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KqWIN said:
I like Castle, not sure he's a guy I would trade a ton up to get. The shooting concerns are obvious and I don't think people should just dismiss it. While I do think he is a great defender and will be in the NBA, prospects with such stocks who went on to become great perimeter defenders pretty much don't exist. The only perimeter guys to get votes all defense votes in the last 10+ years with this low of stocks were Austin Rivers and Devin Booker. Both guys got a single vote and didn't deserve it anyways.
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Your point makes a lot of sense, but I view things a little differently.

In my opinion, Giving up #10 is a given to get him. Throwing in a good player that is unlikely part of our team in 3 years is reasonable too. It gets us value and helps with developing the guys that might be here in few years all while likely getting us a good draft pick in a good 2025 draft. If I have to throw in #32, so be it. We might get a decent player at that spot but how many young guys can we develop at once. This consolidates picks a bit to add talent. I see Castle as a guy with great size, defensive skills, great motor and court awareness. His shooting % at UConn was lower than I'd like, but I don't think that was his primary role on that team and I see a decent shooting touch that can get him to be an average outside shooter for a starting guard in the NBA. Average shooter with everything else he offers would be a really nice player.
 
default said:
Your point makes a lot of sense, but I view things a little differently.

In my opinion, Giving up #10 is a given to get him. Throwing in a good player that is unlikely part of our team in 3 years is reasonable too. It gets us value and helps with developing the guys that might be here in few years all while likely getting us a good draft pick in a good 2025 draft. If I have to throw in #32, so be it. We might get a decent player at that spot but how many young guys can we develop at once. This consolidates picks a bit to add talent. I see Castle as a guy with great size, defensive skills, great motor and court awareness. His shooting % at UConn was lower than I'd like, but I don't think that was his primary role on that team and I see a decent shooting touch that can get him to be an average outside shooter for a starting guard in the NBA. Average shooter with everything else he offers would be a really nice player.
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I don't mind trading up if it doesn't cost much....I just don't identify him as a guy we must have and I'm not sure I like him better than the other guys who could be there at 10. A lot of people talk about his role as an excuse for his shooting, but his role at UConn actually allowed him to survive without being able to shoot. I'm not sure NBA teams will cater their entire offense to him like UConn did to mask his non-shooting. He's going to have to shoot it better, straight up. Not saying he can't, but if we give that optimism to the other guys who can't shoot suddenly everyone is an amazing prospect.
 
KqWIN said:
I like Castle, not sure he's a guy I would trade a ton up to get. The shooting concerns are obvious and I don't think people should just dismiss it. While I do think he is a great defender and will be in the NBA, prospects with such stocks who went on to become great perimeter defenders pretty much don't exist. The only perimeter guys to get votes all defense votes in the last 10+ years with this low of stocks were Austin Rivers and Devin Booker. Both guys got a single vote and didn't deserve it anyways.
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You are just going to ignore arguably the best perimeter defender in the nba in Luguentz Dort? Castle is a taller Dort defensively and that is going to be pretty special.
 
default said:
Your point makes a lot of sense, but I view things a little differently.

In my opinion, Giving up #10 is a given to get him. Throwing in a good player that is unlikely part of our team in 3 years is reasonable too. It gets us value and helps with developing the guys that might be here in few years all while likely getting us a good draft pick in a good 2025 draft. If I have to throw in #32, so be it. We might get a decent player at that spot but how many young guys can we develop at once. This consolidates picks a bit to add talent. I see Castle as a guy with great size, defensive skills, great motor and court awareness. His shooting % at UConn was lower than I'd like, but I don't think that was his primary role on that team and I see a decent shooting touch that can get him to be an average outside shooter for a starting guard in the NBA. Average shooter with everything else he offers would be a really nice player.
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If we want Castle then the deal to make is Lauri for Jabari Smith and the 3rd if the rockets would it. If we can somehow pry away a future pick then that would be a nice bonus. I would have a lot of fun next year watching a starting lineup of Key, Castle, Hendricks, Smith and Kessler develop. Probably a struggle offensively at times but the defense would be near elite. Plenty of player development to be excited about while still being near the bottom of the west and fighting for a top 5 pick next year.
 
Megadoo1 said:
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Yeah, well I've been comparing him to Cody Zeller and Kelly Olynyk. Those guys have had long careers and have to be considered fairly successful. They're complementary players though. Also, Kyle is a better passer and shooter than Zeller. So there's a potential fit there if the Jazz can get him in the mid-1st or later 1st round.

But take Troy Murphy and Luka Samanic off that list, lol.
 
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sip said:
You are just going to ignore arguably the best perimeter defender in the nba in Luguentz Dort? Castle is a taller Dort defensively and that is going to be pretty special.
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No I did not ignore Dort. Dort was a better stocks guy coming into the league.
 
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