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Oh wow fast forwarded through Kings vs Hawks and man Bufkin looked out of his league despite its just SL.

He looked absolutely clueless at the 1, making headscratching decission, bad passes, dribble mistakes and bricking every single shot.

Every who feels sad we didnt get him should go find a replay. Im sure he will improve, not least because its pretty hard to get worse from that.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Also I was really looking at Whitmore hands for a while… can confirm they seem weirdly small.

Tari Eason is really good… not depressed that we missed out on Whitmore.

Andre Jackson had a two block sequence that was effing awesome… got Peyton Watson twice in like 10 seconds.
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How was seeing the sphere in person?
 
HermanG said:
Oh wow fast forwarded through Kings vs Hawks and man Bufkin looked out of his league despite its just SL.

He looked absolutely clueless at the 1, making headscratching decission, bad passes, dribble mistakes and bricking every single shot.

Every who feels sad we didnt get him should go find a replay. Im sure he will improve, not least because its pretty hard to get worse from that.
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He had some good and bad moments. He's going to take awhile to get comfortable leading an offense though.
 
I thought Scoot and Amen looked pretty good. Whitmore has further to go than I thought, but had some impressive strength, getting shots off through contact.
 
Damn I wish we could have pried Max Christie away from the lakers in the Conley trade. The lakers eye for late picks and undrafted players is second to none. We can probably count on Maxwell Lewis also being good and I think they found something with Castleton as well.
 
I'm still kinda amazed Brandon Miller's off the court incident was a non issue with NBA teams yet GG maturity is a cause of great concern. La'el Collins the NFL olineman was a first round lock here a few years ago, got questioned by police before the draft and that caused him to go completely undrafted thru 7 rounds. /rant
 
If you saw Wemby play before this last season this game was really familiar. He actually only started having good production this recent season. Before he was simply using his size and skill to get off jumpers like we saw last night, he’s not as good of a shooter as casuals thing. The way he became dominant in France was using his size and skill to get FT’s and shots at the basket. I think with time he will be able to make the same adjustment again, but people got to realize he’s not KD or Dirk. He’s more like Anthony Davis. The shooting is an accessory to his inside game where he’s actually special.

Question is if his body can hold up playing inside. The Spurs played him with a non shooting big. If they do that all year and have him hang out on the perimeter he will be healthier but less effective.
 
Super curious to see what Bilal does today. He played two very different offensive roles in France, one was being MJ against scrubs and the other was being Royce in the senior league. I wonder what kind of freedom they will give him and if he is timid against SL competition. Even Wemby was timid, not so expecting much.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
Wemby looked fatigued as hell. He's got a long way to go before he can handle the 30 games per season that's expected of him.

Other notes on the "best prospect ever":

- As everyone who knows anything about NBA basketball was able to tell ages ago... he can't handle the ball on the perimeter. Not against actual NBA athletes. Wemby has a lot of skill but you can't fool physics. He's just too tall and the ball spends way too much time in the air when he dribbles it. He can try to get lower but I don't think even that's enough.

- His passing instincts are gonna help him a lot in the League. Many of the lanes he sees in the summer league are not gonna be there in the regular season, but it's still encouraging that he seems to have a natutal knack for drawing the defense and shoveling the ball to an open teammate. Wemby is so big that he sees over every defense.

- His outside shot is all over the place. For a 7'5'' guy, he has way too many moving parts in it, and every shot looks a bit different. I don't see Wemby becoming more than a very average shooter from the perimeter, but that might be enough to keep defenses honest. A sharpshooter he ain't.

- Wemby did a lot of posting up, but I don't think that's his future in the NBA even when he inevitably ends up playing the 5. These defenders are just too strong and big and his center of gravity is so high. In Europe, he could kind of inch his way to the basket when he posted up, but that's not gonna work against NBA bigs.

Overall, I see Wemby's ideal offensive role as a high post center, a distributing hub who can dive to the basket from the weak side when an open lane appears. He's not a shooter, low post banger or perimeter ballhandler. On the other side of the ball, he obviously brings some awesome rim protection.

His ceiling is probably a very good role player in the NBA, and that's if he's able to stay healthy.
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This has to be a bit at this point.
 
KqWIN said:
Cason Wallace lighting it up already. I think he might be the player we regret not taking.
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I mean, the great Sam Presti made what looked like a panic move to get him (on a team that already has two lead guards) specifically, which is a tell.
 
Last night the Hawks had a ZZTop band member play for them named Brady Manek who hit 5-10 from three and had 17 points in 15 minutes. He played five years of college ball at Oklahoma and North Carolina and scored 28 and 26 points in the NCAA tournament in 2022. Last season he played on Bryce Cotton's Aussie team and averaged about 13 ppg over there. 6'9"230 lbs. Might be a two way guy if the Jazz have moved on from Juzang.
 
NUMBERICA said:
I mean, the great Sam Presti made what looked like a panic move to get him (on a team that already has two lead guards) specifically, which is a tell.
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I think I psyched myself out with him. Kept seeing rumblings of his health situation being not great, but nothing was concrete. Just speculation. He was injured during the season and that greatly affected his performance but there really was no indication that it would persist.

I said this with Cam….but you will know if the issues were real if he fell. The opposite is true with Cason. OKC moving up to get him makes me feel that there was no issue at all. On paper he had very few of any weaknesses and some of the more mundane things about him (his pull-up shooting for example) were seen as the biggest pros for other PG prospects.
 
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