Who Should ROCKETS Take at Pick 3? (w/ NBA Draft Expert Matt Modderno)

Who Should ROCKETS Take at Pick 3? (w/ NBA Draft Expert Matt Modderno)

[Music] welcome to Houston sports talk with your host Robert land thanks for checking into the best Houston sports podcast part of the believe Network and joining me to look at the Rockets drop pick Prospect is a colleague on believe Matt maderno who hosts believe in Wizards and believe in DMV Hoops great to have you with us Matt and are you just a draft junkie I mean you get excited this time of year the Wizard’s been so bad for most of my adult life so you have to pay attention to the draft so I think it’s one of those things where by necessity I kind of got into it at a young age and I’ve been writing about draft prospects since probably high school at this point Early College I did some work for Draft Express early on before they you know got acquired by ESPN so been doing this for a while and uh the Wizards are still bad uh you know to to nobody surprise so still have to pay attention to it and uh luckily they’re in the same range as the rocket so I think it makes it easy to talk about yeah great empathy for uh Wizards fans that’s that’s got to be a tough existence tough existence for for a long time I mean the Rockets you know haven’t been to the mountain top in a long time but you know they’ve been so relevant over the last 40 years just it’s it’s been a fantastic Run for the franchise uh do you have a top three in this draft or do you feel like the top three should be whoever fits that certain team I think I would probably put like uh alexar French forward SL Center that played in Australia this year as like a slight you know half tier above and then maybe there’s probably five or six guys that I think a team could make the case for depending on you know one how well I think they are situated to help a person address their particular holes or limitations and then two I do think like everyone always says draft uh best player available I don’t really totally buy into that as this sort of like easy thing to identify if someone is going to be locked in behind another POS you know another person at a position and never get to play I don’t know that they ever turn into best player available so there has to be some opportunity for minutes there has to be some pathway for them to play a role that they’re actually suited to play and for some of these guys I think they’ll just need an opportunity to kind of play through mistakes and and things like that so uh it’s sort of like a wishy-washy answer but there there’s probably like five six seven guys even that you could make a case for in that sort of next year I think yeah that leads me to my next question who do you think makes the most sense for the Rockets because most of the mocks right now have them taking Reed Shepard yeah I mean that seems like the safe pick to me right like the Rockets could definitely use some shooting it seems like he’s a pretty darn good shooter he’s around 50% from three this year the mechanics look really solid I don’t think that’s like a limited sample size flute kind of thing I would expect him to come in and shoot and just be be a really guy I think at that size you probably need him to be you know an on ball Creator facilitator type if he’s ever going to like be a 30 minute per game player for a long time and that’s really where I’m not 100% sure on Shepard it’s partly we didn’t get to see it a ton this year I’ve got some friends that you know do this at a pretty high level that talk about he’s one of the best passers in the draft I I kind of personally didn’t see that but it could be one of those things where you just give him the ball and give him some opportunities and uh you know can can he be that kind of guy can he be even a Fred Van Fleet type not to make like the lazy comparison there but I don’t see Fred as like this you know pure Dynamic creator for others he he’s a little bit of a scoring point guard blend I think Reed’s probably closer to that in terms of the role you’d ideally want him to play could he come in learn behind Fred for a couple years and then be like the cheaper alternative when you’re not willing to pay you know Fred all that money anymore so so that’s one angle of it I would be a little questionable about how he kind of fits in a back cord next to somebody like a Jaylen green if if that’s the direction they want to go longer term you know this better than I do I’m sure but there’s always some chatter about are they ready to move on from green or or try something different here so I think it really kind of depends on what they want to do there and what their you know kind of Ideal roster building philosophy really would be I don’t think he’d be a bad pick but just doesn’t really seem to fit in with kind of the other picks they’ve they’ve made recently you’ve got really explosive athletes in green een and Thompson and Whitmore I understand that Reed Shepard tested really well in a vertical you know in the vertical testing and things like that but I don’t think he plays like the most Expos explosive player and again that could have been a product of how he was being used but somebody with a little more length and positional size seems more in that Rockets blend if I were someone you know on the Rockets front office or scouting Department I I would look for somebody that maybe compliments shenon I think he’s kind of like the pillar of the front Court there so what does he not do particularly well he doesn’t really uh protect the rim super well he’s not crazy explosive he’s not much of a shooter so can you find someone to pair next to him I’m not as big on the g- league ignite guys but somebody like mod bis maybe as sort of a a bouncy forward you know weak side shop blocker next to him who can stretch the floor a little bit might be really interesting and he’s also somebody that would be able to play next to een and some of these other guys in the front Court too so that’s a name I would maybe consider that I don’t think I’ve heard you guys talk about a ton on here un listen to the Cooper Klein episode too and I know modest didn’t really come up so he s to somebody I would throw out there for Rockets fans to to maybe take a look at what about somebody like Steph Castle because I’ve also heard that name quite a bit we we haven’t had a chance much to talk about seep castle and he’s somebody that definitely does have this size he he didn’t play on ball at Connecticut but there’s an assumption that he can do that because he’s done it before you know earlier in his career in high school but uh what do you think about him I’m a big fan personally I I attended the Husky first two tournament games in Brooklyn this year and got to see him kind of up close and personal and there were some early reporting at the combine that uh you know there were some false measurements that came out that said he was only 6’2 and a half and I was like no no this I like I promise this guy is in the 65 ballpark he ultimately measured 65 and a half so that’s probably six sevenish with shoes and uh that’s assuming he’ll play basketball and shoes like most people so you know pretty pretty good size there for even if he ends up being kind of a a two guard uh so I see him more in like the Drew holiday blend guard where you know kind of a solid facilitator not like the most again sort of um you know dynamic creator for others but but just pretty good at that gonna lock you down defensively I think he’s capable enough as a driver and then the shooting I I think it’s going to be fine longer term I’ve seen some decent touch around the rim and things like that you also watch him before games and obviously not the most scientific way to do this but he’ll sit there and stroke three after three so like he can make open you know shots uh things like that he got the touch to do it so I think eventually he’ll rep that out I’m not really worried too much about that he’s probably never Steph Curry but you probably just need him to be solid enough if he’s going to be a lock down Defender and Creator and he’s also somebody that makes sense next to some of the other guys you got he he plays defense he’s a eay yoka like perfect person you know like could he even come in and just be like the Marcus SM type guard for you early on of somebody who’s going to lock down create enough for others and and just guard bigger or smaller in the lineup depending on what you need so I think he’d actually be like a really good fit yeah if you could get him there hey he fits the athletic mold as well and you can let green or somebody do a little more scoring you can play him next to Fred like he just fits with a lot of different options they have there too yeah the other thing about him is when I think about uh somebody that that can bring in that’s got some incredible shooting like Reed Shepard you go okay wow I mean the Rockets could really use that because it’s it’s really the the poor area of this young core especially guys like Shang and amen who just can’t shoot at all so how can you bring in yet another guy that’s going to be a shooting issue but at the same time Matt when you watch the playoffs it’s scary to watch anybody that’s under 63 or you know it’s just you can’t even imagine it defensively and it’s just such a liability and and you know you’re always thinking okay what are we building to get to that next level yeah I mean you look at what the team is trying to do do I think and and you bring in a coach like eay who’s going to be this tough gritty defensive minded coach is how I think of him at least and then the blueprint of the other guys they’ve drafted like I don’t think Jaylen Green’s been the defender anybody has maybe wanted him to be or the physical tools suggest he could be but that was sort of the blueprint when you took him andari is the switchable kind of free safety Defender who could be all over the place and I think that’s the same thing they Envision for amen Thompson so if that’s like really the the blueprint for the team is to build around defense and honestly I think you need to be able to to have like these really good perimeter or Wing Defenders if you have somebody like shenon who you know I think is kind of maybe the lower half of starting centers in the NBA in terms of defense like he’s another guy that fits that mold and it just it doesn’t matter how good you are around the rim if nobody can get by you and get to the rim and I think Castle is one of those guys that that can really um you know kind of lock people down and I I this is sort of anecdotal but I guess uh Danny Hurley said that castle showed up the first day of practice and basically said like all right I’m the best defender on the team which one of you is competing for number two and like to get that for a freshman on a you know a title winning team to come in and say like I will be the stopper of this group I think is really that kind of like culture Setter that that a lot of these teams need so I think he’d be a great pick for for the Rockets too I haven’t had a chance to look much at balis for Rockets fans that you know just weren’t interested in the g-league much this year and it’s hard to blame them for that you know what is bazis I mean give us you know maybe some guys that he reminds you of yeah so he’s he’s about a 69 610 uh sort of bouncy athlete with a decent jump shot it’s it’s maybe slightly less textbook form but but it’s a clean enough stroke looks repeatable seems to have pretty good touch so I think he’s a guy that could eventually when he gets bigger and stronger you know with time uh be a guy that maybe guards some fives or play small ball five and would allow you to be like a really running fast break switchable unit uh but probably ideally is a is a power forward long term but also can kind of switch up enough to to stay in front of like more Dynamic athletic guard so you know if he can switch honestly maybe even two through five and some situations uh it seems to make a lot of sense for me so in terms of guys he reminds me of he’s a little tough to to Peg because the G League was just such a mess this year they didn’t really have any point guards I don’t think you got to see the full sort of skill set there I heard somebody say like could he be like a Lamar Odum type the other day I don’t think he has those kind of playmaking chops but as a power forward he’s going to be a guy that can put the ball on the floor reasonably well I think attack Closeouts and things like that so you know I’m trying to think of like a good uh guy he reminds me of in the league but just in terms of like build and things like that probably like Atari is somebody like a physical frame sort of comparison I think he’s a better shooter for sure he’s got a better basketball IQ you know tar came in was kind of wild and all over the place and they kind of had to sort of rain him in a little bit I don’t think you have to do that with buellis but you know he’s somebody who could protect the rim a little bit for you on the weak side could could he be a John Collins type that’s sort of how I think of him potentially and that’s probably like the the closest kind of maybe guy I can think of here you’re right there with the Wizards so you know you kind of wonder what are they going to be doing with their picking the draft and when you look at the whole situation you go SAR seems to be on everybody’s board as number one so it’s almost going to be surprising if he somehow isn’t number one if either the Hawks don’t pick him or maybe somebody jumps up and decides they want to get them and we’ll give up something for them but do the Wizards take Reet what are you hearing yeah that’s an interesting one too I guess the Hawks front office was in France to watch ret down the stretch and he probably had his best game of the year he went for like 28 you know six and four or something like that and that’s probably pretty compelling for them to see that you know from the front row so I mean there’s an outside chance they would go for for someone like him especially if they’re committed to keeping the guards they have in place right now he’d probably be be great on the wings and then you keep capella and aonga so I think there maybe is a puncher chance they would take someone like that in which case I think the Wizards would almost definitively take SAR as well so if you’re a Rockets fan and you like S I think the chances of him dropping all the way to three are are pretty close to zero I think if uh you’re the wizard ree is probably the next best bet I think that’s been sort of the subtle reporting is that one of those two French players is is going uh if whoever’s left on the board there so that would be my gut he’s also someone that I think makes a reasonable amount of sense for Houston if he falls to three he could bring you that shooting right away he’s just really solid I I think of the Rockets as a couple guys that that need to be maybe sort of like rained in a little bit in terms of like their energy and and franticness you know with like the tares and even Amen to some extent but ree just going to be com in like really solid you don’t have to worry about him a whole lot I think he’d be another fit that that makes that sort of 69ine switchable defensive mold that they’re they’re looking at too so he’s probably the the the betting favorite I think for the Wizards to take at two and then if not somebody like a Steph Castle make makes some sense for for them there’s been some Rumblings that you know maybe they’ll just go Uber safe and take a Donovan kingan the Wizards need front Court depth sort of uh you know as bad as any team in the league potentially at but you if you look at the sort of makeup of their front office they’ve got two guys from that Oklahoma City front office prior under Sam pry and and I don’t think kingan is necessarily like a Sam prey Thunder kind of guy so I would be shocked personally if that’s the pick at number two there’s also maybe a world where the Wizards try to trade down with someone I think it’s probably unlikely but uh yeah just the long-winded way of answering your question is is Reese Chas probably uh the betting favorite I think for for them to take it to I guess if there’s a positional need really for the Rockets it’s point guard because the thought is that amen’s just not gonna it’s going to be a project just to get him especially as weak as his handle is right now and then Jaylen green best case is he’s just a secondary ball handler it looks like at this point if he indeed uh sticks around after this year and they decide to keep him and then the other thing is that Fred Van vet’s leaving in a year most likely so Nicole atopic is the only other guy besides maybe Reed Shepard that seems like it it could or in Castle as well that could be that kind of guy what do you think about him yeah so like you said he’s he’s a big point guard he’s six foot6 he’s one of those guys that just going to pick people apart in the pick and roll especially as a passer but if you’re not sort of the most Dynamic Athlete you probably have to be able to shoot it at a reasonable clip and that’s really been the big question mark for him so far three-point shooting not been ideal I think he shows decent touch on floaters and even some of the passes he makes so I think he probably similar to Castle ends up like a solid NBA shooter never a great one not great defensively but I think if you’re going to be a question mark on the defensive end at least having positional size kind of makes that a little harder for teams to hunt whereas you know somebody like Reed or even his his college teammate Rob Dillingham is someone that I’ve kind of wondered about could the Rockets reach for potentially uh at three as a potential Fred uh replacement I probably wouldn’t do that if I were them but for topic it’s it’s somebody that uh has had two like lower body injuries this year that both been non- contct that would make me uh a little hesitant to to pull the trigger on him at three because you just can’t afford to have a guy that that’s going to be kind of lingering from an injury perspective too so the physical is going to be really important there I think the workouts are going to be important although I don’t know that he’ll be back and playing before the draft enough to even work out with people so so that’s also sort of a question mark there too if you can’t bring him in and can’t see him in person does that kind of make you gun shy about think a guy like that with a third pick so need to see what his time frame actually looks like or time table for return looks like uh so he’d be a reasonable fit though I think you’ve got enough a athletes on the perimeter to kind of make up for him he’s another sort of that European mold high IQ ball movement guy that I think would make a decent amount of sense with someone like shenon too I think the pick and roll reads between the two of them would would be really um really really hard to guard so you heard what Cooper had to say about Donovan kinging wasn’t high on clinging what do you think yeah like I saw some sort of criticism he got where like well maybe he wasn’t as quite as explosive at the combine or his standing reach wasn’t quite as high as people suggested it just really doesn’t matter when you’re that big like people are going to be reluctant to try to shoot over you I think is probably the best way to put it watching him again front row in the tournament there he was one of those guys where just guys would get into the lane see him and immediately backpedal out of the lane because you you just can’t go out someone like that some of the ESPN guys have talked about you know we think he’s really switchable longterm he moves his feet well I don’t know that I see that I I think he’s probably exclusively a drop coverage big I don’t really buy the shooting every year there’s some Center that’s huge and doesn’t have these sort of great shooting indicators for long term that comes in and oh he made all these shots at the combine it was Mark Williams a couple years ago like that Walker Kessler went and did that and these are guys that or Derrick Lively did it last year like you don’t ever actually end up seeing them shoot any threes I think Derrick Lively hit zero threes this year Mark Williams hit zero threes this year so um maybe he can do it long term I wouldn’t buy into that I think that’s you take him with the expectation that he’s a non- shooter and then if if he eventually does that’s sort of like a an icing on the cake kind of situation for you so can you afford another non- shooting big and it’s not that shenon I think he’s a non- shooting but you know that’s he’s not a stretch forward or Center necessarily so do you really play the two together all that much especially with some of the limitations from a shooting perspective you know on the perimeter on the wing so I I think he would be a bad fit for Houston personally uh so I would kind of steer away from that but there are certain teams I think he makes a lot of sense for and if you’re willing to play a certain kind of way he makes sense it just it really comes down to these teams and their team building philosophy and if you take kingan and the expectation is he’s a long-term starting center for you you’re locking yourself into maybe one particular style of play defensively like this is a drop coverage big and we have to play that way if you take a really small point guard similarly you’re probably going to have to protect for that guy with all your other people oras if you take some of these bigger more switchable guys I think gives you flexibility with how you build out the rest of that roster around them and also Cooper’s concern and I feel like it was one of the things that I hadn’t heard a ton about him is his finishing ability because if he can’t shoot then he’s got to be able to finish around the basket especially at that size I mean it’s just there’s no point getting somebody that size that can’t finish her on the basket if they can’t shoot I don’t know that I necessarily buy that this is guy that that came into college kind of out of shape and Pudgy and things like that and like strength and conditioning probably hadn’t been a focal point for him in high school so he’s somebody that’ll get big you know he’s G to get more physically strong most of the things he’s going to be asked to do are catch lobs and dunk them I don’t really have any concern about him doing that or the occasional duck in here and there I think he’s got decent touch around the rim too so I I don’t think that’s the thing that would hold me back from taking him but if you’re envisioning like the Brook Lopez type immediate stretch Center like I I know Brooke didn’t come in right as away as a shooter but had kind of elite elite touch around the rim that that made you think all right he’s got soft enough hands to kind of do this I I don’t see kingan being that kind of guy like I said if if he did it’d be more of a happy accident to me so less worried about the finishing than than Cooper was but uh all the other stuff would kind of like steer me away from from him and fire the Rockets one of the things that you know Rockets fans would would love to do is just be able to move down and maybe pick up a piece move down a few spots is there any team that you see in this top 10 that would be interested moving up a little bit that’s going to be so hard to tell for this particular draft I think because it just there’s so little that kind of separates a lot of these guys and I think it’s going to be one of those like beauty is in the eye of the beholder situation so I think it could definitely happen especially on draft night where you see a situation where hey we really like this one guy and we’re at eight or nine or whatever and he’s still there at five or six and we didn’t think he would be maybe we could hop up to get him in terms of teams that maybe would want to trade up I think Portland has seven and 14 in this year’s Lottery could they consolidate those and work out something with the Rockets to get up to three if there was a guy they really liked you know I don’t know that they need like two more young lottery picks to try to mix in with some of the other guys they’ve got there between sharp and Scoot Henderson so you know maybe they want one big time Prospect as opposed to two solid ones I’m also if I’m Houston I don’t know that I’d want two rookies from this year’s draft so trying to get two lottery picks out of it maybe wouldn’t be the way I would go so so maybe more to your point could they trade down to seven or eight or or something like that and get you know another guy uh that that might be sort of an interesting proposition for for teams um you look at someone like Memphis that’s picking at nine could they be interested in getting a more ready to win Peace So and give you a long like a a more raw younger guy like a Sati Al dama back or something like that would that make sense for the Rockets to you know trade two and a win now kind of guy for for nine and another younger upand cominging sort of dude something like that might be worth exploring I think but nobody immediately comes to mind that I think it’s going to be like in a big hurry to get up to number three yeah the concern if you want to do something with that Capital which it’s just a weird weird draft I I’ve never seen much of a draft like you gotta go really the Anthony Bennett one is the is the next weirdest draft Yeah that that I can remember um you you’ve seen a few of the Rockets games just the last thing I wanted to ask you was about Jaylen green and like what are you seeing right now what do you think about Jaylen green because that that is non-stop here if you’re a Rockets fan conversation yeah I totally understand why so again I’m framing all of this as for the lens of a Wizards fan where we had a general manager and Tommy Shepard who immediately got promoted from assistant GM and came in and said we’re going to take athletic bouncy Wings who can shoot and then they never ultimately drafted athletic you know bouncy Wings who could shoot so just looking at Jaylen green sort of as an archetype uh he would have been really an intriguing player for for us as a fan base so I I kind of always had a soft spot for him and a couple other ignite guys and it’s maybe why I’m I’m a little lower on someone like Ron Holland too the the dudes that have come out of the ignite have just sort of not maybe lived up to expectations so I don’t know if that’s a failure from them as a program from a development standpoint or hey these were the guys sort of in that covid evaluation you know time frame so maybe we kind of missed the mark on them a little bit but I really thought there’d be more to Green there than just at least I see him as this sort of like slightly inefficient scorer who’s like a decent transition finisher and things like that I don’t know if that’s exactly how Rockets fans view him but I thought he had a little more creation I thought he’d be a little better defensively I thought he’d even maybe have a little bit more you know sort of Wiggle with the ball and and I think at times he gets a little sloppy so the the tools are there I could see him also being one of these guys where you give up on him at a young age and trade him off for something and then two three four years down the road you’re really kicking yourself because it just took him a little longer for all those things to click so they’re not like at this hey we have to win now right away kind of time frame so I would probably be patient and stretch it out and and just really try to lock in with him and make sure he’s on the same page with us about how to actually you know turn into the player we want him to be and and and fill that particular role for us I think adoka is a good noons kind of coacher him and and you saw some of these other guys in Boston kind of fill in the pieces or fill in the blanks or gaps around their game under him so I think he’s in the right place he’s got the right people even someone like a Dylan Brooks is probably really good for him from a you know a swag attitude perspective like showing up having accountability defensively things like that so I think there’s enough raw tools there that I would hold on for as long as humanly possible and if you get to a point where it’s sort of untenable long-term or like inefficient shooting from him is uh in high usage is holding back other guys then you know maybe get to that point but I’d wait to see a little bit more what I have from cam Whitmore and alen Thompson and things like that before I felt like real pressure to to kind of move on from him is that I don’t know where where you at with thatt well you said the key phrase right off the top you said oh the Wizards would love to have an athletic guy who could shoot and I was like oh Jaylen green is that guy who can shoot the who can shoot part is just the problem theoretically shoot yeah yeah that’s the I mean that’s the whole story with him I mean if if he could shoot better than 31 or 33% from three and it’s his mid-range is not too bad I mean it’s getting better and I I feel like we saw didn’t see a bunch of progress the first two years for reasons Beyond Jaylen green but what once udoka got there and this last year that that mid-range has looked a little bit more like okay that’s a guy that can do something but he still has to get the three-point shot and it’s just it’s it’s that inefficiency and you feel like it’s in there somewhere because you look at the free throws and the free throw percentage and all of that and you’re like oh it’s there and then we saw it for a month but then you know it’s one of those deals where it’s like okay I gotta see more I want to see more and more and more and you got to keep it up and you know he did it in March but really the end of the season wasn’t good for him at all and you know it’s and it wasn’t there were there were people that were making it you know maybe about well it’s the fact that he didn’t have shanon or whatever and I’m like no there was still shots he was getting that were open you know that’s not ever been the problem Jaylen gets some open shots because he’s not shooting good and they they understand that yeah I think some of this too is like all right you’re an 80 80% free throw shooter you probably have decent enough touch I think some of this stuff is mental for guys like that too and and then maybe goes back to that sort of g-league ignite framework if he had even gone to one year of college and played like higher sticks basketball you it toughens you up pretty quickly I think and and you really have to learn to be able to play through some of those situations whereas with the ignite there’s like a hundred people in the crowd for all your games for a year and now you show up and it’s sort of trow by fire in the league and guys are going under screens on you for the first time in your career they’re leaving you wide open sometimes I think sometimes it gets mental with some of these guys too where you know you hear This Guy’s in the gym and he knocks down every single shot when he’s you know no lights are on him but you put him in the gym and now he’s a brick like that that may be one of the things that’s happening with uh green there it’s just got to find a way to build up his confidence maybe a couple you know hot weeks in a row get him get him going a little bit I don’t know but he looks like a guy who should be able to shoot uh every time I I see him I think form is pretty decent touch is pretty decent so I’m always a little surprised when you look and see you know a one for six night from three or something like that from him yeah it’s it’s tough to judge this guy because it was AA ball for basically three years between the G league and and the two silus years and didn’t affect shenon as much because shanon came from that professional background but Jaylen didn’t so that’s that’s it’s one of the hard things and it’s like we tend to compare their progress because the two of them came in at the same time at the same age but that’s been the the big issue um we talked about off the top believe in Wizards you’ve also got believe in DMV Hoops we know what believe in Wizards is to people that U might not know what what is the other show so the DC Maryland Virginia metro area we call the DMV and and we’re pretty proud of our basketball that comes out of this area uh it’s a point of PR for us we think the sort of the local high school leagues here are the best in the country and there’s a ton of really good players that come out of this area there was a Showtime documentary a couple years ago uh it’s called in the water it was about sort of uh Prince georgees County Maryland right outside of DC a DC sub suburb and just you know the the level of talent that comes out of this particular area so just kind of focusing on all levels of basketball here telling stories from from guys that are playing at the local colleges interview the local uh kind of D1 coaches guys that are up and coming uh you know four or five star recruits in the area and things like that too so just really trying to focus on hey there’s more here than just this pro basketball team and and trying to show some love to some of these other uh cool maybe you know stories that that don’t get the same kind of um National Spotlight things like that sounds great we can appreciate it more that you took some time to come on with us especially in the crazy draft season thanks yeah good luck you’re listening to Houston Sports Talk hey don’t forget to support us by subscribing and commenting on YouTube you can always listen to us on Spotify apple or your favorite podcast app tell your friends about us and share our Show links on social media spread the 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Bleav Host Robert Land asks NBA Draft Expert Matt Modderno (Host of Bleav in Wizards & Bleav in DMV Hoops) about the Rockets potential draft options with the #3 pick
(1:10) Top 3 in this draft?
(2:09) Best Pick for the Rockets
(4:51) Stephon Castle a Rockets option?
(8:39) Matas Buzelis
(10:25) Who will Wizards take (before Rockets)?
(12:49) Nikola Topic
(15:01) Donovan Clingan
(18:15) Can the Rockets find a trade partner to move down?
(20:18) Thoughts on Jalen Green from afar?

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