Meleek Thomas in 17 minutes so far in his DEBUT:

• 16 points 🔥
• 6/10 FG🔥
• 4/5 3FG 🔥
• 18 minutes

They really let Meleek Thomas fall to the second round because his barefoot height is 6'3? He's the tallest 6'3 I've ever seen because look at the height of the top of his shoulders compared to 6'2 barefoot Darius Acuff. His shoulders are at LEAST two inches higher than Acuff's. Anything above the shoulders is practically useless in basketball, it just so happens that Thomas has a VERY short head (from chin to top of head) and a short neck. Dude is in effect more like 6'4 - 6'5.

Box score for the game: https://www.nba.com/game/mem-vs-sac-0022600118/box-score

Fun notes about this game: The 7 assists that Acuff got are a season high (so far). He got them on 1 turnover too, his lowest amount of turnovers yet. This game was also the first time that Boozer got a block in the NBA (he got 2 this game), though Acuff had a block of his own. Boozer continues to struggle finishing inside against NBA length and athleticism as he's currently 0-12 on layups across 3 games. Acuff, meanwhile, has a healthy diet of shots at all 3 levels, and bricks them at a similar rate.

If team record affects ROTY voting, then Boozer might get it on that alone. But if voters just go by PRA, then Acuff may eek it out due to his high usage (currently 34%, 6th highest in the NBA).

Due to the sheer amount of mouths to feed in Utah and the sheer lack of defensive talent on the roster, Ace has been pressed into service as the Jazz’s main POA defender and is not getting any ball in hand opportunities. Ace’s points are coming from spot up threes, cuts, transition, and offensive rebounds. Ace is not a good scorer yet (his handle is still HORRIBLE) and the Jazz’s future and present are more reliant on Peterson, JJJ, Lauri, and Keyonte that basically any possession is a possession served by Ace not having the ball for more than a second. Ace has not really complained about this role at all and has worked hard defensively (and again, he is just bad at scoring right now) so it’s not like it’s a terrible call, but do you think this is the right call for Ace’s future and the Jazz?

Another rough game for the number 2 overall pick who had multiple bad fouls down the stretch in a close game with the Lakers.

Joksimovic created a huge advantage with good kick-out passes and quick transition play from defense to offense.

Stefan has delivered two strong games in the last three days against top EL teams (PAO & Valencia). His role is rapidly growing as he earns more and more trust from coach Perasovic.

Every other post is negative as hell for what?? We’ve got the first few (exhibition) games of some teenagers’ college careers and then the first few games of some teenagers NBA careers and we got MF’s doing victory hate laps smh.

I’ve been on this sub for like 10 years and it’s actually astounding how far down the drain it’s gone. This place is damn near as bad as WBB twitter, slightly less name-calling but clearly the same toxic energy.

Just watch the kids hoop and give neutral critiques, not everyone and everything is terrible/trash/“he’s a bust/will be a bust”. If everyone is trash then why are you watching, or if you just dont like hoops then why are you watching? Football is on lol

Games came against Toronto on Friday night and Chicago last night. Tre has been the first man off the bench for Washington so far this season.

From all his exhibition games between Duke and Louisville. It’s been apparent that his ability to get to the free throw line works already against pro-level competition and high NIL level players. He’s also shown great playmaking ability.

With 27 and 7 on only 3 turnovers and 11-15 free throw shooting, the only thing he needs to do to hone in on his strengths is to be able to make 1-2 more free throws so that he’s not shooting around 73 percent from the field, which is below average for a guard on the next level.

Outside of below 44 percent fg shooting as an oversized guard/forward and 29 percent from 3.

Not the most impressive stat line, but to me it’s clear he’s a starting-caliber center at minimum. Many on this sub were saying he’d be out of the league and would never see the floor, which always seemed like a massive overreaction to me. He’s still only 20 and is younger than 2026 draft prospects Brayden Burries and Mikel Brown Jr.

Assuming health he’ll be a walking double double for a decade I bet.

38 minutes

30 points

14 rebounds

3 assists

10-24 FG/FGA’s

1-9 3P/3PA’s

9-11 FT/FTA’s

2 steals

1 block

Team High +14

Its hard to tell exactly what they need, since we dont know who is part of their long term plans. They also are probably just in a position where you take the best player no matter what, but in a class lacking star power BPA can be hard to discern.

Im leaning right now towards Stefan Joksimovic and Caleb Holt? Although I know you probably cant have both of them AND Fears starting so its hard to say.

Defensive deterrent like wemby, elite screener. Only disappointment is his scoring but for his role, it's not a problem

Monster game from Kyshawn who looks to be the wizards clear best young player in AJ’s absence.

Solid night for the 2nd rounder, who closed the game in a 23 point comeback OT win for Denver.

The 25th pick kept the severely short-handed Kyrie and Flagg-less Mavs close against the Spurs for 3 quarters; until the spurs ran away with it in the 4th. Looked poised and very comfortable out there even against that Spurs defense.

As a detractor and despite all the flaws Tyran has, he should go number 1.

Whether that’s due to this year’s draft class’ strength or if his ceiling is as high as an AJ, DP, Boozer, Caleb, or Cooper (I heavily disagree with this and think the former; a 6 ft 6 in-6 ft 8 in freshman forward that is above average athletically right now for his size and is seemingly years above his competition in basketball IQ even right now should not be seen as negatively as he is seen recently.

Unless there is a European prospect or another college player that blows up, it shouldn’t be a hot take to think that Tyran Stokes should go number 1 no matter what so far with exhibition games being done.