2022 NBA Playoffs thread

Chet Holmgren, Jabari Smith and Paolo Banchero are at the draft lottery
Why?
Draft is six weeks away
World Wide Wes representing the Knicks

 

Top 4 will be in some order the murders row of Sacramento, Oklahoma City, Orlando and Houston.

 

it’s a half hour tv show gotta fill it somehow

 

Magic, Thunder, Rockets, Kings, Pistons are top 5

 

Chet Holmgren just screams NBA bust to me, but I'm no talent evaluator, so what do I know? He's a homeless man's KD.

 

Nice thing for the Blazers at 7 is that most of the teams ahead of them draft players who fall off the face of the earth. The Blazers, of course, draft a player who will fall off the couch and during examination by the team docs on his first visit to Oregon, will learn he has the knees of an 85-year old woman.

 

This inevitably means he can never watch a Magic game again.

 

Pistons fans are rooting for a Jeremi Grant trade at No.7
Damian Lillard is too

 

Holmgren shot 60.7 percent this year, and 73.7 percent from 2, which just seems completely unsustainable at the NBA level. I think he deserves to be a lottery pick, but man, he's got a really low usage rate for a guy who might go #1 overall. His season high for points was 23, and he broke 20 only five times in 32 games. He shot 39 percent from 3, but "only" 71 percent from the line.

 

Luka Doncic International Stats | Basketball-Reference.com

Yes, stats when they are 18 or 19 mean a lot.

 

Luka's stats at 18 and 19 *did* show that he was going to be a BFD, which is part of why quite a few draft analysts were mystified about him dropping down the board. In the second tier pro leagues in the world, as an 18 and 19-year-old, his per 36 stats were roughly 20 PPG, 7 APG and 7.6 RPG. He also took home EuroLeague and Liga ACB MVP awards. The level of play is more consistent from team to team, so in a way, it's "easier" to project some European players vs. NCAA prospects. (If they actually put up stats and get time - European teams are trying to win, not to serve as developmental teams for the NBA, after all.)