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  1. In Vecenie's lastest pod, he mentioned that Ben Saraf, a 6'5 Israeli point guard, lit up the U-18s recently was the best player in that tournament, which included Nolan Traore. He's doing a deep dive on Saraf soon, but it seems like this guy is now a likely lotto pick at the very least He did a deep dive on Traore in the episode, and said that while Traore is an obvious top five ish type in a typical draft, he has him squarely below Flagg, Edgecombe, and Harper (unclear if Ace Bailey was an accidental omission)
  2. At this point they might just be keeping space available to maintain flexibility so they can address potential injury clusters
  3. The USA avoids the 2nd and 3rd best teams (imo Canada and Germany) until the finals, although they do potentially face Serbia for the third time in round two (although Australia might not be an easy out for them), which may or may not be tricky Germany Greece France Canada Serbia Australia USA Brazil These games are on Tuesday Brazil should be a Tatum game due to Brazli being a great offensive rebounding; their only shot is hitting a ton of threes and getting extra possessions from offensive rebounds
  4. I think if healthy, AD, Bam, and Chet are all likely to make the team (I'm just going to assume Embiid has lost a bunch of his athleticism at that point and might not be healthy), and if AD can't go or isn't as effective, then JJJ could make sense as a 3rd center; obviously he had issues last year at the World Cup, but that was as the starter, and I think as a 3rd guy he'd be much better. He certainly spaces the court better than Allen, and is probably a better rim protector and more switchable defensively
  5. I'm not sure if projecting forward four years, if Brunson is necessarily a better choice than the other bunch of guards in the pool. It's a loaded group, as evidenced by guys like Brunson, Kyrie, Mitchell, etc getting left out this time around. To me Ant and probably Booker are locks, and then you have maybe a dozen others to choose from for 2-3 other guard spots, and White seems like he'll have an inside track to get one of those spots since he doesn't need the ball in his hands to be extremely impactful I like Haliburton on offense with these groups since he pushes the pace both with the ball and look ahead passes, is an excellent connector, and spaces the court, but his feet look stuck in cement defensively against quick guards, and quick guards seem to be the best player on a lot of these other teams
  6. Boundary X is the spot in the NFL that normally gets pressed, and Worthy will likely not see many snaps at that spot this year
  7. Texas is a top two team in the country. If Ohio State or Oregon had better QBs, they'd probably have an edge... but they don't, they have fucking Dillon Gabriel and Will Howard. Does anyone think those guys can win 3 or 4 games in a row in the playoffs?
  8. Also, Mike Bobo
  9. Last year Houston had essentially an average offense across the season, ranking 14th in offensive DVOA, despite featuring a rookie QB, rookie OC, rookie WR2, and an offensive line with perhaps the worst injury situation the modern NFL has seen The passing attack was #3 in explosive play rate, but the rushing attack was ranked #25 in success rate. Obviously the offensive line issues are the primary culprit with the poor rushing success rate, but I think having a below average RB1 (albeit one who surprisingly surpassed most of our expectations) in Singletary and a RB2 who was a terrible fit in this offense in Pierce. Houston potentially significantly upgraded RB1 with Mixon (if his quad strain ever heals), and they potentially also upgraded RB2 with Cam Akers, whose entire NFL career has been spent in zone based offenses, and rookie Jawhar Jordan who's an excellent zone runner If the rushing success rate improves significantly (even getting to average around #16 in the league) would mean easier passing situations for Stroud, and also more opportunities for explosive passing plays since that should mean more plays in general since you'll be converting more first downs With the Diggs addition, who I think will help particularly with chain moving, I think Houston should be a lock for a top 10 offensive DVOA, and I'm predicting a top 5 finish in that metric assuming average injury luck
  10. I think he's probably just pressing and hasn't find his groove yet
  11. He's a lot smaller than foreman was
  12. He’s more similar to Tank Dell
  13. Curry will go nuclear in one of these games, although you don’t really need that on this team and would prefer for him to be consistently solid
  14. Haliburton really has no shot at guarding quick guards. He's bbq chicken
  15. Bam is an underrated difference maker for this team
  16. Curry needs to be excellent on offense to justify being on the court due to his defense. He's the opposite of that today
  17. KD, always there to bail the national team out when they need it
  18. There's a lot of slipping on the court right now
  19. S Sudan's athleticism is going to give Serbia problems
  20. I mean, that's what we're talking about, right? The US Olympics is extremely difficult to make, especially for a perimeter player who's a terrible three point shooter
  21. Hart is more of a World Cup guy when a lot of the all-NBA and even all-star types turn the opportunity down. Brunson is in the dozen or so guards bucket that I mentioned; in addition to the guards I predicted to be on the team there's also Brunson, Kyrie, Mitchell, Fox, Ja, Maxey, etc..
  22. I didn't watch him closely, but Hollinger/Duncan thought he looked terrible per their latest podcast The next guy to watch for them is in the 2025 draft; point guard Nolan Traore If Sarr hits, they could potentially have something like Traore-Coulibaly-Risacher-Wemba-Sarr
  23. Also I'm listening to Duncan and Hollinger right now and they're discussing how there's been a ton of athletic and long but raw french wings who've been drafted because of their upside but who quickly busted. It might be a thing.
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