https://youtu.be/dy4yNLv44O0?si=GB_eej3aAoJ18Ikv
This is a Stein-Vecenie interview posted in another thread by BoredAssistant with some informed thoughts about this draft (generally) and about Mavs picks.
Some Vecenie highlights ....
1 thinks Mavs will definitely get a high quality player at 9, sees Mavs as well-stocked w talent so can draft BPA, sold on CF
2 sees Acuff as gone by 9, he prefers Flemings of the rest, thinks Brown has highest upside but maybe too inconsistent, likes Burries a lot (sees him as a logical choice for Mavs, a starter)
3 but not Philon (at all)
4 uncertain right now whether the quality in this draft will go 30 deep, it's iffy -- he's sure there are 25-27 but waiting to see who stays in or not that would fill out that 25-30 range (deadline is 5/27)
5 his comments on how he sees Masai and Schmitz preferences was interesting -- if they have a bias or type ...
....Masai - as we see it, he thinks M prefers length, athleticism, positional size, maybe F's over G's period?
....Schmitz - may tend to draft for "what we can make them into" (trusts development staff, skews for younger and perhaps rawer) such as Mikel Brown*
Video was FULL of info. Lots more. Easy listen.
*JUST WONDERING. I wonder if this is a road to cap issues, if you plan to use 2-3 years or more of cheap rookie contract with them less productive. Then about the time they are of any value, you have to compete financially to keep them (or another team takes them away, just as they are about to emerge). Lively has been and is about to be something like this. You lose the "bargain" years you need, to collect enough talent under the Aprons to be elite.
This is a Stein-Vecenie interview posted in another thread by BoredAssistant with some informed thoughts about this draft (generally) and about Mavs picks.
Some Vecenie highlights ....
1 thinks Mavs will definitely get a high quality player at 9, sees Mavs as well-stocked w talent so can draft BPA, sold on CF
2 sees Acuff as gone by 9, he prefers Flemings of the rest, thinks Brown has highest upside but maybe too inconsistent, likes Burries a lot (sees him as a logical choice for Mavs, a starter)
3 but not Philon (at all)
4 uncertain right now whether the quality in this draft will go 30 deep, it's iffy -- he's sure there are 25-27 but waiting to see who stays in or not that would fill out that 25-30 range (deadline is 5/27)
5 his comments on how he sees Masai and Schmitz preferences was interesting -- if they have a bias or type ...
....Masai - as we see it, he thinks M prefers length, athleticism, positional size, maybe F's over G's period?
....Schmitz - may tend to draft for "what we can make them into" (trusts development staff, skews for younger and perhaps rawer) such as Mikel Brown*
Video was FULL of info. Lots more. Easy listen.
*JUST WONDERING. I wonder if this is a road to cap issues, if you plan to use 2-3 years or more of cheap rookie contract with them less productive. Then about the time they are of any value, you have to compete financially to keep them (or another team takes them away, just as they are about to emerge). Lively has been and is about to be something like this. You lose the "bargain" years you need, to collect enough talent under the Aprons to be elite.
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