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No Zion or Poole tomorrow

 

Espn seems to think that Charlotte hit paydiirt in the draft.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...e-rankings-flagg-edgecombe-harper-rookie-year

 

Watch for that Kid Queen he’s good. Baby Jokic.

 

Young guys stay hurt all the time too these days.

 

Jalen Johnson is developing, into a straight baller! 31pts 18 rebs 14 assists and 7 steals. 23 years old.

Ooowee..oh yeah..I'd give up some assets for him, all my draft picks and any player not named Luka. Sorry Austin.

Austin, Rui, Dalton and unprotected FRP and a Swap. Let's go!

Good catch Tony Hawk!!

 

26% from 3, last year was only 31% from 3. He can score inside OK, he averages 8.7 rebounds a game. Haven't seen him score 50+ yet, that last game was awesome but not going to give up AR and Rui for him.

 

Meh...23 years old, potential perennial All Defense caliber player? He's avg 21/ 9/ 6 with 2 stls and 35% from deep so far
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/johnsja05.html

I'm not all that concerned with the 3pt shooting, I'd roll that dice brother.

 

yeah, i read that and thought they went a bit overboard with some of them.

i really was hoping we were moving up to get kalkbrenner in the draft, as he's doing basically what i expected. i thought he'd be able to play right away. i also liked sion james coming out and wondered why he slipped so far in the draft. just the physicality at the guard spot. that said, all three charlotte draftees were lower ceiling but ready to play now, so they're going to look great early.

overall, this draft is looking really strong early; very few picks from the top look like potential busts at the moment.

 

These Hayes + Vando minutes are really really rough. You throw in Smart and the NO defense started looking lie they were the Bad Boy Pistons out there.
Just no spacing

 

Kole Knuepell is a straight baller. He’s a walking bucket.

dude went ape s*** tonight 33 points can score anywhere on the court. And that was with Lamelo Ball back. I just like watching the kid play.

I saw him in summer league. He just looked like he belonged. Two other players that I saw that did that were Damien Lillard and Devin Booker.

He’s in that tere. Can play with the ball or without the ball. On ball or off ball. Just a beautiful player.

I’ll stand by my statement best player in the draft. Flag is good. He can get his. But somebody’s gotta get him the ball he can’t just fill it up from anywhere like Luka.

Knepuel can do that. And I said that in summer. Like a Larry Bird catch and shoot. Game is nice.

that’s the kind of player you need to put around Wembyana just a pure shooter scorer that spaces the floor.

I’m building my team around him if I’m Charlotte.

 

Todays the clear reason I said Luka get everybody involved he didn’t score 50 but we won and it was balanced 30 from Reaves 13 from smart. If we play balanced basketball we can win a championship.

 

Jalen Johnson is a superstar top 10 player for sure!!!!! He’s baby Gianiss. I put him in that tier. He’s on his way.

Atlanta could get a haul for him.

Can Atlanta hire Nico so he can trade him to us for Maxi Klieber???

 

Ayton 20 points 16 rebounds 8-9 from the field. First Laker to accomplish that feat since Shaq Shaq like numbers. Ohhh that’s right!!! He’s comparing him to Shaq the Shaq comparison was that’s just when I lost it. I’ll let you finish this one of Slick

 

flagg will be a better player than knueppel.