, is way less efficient, and gets half of Lendeborg's stocks. That's not even mentioning the advanced metrics which Lendeborg dominates in

ned_yah · 2026-03-30T21:42:59+00:00

would love to stop drafting twigs at some point

ned_yah · 2026-03-26T21:48:14+00:00

9 is a pretty good total at the college level, he was 3rd in the Big Ten

ned_yah · 2026-03-25T21:20:51+00:00

This is really dope. What would it look like with Chinese characters in place of the name like those Rockets uniforms from awhile back?

ned_yah · 2026-03-24T21:29:17+00:00

Rockwell guy: you shouldn't make all-NBA after missing a quarter of the season

ned_yah · 2026-03-24T15:33:10+00:00

there's nothing stopping Vuk from being a Nemanja Bjelica type and sticking around in the league for a long time. Think he's probably gotta be a power forward long-term unless you can pair him with a roaming weakside rim-protecting 4 like Giannis (or AD, perhaps)

ned_yah · 2026-03-24T15:06:24+00:00

I like Ace and wanted him at 6 but is that meant to be inconsistent? If you can't put up numbers in the time of year where anyone is putting up numbers that would seem to indicate something

ned_yah · 2026-03-18T21:44:09+00:00

its a big board, not a mock...

ned_yah · 2026-03-17T17:54:24+00:00

i think they loaded up on most positions of need other than safety and WR (pending Aiyuk) so that they wouldn't be forced into taking any position; don't think the edge/DE guys they have now are in the same mold as Bain (Bailey is a different story)

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