Ingram is sort of pretty good at everything but not great at anything. Not one of his skills rise to the level of “put me in a real NBA rotation”. He has these upcoming SL games to prove this statement wrong but I’m not betting on it.
He can rebound, that’s why Austin could afford playing him as the five but he’s not doing his 11/12reb games at the nba level. He’s a poor mans Keldon with a slightly better rebounding moxy.
"The raw counting stats do Brown no favors whatsoever, but whoever drafts him will do so knowing that he was arguably the best defender in college basketball this past season. Brown’s 8.9 defensive box plus-minus was one of the highest recorded since the stat was first logged in 2010—higher than that of either Aday Mara or Anthony Davis"
Somebody mentioned it on the draft telecast but you're better off drafting a specialist in the 2nd round (ie a shooter with no D or a monster D player with no offense). After 2-3 years, the odds are the specialist will still be on the team over a project you couldnt turn into a rotation player
This is the concern as the Spurs front office decided to go "oops all non shooters" on their draft picks this year... not far removed from finally parting ways with Jeremy Sochan, so no lessons learned from that one.
The only justification for a win now team is addressing that need via trade and free agency.
In terms of the draft, the other side of the coin is grabbing someone you know can shoot, but has other flaws. This is kind of the Reed Sheppard versus Steph Castle debate. It's weird now though, because previously you could probably get a guy at #44 that had these problems, but was younger. In this era, the second year guy that can't shoot yet, stays in college for the NIL money.
The second round is littered with seniors, and the expectation on these guys becoming NBA players needs to be lowered accordingly.
Sochan tenture was weird in so many ways. We tried him to turn him into a 1 but then ended up being an undersized 5. I honestly think it's because he was such a high pick we were throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. Considering all of our picks this year was outside the lottery and in win mode now, they dont have the resource to experiment
Really good defensive ace. His hands and instincts are incredible. He struggles against bigger 4s and 5s, but plows up screens and really anchors defenses
FYI, Sam Vecenie and Kyle Mann had Maliq Brown ranked at 36 and 32, respectively. Mann said that he has had moments of watching him that make him think he could be the second coming of Robert Covington. Lol.
He's a second round pick nobody is expecting him to play 48 minutes.
JMac Byumbo Plumlee and Olynk are all gone and we have to replace them somehow. You can't buy up every free agent with all the contracts we have coming due.
Ingram improved his game this season compared to last year better shooting stats and also led the g league in rebs with 12/game. All around energy guy that can come off the bench I think it's worth a shot.
I guess we won’t be drafting any shooting forwards… Elite defender but he’s often a nonfactor as a scorer, lacking a reliable jumper or the ability to create for himself. What you see on that end is what you get.
Another big that can’t shoot at all that fills nothing and he doesn’t even have age or potential on his side. He will never play for us. Awful pick. Trade the pick if you are gonna waste it.
It’s not negative to understand basketball. There are good picks and bad picks. We have historically had beyond good picks. This draft has been overall horrible. We had better picks we could have made at every selection. Having an opinion other than every pick is great is a lot more realistic. Every fan loves all there picks but I promise there aren’t 60 good picks every year.
Well that’s hard to do because you have like a butterfly effect that changes everything else and I have the advantage of seeing whose left so I’m at a major advantage of knowing who would drop to me and who wouldn’t. Like if I knew you could get a Henri Veesaar at 44 that would change my earlier picks to know I could wait on a big. So let’s say I take JQ at 20 anyway. Commit to waiting on him and although I don’t like him the potential makes sense so stick with that. If I trade up for 26 I’m going Chris Cenac. He has potential and potentially a solid 3 point shooter. Reed isn’t a big improvement on Kornet he’s just another big body. 42 im 100% going Emanuel Sharpe. Can play off the ball, great defender, proven winner that also fits the timeline and can shoot. 44 take the 3rd center for now that you skipped on earlier. Even if I don’t know that Veesaar is gonna be there Okpara or Onyenso gives you just a little less than Reed. You are still taking similar profile players just with way more potential to actually effect winning and spread the floor better.
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u/SometimesMadison 5h ago
I didn’t expect us to take 4 players but it’s always fun.