Hoops Tonight - NBA Draft Reaction: How the Warriors, Lakers, and Mavericks all got better

high expectations. For the Los Angeles Lakers, I've Jalen Hood Chafino and Maxwell Lewis for the Golden State Warriors, Brandon Podziemski, and last but not least, for the Dallas Mavericks, the number one high school recruit from twenty twenty two, a center who played sparingly for Duke Mister Derek Lively, is going to be a center and a very important piece for Dallas Mavericks team that desperately needs playable role players next seas. And so we're gonna do full scouting reports

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back in the draft or even undrafted. Whether that's Austin Reeves or it's Alex Caruso or it's Kyle Kuzma. There is a long line of Laker draft picks, particularly ones that are outside of the lottery or outside of the obvious. Ironically, Lonzo Ball is probably the worst recent draft pick of theirs, and he was the number two overall pick. So when it comes to in most of Loonzo's issues were related to health. I actually thought he was a very very

good player when he was healthy. But the Laker scouting department does a really, really good job, and so I'm excited to dive into these two picks, and I liked both of them a lot. After diving further into it, so Jalen Houchifino is your textbook pull up shooting guard. And remember, pull up shooting is a specific weakness for the Lakers, and I think that's a big part of why they targeted him. In particular, he's very big compared

to most ball handling guards. He's six ' four point twenty five without shoes, so he's a little over six five with shoes, massive wingspan, six ' ten in a quarter. He weighs about two hundred and seventeen pounds. That's very big for a guard his size. So he's big and strong. To give you guys a comparison Bruce Brown, who obviously wasn't a ball handling guard, well, he did bring the ball be floor, but wasn't like a you know, a

guy that would spam ball screens. But to give you an idea of size after you just watched the NBA Finals, Bruce Brown is six three and a half without shoes and has a six to nine wingspan. Weighed one eighty seven in college and is up to two poh two now, So he's basically a slightly bigger version of Bruce Brown in terms of his physical profile, though he is not the same type of athlete that Bruce Brown is. He's

not nearly as explosive. At Indiana averaged four eighteen, four and four on forty two percent from the field, thirty three percent from three seventy eight percent from the line, again as a freshman, so he's playing against older players often and in a pretty high usage role. Surprisingly, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go over some of his play type data from Synergy and then tell you what I saw on film. So Indiana score three hundred and two points on three hundred and sixty six Jalen

pick and rolls, including passes. He almost always ran his pick and rolls from the middle of the floor, and he almost always used the screens. He doesn't reject picks off, and that's something that I'd like to see him do a little bit more in the NBA. Almost always takes a pull up jumper. About fifty percent of the time when he comes off of the pick, he takes a

pull up jump shot. He shot forty one percent on pull up jump shots last year forty six percent when you weigh it for three, so forty six percent in effective field goal percentage. Those are really good numbers for a young guard. The tons of young guards are super inefficient on pull up jump shots, and they take them and they look good every once in a while, but they miss a ton. Uh Jalen Rich if you know, I actually did a really nice job knocking down pull

up jump shots last season. Got a really good floater as well. Forty one on floaters. Has a good mix of them as well. Like you take the traditional floaters that you see everyone else take, but he can also take these sweeping floaters as he's going lateral from the rim, he can make those as well. On tape, I was really impressed with his handle. I thought he had good control of the basketball, does a good job protecting the basketball too by turning his back. Obviously, still amounted a

few turnovers, as you expect from young guards. That'll go away as he gets better at managing ball pressure with more reps, especially in the NBA. Very methodical in pick and roll play, slow, slowly works to his spots, which is the way you should play when you're a below average athlete who has good physical tools. He's big and strong, not the most explosive dude in the world. That has turned him into a slow and methodical ballscreen operator. He does a good job of not like kind of pre

selecting or pre determining his moves. He just kind of makes reads. He doesn't try to go hunt his shot. He just tries to create the advantage for his offense. And that's where I think he's at his best. Particularly in that tournament game against Miami, they were trapping him and blitzing him on a lot of pick and rolls. Didn't try to do too much, just kind of pulled away and used his height in his long arms to dump the ball over the top to the big man.

Every single time the screen defender engages with him, he just gets rid of the basketball, whether it's a pocket pass to the role man or that over the top pass, and it blitz very good at getting rid of the basketball to the rollman. Struggles a little bit with cross court reads to the weakside corner. He's a little slow to see it and a little inaccurate, but that'll come in time, and he's got big enough hands and long enough arms that I actually think he's going to be

really good at that in the long run. Does take a lot of jump shots in the mid range and a lot of floaters, but he makes him at a good percentage. He's just your textbook big guard that can make plays off the bounce. With this Laker team that likes to use Lebron James and Anthony Davis as screeners a lot, they need guards who can run ball screens, and I don't think they're gonna bring back Lonnie Walker. It remains to be seen if they can bring back

Dennis Schroeder if he stays on a minimum. I'm sure the Lakers would love to have him back. But Dennis played really well last year, so there's a good chance that he gets a mid level exception deal this year. That means that it's gonna be Austin and D'Angelo Russell in the front court or in the back court to start, and then off the bench, like maybe Malik Beasley if they even keep him, they could use him as trade

ballasts as well. So, like it depends to see, it depends on what the Lakers do this offseason in terms of bringing in guards. I wouldn't be surprised if they brought in a one or two veteran minimum level guards. But Jalen Huchefino's gonna have a really good opportunity to earn that backup shot creator role and play off of the Lakers bench a couple other play types. He was only point seven to two points per possession in spot up situations. He shot much much better on pull up

jumpers than catch and shoot jumpers. He shot forty one percent on pull up jump shots, thirty one percent on catch and shoot jump shots, thirty percent when he was unguarded. Now, this is somewhat common because has a lot to do with the way his role is structured. So, for instance, he took one hundred and ninety six pull up jump shots last year with Indiana only sixty four catch and shoot jump shots. So the post is always in his hands, and so there's a different rhythm and flow to shooting

off the dribble than there is off the catch. And when you're constantly taking all of your shots off of the dribble, sometimes your catch and shoot situation just feels a little clunky to you because it's a completely different type of shot. But he's got really good touch, as you see on his float, as you see on his pull up jump shooting percentage, as you see on his free throws. He's seventy eight percent from free throws. Which

is solid. So my thing is I tend to think that as a catch and shoot player, he will get much much better once he learns to construct a muscle memory that he can depend on in those situations so that he can utilize the great touch that he has when he's catching and shooting. Not only that, in spot up situations, he's got such a good handle and his gifted playmaker that he can't and he's got good size that he should be great attacking closeouts, which is something

he didn't do very well last year. So I think he'll be better at that in the long run. But that's definitely a weakness for him right now is spot up situations. But again, if he's coming off the bench for the Lakers as a primary ball handler, it'll be more important for him to be able to make plays in pick and roll. He had nineteen points on sixteen ISOs and shot fifty percent in those situations. But that's really low volume, so not too much to take away there.

Shots just fifty three percent at the rim on tape. What stood out to me took a lot of really difficult shots at the rim, trying to draw fouls, you know, just throwing shit up and falling on the floor. That's gonna hurt your percentages. Obviously not the most gifted athlete in the world, so a lot of times he's shooting over the top of people instead of just going through

them or around them on defense. Not overly quick, but he does have really long arms, which helps gifted in help situations at kind of digging down and grabbing at the basketball and recovering. In the Miami game and the tournament, rough defensive game for him, really struggled containing the Miami guards, was getting beat off the dribble a lot, aureg going navigating over screens. But he did have better stretches of on ball defense during the regular season and on film.

A lot of it was just bad technique, like reaching in instead of staying solid, giving up the driving lane or on the screen instead of prepping to step over the top, just kind of walking headlong into it because he's not doing his preps. So a lot of stuff that I think he can get better at, I think is really good tools. And so he could certainly become a switchable guard that can guard bigger wings because he's got good size and the length to bother ball handlers

at the point of attack. But he's gonna need to work on some of his technique stuff and some of his foot speed stuff to succeed in the NBA, especially as we all know NBA teams are gonna spam pick and roll with really good guards. Overall, I like to pick. I think it fills a specific need. They needed a backup guard that can run ball screens. The Lakers are actually pretty deep at forward right now with Ruyatcha, Murrage,

Aired Vanderbilt, Lebron James, and Anthony Davis. He also played with a really gifted role man at Indiana with Tracy Jackson Davis and did a good job of utilizing him and getting in the basketball. That's a decent fit with Anthony Davis. Whether or not he gets significant rotation minutes is going to come down to the types of players that the Lakers can get in free agency for the minimum and what he can contribute on the defensive end. Angie's list is now. Angie your home for everything Home.

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pick number forty. The Lakers trade it up and so That's why I wanted to cover Maxwell Lewis, because clearly the scouting department really liked this guy because they went out of their way to move up to get him by trading their pick and some cash. He's a textbook scoring forward. He's six ' six in a quarter without shoes, seven foot wingspans of super long arms, two hundred and seven pounds, little fin not bad though, softomware, you're Pepperdine.

Seventeen point six rebounds and three assists, forty seven percent from the field, thirty five percent from three to seventy nine percent from the line. To me, he's your textbook tip of the spear scoring forward. So he's not the guy that's going to attack a set defense and consistently

create great shots. But if God can consistently set him up with close out opportunities and mismatches, he's going to be able to score there because when the defender is coming at him or out of position, he's really good at playing that leverage game, getting them to lean one way and go the other, or if he has a size advantage, using his body with his back turn to get closer to the basket. And he is awesome at

finishing plays when he is set up. He's a deadly spot up shooter sixty three percent effective field goal percentage in catch and shoot situations, eighty three percent effective field goal percentage in unguarded catch and shoot situation, so deadly. When he is catching the ball in the perimeter and shooting threes, teams treat him like a catch and shoot guy who's deadly, so they close out super hard. And

that's where I was most impressed with Max. He's really good at identifying the angle the guy's closing out at and just quick ripping. So like, if the dude's closing out at his left shoulder, he's not gonna pump fake or wait, he's just gonna rip right on the catch or the other way. If he does have an opportunity to bait the guy into leaving his feet because he's further away, then he can utilize the pump fake. I actually posted a clip of one of his pump and

rip dunks during a game this season. You can find that on my Twitter feed. Really really impressive play, multiple counter moves. Again, not gonna break you down off the dribble in a set situation, but when he makes let's say that a guy closed out to his left shoulder and he rips through, but the guy like recovers and beats into the spot. He's gonna spin back or hit it behind the back dribble to get back to the

left to get all the way to the rim. He's always got a counter move ready, specifically turning his back to the basket and using his sizes as an advantage. And he's really good at shooting when he's got his back turn in the basket. He's fifty five percent on hook shots, sixty three percent at the rim. Had a lot of high flying dunks this Year's got really good physical tools to get up over the rim. He's also was a very successful post player, especially especially against mismatches.

He's uh he scored seventy six points on seventy four post ups including passes, which is awesome at the college level. Really patient, just kind of keeps that dribble live when guys are digging at him and kind of waits for guys to go home, and once things kind of clear up, then he just hits it to the side to try to get to the rim. So again, in a back

to back situation, guys guarding me back to back. The easiest way sometimes is just to go around him, and so he'll make a lateral move quick and try to get to the other side of the rim finishes there. Really well, that'll be an interesting thing for the Lakers to build out over the years, especially with Phil Handy. He saw a lot of people on Twitter comparing him to Trey Murphy, and I actually really really like that cump because he's like the three and D guy but

with real scoring chops. But remember it, with Trey Murphy, the defensive end ended up being the issue for him. Primarily He's got great tools, but his instincts and his foot speed ended up being an issue. That's going to be the big thing for Max is is he going to be able to be playable defensively because he's not super quick, but he does have great tools, So a lot of it's going to come down to his basketball

IQ on the defensive end of the flour. Overall, good forward depth for the Lakers, especially for future seasons or in the case that the Lakers have to move one of Ruey or Van Doh in a trade. So really good draft for the Lakers once again, at least from what I can tell up front. Obviously, time will tell as the guys play in the league, but I like both of these guys. Moving on to the Warriors, Brandon

Podzamski's textbook lefty scoring guard. A little bit undersize, six three and three quarters without shoes, short arms, six five and a half wing span, weighs two hundred and four pounds tho, so he's built pretty well for his size. Didn't play much at Illinois, then transferred to Santa Clara and was awesome last year at Santa Clara. I averaged twenty points nine rebounds how about that and four assists.

Shot forty eight percent from the field, forty four percent from three, seventy seven percent from the line, two point three stocks per game, a lot of steals. I think he was one in one point eight steals per game. They were doing a lot of pressing and he was really active in the press, getting steals for quick runout dunks and things like that. Playtype data awesome shooter, one point one to one points per possession in spot up situations,

deadly knocking down shots and attacking clobe outs. Sixty six percent effective field goal percentage on catch and shoe jumpers eighty four percent effective field goal percentage on unguarded catch and shoe jumpers, so just a deadly shooter, very good off the dribble, forty percent on pull up jump shots, fifty three percent effective field goal percentage on pull up jump shots, and a good short game forty five percent

on floaters, sixty seven percent on hook shots. Was a good pick and roll shot creators zero point eight nine points per possession, which is good for that level. Faced super aggressive coverages too. Teams were picking him up as soon as he passed half court, the defenders, all the screen defenders, all the way up at the level of

the screen constantly He's getting bracketed. Had to work really hard to set up his man for ball screen, so he faced pretty intense defense throughout the season and still did really well. Just an outstanding passer, just makes these unbil There was this one where he threw a lob where he was going towards his left and he threw a hook lob from below his waist that was right on target above the rim for their big man to

grab it and dunk it. Makes a lot of really impressive passes in pick and roll and is a great shot creator. He shot fifty percent effective field goal percentage when shooting out of pick and roll, a lot of like janky stuff, funky looking shots, a lot of like step through floaters, and weird looking high arching shots, but they just tend to go in, as you can see in the numbers. I actually think he's gonna be a really good fit in the Warriors motion offense. Why he's

awesome in spot up situations. He had a fifty two percent effective field goal percentage coming off of screens, and he had a fifty four percent effective field goal percentage coming off of dribble handoffs in addition to all this stuff I was talking about in pick and roll. So again, he's another one of those guys kind of like the Tyler Harrow mold, where like he's really good when he gets separation naturally as part of the coverage, which is something I think he's gonna get a lot in the

Warriors motion offense. So I really like the fit offensively, the defensive end is gonna be the issue. He's not overly tall, his short arms, very athletic, but he's not a good point of attack defender. So he's vertically athletic, not latterly athletic, but He is an outstanding rebounder, grab nine rebounds per game last year, which is amazing. Think about kind of like what Dante de Vincenzo did for the Warriors last year. Just kind of a super aggressive rebounder,

especially on the offensive end. Dante's a better athlete, but not as good as a shooter. And Dante was a little definitely a better defensive player, good quick feet and was a good ball pressure guard for the Warriors. So I expect Dante to opt out. There's a lot of interest, specifically from the New York Knicks from what I've been hearing a reading. I should say so honestly, like if he can defend well enough, he can take that rotation spot.

But that's the same thing I'm gonna say about everybody else on this list, all four of these guys. Again, this is something to keep in mind, like young players don't win in the NBA. Michael Porter Junior was the only guy below the age of twenty five who played over one hundred minutes in the NBA Finals, and he also was the guy who played the worst. Typically speaking, especially when you get the late playoff rounds, it's grown

men that win in playoff games. And so none of these guys are gonna play much in all likelihood, and if they do play it like a Christian braun, it's gonna be because they can defend and their coach trusts them in those situations. So again, I like to pick great offensive fit. Whether or not he ends up being a useful player is gonna come down to the defensive end, and Steve Current particular is already not super high in

playing young guys for the Mavericks. Derek Lively this was the number one prospect in the twenty twenty two class out of high school according to ESPN's College Basketball Recruiting Service. He's a center seven foot one, seven to seven wingspan, two hundred and fifteen pounds, very thin, only played twenty

one minutes per game at Duke. Averaged five points, five rebounds, and one assist per game, shot sixty six percent from the field, did average two point four blocks per game, and had an eight block game at one point during the season, So some real rim protection stuff there. He was an awesome roleman. He shot twenty four for twenty eight on rollman possessions this year with Duke. Just caught everything and dunked everything. Legit vertical spacing threat, easy target

above the rim. That's going to be a great fit with Luka Doncicch Kyrie Irving. But this pick is all about rim protection. According to Synergy, players shot just thirty nine and a half percent at the rim against Lively, which is the eighty third percentile. So that's very good. Super mobile defender and pick and roll, very good at getting up to the level of the screen to dissuade the pull of jump shot sprinting back into the picture to contain at the rim. Has a really good recovery

athleticism when he's out of position. A lot of like really impressive blocks on tape where you're like you feel like he's completely buried or completely out of position, yet somehow gets back there and makes a play. I thought he played with really good motor like it wasn't like he was lumbering around on defense. I thought he was moving around and playing hard. He does struggle a bit

with bigger post players. There was this big center for NC State that was just barbecue and his ass with like his big kind of like chubby guy just barbecuing his ass with like quick pivots and getting him out of position with like a chicken wing to get all the way to the basket. I do really like this

pick though. Do you guys remember the Brooklyn Nets team from last year that was really good before Kyrie Irving blew it up with a trade request and they had won like a like something crazy like twenty five I've out of twenty seven games or something like that. Nick Claxon was a big part of that. Just a skinny, lanky, hyper athletic rim protector that could be kind of the baseline for their defense. And this guy has theunity. Derek has the opportunity to be that type of a foundational

rim protector for this Dallas team. He needs to improve in a bunch of areas and needs to improve in free throw shooting, needs to boke up a little bit, but I do think he could be the foundation of a credible defense next season. So Derek Lively for the Dallas Mavericks. I really liked that pick as well. We're gonna do a mailbag episode next week on Wednesday, and maybe I'll take one or two other prospects. If I get enough people asking about it, I'll hit a couple

more prospects during the mailbag episode. Next week. Also, I'll tweet out a tweet asking for questions as well. But anything you guys want to talk about next Wednesday, I don't care if it has nothing to do with basketball. Drop it in the comments under this video and we'll be doing that mailbag episode next Wednesday. As always, I sincerely appreciate you guys. I will see you Monday as we break down all the news from the weekend. The volume