Speaker 1: You're in the Zone with Brandon Kravitz on FM ninety
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Speaker 2: K It's always fun after the NBA Draft to get
Speaker 2: a chance to learn about some of these prospects. And
Speaker 2: I think I have found Tyler Karen's spirit animal out
Speaker 2: there in the Western Conference. A guy by the name
Speaker 2: of Yan Hansen from China who was asked during his
Speaker 2: introductory press conference with the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 1: Tell me about yourself. What do you like?
Speaker 2: What do you like to do outside of playing basketball?
Speaker 2: And his interpreter told him the question, and then he
Speaker 2: spoke into the microphone and said, I sleep, I play
Speaker 2: PS five, and I like to eat. If that is
Speaker 2: not my co host, I don't know what is. I
Speaker 2: also would have included that I like to play basketball.
Speaker 2: But here's the difference, said other than oh okay, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, That changes things a bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, he already has the job.
Speaker 3: It's not like as this is a job interview. But
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm whipping that out day one. Hey,
Speaker 3: I have a lot of koalafications to me, if you will,
Speaker 3: with sleeping and just kind of lounging around.
Speaker 1: But pay me a lot of money to be athletic.
Speaker 1: You know the two. The two don't necessarily go together.
Speaker 2: Right If I didn't, if I didn't play basketball, I
Speaker 2: would be I would basically be a loser in my
Speaker 2: mom's basement sleeping and playing PS five. Not that you're
Speaker 2: doing that, Tyler, not necessarily necessarily could.
Speaker 1: Devolve into that. You never know who radio is gonna
Speaker 1: take you.
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Speaker 2: the way, Siko's The NBA Summer League schedule for the
Speaker 2: Magic has been released. The team will begin play on
Speaker 2: July tenth against the Sacramento Kings Jace Richardson versus Nick Clifford.
Speaker 2: Sign me all the way up for that, and then
Speaker 2: the Magic will be taking on the Toronto Raptors on
Speaker 2: July thirteenth, the Oklahoma City Thunder on the fifteenth, and
Speaker 2: then the Brooklyn Nets on the sixteenth. There will be
Speaker 2: a fifth game that would be scheduled at a later date.
Speaker 2: How excited are you a scale from one to ten.
Speaker 3: Not as excited as what I generally am heading into
Speaker 3: Summer League, partially because.
Speaker 1: You have.
Speaker 3: It feels like this year's second round is a lot
Speaker 3: of guys that because of how nil is affecting the
Speaker 3: NBA Draft and college basketball and players staying longer, the
Speaker 3: second round includes so many players that I do love
Speaker 3: coming from college basketball, but it kind of takes away
Speaker 3: I don't even know what I'm trying to get out
Speaker 3: here with them being selection instead of being picked up.
Speaker 3: I'm excited on as excited as what I used to be,
Speaker 3: but there's gonna be a lot of really fun names.
Speaker 3: It feels like this second round the NBA Draft was
Speaker 3: even more college studs that I absolutely adore that will
Speaker 3: be in Summer League than ever before, so I should
Speaker 3: be more excited for it.
Speaker 1: That was a whole lot of word soup to get
Speaker 1: to where we are, like the Jeni.
Speaker 2: Brooms of the world and Elijah Martin, Cam Jones, Chez Lanier,
Speaker 2: guys that we became very, very familiar with even the
Speaker 2: college basket casual college basketball fans like myself right around
Speaker 2: tournament time. The NBA draft in the books, all two
Speaker 2: glorious rounds of it, and we have grades, well mostly
Speaker 2: Tyler has grades, and I have some underdeveloped takes to
Speaker 2: share as well. I saw Jonathan Givanni, who I think
Speaker 2: does a really good job with analysis. I'm honestly surprised
Speaker 2: they let him on TV, but he gave the Heat
Speaker 2: an A grade on ESPN today. They had one pick
Speaker 2: they took. They had Casparus Yak and Tunas that just
Speaker 2: fell into their lap. This is why you need us, hey,
Speaker 2: we give out the real grades. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: my a's, my bees, I have us C. I didn't
Speaker 2: grade everybody, and I have a couple of f's, and
Speaker 2: then I will step to the side for real analysis
Speaker 2: as I kick it over to you.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a.
Speaker 3: Lot of pressure, but yeah, let's do it. I'm ready
Speaker 3: to go. I just kind of did best and worse.
Speaker 3: I don't have the exact greens, but I'm here.
Speaker 1: Well, just just throw a letter out, all right, just
Speaker 1: for the fun of it.
Speaker 2: The San Antonio Spurs Land on my A list, Dylan Harper,
Speaker 2: Carter Bryant, two guys that can play an immediate role
Speaker 2: in this team. The Spurs are loaded with young talent
Speaker 2: and they continue to build the right way around Wenby.
Speaker 2: They probably need more three point shooting, but hey, who
Speaker 2: does it. I also gave an A grade to the
Speaker 2: Atlanta Hawks a sinnowle Georgia kid nails athletic upside. Love
Speaker 2: the pick. He was one of my favorite middle portion
Speaker 2: of the draft guides. But the big win is landing
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six first round pick the most favorable
Speaker 2: from New Orleans or the Milwaukee Bucks in the deal
Speaker 2: where they moved back ten spots and let the Pelicans
Speaker 2: draft Derek Queen, who has major bust potential. They also,
Speaker 2: I believe he was the twenty second pick and the
Speaker 2: Kris steps Porzingis trade, so they got better through the
Speaker 2: draft portion of the year. I also give an A
Speaker 2: to the Utah Jazz. I admire the fu to Ace
Speaker 2: Bailey's camp. I think that's brilliant Ainge junior, very shrewd move,
Speaker 2: and then to balance that out with the pure baller
Speaker 2: of Walter Clayton Junior. It was a superb draft. Even
Speaker 2: if Bailey never plays for Utah and they got john Tonjay.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it was another one of those guys that
Speaker 2: you're excited to watch in summer League. I think they
Speaker 2: did a really good job. No matter how this turns out,
Speaker 2: I just like the approach. So those are my three
Speaker 2: A's Jazz Hawks Spurs.
Speaker 3: If you think I wasn't gonna bring it with the
Speaker 3: john Tonjay notes, then you are sadly mistaken. I love
Speaker 3: the Jazz and the value that they got if it
Speaker 3: all plays out. If Ace literally does play for the
Speaker 3: Utah Jazz, the high upside to be the second best
Speaker 3: player in this draft. I had him as a top
Speaker 3: three or four prospect in this draft, and you can't
Speaker 3: deny that the upside that the kid has the skills
Speaker 3: that he already does have now, I think he can
Speaker 3: be a major impact player, and if he commits to Utah,
Speaker 3: it could be one of those things where you're looking
Speaker 3: at a franchise player in a very short amount of time.
Speaker 3: You get Walter Clayton along with that, we know how
Speaker 3: much that we love Walter Clayton here on this show,
Speaker 3: and then even john Tonjay in the second round.
Speaker 1: It's great value. At fifty three.
Speaker 3: In his last season at Wisconsin, he had more points
Speaker 3: and assist per game than the second overall pick Dylan Harper,
Speaker 3: who played in the same conference. He was close to
Speaker 3: a fifty to forty ninety player, an experienced player as well.
Speaker 3: Jan Tanjay. It's kind of a mess with Utah. They
Speaker 3: have a lot of prospects right now. How many players
Speaker 3: do they have that's a question, but they have a
Speaker 3: lot of prospects, a lot of guards. It's going to
Speaker 3: be kind of interesting to see how it messes together.
Speaker 3: I love the value with Utah. With Atlanta, I personally
Speaker 3: don't love a Saknewle. I think that he's good. I
Speaker 3: don't think he'll ever be great. And that's exactly what
Speaker 3: you want from a twenty third overall pick. And it's
Speaker 3: a guy that I saw report Atlanta had given promises
Speaker 3: that he was going to be their selection at thirteen
Speaker 3: if he was available. You're talking about a guy that
Speaker 3: Florida would being a top ten pick. You get him
Speaker 3: at twenty three. Great value and for the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 3: I still won't see it with Carter Bryant. I'll be
Speaker 3: waiting around. But if this guy does a Stanley Johnson
Speaker 3: and is out of the league in a couple of years,
Speaker 3: I will not be surprised.
Speaker 1: He has a lot of tools, but you got to
Speaker 1: put it together.
Speaker 3: And I haven't seen enough to make me convince that
Speaker 3: he's going to put it together.
Speaker 1: So he could be great.
Speaker 3: But I'm not as sold as what the public is
Speaker 3: on Carter Brian at fourteen.
Speaker 2: My bees include the Philadelphia seventy six ers. They did
Speaker 2: their own version of a guy that works right next door,
Speaker 2: Howarree Roseman.
Speaker 1: This is how Howie Roseman drafts. He goes.
Speaker 2: All of you guys spend way too much time on this.
Speaker 2: You live at the combine. You're obsessed with these measurables.
Speaker 1: You know what I do.
Speaker 2: I draft players that were really good in college the end,
Speaker 2: and then I go back to sleep vj Edgecombe culture
Speaker 2: changer type of player, really good at Baylor, Jani Brome,
Speaker 2: best player in the SEC. Maybe his skills were more
Speaker 2: suited to the college game, but hey, he was a
Speaker 2: really good college basketball player. Maybe the guy's just really
Speaker 2: good at basketball. So I give them a solid bee
Speaker 2: for their approach. I give a bee to the Orlando Magic.
Speaker 2: Call me biased, but maybe I am love the Jace
Speaker 2: Richardson pick exactly what they needed in terms of offensive upside.
Speaker 2: Then they trade up for an international superstar who already
Speaker 2: looks like a legit pro in the second round, and
Speaker 2: they used the sixteenth pick to get Desmond Baynes. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna layer that in as part of the grade. And
Speaker 2: then my final bee is the Phoenix Suns. I feel
Speaker 2: like they filled some obvious needs throughout the draft process.
Speaker 2: Come on, malawatch for Sheer Fleming is somebody that Tyler
Speaker 2: loves quite a bit. And they traded for Mark Williams.
Speaker 2: They said, hey, we don't have size, watch this and
Speaker 2: they took care of it. I like when teams use
Speaker 2: the drafts process to take care of all of their needs,
Speaker 2: and they did that. So those are my bees, the
Speaker 2: seventy six Ers, the Magic and the Suns.
Speaker 3: Here's the interesting thing with the seventy six ers. For me,
Speaker 3: neither of their selections would have been my picks. If
Speaker 3: I was at number three, I wouldn't have gotten VJ.
Speaker 1: Edgecumbe.
Speaker 3: Not saying that he can't be good, can't be great,
Speaker 3: he wouldn't have been my pick in that spot in
Speaker 3: the second round. Even which and I broom he has
Speaker 3: all of the makings to be a great college basketball player.
Speaker 3: That does not translate to the NBA and part of
Speaker 3: the reason why you see that is his seventeen inch
Speaker 3: vertical that he delivered at the NBA Combine. He's not athletic,
Speaker 3: he's big. He works, he's big, he's physical. He works
Speaker 3: very well in college basketball in the SEC, and it's
Speaker 3: why he was second for National Player of the Year
Speaker 3: only to the number one pick in Cooper Flag. I
Speaker 3: just don't see it that you still have max. If
Speaker 3: you want to go big, you still had maxim Ra
Speaker 3: Noo on the board at that selection. I don't think
Speaker 3: that jan I Broom Joel Embid can miss all next year.
Speaker 3: And the Phillies front court is awful. I still don't
Speaker 3: know how much how many minutes jan I Broom gets
Speaker 3: in Philadelphia, So I don't love it for them. And again, VJ,
Speaker 3: I think he's going to be great. I think he
Speaker 3: is going to be really good. He just wouldn't have
Speaker 3: been my third pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: Who would have been your third pick?
Speaker 2: So let's say you're the GM of the Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 2: six ers, Darryl Morey, you're in that spot.
Speaker 1: But you and but you have also been turned off
Speaker 1: by Ace Bailey.
Speaker 3: If it's not Ace Bailey, then it's Trey Johnson. In
Speaker 3: my opinion, it would have been one player or the
Speaker 3: other that I would have gone for. So he's in
Speaker 3: Ace Bailey drama in Philadelphia would fit the culture great,
Speaker 3: so I'm sure that he'd give him a get a
Speaker 3: couple of great seasons before ultimately being traded for nothing
Speaker 3: later on down the line.
Speaker 1: And as for the Suns, they were one of my
Speaker 1: best grades.
Speaker 3: I really I love the second round value that they
Speaker 3: get in Rashier Fleming, the first pick of the second round.
Speaker 3: I don't know how this guy slipped out. The only
Speaker 3: negative on this guy is that he played at Saint Jose,
Speaker 3: which is the A ten I believe, and he's playing
Speaker 3: against a ten competition. Everything else about this guy screams
Speaker 3: good NBA player. To get him in the second round
Speaker 3: absolute steel.
Speaker 2: Beause they've traded up quite a bit in order to
Speaker 2: get him too, because they didn't have that pick.
Speaker 3: Right that was from Minnesota originally, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3: And Kobe Brea at forty one a knockdown shooter. He
Speaker 3: led the SEC in three point percentage at forty three percent.
Speaker 3: This guy is a sniper and I think that he
Speaker 3: can be dropped in and for a short a Suns
Speaker 3: team that lacks a depth, Kobe Bray could certainly see minutes.
Speaker 3: And of course, come on, malawatch. He is the best
Speaker 3: center in this draft. He has high upside to be
Speaker 3: the best center to come out of this draft. Have
Speaker 3: the best NBA career. Interesting move with Mark Williams, but
Speaker 3: they said, hey, we're not going to give you one option, We're.
Speaker 1: Gonna give you two options. Have fun my C grade.
Speaker 2: I have the Charlotte Hornets, and I can throw the
Speaker 2: Raptors in there too, because I was I feel like
Speaker 2: they kind of fit the mold of what I'm looking
Speaker 2: at here with the C grade. For the Hornets, three
Speaker 2: solid college basketball players, you got Liam McNeely, Colin Knipple
Speaker 2: or con Kinnipple, and Ryan Kalchbrenner. Two out of those
Speaker 2: three guys are going to be good in the NBA.
Speaker 2: I'm convinced of that. And then for the Raptors, they
Speaker 2: are just so on brand. And I find it ironic
Speaker 2: that I was thinking after they wrapped up their draft.
Speaker 2: They got Colin Murray Boyles at number nine, who is
Speaker 2: an undersized big with great athleticism that sounds like every
Speaker 2: Raptor that's currently on the roster other than Grady Dick.
Speaker 2: And then they get Elijah Martin, who is just nails.
Speaker 2: And that's like both of them feel like Raptors. And
Speaker 2: I like when teams address their identa they just continue
Speaker 2: to kind of hammer at their own identity. And the Raptors,
Speaker 2: you can see a player and go, he would fit
Speaker 2: on the Raptors, and they keep drafting those guys. And
Speaker 2: then they fired the president of basketball operations. So none
Speaker 2: of it makes sense. But I got the Raptors and
Speaker 2: the Hornets with a rock solid secrete.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Hornets, they went with high floor and kN
Speaker 3: Ker Nipple. He's gonna he's gonna be good day one.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be really good for a long time in
Speaker 3: this league. He's a better defender than what he gets
Speaker 3: credit for. He's a better defender than what his athleticism provides,
Speaker 3: if that makes sense. And I still think he has
Speaker 3: plenty of room to grow. Is one and done freshman,
Speaker 3: so he's nineteen twenty years old. He's gonna have room
Speaker 3: to grow. Athleticism defensively, he's got he's got the chubby face,
Speaker 3: you have the chipmunk face. That's gonna he's gonna slim
Speaker 3: down a little bit and I think he's gonna be
Speaker 3: rock solid. He just doesn't have the upside and potential
Speaker 3: in my opinion of what Ace Bailey would have had
Speaker 3: at that pick.
Speaker 1: If Charlotte would have said, too bad, you're.
Speaker 3: Coming here and we're gonna have one of the longest
Speaker 3: mid courts in the NBA. The rest of the picks,
Speaker 3: Lee McNeely mixed reports on him. He has upside to
Speaker 3: be a good player, James Konkin nipples teammate at Duke,
Speaker 3: really good potential to grow into a great three point shooter.
Speaker 3: And then we know what Ryan Kalchbrenner brings as well.
Speaker 3: So I'm good with the Charlotte grade. Maybe I would
Speaker 3: go up to a C plus. As for Toronto, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean they they've got a type and they have
Speaker 3: the type, and you know what, We're just gonna keep
Speaker 3: loading up on him. So have fun with Jonathan Mogbo,
Speaker 3: Colin Murray Boyles, you guys, and Yaka Partle will hold
Speaker 3: it down.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to me.
Speaker 3: I think I think CMB he wasn't in my top
Speaker 3: ten of prospects, and so I wouldn't I wouldn't necessarily
Speaker 3: taken him there, and also fit wise, it's just it's
Speaker 3: not in need for the Rapidors. So I'm good with
Speaker 3: them out of Sea because they got two talented players.
Speaker 3: I really like Elijah Martin in the second round. But again,
Speaker 3: how many copy and pace players do you have in
Speaker 3: one house?
Speaker 2: They basically said, how many different versions of Scotty Barnes
Speaker 2: can we have on this roster.
Speaker 1: Let's see if we can answer that question.
Speaker 2: And then my fs are the Brooklyn Nets and the
Speaker 2: New Orleans Pelicans. For the Nets, they went way too
Speaker 2: guard happy, way too international, all this homegrown talent. I'm
Speaker 2: not anti international, but there's all this homegrown talent in
Speaker 2: the draft, and they Galaxy brained this thing. They had
Speaker 2: five first round picks. It turned out to be too
Speaker 2: many for them to handle. They had a chance to
Speaker 2: build out a starting five, which I think would have
Speaker 2: been a really cool move, or at least do something
Speaker 2: like that. Instead, they draft a logjam of international point
Speaker 2: guards or Rubik's Cube that will never be solved. I
Speaker 2: absolutely hated that approach. And then for the Pelicans, I
Speaker 2: like Jeremiah Fears, but trading up for Derek Queen and
Speaker 2: giving up the draft capital that they did in order
Speaker 2: to get Derrek Queen. Probably the biggest mistake of the draft,
Speaker 2: an unprotected pick next year that could be coming from
Speaker 2: a bad basketball team. Hard to overcome that one. So
Speaker 2: those are my two f's pretty easy to come up
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 3: For New Orleans, I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: because yes, you gave up too much. It was a
Speaker 3: bad deal. It shouldn't have been done in order to
Speaker 3: go and get Derek Queen. But at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, you ended up with Jeremiah Fears and Derek Queen.
Speaker 3: And if you told New Orleans heading into the draft, hey,
Speaker 3: you're gonna end up with that, they're gonna put the
Speaker 3: stamp of approval. Knowing the details of giving up the
Speaker 3: unprotected first, that's where things get a bit more dicey.
Speaker 1: But at least you got value that you feel good about.
Speaker 3: It wasn't trading up and giving up a pick and
Speaker 3: going out and getting Hans and Yang you know where
Speaker 3: it's a guy who you didn't need to move up
Speaker 3: for he was going to be there.
Speaker 1: It isn't mocked as a first round guy.
Speaker 3: So at least you got guys that you took them
Speaker 3: in the appropriate spot of where they were supposed to go.
Speaker 1: Are you saying that Portland should be on the F.
Speaker 1: Portland's an F for me.
Speaker 3: I mean that center position is the best position that
Speaker 3: Portland has. You know, I think the future of DeAndre
Speaker 3: Ayton and the consistency with him. You can never get
Speaker 3: his head straight, but he's still a really good center
Speaker 3: in the league. Don Vin Klingen, you just took with
Speaker 3: a high pick last year. You still have Robert Williams
Speaker 3: the third on roster. You have a trio of centers
Speaker 3: that you can look to, and you go and get
Speaker 3: a seven footer that nobody else in the league would
Speaker 3: have taken in the first round. It's just it's question
Speaker 3: marks where you're looking at the rest of your team
Speaker 3: and saying, we are so confident everywhere else that we're
Speaker 3: comfortable spending a pick just outside the lottery to add
Speaker 3: a fourth center to the rotation.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 2: Any other grade that I missed, anybody that you want
Speaker 2: to give a shout out to.
Speaker 3: I really like what Indiana did we know that Cam
Speaker 3: Jones was one of my guys and they went and
Speaker 3: got him in the second round.
Speaker 1: He's experienced. He'll play year one for Indiana.
Speaker 3: He'll fill in some of the cracks in the absence
Speaker 3: of Tyrese Halburton. Very comfortable with the ball in his hands,
Speaker 3: you said through the roof. He led the Big East
Speaker 3: and assists last season per game and average under two
Speaker 3: turnovers a game. Beyond that one other that I have here,
Speaker 3: the Detroit Pistons only one pick in the draft, and
Speaker 3: it came in the second round. It was but Chas
Speaker 3: Lanier out of Tennessee. I thought Chas was going to
Speaker 3: be a first round pick when the college basketball season started.
Speaker 3: He ain't afraid to put it up and he sends
Speaker 3: a lot of them through the net. And Detroit's at risk.
Speaker 3: This was maybe one of the best fits of the
Speaker 3: second round. They're at risk of losing Dennis Schruterer, Malik Beasley,
Speaker 3: Tim Hardaway junior.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of shooting there.
Speaker 3: And Lanier hit the most threes in the SEC last season,
Speaker 3: and oh yeah, he did it at a forty percent clip.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm surprised he slipped the way that he did.
Speaker 3: He was a rollercoaster throughout the season. Consistency wasn't necessarily
Speaker 3: his thing. If he shot forty percent in a game,
Speaker 3: oftentimes it was four of ten, where if you are
Speaker 3: getting up to ten threes, it's I think shot selection
Speaker 3: also factored into it. The potential is undeniable. The skill
Speaker 3: that he has undeniable. But he's a bit rocky and
Speaker 3: inconsistent and kind of all over the place.
Speaker 1: Spat static if you will so
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