NBA Draft Big Board 2021 w/ Will DeBerg

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Dane is joined by University of St. Thomas assistant men’s basketball coach Will DeBerg to go through each of their top 14 prospects in the 2021 NBA Draft. It’s the second annual lottery Big Board pod Dane and Will have done together. And in this episode they contrast the film watching process between the 2020 class and the 2021 class before getting into their top 14s for this class. — Why we feel Cade Cunningham is in a class of his own — Where we see the drop offs point to be, from players with star potential to players that will likely only be asked to fill roles — Why Dane is bullish on Jonathan Kuminga — And the interesting questions that arise with unique prospects like Alperen Sengun, Davion Mitchell and Josh Giddey Submit your Blue Wire Hustle application here: http://bwhustle.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Dane Moore MBA podcast, brought you by Blue Wire Podcasts.
0:18.8	Let's do it.
0:20.0	I got Wildeberg here with me to run through our 2021 MBA draft big boards.
0:25.3	If you guys don't know Will, Will and I go way back. And I've convinced him again this year to bring his basketball coach brain onto the pod.
0:34.4	Watching the film of these draft prospects for the 2021 class.
0:38.1	Will's a longtime coach here locally in St. Paul at the University of St. Thomas.
0:41.9	So he actually watches film for a job, unlike me,
0:44.7	who just watches synergy of these players.
0:49.3	Will, I'm excited to do this again.
0:51.2	We did it last year during the pandemic, of course.
0:53.4	And I thought this class kind of proved to be more difficult than last year.
1:02.0	A very different exercise than it was for the 2020 class.
1:06.0	Could we just kind of start there of how we put together our big boards last year versus this year
1:13.4	because i do think i found these group of the 14 players that i ranked this season to be a lot
1:18.5	different than last year i agree i think i mean for me there felt like way more guys this year who
1:25.2	i wanted to put it in the lottery versus last year.
1:28.3	I was kind of searching like on the back end of fill it.
1:30.5	You know?
1:30.8	Right, right.
1:31.9	So I just think that just speaks to the quality of this draft, the depth of this draft.
1:37.3	And yeah, I mean, it's it's a really good draft for a reason.
1:42.3	So, you know, I think we'll get to this as we kind of get to the second half of the lottery.
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