2024 NBA Draft Mega Thread
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seattlejazzfan
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Danny Granger was 6'9" in shoes with a 7'1" wingspan. Risacher is 6'10" in shoes with a negative wingspan - 6'9.5". good luck finding a flattering comparison for risacher who has a negative WS on their in shoes measurement - there simply aren't very many out there. Also, while Granger was nothing special as a vertical athlete, he was quite a bit better than Risacher's 25" standing vert and 31" max vert. Risacher's combination of lack of length and athleticism is such that it is really hard to find flattering comparisons for him because those guys struggle to compete in the league. period.
You are making a mistake if you are buying into those athletic testing numbers. Give the kid a chance to actually train for the combine and you can guarantee that they would go up significantly. All you have to do is watch his tape to see that he has no problem finishing above the rim.
Risacher isn't explosive vertically, but he runs like a deer and is pretty fast for a long wing.
Risacher is a good athlete. Just go watch games. Again , don't overreact to testing done when he had no prep time coming off a long season
seattlejazzfan
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i've watched games. he's a decent athlete. 6'10" dudes don't have trouble getting on top of the rim regardless of how unathletic they are. but the length numbers don't lie. guys with poor wingspans struggle.
Thee Jazz Fan
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Holy cow Batman!!! I didn’t even know this guy existed!!! Is he in play at #10? I like what I saw in that video.
Possible he did but Utah is floating rumors he sucked. It’s possible, right?
Not enough. I’d want Cam and 4 unprotected picks. Only way I’d trade Lauri.
Four more Green Room invitees: Kel'el Ware, Bub Carrington, Tristan Da Silva and DaRon Holmes
That brings the number invitees to 25.
That brings the number invitees to 25.
Not going to make a big deal of it, but Bill Reilly on his radio program today spent time with Don McLean (trainer for CAA agency) talking about Reed Sheppard, Cody Williams and Kel'el Ware. He ended the segment saying that he thought the Jazz would make trades.
My eyes are strictly what my assessment is based on (which is the point of criticism, actually). I haven’t done a deep dive in him, he just jumps off the screen as taking too much time to load up on whatever he does whenever I watch (which is admittedly not much), which still allows for good top-end speed and leaping (which is not actually functional athleticism).
Cam (a potential star but at least a powerful microwave scorer with defensive potential) and three picks (one being top-3) is actually more or less on par with Gobert and Mitchell. It’s not bad but I somehow feel like it’s not enough. I guess I’ve convinced myself that OKC might send an insane package that might beat this.
To thread together some things @Saint Cy of JFC has talked about, Walter seems like he has some of the magic combination of attributes that might make him a Donovan Mitchell type pick (rep as an athletic hustle player with good scoring chops but just wasn’t that effective/efficient in college which might keep the trade stock lower than maybe it should be).