Happy Memorial Day everyone for the first time in a long time. No games to talk about but that's giving us a chance to get into some more draft film today we're gonna talk about jambaranth out of murray state and why cannot guarantee that jambaranth is gonna be a great mba player.

I can't guarantee that he is going to put up some awesome highlights in the NBA one of the most exciting players that I've ever evaluated like this.

He was really fun and morant I'll be interested to see if you feel the same way but I had trouble putting together a full comp for him because I think he has different elements of various modern point guards and also certain limitations that other modern point guards go through but I like that you brought up that he's exciting.

I mean not only does he have great court vision and and his passing toolbox for a player who is 19 and will turn 20 relatively soon it is really full but he just try stuff.

You know moments and it's not the same thing is tre young like I think tre young was a little bit more ambitious not only with the shots but sometimes with his passes but morant combines that sort of a mentality with stronger athleticism and so I think that opens up avenues for morant that are really fun and really intriguing.

Well not only that and I think what you said about him trying stuff is an excellent point and maybe it's better that he's coming out of a small school setting where he was the engine and put up these crazy stats that we'll get to and basically had full autonomy to do whatever he wanted I think that was probably good for his development although there's some stuff in there that's he's gonna need to clean up for sure as he gets into higher levels of competition but I think his ball handling is ridiculous like he does some moves I tweeted one out today that you just don't see and it's so quick.

He's got these behind the backs as he's backing up he'll go behind the back and get into a jumper which you might not make at this point in time fantastic crossover and then hesitation the amount of ground that he covers with the crossover where he brings ball way out to his to his right and then sweep away over the left it's almost like an iverson Kobe type of crossover from the late 90s early 2000s.

Well he also so he has that crossover but he also has a more full speed right to left shorter crossover that is more like Russell Westbrook that I thought was fun I thought it was cool that he has both of those already in his arsenal and the full speed one is just a pain in the ass to stop yeah and he might smits a note of what you're talking about he has a good video on judge you should definitely look at but I mean some of he's got to tighten up a little bit but the creative I mean he can go behind his back like in traffic in the lane like and against like some of the high major teams that they're.

Playing too this wasn't just it in the Ohio Valley conference that he was doing this stuff so just a level of excitement the vision that he has capable of some absolutely spectacular finishes both donks and double pump layups really just visually what one of the most fun guys that we've seen let's start though just talking a little bit about some of the relevant stats for him stand six three 175 I couldn't find an official wingspan for him he wasn't in the USA basketball program where he's getting measured did not go to the combine there's

some reports out there that he has a six seven weeks and that looks about right to me in terms of what he's able to do just finish the sophomore year but very young for a sophomore birthday is not until August 10th when he'll turn 20 so he's kind of halfway between a freshman your typical

freshman your typical sophomore and then the overall efficiency it is really good especially considering the playmaking role role that he had well yeah I mean so 31 6 P.E.R. 61% true shooting on 33% usage and then

the one that is truly jaw dropping this is using basketball references version of the stat 52% assist rate is completely insane he led the NCAA in assists and turnovers this year a great stat that was in Schmitt's video and that gets into the idea that you're talking about the volume that he had and also he played a ton of minutes this year I mean especially in the high leverage games he was basically playing 38 to 40 every single time yeah and that's not that uncommon in college where you've got more time outs you

don't change ends is off and the intensity frankly despite what people say oh they care so much more it's actually not true I find the intensity is much lower especially for star players on defense in particular but here's another stat that was crazy got double digits assists that's the most assists per game of any player that was drafted in the sports reference dot com database from 1992 93 to present and almost none of these are like Rondo assists where he's just standing up top and guys run off the screens or he dumps it into the post or something like he is he is

either using his own gravity diving guys up with skip passes pushing the ball in transition or getting to the basket drawing two defenders and using that to find guys and he sees playing at Murray State I watch mostly in terms of the full games the games that he had against high major teams he played against Alabama Auburn Mark Katsett and then Florida State Florida State they got blown up by them in the second round but they were very competitive in the other three games they won that one against Marquette pretty handily when he had 16 assists

in a triple double in the first round of the tournament I'd like to talk some about his finishing years of ridiculous head at the rim type of leaper can cock back some big dunks off a one or two feet he got a lot of dunks when he would cut hard back door from teams denying him that they ran kind of pinch post triangle type of stuff where a big would catch it at the elbow when he was being denied and then he would cut hard back door

get some big dunks get some big dunks in transition great left hand he likes to go left it more than right and as a left handed passer left handed finisher he's still because he's so skinny can get bumped around at the rim and when he doesn't get the

fuck you did get a lot of foul calls 8.2 free throw attempts per game which was also fifth in the nation and beyond the end that's exactly what I was going to say shout 81% on those I thought that was important and

Marant's film was was for me a little bit of a reminder of the difference between college point cards and pro point cards you know really getting into it first of all the it was fun to watch a smaller school guy again it's been a little while like I watch Mitchell Robinson's Louisiana high school film last year

so obviously this is dramatically above that but there were some moments where you're sitting there going like oh man there's such a huge jump that's coming and I thought that some of his most

agusive finishes were more about avoiding contact than you know trying to really like kind of work your way into position you know you like there's a

distinction there you know some of like let's say Damien Lillard another small school guy as he's gotten stronger a lot of his best finishes are

through contact on around contact but Marant's 19 turning 20 very thin still I think a lot of that stuff will tone out with time as long as he works on his body and

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