2024 NBA Draft Mega Thread

[SoberasHotRod]

He had a lot of hype from draft twitter as a sleeper pick. Makes sense he went to Memphis, a team that often drafts "Draft Twitter" darlings.

They look like they won the draft so far.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Prior to pre-season, I thought the top 5 rookies would be: Sheppard, Castle, Ware, Williams and Knecht.

It's looking like Risacher and Edey are going to make some noise. Salaun too.

 

[seattlejazzfan]

Prior to pre-season, I thought the top 5 rookies would be: Sheppard, Castle, Ware, Williams and Knecht.

It's looking like Risacher and Edey are going to make some noise. Salaun too.

dadiet deserves mention here with the other two frenchmen.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

dadiet deserves mention here with the other two frenchmen.

Is he even going to be part of the rotation?

It will be interesting to see which rookies are part of the rotation on opening night, and which one remain or get in to the rotation in a month or two.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

All the Edey love is just hilarious.

Guy puts up some stats in the preseason (which is almost as bad as summer league) on inflated usage and people suddenly talk like Memphis is now going to have to "integrate him into their offense" or something. Yeah... I'm sure the Grizzlies will run tons of slow-as-molasses post-ups for Edey so he can grind things to a halt and take those line drive jump hooks from mid-paint. Not to mention destroying their spacing.

The rules haven't changed. A plodding traditional center who can't shoot or guard pick-and-rolls is still a plodding traditional center who can't shoot or guard pick-and-rolls, and those guys are simply not valuable these days. I'll be shocked if Edey plays more than 10mpg in the regular season.

 

[KqWIN]

Holland’s motor is incredible. Skill level? Not so much.

 

[SteakNEggs]

..mmm

 

[KqWIN]

Almost every rookie had a rough debut....but Missi looked fantastic. I didn't do any film on him and he wasn't a standout on paper, but he was really energetic and active game 1. NOP might have found a solution to their C problem.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Holland’s motor is incredible. Skill level? Not so much.

He's frenetic. Stuff happens around him.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Missi might save NOLA's center problem

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

IMO, Cody Williams has as much All Star potential as anyone in this draft. He's a versatile, multi-faceted scorer who will look better in NBA space and schemes. He needs physical development, but I think it's likely to happen for him. I would probably give him the nod over Risacher at the NBA level due to his shiftiness and craftiness with the ball in his hands.

Im giong through and reading your Cody pre-draft takes....

Hopefully they come true, but your pre-draft evaluation of him was so far off. Currently he's just a length based player without any of the attributes you really gave him.

 

[NUMBERICA]

I have to squint really hard to see the hype with Cody.