NBA Draft Prospects The Detroit Pistons Could Select With Their 5th Ovreall Pick?

NBA Draft Prospects The Detroit Pistons Could Select With Their 5th Ovreall Pick?

I I kind of wanted to get like where you’re feeling with the Pistons like which prospects do you like at five for them uh if they’re gonna keep the pick because that that’s a whole another topic yeah yeah I actually have a piece uh that’ll be up on the athletic on Monday um where I look at and this isn’t my opinion I’ll give my opinion in a second but I have a piece up on the athletic on Monday where I kind of analyze how the Hornets or the how the Pelicans drafted um under TR and leg TR and Lon the last few years um and tried to get an idea of who would be the targets at number five working under some of the like characteristics of players that they drafted um in New Orleans so check that piece out to see what the three players I kind of landed and I thought one thing that was interesting uh is New Orleans never used like a valuable pick on a center uh they always either went and got yonas chunis who’s a proven big man um Stephen Adams was a proven big man uh so maybe that’s intentional right you always hear over the last few years that there are a lot of people who don’t think there is uh it’s worth spending a lottery pick on a big man uh that or a more quote unquote traditional Center I should say um not a big man but so that’ll be interesting uh but yeah check out that piece to see which three names I think just observing new orleans’s uh drafting habits which three could be targets for the Pistons at five me personally um I like Stefon Castle um I like Cody Williams I like Donovan kingan um who else do I like richer Shay is interesting um I just I’m not sure I don’t I’m not I don’t know if I feel like comfortable that any of these guys are going to be like stars I mean it’s going to happen because it’s happens every year like it’s just the nature of the beast but um I really like if Stefon Castle can if that shot can become a thing like I just really like the intangibles he has and the the defense the ball handling uh good size big fan of his and I think kingan has some like build a defense around him type characteristics and size so uh yeah there’s a those are the ones off the top Cody Williams I think is a little bit under was a little bit underwhelming at Colorado uh I think more people wanted to see him dominate I think he had some injuries that may have helped derail that but I Al just don’t know if that’s his personality and he also played with like guys who think they’re going to be pros and it was a weird team there in Colorado uh but just his like tools also is like I mean six what six with a s foot wing span doesn’t it’s not like an elite jumper but like finish is in crafty ways he shot the ball well but small volume so you’re curious to see how that translates um has the length to be a good Defender smart player I I just the athleticism I wish it popped a little bit more and I wish there were more like dominant performances in college but um you kind of look at him and then you see somebody like herb Jones not the same type of player but similar ways of being evaluated out of college and and Herb has figured it out too so uh there’s a hint for one of the names in the story for sure for sure um I was kind of surprised you said Castle kind of given like what his campus said where he doesn’t want to go to a team with like a starting point guard already in place you think that would deter them not to draft him because he’s trying to go to San Antonio probably I mean I wouldn’t I like he’s not gonna get here and not play like he’s not going to just like half ass it I think obviously he probably has somewhere he would prefer to go but once these guys get to these places they have no choice if they want to have promising careers and uh I think I’d actually rather see Castle in a secondary ball handling role before I would give him like the Reign to run my offense and I think him next to Cade in that regard would be very helpful um and in something I think would be super intriguing uh just because of like I said his ability to break down guys off the dribble I think he has a very high IQ as a player and then even defensively him and assar could take some of the bigger matchups uh or the better matchups and and allow Cade to kind of find his a little bit of rest there on defense so I don’t think they go Castle I don’t know if he necessarily fits what I think langon covets in a prospect but I like Castle um and I think if you’re just going for upside I think he’s to me one of the higher upside if not the highest upside prospect that there is in the draft yeah I I I tend to agree with you I just kind of wonder like what do you do with Ivy in that situation like is he starting is he a six man do you you play cast leade there’s like a lot of in saser too there’s like a lot of question marks there with him but you draft best player you’re not gonna go for you know fit because because I know a lot of Pistons fans right now in the chat they’re like dton connect or bust like they want connect at five and I’m somebody that I like connect and I understand that his game fits uh some of the limitations that the Pistons have I guess primarily shooting doesn’t help the defensive side of the floor at all um but like I don’t know when you win 14 games I’m not sure you can necessarily afford to pick for fit yeah um you gotta get some guys yeah I see like Reed Shepard and dalon connect like anytime I talk about draft prospects that’s kind of who the Pistons fans want and kind of the balous thing which I’m not even going to get into because it’s just a tired conversation ation it’s they talk more about who he’s represented than the player he is I’m just yeah and I like I think yeah he’s just I get it it’s around these parts it’s a weird conversation to have uh I mean if you are in the know at all buellis was projected to go number one in this draft like six seven months ago um he’s been on the radar for a lot of people he’s the big Wing almost more guard likee to me um I really like his shot I think that’s another guy that could be available be an option at five aside from the tellum connection like I I just I mean he’s a tall Wing guard who hasn’t necessarily shot the ball well but has a I think has a nice looking stroke Cuts well doesn’t need the ball to be effective has the length to be a good Defender needs to get a lot stronger to me a lot of buell’s issues are um weight room related and that one thing getting in the NBA will help him with that if he’s as long as he’s able to like put on decent weight like I I like buzel as a prospect um doing more research and if he gets picked I mean people are going to say what they say obviously because of the connection but he’s very much worthy of a top five pick like I said if you were reading way too early 2024 NBA mock drafts right after the 2023 one finished uh you saw buell’s name right at the top for for several weeks and months yeah him and Ron Holland and Alex sarber changing like I’m a sicko like yeah I’m already looking at 2025 like right like right now that draft’s fun yeah that draft’s fun actually fun like Cooper flag and bunch of other guys that are just going to be like absolute studs even the Pelicans told the Lakers like hey you can never pick this year we don’t want it go for it yeah yeah you guys go ahead and try to win again and uh miss the playoffs and we’ll take that pick honestly man but um I honestly think the more I watch Like Old press conferences uh with trange at then I think they might trade down because I think there are some prospects in the draft that kind of fit fit his Arc Type of players that he might like like a Tyler Smith from the g- ignite um TJ Shong from France makes a little bit of sense if you wanted this Bank on potential um because I I think there’s a lot of talent in the first round but I I don’t think people have actually like really gone down deep in the this draft because there’s not like a superstar in the draft but there’s a lot of talented uh players that I think are gonna have long NBA careers yeah I agree I think the thing when we say it’s not the best draft I think it like you said it’s it’s at the top and it’s kind of the fear of these guys from like to me one to like F I guess like like one to 15 almost like there’s not a lot of separation and it’s like you who you draft at five could easily be worse than who goes at 15 like that’s I think that’s the big there’s no clear-cut guys like you can talk yourself into anybody um and I think that’s the biggest like if I was picking Sam presy said it the other day like I like this draft like I would like this draft too if I was picking where the Thunder were picking like yeah there there’s some decent players there you’re not gonna have to pay him a ton and you don’t get the scrutiny of if you whiff on a top five pick if you whiff on 17 or whatever it is right so um I think yeah I don’t know my thing is if he trades it if he moves down it’s likely probably going to be for more of like you said the a project player but I wonder if so if you trade for a to move down for a project player hopefully if you’re the Pistons you either get in that like maybe a player um ready to go like a veteran to as part of the trade or you get multiple draft picks if you’re trying to build assets but I just am kind of interested to talk to Tran and find out like where his plan is for this team because to me that’ll help determine what’s more likely that they do with the number five pick if he wants to Le in and and learn what young guys he has here for until the trade deadline and risk maybe value falling even more like I’d understand it like you want to you don’t want to lose what you have at home uh that’s not that’s not ideal but at the end of the day and I think obviously Troy suffered a lot of this backlash is he’s also Tran isn’t just starting fresh like he has a whole fan base who hasn’t who’s been fans of a team that haven’t won in 15 plus years yeah so it’s it’s it’s interesting like that Dynamic and it’s it’s not it’s not unfair because it’s sports like at the end the day people want their team to win but it was kind of the same argument with Troy like Detroit was rebuilding the right way at the time starting when Troy got there and they obviously it didn’t work out but the teams Before Troy like they weren’t rebuilding they were just bad yeah and then they finally tried to start rebuild the right way now with Tran coming in he has the he’s coming on the heels of uh a situation where fans were ready to believe that they finally rebuilt we got the number one pick we’re going to finally start heading upward and it didn’t happen so it’s now it’s like well can he afford to keep slow playing it um does he risk trading young players too early like it’s a it’s not an easy situation to be in but that’s why you get paid the big bucks uh not at all the and he has a clean slate to I do want to say that like if you want to trade out of the five pick you’re going to actually have more salary cap depending if you don’t take salary back because a fifth pick is kind of pricey I I I don’t think some fans understand like top five picks get paid yeah even though it’s just like it’s still like around like I think anywhere from I want to say like seven to 10 like around that area yeah it’s around seven to 10 yeah yeah so if I was if I was a team looking to move up I’d rather have the number five pick like I’d rather call the Pistons for number five than number three um or if you don’t or if you think the players two to five if you think the player you want at five or you think could go at two might also be there at five but you like two guys like even the difference from two to five is is significant financially and with and with obviously teams having to monitor their financial situations more like it’s a couple million dollars like it’s not nothing so I think that’s why the number five pick could have a little bit more value than people think if uh if the Pistons were to trade it from the Financial aspect alone and and kind of the clumping of the prospects interesting I actually had I kind of someone asked me about like um the Pistons could like uh trade out of the fifth pick I didn’t I didn’t really see too many teams wanting to trade up for the fifth pick because I was just like I don’t really think it’s that valuable I think it’s like if it was in last year’s draft maybe it would be valued like as a late lottery pick maybe like outside of that but I just don’t see it like teams trying to trade up to get the fifth pick unless possible unless you’re the Bulls and you just want to get Don up and clinging because bich is getting older like I don’t know yeah and I mean you’ve heard reports of some teams looking for extra lottery picks like I think um Charlotte was one uh but they said they’d want to take on bad contracts and I don’t I don’t think the Pistons really have a bad contract on the books right now um there was another team looking for an additional first round pick I can’t remember who it was was it Portland uh there’s another team looking for another first round pick so yeah you never know and as the draft goes people fall in love with prospects yeah maybe they you just never know but yeah I agree like there’s a world where nobody wants to move up in this draft but you start evaluating and really diving deep into your your draft preparation and maybe you fall in love with somebody [Music] oh [Music]

On Pistons Talk Podcast, Anthony was joined by James Edwards III Of The Athletic of discussion was which NBA Draft Prospects could the Detroit Pistons select with the 5th pick

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