Milwaukee Bucks given F for drafting 'raw' project pick AJ Johnson.
Kel'el Ware and Isiah Collier picks both graded A+ as high upside players of a high pedigree
Dalton Knecht, who was picked up at 17 after falling to the Lakers could be the steal of the draft: "Knecht will contribute in year one for title-hungry Lakers" (A) Source
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That means he’ll be good
Is he basically the French Jabari Smith?
Sarr didn’t workout and if not Zaccharie, who should the Hawks have picked #1?
> Dillingham is the kind of talent who can move your needle closer to a title.
Givony said he can be their Kyrie Irving. Pelton said he can help off the bench as a rookie
seems most are really high on Dillingham for the Wolves
As a Hox fan, I fully expected that whoever we picked would get tons of hate. If the spurs would’ve traded up to 1 for him, ppl would’ve called the Hawks dumb for trading the best player.
I mean, there’s no prospect in this entire draft with a ceiling worthy of #1. You can only fairly grade on the curve here.
When the scouting report says the the number 1 pick has to work on dribbling and shot creation…. That’s not good.
“ceiling”
I get what people mean by that, but it feels like filler for “I duno”.
There’s a shit ton of “high ceiling” guys drafted all the time and I’m not sure they have any better rate making it to the NBA than anyone else … often you never year of them again…
I like him a lot. He was 3rd on my board. I think he’s going to be a plus player for a long time.
But the ceiling is limited in part because he genuinely can’t dribble and he’s a pretty unremarkable athlete for a #1 pick. Mediocre length, too.
Good complementary player, better passer than most people realize I think, and a solid off-ball player. And he should be a plus defender almost immediately.
Kid then develops to be Paul George by year 3
There will be a surprise Superstar in this draft I feel.
Like we never thought Joker, Giannis, Kawhi would have been superstars, not alone Top 30 all time players. But look at them now.
Especially Joker being a 41st pick
Giannis and Kawhi were seen as Projects.
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The Spurs getting a C+ for drafting Castle is wild to me. He seems like the most ready PG in the draft to start day 1 and really just needs to develop a 3 ball to unlock elite potential.
Bucks pick getting an F and nobody is surprised.
I remember when we drafted Rudy gay instead of “James harden with defense”
I think Risascher will be a good player only cause most of Reddit is shitting on him lol
Look… idk how Risacher will turn out. But as a Hawks fan, picking him was the least of our worries.
We still have the Trae+DJ combo that hasn’t really given great results so far. We were shopping Hunter apparently but didn’t trade him before we picked a wing that would theoretically eat into Hunter’s role, so the return on that would be lower.
Given the strength of this draft and where the Hawks are, no pick was going to magically make us a legit contender, we needed/still need to make moves elsewhere so until that happens it is what it is. Not gonna put any potential failures this team has on drafting Risacher
Atlanta was in a weird spot though. Sarr had no desire to go there or work out for them. They could have forced the pick but Sarr isn’t generational enough to do that either.
And personally I always felt he was the second best player in the draft.
does he need self creation when he’s playing with one of the best playmakers in the league?
Very dumb of the Hawks to draft Risacher instead of a normal #1 like Wemby. F+
I noticed across a lot of draft coverage the American media will spend 10 minutes glowing about US prospects who they know a lot about, but struggling to say much of anything about these European guys.
I was watching some highlights of him, and I have no idea where anybody is getting this notion that he can’t create. He kinda looked like store brand Giannis to me, and for this draft, that’s pretty good
Graft grades right after the draft are dumb. You give someone a high grade because they took someone that fell? It’s not like they were creative, teams went “oh he’s still here, lets pick him”.
I know we do this every year but draft grades are dumb af.
No one knows how these guys are gonna turn out and to call them busts, reaches, or underwhelming before they even step out onto the court is pretty ridiculous lol.
This draft sucked. It is what it is. Every decade there’s always one.
Tbh Trae gonna get him good looks hate that Lil garden gnome but he can ball
This isn’t a great list
I’ve been enough A+ grades turn into busts to know that this shit is almost meaningless
Draft grades are dumb as fuck. These people should be forced to have their draft grades graded after 5 years
Sarr is gonna be good.
We’re posting Ben Pfeifer here now lmfao
Nah, fuck that. This was a shitty draft. I challenge any of you to tell me who the best player is going to be in this draft. You’re more than likely picking bench players.
Edit: not an ATL fan but I sympathize with their shitty situation.
Website made my phone yelp out of pain
By this logic Feels like milkwaukee would’ve been given an F for drafting ‘raw’ prospect Giannis as well?
Should’ve drafted a tall athletic guy like Wiseman. /s
is it just me or does
1. Milwaukee Bucks given F for drafting ‘raw’ project pick AJ Johnson.
2. Kel’el Ware and Isiah Collier picks both graded A+ as high upside players of a high pedigree
seems counter-intuitive
A big wing who plays defense and shoots 3s? What could the Hawks be possibly thinking?
All these draftniks have been telling us for years that this draft sucks. And the hawks take somebody with the second most valuable skillset (behind on-ball stars) and they’re mad?
I mean the Bucks’ draft room legit had college kids interns or some shit like what was going on there last night?
He’ll be fine
All analysts get draft wrong stuff all the time since it’s a crapshoot but this guy rated Jaquez as the worst of the UCLA prospects last year, worse than Clark, Bona, and Bailey and said he was not NBA quality. As a big Jaquez fan, that stuck with me lol, it was really hard for me to understand why these people couldn’t see it.
Just a reminder, hawksbros, That there were 3 other pics, multiple notable national Talking Heads thought we should have picked instead of Ant
Could he be a role player? Sure. But that can be said for any number one overall draft pick.
Let’s see the kid cook for a few years
**Atlanta:** Makes a safe, NBA-ready pick with limited upside. **C-**
**Charlotte:** Takes a swing by picking a developmental prospect with an extremely high-upside. **D+**
This fucking guy.
Idk I just feel like if any of the other 29 teams had the #1 pick, they wouldn’t have taken Risacher. He feels like the type of flyer pick you’d take in the later parts of the lottery. Obviously Sarr wasn’t on the table but I struggle to think that Risacher should have been their alternative.
Time will tell and I don’t think he’ll fall out of the league or anything but I really don’t see this guy being a player that can impact winning anytime soon. He has the lowest floor of any of the top picks in this draft.
>Dalton Knecht, who was picked up at 17 after falling to the Lakers could be the steal of the draft: “Knecht will contribute in year one for title-hungry Lakers”
No matter who they picked it would be some BS like this about them.