100% yes.

For the Pacers, it’s such a fascinating move. They either get a tier one or top tier two guy, or they don’t have to worry about paying a guard who might have all-star potential but won’t impact winning immediately in the Haliburton-Siakam era and can use that money in free agency or future trades to win now.

Knowing our luck, we’ll take someone at 8 that isn’t these guys; trade him after his rookie season and then he’ll developing into a future MVP candidate

It’s ok. The Kings will randomly draft Aday Mara at #5 because he’s 7’3 and it will push down a tier 2 player to the Clippers.

No thank you

This draft is actually quite good beyond these top 6 guys too. There’s a couple other guys to be excited about like Darius Acuff, Mikel Brown, and Nate Ament.

i mean the draft doesn’t fall off that hard after the top 6

NBA fanfic be like

I also feel like with those trades, Wizards and Jazz will not fall from the top four.

One of the best. He is a top evaluator of draft classes.
Both his draft stuff and his Game Theory podcast is excellent!

One of the best. No one’s perfect when you’re looking at 100+ prospects a year but he puts in the work and is right more than he’s wrong.

His annual draft guide that comes out each spring is like hundreds of pages long.

Vecenie is awesome, by far my favorite draft person

He’s a scouting/draft cycle lunatic but speaks about it in a way that’s very easy to listen to, highly recommend the game theory pod he does with Bryce Simon

He’s one of the most prominent NBA writers and draft guys. Maybe the second most respected draft guys after Givony

He’s one of the more comprehensive and detailed guys out there. Very grounded in his opinions generally and watches an insane amount of hoops to prepare

He writes the draft BIBLE every year.

And I legit mean Bible

One of the ONLY people who saw more upside in Reaves than just being a g leaguer

He’s the best in the business imo. Hes not exaggerating with this draft class lol.

As someone who absolutely needs out over the draft, he’s one of the absolute best. Great analysis of what players can do and how they ca leveraged their abilities in the NBA. Just a genuinely great scout.

Vecenie is by far the best bar none. His content is amazing

IMO best nba draft guy there is.

It’s not even that hot of a take in the scouting community, particularly about the top 3

His only major miss as of recent was Scoot Henderson, which he placed a tier above the field sans Wemby

He’s a good one of those who stayed/who may not have been offered a job in the NBA, teams have recruited many excellent draft analysts to their staffs

Idk man imagine a pnr game with Boozer and JJ

If I had the number one pick and had some way to move down and put together a Wagler/Flemings backcourt I would do it without hesitation. And I fucking love the top guys.

This draft is truly insane.

Flemings>Wagler, dude is another ball hawk on defence and I use Maxey as my offensive comp, he’s lightning quick. He should be a stud on offence and Dyson/Naw/Flemings is probably like a top 5 defensive backcourt in the NBA.

For reals man. We’re going to draft a bust aren’t we 😭

Isn’t Flagg supposed to be in this draft class too originally? He reclassified to play a year ahead because he was that good.

Ace Flagg is not better than all of them

The biggest praise you can give to the three prospects and flagg is you can genuinely make a good argument for all four of them and it’s very unclear on who was the best prospect

The author litellary say’s this. “I don’t have any of those three right now with a higher grade than I gave to Cooper Flagg last year, but in the decade-plus that I’ve been scouting the NBA Draft, I’ve never had three players as Tier One prospects in a single class.”

Statistically, boozer’s college stats blow Flagg’s out of the water and he’s been consistently mocked third in this draft, not as sure about that as you are.

Meh, I think Dybansta and Peterson are better prospects than Flagg

Hes being slept on. Peterson ducking games because of cramps while Caleb will run through a wall for his team.

Caleb wilson is muscle weight away from being Giannis good.

cant wait for tonight’s game vs Boozer, we will see who is for real and who is a fraud

Is he? he is pretty consistently mocked 4th

praying for the Kings to FINALLY take advantage of this and not fumble it away again 😭

How is this draft in the 10-14 range?

yeah i think he’s above the other guys he put in T2

Ament is hella raw tbf but if his jumper can become consistent he could be a Jalen Johnson type player

Alijah Arenas is super raw but when you watch him his game has that superstar fluidity. He’s so smooth. He’ll probably go later in the lottery and it’s a coin flip between superstar and out of the league in 3 years.

Like Ament he’s a really exciting player that would normally go much earlier.

Weirdly enough Nate is always ranked mid first round around 10-18 which is mind blowing to me. I think he’s at least a top 8 pick

Mikel Brown Jr. as well. He is right up there with the tier 2 guys listed.

Eugghh 

Them and the Nets never figure out the right way to tank. Tbf Knicks were like that too

the amount of slander wemby would’ve got if he didn’t pan out would he soul-crushing

thank god everyone was right about him lol

Tier 2 for him is “NBA All Star in the future” so I’m a little confused how he is being slept on lol? If he had him lower than that maybe, but that’s HIGH praise. Last year he had 1 T1 guy and 1 T2 guy. So he would have probably been 2nd pick last year or at worst 3rd. Not really sleeping on someone to say they’re an NBA All Star level player - in my mind at least.

he makes the game look stuuuupidly easy, it’s kinda crazy. doesn’t even look like he’s trying sometimes lol

No, at least no one serious, maybe it was some chatter before the summer, but it has been a top 3 for a long time.
Some idiots always say idiotic things like Flagg being behind 6 of these guys so i am sure you find someone that actually said it.

it was 2 scouts from Eastern conference teams

Two Eastern Conference scouts we spoke to indicated Brown could be in play at No. 3, depending on how the rest of this season and the lottery shake out.

https://np.reddit.com/r/NBA_Draft/comments/1po5w1t/woo_two_eastern_conference_scouts_we_spoke_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

A guard shooting 37% FG and 28% 3pt isn’t going close to number 3. Especially so in a draft this good.

Peat

Both Peat and Burries look great for Arizona. They look like winners.

DM’d

He is very raw right now, and I mean extremely. It would be for the best if he stayed another year at usc unless he wants to go in the 2nd round.

Injury risk: He’s had legitimate hamstring and cramping issues all year.

We will be .500 and you will like it.

It’s alright the pelicans aren’t giving them a top 3 pick it’s gonna be 6-10 range