On this episode, he checked it's a Tuesday, and that means it's the rookie record. This week, we're checking in on some of the rookies in the second round who've made some impact this year. There's actually a lot of a man, So let's get a move on and drop that motherfuckle beat that should be Rihanna, stop being lazy, drop me all right. So nikoliosis completely changed the way
that we look at sex rounders. Right, the best player in the NBA, in the world maybe also like top three, top five of all time is the forty first pick in the draft. The bar at that point gets very, very high for MS loving Tim Connolly, who has made every executive in the air realize that those second rounders
have value. So this season, the second rounders have let's just say, they haven't covered themselves in glory yet pause, like they haven't past years, but there are some really good prospects who have started to make a name for themselves. We start with the Trailblazers and their forty third pick in the draft out of audi and by way of the Breakers in New Zealand. I'm talking Ryan or Rupeia. It is taking the six six shooting guard a little
time to acclimate. I mean, he is used to eating croissants, but he is starting to get a little run in Portland who also Portland has awesome French food, and damn he is showing flashes. Over his last four games, Ryan Rupea is averaging nearly twenty minutes a game and has put up not crazy numbers five, three, and two. But he's playing solid defense and people love him. These gms around the league of positive things to say about him.
He's doing this on forty percent from three, which is exactly what you want from an athletic, tall, nineteen year old prospect. He's apparently very popular on the team as well. He's handsome, which speaks well for his future prospects as a Blazer. Another clear win for Joe Cronin, who keeps stacking w's like their dinner plates in a diner, and Miami Heat fans continue to say Joe Cronan sucks. So fuck Miami Heat fans. So let's turn now to the
forty Except for Jonathan Zaslow, we love you. I'm sorry. Now we turn to the forty fifth pick in the draft. This one's the steel folks. This this one gets you forty four slots of value one year early to get to steal him. His name is GG Jackson. The Grizzly season absolutely tanked to Enjaw, who was suspended the first twenty five games of the season went down. But the silver lining is that they've played a lot of ton a lot of young players, a ton of them, and
some of them are balling out. Gig Let's be honest, has been a revelation once scene as a lottery pick. Some argue that he would have been top three last year. Uh maybe even top one this year if he hadn't left school early. He is putting up some absurd numbers since cracking the lineup. Many people thought he should have been a lottery pick last year, but it was all about his attitude. Can we trust GG? Blah blah blah GG size wise is a fucking monster. What is he? Six',
seven six,' nine, let's see let's check. It out, Six' nine, oh my god six' nine point Guard in the last in the, last twenty five games he's, averaging twenty five minutes fourteen four and one thirty. Seven percent FROM deep that. Is nba starter numbers his last game out he put up thirty SIX. And three against okc. That is fucking insane while, his defense needs work he could put the put the, ball. In the hoop folks he basically acts as an extra Lottery. Pick for the grizzlies guess what
happens when he comes off the bench a six man six. Man, of the year folks maybe. Want, to take it finally we'll move on to the. Steal of THE draft is he i. Don't think he is is the fifty seventh and Second To Last. Pick trace jackson davis the reason that it was the second TO last pick is i think there was a second rounder that was, stolen From, a Team maybe bulls, Maybe Miami Forget anyway TRACE jackson
davis tj, d they Call Him went to Golden. State Out of indiana jackson davis had a, stretch of Fourteen games mostly when draymond, was out through suspension where he put up twelve seven and two nearly two stock stock stocks a game in just twenty two minutes of play. Grant Grown Man numbers trace, jackson davis started, tonight by the way, starting at the five and they beat The Hell.
Out of san antonio his playing time did Go down naturally when draymond came back with the skill, level is Coming, along not like pajemski. But golly PRETTY good. HE'S an nba player, i think for sure probably gonna break into the starting lineup in a few years when all these dusty antiques That We Call the golden state warriors retire. To their retirement home pretty fucking good value for the second to last, pick in the draft. If you ask me With pods and two joe d our dubs my top.
Five draft this year next week we'll finish our look at the rookie class. With the undrafted folks that's all the time that we have for This Episode. Of the Heat. Check come Back wednesday come back wednesday for, an on new episode and check out the feed for past episodes and many episodes which drop unexpectedly like a thunderclap in the. Middle of a. Rainstorm make a clap we do not
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