Second-Round Steals for the Grizzlies | Jessica Benson Show

Second-Round Steals for the Grizzlies | Jessica Benson Show

and I love Jaylen Wells so we’ll start with Jaylen Wells and then we’ll get into Cam Spencer but when you look at both of them obviously fitting a need they’re dudes who can shoot yep so that is what the Grizzlies identified as a need and when it came to cam Spencer that’s someone that they ended up trading up a couple of picks switching with Minnesota who ends up with their 57th pick and then Minnesota traded that pick to Toronto so it was all over the place but cam Spencer was clearly someone that they wanted and then Jaylen Wells was who they wanted there at 37 and we love shooters we love big wings you can’t get enough jayen Wells though I’m a sucker for two things players from the Pack 12 rip I won’t be able to say that anymore after this year and I’m a sucker for a good story and I would argue that Jaylen Wells is one of the best stories from this year’s NBA draft because this is a kid who did not make his varsity team in high school until he was a junior he spent two years at a division 2 school and then played so well there he goes to Washington State where sometimes productivity at the D2 level doesn’t immediately translate to D1 but he had a hell of a season at Washington State got them into the NCAA tournament in a cram packed talented Pack 12 Conference basketball conference particularly this year in the final year of the Pack 12 um but when you look at what Jaylen Wells did and going to WSU and shooting 42% from three like that’s going to be the notable thing that you look at when you’re identifying why the Memphis Grizzlies would be interested in him but seeing how he navigated that when he was a freshman in high school he was 5’8 he goes into High School school he’s five8 as a freshman he doesn’t make Varsity he loves basketball he wants to play works his butt off does a ton of work in the gym out of the gym he credits his parents with helping to push him into you know really not taking no for an answer by the time he’s a senior he grows to be 66 he is on the varsity team as a senior he averaged 27 points but one his development is a little too late we see this happening in recruiting all the time he even created a like social Med account with some friends called Sleep Nation while they were in high school because they wanted to put Spotlight on players that were being slept on which is how he felt but ultimately gets an opportunity to go play D2 and he spends two years at somoma State he’s from Sacramento stays in the California area Sonoma State second year at Sonoma State he shoots 44% from three and 52% from the field and that’s what gets him noticed at Washington State goes to WSU spends last season in Pullman his numbers stay high the consistency is there and then he enters the NBA draft and gets taken 37th by the Memphis Grizzlies like this is someone who bet on himself could he have returned for another year at WSU sure but he bet on himself and it paid out and I love those stories in the NBA draft like that’s what I’m always willing to get behind yeah that is really cool um you know the thing about yesterday the thing that I just love about this draft for the Grizzlies is coming into it what did we say the biggest needs were rebounding and shooting and they addressed both of those in the draft and so I feel really good about this draft um and I feel really good about what they did yesterday um especially with Jaylen like I I I not going to sit here and pretend like I knew a lot I didn’t watch a lot of Washington State basketball but he’s one I mean 42% from three I believe in Washington state like that’s the numbers don’t lie he is right now a great spot up shooter now he’s got to work on his game a little bit it appears as far as other things but the shooting is there right away so we’ll see like if he’s a if he’s a if he’s a two-way guy or if he’s a or not a two-way guy but if he’s a guy that plays more in South Haven early on or if he’s theer or if he’s a guy that could be a part of this because this team needs three-point shooting really bad right now and still figuring out what happens with Luke canard’s player option and we’ll see how that plays out here it is June 28th so we’ll know sooner than later what the future of Luke Canard is with this team but when it comes to both Jaylen Wells and cam Spencer they’re also they’re not just Shooters which feels an obvious need they feel like personality fits like we always joke about personality hires but in reality the Grizzlies team has such an identity behind it and both of these guys fit within that profile and I think that’s really important anytime you’re adding especially with a team that is ready to go into the win now mode and if you’re just trying to find somebody who could give you something that aids in winning now the fact that they also feel as if they’re going to get along fine here is huge now with Cam Spencer it’s wild because he was talking hella trash to Zach Ed in the national championship game so cam Spencer in the starting five for talking trash to everybody talking trash that whole game I will never forget the very beginning of that national championship game I was like I love this dude because he hit the very first three for Yukon in the Yukon Purdue game and he turns around and he just goes all night and they have the slow like zoom in on him and he just has that that Pizzazz that he plays with and Pizzaz is nice he’s a maniac he’s a psycho he’s a lunatic and I say that all so affectionately it’s my favorite kind of basketball player he’s crazy you know how the trend right now on social media is like is somebody going to match my freak have you seen those yes Dan Harley and cam Spencer match each other’s freak and I mean that in a way that they are both basketball crazy people look at this respon right there it’s all in the handshake and the hug that’s Cam Spencer like drilling over Dan Hurley there’s another video from the night of the National Championship where he’s in the locker room after check this out his teammate posted this and cam Spencer is just dribbling throughout the locker room after they win a National Title yo you husky BS you want to know how crazy he is he’s still dribling around like he’s working out yo Kim Kim yo Kim yo it’s okay it’s okay to put the ball down now we won we won we won we have practice tomorrow we have practice to tomorrow I got to keep dribbling this guy is nutso and I love that about him because it’s just a good energy guy and he is someone who you would anticipate could be a potential two-way player for the Grizzlies might spend some more time in South Haven but he’s not a stash kind of player he’s 24 years old he’s one of those players who shows up for his final year which was played at Yukon he spent three years at lyola he actually played with Santi Al dama so you have a reunion there which is very cool um he played one year at Ruckers and then he finishes out at Yukon and as we had that extra Co year and all those players who you think to yourself how are they still playing college basketball he is one of those guys but he didn’t have as much notoriety and yet in one year in Yukon if you ask anybody I have a friend who’s a massive Yukon Huskies fan he’s one of the most beloved players to come through there with this these last two teams that have won national titles there like he was just an instant lovable guy because of that kind of behavior and it doesn’t hurt that he also is a great shooter and he also shot 44% from three this season and 48% from the field and he is 63 with a 65 wingspan 200 lb and it just feels as if the Grizzly’s got two guys who legitimately could this is what we do after the draft I know this is what we do after like trying to convince yourself that these could be guys who help a team ultimately try to win a championship someday or at least compete in their conference and I think you can talk yourself into both of them for sure they’re cool dudes the Jessica Benson show with CJ HT 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Jess and Bennett talk about Round 2 of the NBA Draft. Did the Memphis Grizzlies get two steals in Jaylen Wells and (reportedly) Cam Spencer? How will they fit on the roster?

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