Ep. 542: NBA Draft Recap
Down to Dunk OKC Thunder Podcast
The Athletic
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On today’s podcast we discuss the following topics:
Diallo, Hall and Hervey picks for the Thunder
Doncic to Dallas!
Best/Worst picks in the 1st round
How the Thunder can get better
And so much more
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Down to Dunk. I just want to thank Anthem Brewing for the great night that we had last night. |
| 0:07.8 | And for all of you that came out, we had a great turnout. It was a really fun night. |
| 0:13.3 | The draft wasn't quite as fun as I thought that it might be. There wasn't really many trades. |
| 0:19.7 | You had the Donch trade at the beginning of the draft, which was fun, |
| 0:23.3 | but in some kind of wild picks in the first round. |
| 0:26.2 | But nothing crazy. |
| 0:27.9 | There were no NBA players moved last night, |
| 0:30.4 | which I thought was a little disappointing and kind of interesting. |
| 0:33.4 | But the Thunder selected three players. |
| 0:42.9 | I think the guy that is most interesting is Hamadu Diallo. Apparently he also likes to be called Hami. He played at Kentucky, which I think, I don't know, |
| 0:51.5 | I think taking a risk on anyone out of Kentucky is good. They had really poor |
| 0:57.1 | spacing this year as a team and so there wasn't, the offense was really bad. One of the downsides |
| 1:04.7 | to what I just said is that Diallo was one of the reasons that they had bad spacing. He's a 6-5 |
| 1:10.7 | shooting guard. He's a crazy athlete. |
| 1:14.6 | He plays above the rim. He's really good in transition. He's not a shooter. I watched a bunch of |
| 1:21.2 | him this morning, just a bunch of his spot-up jumpers. And he, I feel like he's either swishing or he's missing wildly. I mean, he had some |
| 1:30.8 | really bad Andre Robertson type misses from three. And to me, like, he's just a thunder player. |
| 1:38.0 | Like he is a crazy athlete. He projects to be a good defender and he really doesn't have much of an offensive game. |
| 1:46.1 | I think that he, and I don't know this, but just watching him, I think he fancies himself a three-point shooter, though, which is not the worst thing in the world, because I think that some of these guys' problems are that they're afraid to shoot the ball. |
| 1:59.4 | I think Dre in the past has been afraid to shoot the ball. I think Dre in the past has been |
| 2:01.2 | afraid to shoot the ball. And Diallo doesn't project to be that kind of guy. He seems to have |
| 2:07.1 | a lot of confidence. And I think it was a really good risk. We don't know what the trade is yet. |
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