What's new
By:

Following Potential 2025 Draftees

A big question if I am the Spurs and looking to add star power now is TIMELINE. I am going to have to pay Wemby in 28. That is Lauri's last year under his current contract. If Lauris contract ended the year before Wemby gets his bag I think he would be more attractive but a big expiring contract is typically easiest to move in the final year if you must.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
  1. Flagg​
  2. Harper​
  3. Ace​
  4. Tre​
  5. Yang​
  6. Fears​
  7. Kon​
  8. VJ​
  9. Fleming​
  10. Beringer​
  11. Raynaud​
  12. CMB​
  13. Maluach​
  14. Traore​
  15. Demin​
  16. Coward​
  17. Queen​
  18. Bryant​
  19. Penda​
  20. Essengue​
  21. Kasparas​
  22. Jase​
  23. Sorber​
  24. McNeely​
  25. Powell​
  26. Wolf​
  27. Clayton Jr​
  28. Clifford​
  29. Hugo​
  30. Rilely​

Updated my big board with Pettiford out.
Click to expand...
Big Bump for Riley on my latest big board.

  1. Flagg​
  2. Harper​
  3. Ace​
  4. Tre​
  5. Yang​
  6. Fears​
  7. Kon​
  8. VJ​
  9. Fleming​
  10. Beringer​
  11. Raynaud​
  12. CMB​
  13. Maluach​
  14. Riley​
  15. Traore​
  16. Demin​
  17. Coward​
  18. Queen​
  19. Bryant​
  20. Penda​
  21. Essengue​
  22. Kasparas​
  23. Jase​
  24. Sorber​
  25. McNeely​
  26. Powell​
  27. Wolf​
  28. Clayton Jr​
  29. Clifford​
  30. Hugo​
 
The Jazz Wonderbra said:
A big question if I am the Spurs and looking to add star power now is TIMELINE. I am going to have to pay Wemby in 28. That is Lauri's last year under his current contract. If Lauris contract ended the year before Wemby gets his bag I think he would be more attractive but a big expiring contract is typically easiest to move in the final year if you must.
Click to expand...

Wrong, Lauri will have two years on his deal left when Wemby's max starts.

Anyway, again, the issue is that Lauri just wasn't good last year.
 

View: https://bsky.app/profile/andyblarsen.bsky.social/post/3lqqhaau7yp2a


Not a very encouraging quote for fans of Tre Johnson and Ace Bailey and very much a quote for VJ and Kon fans.

Tre is kind of soft and Ace is very much not a team-first guy. VJ and Kon are very team focused and tough.

Probably a positive quote for Fears to the Jazz fans.

Anyway, people who have thought it was going to be Ace or Tre and only those guys as options should really be preparing for the potential of Fears, VJ, or Kon (though this quote doesn't stop it from being Ace or Tre, just makes them less likely)
 
Last edited:
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Big Bump for Riley on my latest big board.

  1. Flagg​
  2. Harper​
  3. Ace​
  4. Tre​
  5. Yang​
  6. Fears​
  7. Kon​
  8. VJ​
  9. Fleming​
  10. Beringer​
  11. Raynaud​
  12. CMB​
  13. Maluach​
  14. Riley​
  15. Traore​
  16. Demin​
  17. Coward​
  18. Queen​
  19. Bryant​
  20. Penda​
  21. Essengue​
  22. Kasparas​
  23. Jase​
  24. Sorber​
  25. McNeely​
  26. Powell​
  27. Wolf​
  28. Clayton Jr​
  29. Clifford​
  30. Hugo​
Click to expand...
Following your draft board feels like a roller coaster sometimes, lol.

In all seriousness I appreciate your draft takes. Thanks for sharing
 
The Jazz Wonderbra said:
Broken record commentary.

DID THE JAZZ WANT HIM TO BE GOOD LAST YEAR? NO. COULD THAT POSSIBLY HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH HIS POOR SEASON?
Click to expand...

The Wizards also didn't want Kuzma to be good the last two years.

His value went from "two firsts" to "negative value contracts" despite being on tanking teams as teams could tell that he had declined significantly as a player regardless of the tanking. This evaluation ended up being correct as well.

Lauri could not jump last year and looked really terrible due to not being able to jump.

Lauri was asked to try out iso scoring to see if he could improve and he improved not at all and his passing looked as bad as ever, showing that he absolutely hit his ceiling in 2023-2024 and has no more potential left in him, that also lowers his value.

He's also older and has had even more injuries, lowering his value.
 
I cannot vouch for hoop-explorer.com enough. They have so much unique/hard to get stats for free. They have:

- RAPM
- On/Off everything
- wowy everything
- Shot Charts
- Play types (passing and scoring)

Interface is a little clunky, but it’s a free site with the most info.
 
HadAnEffectHere said:
Wrong, Lauri will have two years on his deal left when Wemby's max starts.

Anyway, again, the issue is that Lauri just wasn't good last year.
Click to expand...
And his deal will only account for 26%-27% of the cap in those last two years. That makes a huge differenec compared to having someone like Brown who makes closer to the full max of 35%.
 
KqWIN said:
I cannot vouch for hoop-explorer.com enough. They have so much unique/hard to get stats for free. They have:

- RAPM
- On/Off everything
- wowy everything
- Shot Charts
- Play types (passing and scoring)

Interface is a little clunky, but it’s a free site with the most info.
Click to expand...
Uh, oh, now I'm not going to get any work done.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top