Can You Solve The Hardest Problem In NBA History?

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Excellent video that I will be sharing with A LOT of Rockets fans saying #FadeforCade. 1) tanking only guarantees reclaiming their top 4 protected pick. 2) there's likely a slim to none chance they get the first pick. 3) the odds of Cade Cunningham being a generational talent that will be capable of leading a full rebuild team to contention are even smaller than the MVP odds. I am a draft class study fanatic. It's a habit I have picked up playing games like Madden and 2k for years. I have studied this supposed "strong draft class" of 2021 and can say, in my opinion, there is no sure fire all star from appearances. By that I mean an immediate impact, take the league by storm prospect. I obviously could be wrong and maybe the 18th or 20th pick ends up being the early favorite but predicting that is near impossible. Cunningham looks to be a solid, day 1 NBA ready starter but I have watched quite a bit of tape on him. Good handle for a 6'8" player, solid passing and jump shot, looks to be a versatile defender, but has relied on bullying smaller opponents at all levels. Has decent athleticism but nothing eye popping AND is fairly slow for someone who is a full time ball handler. This is the best in class. Mobley is a close 2nd but it's hard to judge young bigs this early because he hasn't filled out and we don't know how his game will translate to the jump shot, get buckets gameplay style of the NBA just yet. He for sure does not have an AD or Durant skill set though so it will likely take time. This is why the tanking model is such a huge gamble. You are dooming your franchise to 5+ years of piss poor play and demoralizing your fan base for the chance, a poor one at that, to get that generational talent. Or even more rarely, a transformative talent. People like to point to the 76ers as a success story but leave out the fact that they had more than a few bad picks AND the tank lasted longer than expected because of injuries and the fact that several top draft picks without vets around them are generally not good at first. It remains to be seen whether it will pay off or not but by and large, the tanking model is faulty at best.

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2021 fam

Coming back after seeing Simmons peaked his rookie year

I think I picked the right player everytime cause they're oversized for their position

I got Markelle, Giannis, and Melo

who was better then irving?

Well we know now who to pick in the 2020 draft, and it sure ain't Wiseman or Edward

3:48

1:55 yikes I really don't like that you made this image. How are you going to pick best players? Like in some cases it's obvious but are you really shitting on kyrie like this? Is he really defintely not the best player? even in 2020, I wouldn't definetively overall pick Kawhi or Klay over him. Also, this chart would imply that 1996 was a failure, while AI was and is obviously the best choice there. Kobe wasn't going to be drafted by anyone but LA and honestly, WHO THE FUCK IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD DRAFT AN 18 YO KOBE? And isn't it waaay to soon to call Zion the best of his class? Sure he's great for now but wouldn't you be more interested in his legacy in 10 years?

i pick the third dude

3:15 if you're picking by just stats, you've already screwed up. I remember Greg Oden putting up stats even or better than KD, but one look told you KD was better.

Lameloooooo

Hell of an outro😂

I don’t like that Zion is circled because you don’t know if he’s gonna be the best it’s to early and Ja Morant might be better then Zion

tyrese haliburton gonna be the best long-term player, even tho he may have been overlooked.

00:34, Ok sure keep telling yourself that😂. Cough* Lebron James on the Cavs Cough* Cough*. It nothing like how much of a team sport Football is that's for sure

Lamelo?

me picking tatum and giannis lol

nba draft feels like stock picking, so much easier to say i knew it than im betting on it

1:57 i still thing ja was the best in the 2019 draft

who’s here when monk just dropped 36

I picked the tallest everytime....no regrets

People who picked lamelo giannis and tatum 👇

I love your videos but how can you say D Rose wasn't the best player of 2009 draft. It's wrong and it's direspectful!

The whole video, I am saying, WHERE IS TYRESE BURTON!!!

hey my man d rose? he was the best player in his draft class, he proved it in his mvp season but not right now yeah😭

If I was a scout I during pre draft the people I would like to draft would have to face my teams best player and even thou they wouldn't beat him you could still tell someone character by how hard they ball

We allready know ja morant is better than zion

I picked Tatum, giannis, and the Georgia kid all right, then I think I would go with Jameis Wiseman, because I am a university of Cincinnati fan and the Memphis Tigers play against us quite a bit. Jameis Wiseman is insane at basketball

Ja morant was the best in 2019 draft

For a team like the hornets, lamelo is gonna have SO many more eyes on their team

i drafted jayson, otto and lamelo

2:17 is misleading, hella hall of famers on that board regardless of if they were the best

who watching in 2059

I used blocks, rebounds, steals, and age to determine who had the best chance at success -- and I picked well each time. Why did I pick those stats? Because those stats tell you how good he is in comparison to other players. Points and FG% don't tell you that. You can coach and scheme some of that stuff. Plus, with the guy who spent 4 years in college and still only averaged 28ppg, that's not good. There's no way a shooting guard averaging less than 30ppg who's been in college FOUR YEARS is going to magically jump to 40ppg once he gets put in the NBA around All-star talent instead of bum college kids.

There is obvious flaw in your presentation no 3pts shooting %....

College stats are not a good measure of a player's potential to succeed in the NBA and in my opinion, there's two key reasons why. The first reason is that an NBA prospect may do well against people in college, but may be much worse off against opponents in the NBA, which have much more skill. Some people are insanely good at dominating people that are much worse than them, but their performance drops off enormously when they reach the NBA. On the other hand, there are some people that perform really well in college, but perhaps aren't the best at exploiting weaker opponents' weaknesses, so their stats don't drop as much as the previous type of opponent when they play in the NBA. The second reason is team chemistry. Some players end up in a setup that just doesn't work for them or isn't like what they experienced in college. Team chemistry can make huge differences in how well players can play. For example, a college star may have really good, but inflated stats if everyone is just his puppet and play according to him. In the NBA, this strategy won't work and will harm the team, so it won't be adopted. As such, the player won't perform as well as statistics predict. I think there's a long way for maths and computer science to go when it comes to making the best picks, but there's only so much you can do with garbage information like college stats. Algorithms need to look further than just those stats. I'm also editing to say that this isn't to mean that college stats should be overlooked completely or that all stats are bad. Some stats have shown relatively high levels of predictive power while some show none. I'm just saying that there's a lot of things that are required to predict who the best player will be (even things like injury) and college stats are typically not enough to make a conclusive decisions. There are more stats that need to be considered and that are considered. Also as a final edit, I wanted to say that first draft picks aren't at picking the best player in a league as they seem. The reason why they pick the best player so few times is because teams lean towards bigger players like centers and forwards over guards. This is because centers' and forwards' performances are easier to predict and less volatile than guards'. Not to mention that guards also have shorter careers on average and get injured more often (mostly shooting guards), which means there might be less of a long-term plan with their superstar. So even if a team thinks that a guard may be better than a center for their team, they might lean towards the center just because it's a safer pick. It's a risk-reward thing. This was especially true in the past when prediction technology was even worse. However, if a guard is much better than any center that year, only then will they end up being first pick.

Pick always the tallest

U forgot Patrick Williams smh

I would have gone with a 2 year player cause they are more reliable you could risk it all or stay safe

Turns out lemelo was the best

ja>zion

#1 picks with no experience slide is full of players that went to college. David Robinson played 4 years at Navy. That’s why he’s called The Admiral.

John wall had college experience????

Heh in the 2nd set, I picked the guy who looked like giannis...

Ayeee I picked Tatum 😂

I picked tatum because of his height and good stats an giannis off of age in comparison to the others

i picked tatum nice

Who else came here after the draft is over

free kyrie!

Great f*****g video.

Towns better than booker?

I don't understand how it's so hard. If I was a gm making a pick. I'd focus more on the players personality than their stats. Sure I'd want them to have decent or good stats but it wouldn't be required. The most important thing to me would be to find a player who has a fire lit in his soul for winning, who works on his game relentlessly/is a student of the game. Someone who coachable and looks to learn more about how basketball is played instead of just using their talents and abilities to dominate. These are the types of players who become superstars. Players like Kobe, MJ, Harden, Wade, Steph, Bird, Hakeem, Lebron, Giannis, Kwahi, Butler, Chris Paul, Tatum. The only time I would take someone who doesn't have the will of fire burning would be for freaks of nature aka shaq or wilt.

that’s was the coldest outdo i’ve seen jimmy do

deni avdija man .. he would probably end up as the best in his class also, you wanna base your pick on stats whem you should focus on state of mind.. many players that end up top 3 succumb from the pressure of expectations .. many only want the money that comes from playing im the nba, and when they get their first million they stop carrying aboug basketball .. on those two groups add those players that are easily distracted by non-basketball stuff and you would end up with an easier choice .. or if you still arent sure, pick the best defender (not the best defensive stats, mind). if he is willing to chase around players to lock them up, he would probably be easier to handle in any team

pat Ewing and Hakeem aren't the best in the draft, that shows the elite status of the leaue

I picked prospect 1 cus I saw that outline of Giannis

So what i belive the environment after the pick is also important like if giannis was selected by some other we can't be sure he would be the same as now its because he was with the team that he is what he is like if he was gsw who nows he might have been a better shooter worse paint player

Teh giannis one was unfair as he was never even a chance for 1st pick

Sad that all time greats like hakeem are not even seen as the best pick that could have been made that year

The Draft is Based on pre NBA experience so it is a gamble. Also factor the coaches decisions on player's playing time, injuries and if teammates can pass the ball to him.

1:54 D-Rose was the best pick in the 2008 nba draft. Better than Westbrook talent-wise, and had a better career up until his Injury. Let's not act like Westbrook was a better talent a Chicago made a mistake by not picking Westbrook.

1:45 I don’t think it’s just me but your saying Zion is the best player in the draft over Ja?

96?

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You know Edwards has the same name as the biggest bust ever, right?

LaMelo gang all day but no disrespect to the wise fans or the Anthony Ben-dwards fans

why was i so good at picking the best ones bruh someone hire me

Who is here after the draft

Andrew Bogut was very solid while on the Milwaukee Bucks, but because he was on Milwaukee, nobody watched him, so he isn’t as bad of a 1st pick, but when he was on the warriors, he wasn’t the same player because of his arm injury

Damn how do I like a video more than once? This is a mastahpeece. 👌

call me crazy but if i was the twolves gm id go deni with number one, yeah in the future ppl wud say just cuz of luka i took him first but deni realyl does remind me of luka level talent lol

They had Giannis listed at 6’9... yeah ok

Lamelo is simply the best, time will prove

“Following the success of LeBron James” ummmmm, and TMac, and Kobe, and KG, and Dwight Howard, and Jermaine O’Neal, and Amare Stoudemire, Rasheed Lewis, Deshawn Stevenson, Tyson Chandler, Josh and JR Smith, Andrew Bynum was good back then, Monta Ellis..... oh well

#1 overall picks have weeks to make a choice so while the last line was catchy it doesn’t make much sense

I disagree with the years 83 and 84, 08,09 & 07!!! Those were good picks but fate conspired against most of them. For instance nobody would've guessed the injury prone unathletic point guard would be better than the monstrously athletic Blake griffin

i would pic lamelo because he actually has pro experience and thats that

I didn’t know Jason tatums picture and still picked him

I'd pick Hendrixx Cobb

I thought the middle one in the last pick was “Tingis Pingis”

I'm calling it, obi toppins gonna be a massive steal

in the past couple years draft i see Ingram Tatum Luka tryna be hall of famers. but this draft class i like james wiseman’s situation a lot he could get the torch from steph and klay

I picked the #60 ranked prospect as the #1 pick and he ended up being a 10-time MVP

BTW.... I was 3 for 3 with my picks!!!!

Toppin

Dude said Zion is the best player in the 2019 draft less then a year after the draft..... may look like it now but too early to tell, it’s even debatable rn to say Ja is better

There are many factors that can make the selection go wrong outside of the player's talent. The teammates, the coach, and the culture of the franchise that the player got drafted in. These are factors that could ruin a superstar potential's career. He could be the actual best in the draft but hey, isn't the team that drafted him had the opportunity to a lottery pick because the team sucked the whole season? All rookies are young and are still in their potential level coming in as pros, right? Then the teams that sucked the most will have a chance to pick the real best potentials but because of the above mentioned factors, the teams stunt their growth and eventually ruin their careers.

No, so I just watch the video

Got Giannis missed Tatum. Picked up Fultz.

Why did they rate his jumpsuit so high when he shot less than 40 percent from the field and less then 30 percent from downtown. His shot in a lot of attempts was flat. So they give him an 8 when he has not earned it.

Ben Simmons better than D Mitch?

awesome video dude

a lot of times its hard to make the best pick like 96 ai is still a really good player and kobe has just a hs so he wasnt as "experienced" as ai so it was a good pick

2:00 what about Allen Iverson

1. Edwards- Minnesota 2. Wiseman- Golden State 3. Lamelo- Charlotte 🤔🤔🤔

James Wiseman would be my pick I would down the road later.. try & maybe trade for 1 of the young guys

There's 2 i dont agree with.. 1 D Rose was the BEST player in that draft he got hurt. Dont disrespect D Rose bc before he was hurt who was the ppl talking about?... And the other 1.. is my opinion but i wont say it... but D Rose.. c'mon brah.. ppl STILL cant stay in front of him now.. lol