Welcome to The Daily Ding.

I'm your host, Andrew Schlect, with me again.

My good friend Will Gilleri covers the Pelicans for the athletic.

Will, what's up?

I'm back like I never left, man.

Actually, I didn't leave, but, you know, we're back.

Right, that's exactly right.

I love talking rookies.

I could probably just do a podcast every week just about rookies and how they're doing

because I just find I find almost every class interesting, but this class in particular,

there's a lot of intrigue around this class, and particularly at the top.

I think everybody wants to watch the guys

at the top. But I wanted to just go through some rookies that, and Will covers the draft and

these guys too. Like Will knows these guys well. So I want to start off with a super duper Homer

pick. If you don't know me, I cover the Oklahoma City Thunder and live in Oklahoma

City. But somebody that is crazy intriguing to me is Josh Giddy. The way that he played in his

first preseason game opened up a lot of eyes, including mine, as to what he could be in the NBA.

He's six foot eight. He's got a pretty big frame.

He's got to fill that out some, but he's still 18. It doesn't turn 19 until October 10th.

So we're talking about a really, really young player who came onto the court, played in like a pretty

mature way, was just played at his own pace he was finding guys

he was whipping passes across the court with his offhand you know finding guys right in the pocket

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