West 2024 Offseason Re-Grades: MEM + Friday Daily Duncs (8/22/25)
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Nate Duncan
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🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, it is time to finish up our offseason grades now. |
| 0:03.5 | And we left off with the L.A. Lakers at the end of our last episode. |
| 0:10.3 | That means we'll start with the 2024 offseason regrades from the Memphis Grizzlies. |
| 0:16.4 | And before we commence, of course, our rubric, the way we go through all this, the distribution of grades, what it's based on. |
| 0:23.0 | We discussed that amply in previous episodes. |
| 0:25.3 | We will not bore you with it here. |
| 0:27.5 | Instead, we'll talk about what the Grizz did in a 2024 offseason that looks more impactful in retrospect, perhaps, than it did at the time. |
| 0:36.2 | Yeah, I would say that it does. And we can start |
| 0:39.4 | with the Grizzlies draft. They entered with number nine, number 39, and number 53. They used |
| 0:47.3 | those selections on Zach Eadie, Jalen Wells, and Cam Spencer. And, you know, E.D. at number nine, I had more thoughts on because I had scouted more guys. |
| 0:58.0 | I was a little below on that. He had a nice rookie year. |
| 1:00.5 | Jalen Wells at 39 hadn't gotten, you know, we'd, of course, seen him in Summer League, but he had a really nice rookie year. |
| 1:07.6 | I had him as my rookie of the year. He didn't get that honor. And then Kim Spencer, |
| 1:12.0 | you know, still on the team, at 53 capable player. And so that draft looked like, it looks |
| 1:18.4 | very good when you consider the picks that they had and who they got. Yeah, I think so. E.D. |
| 1:23.4 | I would say, looks like he's going to be a solid starter for them for a while. |
| 1:27.9 | To me, if you just look at the impact metrics, now those are helped by the fact that he, |
| 1:33.3 | like a lot of players, Vasilica's protected from matchups that weren't right for him. |
| 1:38.2 | But you can do that with players. |
| 1:41.1 | They don't have to play the entire game, and he was certainly effective in his role. |
| 1:44.9 | So now he has had, you actually presaged this when he said, oh, he's had some ankle injuries. |
| 1:50.3 | Now he's actually in last summer league, and that has continued to play, |
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