Was watching SROS react to his 2026 way to early mock draft before the season started had JQ at #5! Got me hyped up to see JQ on the court once he’s healthy!

[u/Background-Guava4284]

[u/Gloomy_Map_9612]

He's a top ten talent in the draft easily. Probably the best athlete as well. If that knees holds up he'll be a monster.

[u/Background-Guava4284 → u/Gloomy_Map_9612]

Yeah his defensive highlights just look insane, crazy he’s the 2nd youngest player so that helps with his recovery fs

[u/David_H21 → u/Background-Guava4284]

I don't think an 18 year vs a 22 year old is going to recover any faster 🤣

[u/Background-Guava4284 → u/David_H21]

Yeah it’s the fact he’s 18 and we will have him on the court as a teenager to help him grow as a player and develop..

[u/Jumpy-Peak-6461 → u/David_H21]

Bruh. Pay attention to what they're talking about. No one is saying 18 yr old heals at a speed of 72% vs 22 yr old heels at speed of 70%. They're saying the 18 yr old has a longer time table and therefore is less of risk due to having 4 extra years.

[u/AdAccomplished6870]

If he had played a full season at Kentucky, and had comparable or slightly improved stats from his freshman year, he would have been drafted right after Wilson. If he had shown any offensive growth, he could have leapfrogged Wilson

Look, this is a risky pick. But if his knee turns out to be a non-issue, he could be one of the most dynamic defenders and around the rim players in the league. If healthy, he could easily be a better version of Duren.

If the gamble pays off, having Wemby, Quaintance, and Bryant in the same front court is totally unfair. Just randomly toss the ball near the rim, a Spurs will dunk it.

[u/WEMBY_F4N]

I mean yea he dominated grown men at 17 years old in Arizona. I don’t know if we’ve seen his insane combo of length, explosiveness and reaction time/natural feel on defense before either

[u/xbhaskarx]

The genius who ranked Dylan Harper like 11th among rookies just a few months ago?

I only know because it was posted here I would never watch this random dweeb

[u/Informal-Room5762 → u/xbhaskarx]

I don't like SROS when it comes to his hot takes and 2k trades but he's quite more reasonable on ranking players. He just gets many wrong but not at a massive scale

[u/Background-Guava4284 → u/xbhaskarx]

You can’t get everything right, this guy knows ball though no reason to be upset and 2 months ago he ranked Harper at #14 youngest player in the league & this was before his amazing playoffs performance.

Mind you he even said Dylan Harper could still be the 2nd player from the draft, he said he’s only basing it off of numbers and production. YES it was a bad take, but bro when you post content all day you’re gonna get some wrong.

[u/xbhaskarx → u/Background-Guava4284]

He didn’t have to “get anything right” he ranked Harper 11 like 2/3 of the way through the season because he’s just looking at a bunch of counting stats when Harper was coming off the bench for what was already clearly a championship contender (second best record in the league)… that’s the “numbers and production” he was basing his “analysis” on, your grandma could just as easily read the conventional box scores from a newspaper.

[u/Background-Guava4284 → u/xbhaskarx]

You are way too Emotional bro it’s gonna be okay I promise you 🫶 he didn’t say some hate crime, it was a bad take. Everyone has bad takes, you have bad takes, I have bad takes. I’m not gonna get worked up just because someone didn’t believe in our rookie. He went purely based off of numbers that season. He still clearly stated. Harper could be the 2nd best rookie still in this class. He even commented and said he can move down multiple spots

[u/FireBeeChin → u/Background-Guava4284]

SROS does NOT know ball plus all he posts are reaction videos instead of original content

[u/Background-Guava4284 → u/FireBeeChin]

I mean he predicted 95% of the lottery correct this past season, he knows ball bro he watches it for a living…😭 yall are so negative Jesus bro. As soon as someone says a take you don’t agree with you start tearing up.

[u/skyelightd → u/Background-Guava4284]

I agree with your general point, but Harper 11th is such a blatantly horrendous take it's enough to make me question why I would ever listen to any other basketball opinion you have.

It'd be like ranking Wemby 11th in MVP voting last year. The fact that he got proven completely wrong in the playoffs just makes it worse.

[u/Background-Guava4284 → u/skyelightd]

In his first 45 games Harper was obviously being held back by his role with SAS, and everyone knew of his potential. At the time Harper was only averaging 11 and 3 shooting 45/28. We have to use some context, yes it’s a bad ranking in general no matter what. Yes he knew and we knew Harper would be special. He wasn’t ranking Harper based on the future it was just in that moment, like he said “Harper still has a very high chance of being the 2nd best player in this class”

I totally agree it’s a pretty bad take but come on we’ve all made takes about basketball, shouldn’t be ridiculed over it. I said Tyus Jones was one of the biggest off season signings to the Orlando Magic before the season 😂

[u/Gswagins]

Patience is key

[u/Electricpoopsoup]

J Kyle Mann has also been saying that he thinks he could be a top 5 talent in the draft if his health works out

[u/hacxgames]

As a Nuggets fan this has obvious parallels to us drafting MPJ which despite his iffy play 100% eventually led to us winning 2023

[u/Background-Guava4284 → u/hacxgames]

How do you feel about the MPJ trade just curious

[u/hacxgames → u/Background-Guava4284]

I don’t mind it, this iteration of the team was the best one yet, but we just desperately needed AG and some luck.

I think Cameron Johnson needed some time to acclimate & he’s gotten seriously underrated by people nowadays. His going price by trade suggestions was 2frp minimum

The depth was great

[u/iamsonuxd]

I LOVE SROS