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heyhey said:
Lol, have you seen their war room video?

Pretty sure that their GM said "why do you guys have Payton over Stauskas?" before vivek said anything(I'm not even sure that Vivek was in the room at that point) Mitch Richmond and D'Alesandro look like their drooling whilst the analytically guys talk about Stauskas's potential fit with them. Later during the draft D'alesandro gets all worried that Boston might take Stauskas. When it is their turn to pick Vivek turns to D'Alesandro and says "Stauskas or Payton?" D'alesandro responds "Payton" at which point Vivek backs his GM and is super positive. It probably helped Stauskas that one of the all time great 3 point shooters(Chris Mullin) was sitting in the room but it looked to me that it was firmly the GMs decision and that unless they could move up and get Embiid he wanted Stauskas from the beginning.
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I don't think Vivek was there at the meeting with the analytics people. But you are right that Richmond and D'Alesandro were happy with the way the analytics guys were talking about Stauskas.
At 4:25 we see Vivek for the first time and he says "On our team we like shooting... I think Stauskas... I think he claims that he hit 91 of a 100 3p shots" This is the first time you really see who they are leaning towards. BTW it's worth pointing out that their analytics people had Vonleh at 3 and he was still available for Sacramento at 8. Then we get to the war room:
At 6:10: Vivek is like "I am worried that it is Stauskas"(for Boston at 6)

This one is better and less edited for the moment I was referring to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mQwnlkVMU

at 0:11 Vivek is like "So what do we do guys? Go down the room, what do you want? Stauskas or Payton?" and here he doesn't wait for the other people to have their say he's straight to the point "For me it's Stauskas, STAUSKAS OR PAYTON?[towards the GM]" Maybe I am reading too much into it but their GM didn't seem happy but agreed "I say Stauskas". Then somebody asks another person "Stauskas or Payton?" and it seem like Vivek responds for him "Stauskas", then repeats again "Stauskas"... It's kind of hilarious really. This is really bad way to take such decisions - it is a bad idea for the people highest on the ladder to give their opinions first in such situation. In general it was - Vivek first, GM second, everybody else after? Who would say Payton after your Owner has thrown in the Stauskas name first... and then the second on the ladder - the GM has confirmed? What's the point? If they are going to be making the decision like this at all(by asking everybody in the room about their opinion), I think they should be starting from the lowest ranking member of the team first, so they won't be intimidated to contradict the people above them.
 
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Really, how many games have these rookies played yet? I think it's just way too early to think anything.
 
Dante's numbers compare pretty well to kobes stats in his first three games. Australia kobe confirmed.
 
LOL .. have you guys seen the Kings play? Even in the win over the Clippers, Stauskus hardly got to touch the ball even in the 2nd unit.
 
yamers said:
kings look good though....they just had a good game versus the clips.
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Cousins had a monster game and Gay seemed to have carried over his good plays from the World Champ. Landry is no slouch in the 2nd unit and Collison has been surprisingly steady for them.
 
I think we are just using exum in the right way right now. Most of the other rookies are starting or having a bigger role for their teams, plus rookies always aren't that great.
 
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