2024 NBA Draft Mega Thread

[KqWIN]

Cody Williams is the lightest “forward” ever measured at the combine. Whole new level of slenderman. I’ve gone back and forth on him….but I think id put him last out of the toolsy wings (Holland, Matas, Salaun).

 

[homeytennis]

Do you mean it feels like ACL, but is in fact tendinitis, or that tendinitis is the cause of the partially torn ACL?

The pain from tendinitis is in the tearing of the sheaths. When there is a lot of tearing it can be hard to tell what the culprit is. Even good orthos can look at an MRI and get fooled as to what is causing the pain until they actually do a surgical procedure.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xn8jilWhLY

 

[Park Bites]

I think Mcullar has dropped too far. He used to be low 20 on boards and now he's getting mocked in the mid second round. I don't think his injury is too serious, so I don't quite get it except recency bias. He's got an all around game and should be able to contribute in the NBA.


View: https://youtu.be/Dr41qqI52Dk?si=_DYzkcRNP_z3Tk9T

Mccullar would be my vote for the Jaime Jaquez of this draft.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Nolan Traore at the Adidas Next Generation Tournament (ANGT) this year put up 24.8 PPG, 6.5 APG, and 3.5 RPG.

Nikola Topic at the ANGT last year put up 28.4 PPG, 6.9 APG, and 5.3 RPG.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Topic's ability to drive and put pressure on the rim is probably the best in this draft class. It should look just as good or better on a spaced NBA floor, with better bigs to play off of. That aspect of his game has drawn some comparisons to Manu Ginobli. Hopefully his knee injuries don't hurt his burst in the long-term.

Spurs could still take him with the 8th pick.

 

[YoungJefe]

Take Topic at #10 and redshirt him / tank for Flagg

 

[YoungJefe]

My ideal outcome:
10. Nikola Topic
29. Johnny Furphy
32. Tyler Smith

 

[framer]

Jazz are drafting Topic and I'll tell you why, because, although the Jazz are slated to have their greatest summer league team ever, we are going to get 12 minutes of Sensabaugh, a steady diet of Johnny Juzang and a cast of dudes who probably won't even play for the Stars. For a strange variety of reasons none of the other guys we want to see will appear. Topic is just the easiest to explain.

I don't make the rules, I just live the Jazz Summer League life. We can't have nice things.

 

[KqWIN]

Topic's ability to drive and put pressure on the rim is probably the best in this draft class. It should look just as good or better on a spaced NBA floor, with better bigs to play off of. That aspect of his game has drawn some comparisons to Manu Ginobli. Hopefully his knee injuries don't hurt his burst in the long-term.

Spurs could still take him with the 8th pick.

I actually think Collier rivals him in ability to get to the rim+finish….rest of Collier’s game needs some work though.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Take Topic at #10 and redshirt him / tank for Flagg

Playing topic would help tanking much more

 

[zags422]

I actually think Collier rivals him in ability to get to the rim+finish….rest of Collier’s game needs some work though.

Was thinking the same thing the other day but I just don’t see the same court awareness between the two. Curious how their athleticism matches up and especially the initial burst after the acl. If colliers defense is quite a bit better than makes it a difficult decision after the injury