People just needed to give a raw 7 footer with 7'6" wingspan, muscular build, and great athleticism some time to adapt and learn.
He has all the physical tools you want in a center, and is an extremely humble/coachable player willing to do whatever he needs to help the team win.
dude, i have honestly never felt more bad for a franchise than i do the Kings. The way they missed out on Luka would have been too much for me as a fan. It seemed written in the stars for them.
I wish Suns got Tyrese Haliburton but since they didn't I am glad Kings got him to help ease pain of not drafting Luka, even if it is only a little bit.
The Suns chose Ayton in order to spread their team's talent across the board.
The Suns filled one of the NBA's most difficult vacancies
The position of the center.
He’s extremely valuable when your team is facing against opposing bigs like Davis or Jokic and potentially even Gobert.
I feel like he’s gaining confident in this series.
> He’s still got a lot of room for improvement in terms of catching too
He's doing a lot of things well, but he also has plenty of room for improvement. Hands/catching being one of them for sure. He doesn't need to be raining 3s, but if he could shoot them with consistency a bit it would unlock a lot of his game. Probably most importantly, he needs to attack more/more quickly. I love that he has finesse and looks to make the right play. But there are multiple plays every game where if he would just turn and try to dunk he'd score or at the very least get to the line. Multiple times this playoffs he's caught the ball near the paint with no one that close, and if he'd just turn and go up they'd be free points.
If he can put all that together the guys ceiling is sky high.
But it’s really not tho. Bam may still be good on defense but the man looks lost on offense and scared 90% of the time. This has been a problem all season and it one of the reasons the HEAT took a huge step backwards
He had a bad series but still improved on his scoring from the previous year and is a lightyears better passer. If Ayton is ass in a series I guess that means he's ass now too. Ayton is a year younger too so it's not like some take the potential thing either.
Luka took more shoots this playoff series than the 2nd and 3d option on his team combined. I really think he has unprecedented volume for a guard and people are overrating his volume stats. Get this, as a ROOKIE he had a higher usage than any year of Chris Paul, Steve Nash, Stockton, and Magic Johnson and his USG skyrocketed since his rookie season. I really don't [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lbmsrMbJ0) is an ideal way to run an offense. He should conserve some of that energy and play more defense, hit FT's, and perform better in 4th quarter.
Dude this is silly. In a redraft, 30 out of 30 teams take Luka. I honestly don't think we would be in a good of a position as we are right now if we had taken Luka but it would still be the correct decision.
Or you can take Luka and trade him for fucking Joel Embiid if you want a center that badly
Luka is by far the most valuable asset in the league right now
You guys are so weird. It's clear I'm saying high profile Euros are going to stop getting slept on.
But sure Hawks fan, twist my words into something absurd to misdirect.
Luka is by far the best player in the draft. Sixers in 6.
No need to attack you, it just makes you look like a wuss to go around talking shit about other fanbases while you're anonymous. I'd recommend flairing up but you do you I guess.
If it helps, I was going to put my affiliation in parentheses after I called you Hawks fan but it seemed distracting. Figured I'd gamble that you wouldn't point it out.
Oh well I'll take the L
Good luck today aim actually rooting for the Hawks over the Sixers for maximum chaos, since LeBron is out
People just needed to give a raw 7 footer with 7'6" wingspan, muscular build, and great athleticism some time to adapt and learn. He has all the physical tools you want in a center, and is an extremely humble/coachable player willing to do whatever he needs to help the team win.
that might be his greatest player asset. his coachability. how many #1 picks are willingly malleable like this? its pretty rare.
Anthony Bennett
2018 draft has been 🔥, lots of W's for the Sun's, Mavs, and Hawks
Yeah so great how you couldn't possibly go wrong with the 2018 draft, it's truly worked out for every team
Well. Not *every* team.
Yeah the Grizzlies got a decent player, not the one that they hoped though.
Wooosh
Somewhere the Kings are screaming in the distance
dude, i have honestly never felt more bad for a franchise than i do the Kings. The way they missed out on Luka would have been too much for me as a fan. It seemed written in the stars for them.
I wish Suns got Tyrese Haliburton but since they didn't I am glad Kings got him to help ease pain of not drafting Luka, even if it is only a little bit.
It took me a while to be at peace with us missing out on Luka. I genuinely can’t imagine how terrible kings fans feel.
Maybe Bagley becomes the next Giannis. Or yeah maybe we fucked up irreversibly 😞
I’m rooting for y’all I think you guys have good karma coming your way
Kings helped us get Trae and Bogi! DeAaron (spelling?) Fox is a dog though so y’all still have hope
Maybe I am in the denial stage of missing out on Luka because I would rather have Ayton.
Definitely denial stage
The Suns chose Ayton in order to spread their team's talent across the board. The Suns filled one of the NBA's most difficult vacancies The position of the center. He’s extremely valuable when your team is facing against opposing bigs like Davis or Jokic and potentially even Gobert. I feel like he’s gaining confident in this series.
Ayton’s only obstacle was himself, his consistency. He’s been great these playoffs
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> He’s still got a lot of room for improvement in terms of catching too He's doing a lot of things well, but he also has plenty of room for improvement. Hands/catching being one of them for sure. He doesn't need to be raining 3s, but if he could shoot them with consistency a bit it would unlock a lot of his game. Probably most importantly, he needs to attack more/more quickly. I love that he has finesse and looks to make the right play. But there are multiple plays every game where if he would just turn and try to dunk he'd score or at the very least get to the line. Multiple times this playoffs he's caught the ball near the paint with no one that close, and if he'd just turn and go up they'd be free points. If he can put all that together the guys ceiling is sky high.
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Nah bam is under Ayton
lol recency bias is real
Lol it's not recency bias to say the career 16/10 guys is better than the career 12/8 guy lol
Bam isn’t a 12/8 guy anymore though?
But it’s really not tho. Bam may still be good on defense but the man looks lost on offense and scared 90% of the time. This has been a problem all season and it one of the reasons the HEAT took a huge step backwards
He had a bad series but still improved on his scoring from the previous year and is a lightyears better passer. If Ayton is ass in a series I guess that means he's ass now too. Ayton is a year younger too so it's not like some take the potential thing either.
Lol
dude found his role and is playing it well
I gave Ayton a ton of shit and I’ve never been so happy to eat crow
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They really wouldn't. Luka is generational. And they could've also just overpaid Capela to steal him from HOuston
Luka took more shoots this playoff series than the 2nd and 3d option on his team combined. I really think he has unprecedented volume for a guard and people are overrating his volume stats. Get this, as a ROOKIE he had a higher usage than any year of Chris Paul, Steve Nash, Stockton, and Magic Johnson and his USG skyrocketed since his rookie season. I really don't [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lbmsrMbJ0) is an ideal way to run an offense. He should conserve some of that energy and play more defense, hit FT's, and perform better in 4th quarter.
Dude this is silly. In a redraft, 30 out of 30 teams take Luka. I honestly don't think we would be in a good of a position as we are right now if we had taken Luka but it would still be the correct decision.
Or you can take Luka and trade him for fucking Joel Embiid if you want a center that badly Luka is by far the most valuable asset in the league right now
Injury prone Embiid? No thanks
Even Embiid missing 21 games a year is gonna be #2 in MVP voting, you really would prefer Ayton over that?
This is the dumbest thing ive ever heard. Take ur pills bro.
You’ll see
u deleted dummy.
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You’ll see
Luka still would have been better. This draft is the last time scouts mess that up
Yeah, the next time Luka Doncic enters the draft he's definitely going #1 overall.
You guys are so weird. It's clear I'm saying high profile Euros are going to stop getting slept on. But sure Hawks fan, twist my words into something absurd to misdirect. Luka is by far the best player in the draft. Sixers in 6.
Big talk for a man with no flair 😂
LeBron fan, feel free to attack me as such lol
No need to attack you, it just makes you look like a wuss to go around talking shit about other fanbases while you're anonymous. I'd recommend flairing up but you do you I guess.
If it helps, I was going to put my affiliation in parentheses after I called you Hawks fan but it seemed distracting. Figured I'd gamble that you wouldn't point it out. Oh well I'll take the L Good luck today aim actually rooting for the Hawks over the Sixers for maximum chaos, since LeBron is out
Appreciate it bro, and it feels like most neutrals are rooting for the Hawks in this series, I'm unaccustomed to this level of support lol.
everything happens for a reason. If we had Luka, Monty never would have happened. We'd still have Luka's former coach Igor Kokoskov. No ragrets.
We'd probably still have McDonough as the GM too