Draft Day!

[kingdivac]

I don't understand how people just watched Jrue Holiday and Derrick White play this season and look at Carter with incredibly similar intangibles and not be excited.

Again, those are ceiling comps, but Carter is the archetype you go to battle with in the playoffs. People complained about our lack of toughness, lack of defensive intensity? Not anymore.

I for one am very excited - 42 in vertical leaping possessed guy on defense. I'm gonna love watching Carter foul out playing defense trying to motivate the other Kings players. I just hope he stays healthy.

 

[Section 101]

Summer league will be interesting with Carter, Jones and I assume Keon.

 

[SacTownKid]

Yeah, if anyone is thinking he's going to step in and surpass Keon in his first season. I'd be surprised if that happened with how well the team played with Keon, who I assume will be the starter come game 1.

I don't think any rookie has much of a shot playing for Brown. This is the only guy in this draft that I think might crack it though.

 

[Padrino]

I am sure this pick will help us beat the wings of Pels.

This criticism is silly. Nobody at the Kings' pick in this particular draft was going to help the Kings solve that particular problem. Nor would trading the pick in a package to bring back someone like Kyle Kuzma. Better to make the BPA pick, get an absolute dog who could easily top out as a Jrue Holiday-level talent, and work the phones on a subsequent trade that actually does upgrade the wing, especially now that you know you've got a Fox/Ellis/Monk/Carter guard rotation next season. Davion becomes trade bait in addition to Huerter.

 

[NewArena]

Summer league will be interesting with Carter, Jones and I assume Keon.

I'd be surprised if Keon participates in that

 

[Tetsujin]

Since when has Fox been considered a really small PG?

Or a lackluster shooter?

dude was one of the best volume three point shooters in the league last season to the point that it became a meme.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

I don't think any rookie has much of a shot playing for Brown. This is the only guy in this draft that I think might crack it though.

and he's got to beat out Colby Jones first, which is no guarantee

 

[Section 101]

I don't think any rookie has much of a shot playing for Brown. This is the only guy in this draft that I think might crack it though.

Keegan waves at you.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

and he's got to beat out Colby Jones first, which is no guarantee

That doesn't seem unlikely. I'm assuming we keep him, and I can't see Carter not being in the rotation from the jump.

 

[Tetsujin]

TIL we apparently drafted 50-something year old Anthony Carter and not his son.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Can I just register my serious doubts about Jaylon Tyson? I see Jordan Poole all over again.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

That doesn't seem unlikely. I'm assuming we keep him, and I can't see Carter not being in the rotation from the jump.

I'm pretty high on Jones. I've thought he has a chance to get meaningful playing time this season, having assumed that Mitchell and Huerter would get traded

 

[Tetsujin]

Can I just register my serious doubts about Jaylon Tyson? I see Jordan Poole all over again.

also not big on guys who have to change colleges every single year they play

 

[Tetsujin]

*taps sign*

Whatever happens let’s just remember not to overreact like this guy did

https://twitter.com/statuses/1806044120315543738

 

[The_Jamal]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1806147842089930874

"bUt hE's oNlY 6'2"

 

[Capt. Factorial]

I'm pretty high on Jones. I've thought he had a chance to get meaningful playing time this season, having assumed that Mitchell and Huerter would get traded

I was pretty high on Jones as a late-first/early-second guy last year. I still think he's a rotation player in the NBA eventually. But Carter has a big dose of "it" that Jones doesn't quite have, so I think he jumps the line.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1806147842089930874

"bUt hE's oNlY 6'2"

We need to remind people that PGs routinely outrebound SGs due to role.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1806147842089930874

"bUt hE's oNlY 6'2"

He's longer than Mitch Richmond, if that helps make anyone feel better

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1806147842089930874

"bUt hE's oNlY 6'2"

Once again I feel like the whole height thing is meaningless at this point when we just saw Josh Hart effortlessly outrebound every center in the league and guard every guy on the court as a “pure” guard.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

He's longer than Mitch Richmond, if that helps make anyone feel better

Let's all hope he passes Richmond in all the Kings' record books!

 

[macadocious]

Once again I feel like the whole height thing is meaningless at this point when we just saw Josh Hart effortlessly outrebound every center in the league and guard every guy on the court as a guard.

Ya, the tape on this dude immediately reminded me of Hart.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

I was pretty high on Jones as a late-first/early-second guy last year. I still think he's a rotation player in the NBA eventually. But Carter has a big dose of "it" that Jones doesn't quite have, so I think he jumps the line.

He'll probably get the benefit of the doubt, just based on being the recent high pick "steal"

 

[Double-K]

Can I just register my serious doubts about Jaylon Tyson? I see Jordan Poole all over again.

I was always presented an alternative narrative recently that I've never thought of...

From what we know, do you think Jordan Poole was someone special being nurtured under the Dubs vets, and get literally knocked all the chemistry out of him? Or was he being overrated by being nurtured under the Dubs vets and now being exposed for who he really is?

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1806151413703057686

Oh wow

 

[Capt. Factorial]

I hear "Missi" means "bad hands"

 

[SacTownKid]

Keegan waves at you.

So does KZ Okpala, lol. I'm talking in this draft. Very few players top or bottom are cracking the rotation at this point.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1806151413703057686

Oh wow

But this dude already burned us

 

[luckytkp]

This criticism is silly. Nobody at the Kings' pick in this particular draft was going to help the Kings solve that particular problem. Nor would trading the pick in a package to bring back someone like Kyle Kuzma. Better to make the BPA pick, get an absolute dog who could easily top out as a Jrue Holiday-level talent, and work the phones on a subsequent trade that actually does upgrade the wing, especially now that you know you've got a Fox/Ellis/Monk/Carter guard rotation next season. Davion becomes trade bait in addition to Huerter.

I agree not a single player in the draft can solve, but are we closer to solving the problem? I don’t think so.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

So does KZ Okpala, lol. I'm talking in this draft. Very few players top or bottom are cracking the rotation at this point.

I'm still surprised Okpala didn't find a place in the league

 

[Capt. Factorial]

I was always presented an alternative narrative recently that I've never thought of...

From what we know, do you think Jordan Poole was someone special being nurtured under the Dubs vets, and get literally knocked all the chemistry out of him? Or was he being overrated by being nurtured under the Dubs vets and now being exposed for who he really is?

So, I want to believe the latter, but I don't understand how GS didn't realize this and gave him that silly contract. But yes, the latter.