[The Ryen Russillo Podcast (feat. Vecenie)] “For the Warriors, the two I heard were Jaquez if he falls and Podziemski… I ended up with Podziemski in the 40s, …but if I was Golden State and I was drafting for that scheme, I would have unequivocally had Podziemski as a first round pick”
by BobRoss4Life
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Russillo had Vecenie on for a post-draft breakdown. [Link to the full podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ryen-russillo-podcast/id1433966613?i=1000618112818).
Didn’t clip, but Russillo is a huge CP3 fan and quickly talked about the trade like 11min into the pod. Finds it funny that he ended up on the Warriors cause of their history.
Says he’s excited but CP3 isn’t even remotely the type of player that this system relies on. Things he loves about the Warriors clashes with the things he loves about Paul. He’ll need to adjust kind of like he did in Houston, but he’s smart/competitive enough to figure it out.
> He’s gonna have to adapt, because they’re not going to adapt.
Vecenie on the Warriors and Podz:
– 3 names for Podz: Warriors, Nets (guess that’s why they didn’t try to leverage Witmore’s fall), and a 3rd team he couldn’t remeber at the time
– 2 names for the Warriors: Jaquez and Podz
– had him early 40s on his board but sees him as a clear 1st rounder for the Warriors
– great scheme fit: ball movement, high bbiq, shooting off screens, floor spacing
– concerns about defense (8ft standing reach, boxy, doesn’t move well laterally…but he’s crazy competitve so he’ll try to make up for it)
– “I think he’s a worse athlete than Luke Kennard, and he’s like a little shorter than Luke Kennard, and we watch Luke Kennard in the plyoffs every year and think ‘This isn’t going to work’”
– concerned that he played worse against better competition (scoring, rebounding, and assists all seriously dipped against top rated defense)
– not a great history (if any) of players moving from high-major college teams to mid-major and still finding sucess in the NBA, especially when that mid-major team wasn’t dominant after the addition (was he just feasting on lower competition?)
I hated the pick. Thank GOD we have Steph Curry.
Love the 1.5x lol.
KRIS MURRAY
It would be great if he worked out long term. But I don’t think he’ll be much of a factor this season, or during Steph’s championship window, which is like 2 years.
It’s not reasonable to expect a rookie to be part of a 10 man playoff rotation on a championship team.