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'High Upside'—Molding the Modern Guard (Ep. 114)

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4.49.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Kevin O'Connor and Jonathan Tjarks discuss the lottery-level guards in the 2017 NBA draft. Topics include: Markelle Fultz's defense (5:00), Frank Ntilikina's NBA frame (11:00), Dennis Smith Jr.'s fit on the Mavericks (17:00), Malik Monk's lack of assists (22:00), Donovan Mitchell's foundation of skills (26:00), and the ideal skill set of the modern NBA guard (30:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Larry Wilmore here, host of the podcast, Larry Wilmore, Black, Um, Air.

0:06.0

Now, in my latest episode, I talked to Senator Bernie Sanders about the state of the Democratic Party,

0:11.0

and the polarization happening in America and Trump's rise to power.

0:15.0

And Trump picked up and he said, you know what? I feel your pain.

0:19.0

The establishment is ignoring you. I, Donald Trump, I have old people.

0:23.0

I'm going to take on the establishment. Well, he lied, of course.

0:26.0

Yeah. But that was his message.

0:27.0

So you can hear this episode in full and subscribe to my show by searching for Larry Wilmore, Black, Um, Air,

0:32.0

on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, mobile, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:46.0

Hey, you welcome to High Upside, the Ringer's new NBA draft podcast.

0:50.0

My name is Kevin O'Connor and I'm joined today as I will be every week through the NBA draft by fellow Ringer staff writer Jonathan Charix.

0:56.0

John, what's up? Nothing much, man. How you doing? Enjoying your big game three win from last night?

1:02.0

That was a wild, wild game, dude. That was very wild. So for the Celtics, they have the number one pick.

1:08.0

And last week we talked about, um, on High Upside, the draft lottery and the implications of that.

1:13.0

And this week we're going to talk about the guards projected to go in this year's lottery.

1:17.0

And to kind of set the table here, we're going to, before we get into the discussion, there's seven guards, point guards or combo guards

1:23.0

that really have a strong chance of going into the lottery. They're Markel Foltz, Nanzo Ball, Deer and Fox, Dennis Smith, Frank Nilly, Keena, Malik Monk and Dunwo and Mitchell.

1:32.0

We're not going to go through all those guys because we did some last week, but to kick it off, we're going to start with the guy who's almost certainly going to go number one.

1:39.0

And that's Markel Foltz. He's first, unfortunately, everybody's boardies, number one, number one on our 2017 NBA draft guide.

1:46.0

So Jonathan Foltz is your top-drived guard and number one overall prospect.

1:50.0

I have a very simple question for you. Why?

1:53.0

I got a simple answer. He's awesome.

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