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That’s Hawks DNA!

In fact, Quin uses a lot of ghost screens. Particularly with guard guard screen action. Bigs like Wemby, Chet, JJJ, Evan Mobley, and Sarr, Inwould want them running more ghost screens to set up their jumper or slip screens to get them to the basket. You don’t have to hammer someone’s d*ck into the ground to be an effective screener.

Wemby does the same thing on screens, but his fit with Trae isn’t questioned. It’s also not hard to get better as a screener. It’s one of the characteristics that I’m going to largely ignore because it can easily be taught.

I think it has less to do with finding another Jokic and more to do with a simple lack of understanding what the center position has become in the NBA. The Edey fans still believe that slow post-oriented plodders can succeed in the NBA and still dominate the way they did in the 1980s and 1990s. The reality of the situation is, these types of centers are situational reserves in the NBA today, and they are in the process of being completely phased out of the game. The fact is, to be a center today, you either have to have an elite skill level like Joker or you have to be a two-way player who can guard on the perimeter and shoot. The days of the lumbering giants dominating are over. Have been for quite a while. Some just haven't caught up to that fact.

If there was ever any doubt that Givony is getting paid to push certain prospects, all that doubt should be dismissed now:

There is a much better chance Edey goes 25-30 than top 10. Far better chance. There is a zero percent chance that Zach Edey goes top 10.

Who wrote that? (3) Alex Sarr: The (un)disputed Number One (noceilingsnba.com) Effectively trying to regress the game back to the stone ages.

Edey will be drafted in the 20s and he will be a backup for 10 years until his body breaks down because he's too big.

Particularly when you have a player who is the epitome of what a modern NBA big is in Alex Sarr available to you.

A 10 mpg sub with the top pick. Excellent choice. It has nothing to do with fear. It has everything to do with him not being a modern big.

[Insult removed] OO is a much better finisher on the PNR than Clint. He also has the PNP ability that Clint doesn't have. Quin also uses him to set flare screens, which he doesn't do with Clint.

Clint

This guy may end up my #3 guy before it is all said and done:

As a Hawks fan, I'd much rather see Ingram in Cleveland than in Atlanta. I like him, but no.

He's consistently late in finding the outlet on his passes when doubled and also when he gets the ball at the elbow. Also, if he puts the ball on the floor, it's almost a guaranteed turnover (he's not going to get the favorable whistles in the NBA that he got in college).

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like Reed. I don't think he's a point guard in the NBA, so you have to be careful with who you pair him with. I like him better off the ball than on it.

IN GAME, Clingan moves his feet a hell of a lot better than Edey does. He has better second leap ability. Even then, I wouldn't take him #1 because you simply should not take this archetype of big with a top pick.

He has no translatable skill. He's a back to the basket big who is a stationary defender. Offensively, he will never be able to take the ball from the top of the key to the rim off the dribble. He's not a shooter. He's not a short roll guy because his passing is below average. He's not a great rim runner because he lacks explosion and speed. Defensively, he is never going to be able to guard the PNR in the NBA. He's a drop defender that will be too slow going from the level of the screen to his drop point. He can't close out on shots. His lone translatable trait is his screening, and you don't take a screener with a high pick. I could care less what his testing numbers were. IN GAME, he changes direction like a cruise ship. He's slow and clunky when he runs. He has no explosion. He has no second leap ability. He's just big. That works in college. It doesn't work in the NBA.

He's good, but I'm not taking another small guard with Trae on the team.

It won't let me link it for some reason, but Rafael Barlowe's post lottery mock draft has Atlanta take Sarr, obviously. Some other very interesting picks, IMO: OKC taking Kel'el Ware at 12. That's a tremendous fit, and it's just a wealth of long athletic riches with that team.

Player A per 36 stats: 24.2 P/36, 11.7 R/36, 2.7 A/36, 3.4 B/36, 0.8 S/36, .470 FG/.275 3P/.561 2P Player B per 36 stats: 20.3 P/36, 9.2 R/36, 1.8 A/36, 2.8 B/36, 1.8 S/36 .520 FG/.298 3P/.605 2P

Or Clingan, for that matter. You don't take Walker Kessler with the #1 overall pick, and that's Clingan's 90th percentile outcome.

There is a glitch in the system with the double posts.