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#216: Who will have the best career from the last 3 drafts?

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Thinking Basketball

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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We “superdraft” players from the 2021, 2022 and 2023 NBA draft in a vacuum to guess at their future career value based on what we know so far. Who goes #1? What team has the best potential? And what will this sound like in 5 years? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

Speaking, basketball, my name is Ben.

0:07.0

Welcome back to another off-season podcast where we won't get into anything controversial

0:17.2

or exciting today.

0:18.8

Cody, we thought we'd have some fun.

0:22.4

Let's be honest, it's the, it's the off-season. We thought we'd have some fun.

0:22.5

Let's be honest.

0:24.0

It's the off season.

0:25.5

We need to find a way to stimulate ourselves

0:28.0

and have some fun.

0:29.0

And one of the more controversial episodes I think we've ever done was the top 25

0:36.0

players under 25 that we did earlier this season and the conceit of that episode if you haven, if you haven't heard it, don't listen to it, don't go back and listen to it. If you haven't heard it. The conceit of that episode was we were actually talking about how good these young players were at this point in the season.

0:54.4

It was earlier in the season and when you're a first, second, third year guy, early in the year,

1:00.9

you have a smaller sample, but you can really take off you know you had the

1:04.4

entire off season to make a jump is your leap legitimate is your struggle

1:08.6

legitimate so that was the conceit of that episode and in it, I think a lot of people were frustrated that

1:15.8

we didn't have the long lens, right? Like, oh come on, yeah, who cares if this guy's

1:20.5

shots a little wobbly right now? He's gonna be so good going forward and it also pained me because there are players that I love who I just don't think are there yet

1:30.5

who I don't think are as good and have realized their potential yet. So today we thought we would get really, really crazy. I mean I can't even tell you

1:39.8

in words how crazy we're going to get today. We wanted to do a draft board. A draft

1:47.3

let's draft it. You want to draft it? Let's do a draft. But yeah. Yes, let's do a draft of the 2021, 2022, and 2023 drafts.

2:03.0

We originally were going to include the 20-20 draft

2:06.6

and do like maybe 20-20 to 22,

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