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Following Potential 2025 Draftees

kcgar said:
-Lauri is 6'11 that shoots the three well
-Beats Siakam is almost every stat category
-27 yrs old (Siakam was 29 when he was traded)
-This is subjective, but I think Lauri is a better player than Siakam. Siakam has had better players around him than Lauri has. Lauri would be even better with better teammates. The game plan against the Jazz is stop Lauri and you probably win.

There are probably other reasons to that I am not thinking of
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Lauri is turning 28 in a week and has tons of injury history, I don't think age is a strong positive here.

While Lauri's statistical peak is slightly higher than Pascal's peak (3.8 and 3.6 BPM for Lauri's two best years compared to 3.6 and 3.4 for Siakam), Pascal has been way more statistically consistent throughout his career. Lauri has graded out as a league average player in basically every year other than 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.

The height is nice, but Siakam is way better defensively so it doesn't really help that much in many areas.

The shooting is the real main advantage and it's a huge one, but Siakam was a much better defender and shot creator with a similar peak, a championship ring, less injury history, and more consistency.

I just don't see Lauri exceeding Siakam's return and Lauri will have to play very well in the first 20-30 games of next year to even match that return.
 
HadAnEffectHere said:
Lauri is turning 28 in a week and has tons of injury history, I don't think age is a strong positive here.

While Lauri's statistical peak is slightly higher than Pascal's peak (3.8 and 3.6 BPM for Lauri's two best years compared to 3.6 and 3.4 for Siakam), Pascal has been way more statistically consistent throughout his career. Lauri has graded out as a league average player in basically every year other than 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.

The height is nice, but Siakam is way better defensively so it doesn't really help that much in many areas.

The shooting is the real main advantage and it's a huge one, but Siakam was a much better defender and shot creator with a similar peak, a championship ring, less injury history, and more consistency.

I just don't see Lauri exceeding Siakam's return and Lauri will have to play very well in the first 20-30 games of next year to even match that return.
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Hmmmmm, its a reasonable take. Are you saying we should be less picky with the Lauri return overall?
 
framer said:
Think he got a promise?
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He's at least getting positive feedback that he'll get drafted. If he got a promise, he'd probably also be asked to shut down his pre-draft workouts. So it's probably not that at the moment. It seems that some people are calling him the "best athlete" at the Combine after his athletic testing.
 
Basketball Novice said:
I am not sure myself but my impression is that Yang is a pure center type. There was an interesting conversation on a podcast where Draymond Green talked about sliding guys between the 5 and 4. He explained that the 4 and 5 are completely different positions that had their own ways of playing and that there was a misconception that you could just slide guys between those positions and be fine. It was one of the more informative takes I have heard from Green.

If I find the podcast episode, I will link it.

Its one of the concerns I have for a guy like Asa Newell. He plays like a pure center but I don't think that will be his position in the NBA. And can he play the 4? Maybe, maybe not.
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Sure but with a player as young as Yang we can't rule anything out. He's definitely got the skillset to play the 4 compared to someone like Maluach. Maybe he work on his body and outside shot to acquire that positional flexibility. The point is for us as jazzfans who want Yang to work out on the Jazz, he kinda has to be able to play the 4 since we know Kessler is not going anywhere. And a "backup center" isn't exactly the term that would get any jazzfans excited.
 
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