Hello and welcome to group chat. I am Justin Varyer and sitting before me, Rob Mahoney, Jay Kyle, man, here for part two of the Young Corps

rankings, the inaugural Young Corps rankings.

How you feeling after part one?

Younger.

Oh, I just feel full of energy, Vim and Vigur.

You know, I just, I feel the spirit of basketball flowing through me.

So I'm really glad that we chose to do this. Vim and Vigor and vinegar. I'm feeling it all, man. I'm feeling stronger by the moment. Encouraged by this crop. Basketball's in good hands, dare I say. Looking at the talent that we have across the board. We haven't even gotten to the good hands yet. I know. I don't think we got a single blue chipper. We got a bunch of maybes in terms of our search for the 15 best prospects in the NBA. But we did, just in, dare I say, an hour and 30 minutes into the podcast, finally ironed out the differences in what you were identifying as a blue chipper and I was identifying as a blue chipper. So let us move forward with this common ground. Yes, this should fly from here. I'm sure there will be nothing to slow us down here. So just to reiterate from the first pot, if you didn't listen to that, you're more interested in the top dogs. I think I thought the first pot was pretty good. So you should go and do that. If you wanted to find out what multiple cobies are doing in the NBA and their futures.

So, young core rankings first started a couple of years ago, was Zach Cram doing a stats model.

Kyle went and helped him out.

Now we're going to do our own version of it.

We ranked the top 30 teams, or we ranked all the teams, one to 30, based on their young cores, which we're designating

as all players under the age of 25 as designated by basketball references, age 24 season.

So if you are 25 right now, no mas.

You're not included.

Also, if you are 25 sooner than later, also not included.

Doesn't count. So if you're thinking of certain players in your head who are 20 maxi. Yes. Doesn't count. Doesn't count. So if you're mid, if you were angrily, if you were typing that message out. I know they were doing it. Like I could, we could feel it right now. You're doing it right now. you're welcome to send any other angry messages you want,

just not that angry message.

There was an angry mob coming up the street. I saw from a distance and they heard this and they were like, ah, and they just turned around and wandered home aimlessly. So you love to see it. So hopefully we don't get killed. We might still get killed in these rankings, but you know. Just life. we'll also have all of the players for each team up on the screen if you're watching this preferably on Spotify in the video app. So you could see which players for each team are going to be involved here where I'll talk through most of them. Other than that, no parameters. You could weigh depth more importantly. You could weigh one blue chip star prospect more than anything.

It's up to you. It's America, baby. And then at the end of this episode, we're going to go through and discuss, as I mentioned, the 15 blue chip prospects in the NBA will mark them as we're going. But the basic idea is not best players. These are the guys' best futures from here on now.

Yeah.

Right?

We'll also talk about maybes.

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