If Dillingham and Topic are there at 4 and the Spurs like both of them, I think there’s a good chance they would take a wing at 4. Detroit, Charlotte, and Portland are most likely not taking either of them, and it is unlikely a team would trade up in what seems like a bad draft to get either of them. If they fell in love with Buzelis, Castle, or Holland, I think Spurs take one of them at 4 in this scenario.

I like the two Wizards choices, Zaccharie Risacher and Nikola Djurisic!

Reed should be the perfect fit to Houston.

If Spurs get Castle at 8 thats a steal he has a lot of Jimmy Butler in his game on both ends I think and if his shooting comes along he has the upside to be the best player in this class that’s why I have him 2nd on my big board. I know Jimmy isn’t a point guard per se but he’s averaged 5-7 assists per game most of his career and Castle is way better than him at age 19. I know that’s a high end outcome but even if he’s 75% of Jimmy that’s worth a top 5 pick in this class imo

Dillingham and castle is an awesome guard duo to work with vassell. All of their skillsets are complementary

Ah my favorite channel to listen to at work. Keep up the grind brother

Any combination of Castle and Dillingham/Risacher could really fill some holes on the Spurs rotation (Reliable 3pt shooters, perimeter defense, scoring, ball handling). Even Clingan could log 23-25 minutes a game for the Spurs as a rotation player.

I think Tyler smith is really slept on despite him not shooting well at the combine he still bullied Taylor Hendricks and jarace walker while playing in the gleague and that says a lot

solid mock Sheldon!!!

Love this for the blazers

Perfection for the Trailblazers picks!

i think the nuggets should get Yves Missi to play backup center for jokic and play Julian Strawther/Hunter Tyson more minutes for their shooting, that might be the best play for them as a fan

After taking sometime and looking at what the Rockets need Reed Sheppard is the perfect pick. I didn’t like Reed at first , but after looking at his videos he is the player to pick at 3.

I like Holland to the Blazers

Hornets fan here. I’m ok with clingan pick BUT I really like Dalton kinecth. Is there any chance and with what team/teams could hornets trade pick 6/42 for pick 10-12/20-25 and select kinecth/edey?

Was waiting for this one. Need the draft and summer classic already

I wish Reed and Dalton Knecht would come to Memphis. I rlly want to meet Reed. So that’s why I hope he comes to Tennessee

Really quality lottery wouldn’t be surprised if it’s spot on

Definitely like Williams coming to play with his bother. That was awesome series between the thunder n mavs Sheldon

I thought tristan da silva was project around pick 16. Did his stick drop?

Love the picks for my Spurs!

For the pistons it’s not about ivey more specifically a non shooter alongside Duren and Ausar who are both non shooters and can only score around the rim. We’d be adding a guy who can only score around the rim alongside them. When Cade needs to be surrounded with shooting.

As a Magic fan, I love the Ajay "reminds me of Jamal Murray" Mitchell pick. What are your thoughts on Tyler Kolek? If you look at his stats and the competition he went against, it is pretty impressive. He reminds me of a modern-day John Stockton.

(Spurs fan here) My man Sheldon did his thing on this mock draft!! I LOVE it!!! 🔥🔥🔥

As a Hornets fan, I would be concerned if we draft Clingan just because it means that we had to use a high draft pick on something we should've already had in place. I don't think the Hornets go center but I wouldn't be surprised as you said because the new regime may not view Mark as the center of the future.

I “liked” and subscribed cause of your knowledge and your take on OKC. THUNDER UP!!

I love the picks

Bilal coulibaly x Zaccharie risacher were teammates in France already 🔥🔥🔥🔥

The most realistic draft for the Spurs: 4th-Topic/Dillingham 8th-Salaun/Williams

As a Spurs fan, I sure hope we draft Rob Dillingham. Then I'm happy with whatever else we are able to get at #8.

Not sure about Reed in Houston, their backcourt guards are already under sized and drafting Sheppard wont help and will be an issue defensively

Cody Williams should be pick at 5

I think the wizards going point guard houston’s gonna go small Foward from France 4 Point guard Serbia 5 big man UConn 6 castle 7 Tennessee small forward 8 rod hollend 9 Colorado Williams 10 duke McCain

Where does Risacher fit when the Wizards already have Coulibaly, Avdija, Kispert, and Kuzma? They should take Topic.

As a jazz fan it would be really interesting to get Topic. Also not sure I see Walter falling that far but would be a neat pick up for whomever.

How common is trading up or down?

Bro, stick to ur guns! After doing some research on teams and needs/rumoer.. I think this a lot better!! Hawks- Sarr Wizards- Topić Rockets - Shepard Spurs- Risacher Pistons - Dalton K Hornets - Clingan Blazers - Holland Spurs - Rob D Memphis - Buzelis Jazz - castle

I’m so excited for the draft. Risacher seems like a top 2 guy, I’m happy w sheperd. Topic to the Jazz would be awesome.

For your next mock, look at wings with length for 1/2 of their picks. They really need length at the wings position.

I think Sheppard makes the most sense

OKC should draft Edey they need his rebounding

I'm not as sold on Castle as others are but I really like the idea of pairing him with Dillingham. The Spurs with those 2... sheesh!

What about the 2nd round? My Warriors only have a 2nd round pick. I think they will draft either Antonio Reeves out of UK or Mark Sears out of Bama. Kerr loves small guards, and both have potential to be microwave scorers off the bench, which the Warriors need.

Love this for the Spurs! I feel like the likely scenario would be Castle at 4 and Dilly at 8, but nonetheless, I feel better and better as time goes about these 2 picks.

I respect you listening to feedback from Wizards fans about the Clingan pick. Still would rather have Castle than Zach but the analysis and fit there is something I could get behind if it happened in real life. Much respect bro and great vid as always.

Honestly if we draft Dillingham and Castle we will run into a Hawks problem with Young and Murray.

topic fornthe spurs is perfect

Did I miss it or did you just have Zachary R. (Not gonna butcher his name) falling out of the first round completely? I went pick by pick and don't recall him being one of them.

Castle+Salaun for the Spurs will be the perfect

Great mock draft these fits would probably be the best spots for these players success. The spurs would probably give rob his best ceiling

Are the Wizards thinking of adding another SF? Coulibaly, Avdija, Kuzma, Kispert. I know, drafting for best player available and not for fit... but still!

McCain coming back home baby!

Castle and Dilingham would be crazy for us. However I don’t think he makes it past hornets/blazers. I’d take him at 4. He will grow and he’s got best perimeter defense in draft. Then either dilly or topic will fall to 8

Great job on the spurs draft

Go Lakers!!! Zach Edey is a great choice!

Dilli and castle would be great but my dream is Sheppard and castle and then trade a couple seconds and devontae Graham for a mid 1st pick and get salaun.

Do you think John Stockton is a good comparison for his high potential ?

As a blazers fan I would love Stephon Castle or Ron holland at 7, but I’d be happy with Cody or matas as well. I doubt Zac falls to 7 but I’d be very happy to get him too

I don't like either pick for the wizards... they need a center and a point guard. Neither pick addresses this

I think you're wrong about the Kings losing Monk. They're going to get creative and find a way to keep him. Tall three and D guy who can create their own shot would be the best way to go.

Might be a hot take but I’m starting to like the idea of Houston trading down for Dalton Knecht. Everything you said for the grizzlies taking him matches Houston

I think wemby has changed the nba again and people aren’t realizing it. Curry came in and changed it and no one realized until they made their playoff run. Wemby is tall as hell and has crazy ability to handle the ball and really move with it, the nba has never seen anything close to him. I think that the league is gonna change again where teams are going to need more bigs and forwards more like the 80s and 90s. Especially ones who can defend. I know Chet and wemby are small in physical stature and build then guys like embiid and jokic and get bullied right now but I think thier ceilings are much much higher because the base level of skill is so much larger. I’m a blazer fan so im used to losing and not a wemby/spurs fan, just someone who can see things as they are without my emotions and personal wants effecting my assessment. Wembys potential is crazy, Pop is the best coach he could have gone to and played it incredibly smart by limiting his minutes which I think he may do next year as well because the risk of injury to a guy like wemby is super high and until he is a little more mature and grown into his body he could suffer ankle, foot, and knee injuries that could seriously effect his career. He was the leagues best defender and was able to guard the perimeter very well for a center and someone his size, the ability to guard 1-5 effectively, it’s unreal and his reach allows him to block shots most can’t. His ability to really shoot makes him a huge problem because at his size the fade away seems to be a guaranteed bucket and unstoppable when he gets better. Chet is great all around although I don’t think he is as good as wemby but he is also able to defend, dribble, and shoot at a high level at his higher, he got incredibly lucky and was sent to a team who develops talent really well and had a good team already, even without Chet I think they would have done pretty well this year but he helped them into the second round right off the bat.

I think these are the 2 players the Spurs will take, only in reverse order. Castle at 4, Dillingham at 8. Castle stock is rising.

I would love Mitchell playing with Wagner and Banchero

As a grizzlies fan I’ll take Knecht but I’m trading smart to Houston for clingon if possible or trading him for brook Lopez or one of Cleveland’s center

Spurs need to select risacher at #4 and Stephon castle at #8. Then sign CP3 to mentor Castle. Castle has the highest upside from Shepard, dilly, and topic.

I would not say Portland is loaded with size. Timelord might or not be around, or not injured. We have Alton, who knows how long he will be around for, or what his season is like and then we have a back up, but he was mostly shooting 3's last season, not really at the rim, or mid range, or lobs.

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Rafael Stone likes multi dimensional young scorers who can pass, eg, Rob Dillingham. I won't be surprised if he's selected at 3.

Lakers fan here, anybody want LeFlop and his Juicer Son! 😆

As a Laker Fan I like the Zach Edey pick!

As a Spurs fan I’m not a fan of picking 2 guards in this years draft. I like both Castle, or Dillingham to go opposite Devin Vassell but not both. The obvious pick at 4 is Risacher if he’s there and whichever guard makes it to 8, but if not I’d love at Topić, Dillingham, or Castle at 4 and a wing like Cody Williams, Ron Holland, or even a guy that I like in Tidjane Salaun at 8.

CHOMCHE RAPS🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

I’m here for it like every draft video but I don’t think my hornets will get clingan but if we do. That will be a steal

As a spurs fan, my dream scenario is Castle and Holland. I don't think either falls to 8 tho.

Cronin: We're drafting Kel'el Ware Fans: Who? Cronin: Exactly, he sounds like a Blazer already

What do you think of Raptors drafting Kel’el Ware at 19?

Toronto should not allow both Collier AND Holmes to pass them - especially in favor of taking Tyler Smith.

Isaiah Colier to the Cavs simply doesn’t make sense imo Even if they do move Garland, Mitchell will probably be the full time PG and also Craig Porter Jr really impressed last year and will most definitely fight to be the main backup PG for the team They should definitely go with a wing here

Someone has to sell me on Risacher. He'll probably end up going in the top 3 but that's just criminal to me.

Wizards don’t need another small forward point guard or center

I would love this pick we definitely need another wing like Cody would be amazing

portland has talent though!! I guess the pb is billups

I like the Edey draft by Lakers, he is sure thing in that pick. They should stop drafting raw players, because they will not get any opportunity.

Love Dillingham to the Spurs. Dillingham can be Trae Young-lite or Tony Parker with a deadly 3-ball. Castle could slide right in and be their Derrick White 2.0 and replace a lot of what they lost when they dealt both White and DJ. However I don’t see them taking BOTH Dillingham and Castle. If they take one, they’ll take a wing or an upside swing (Salaun) with the 8th pick if they keep it. I wouldn’t touch Topic with a 20-foot ladder. I don’t care if he becomes a borderline All-Star. IMO, de doesn’t fit THIS version of the Spurs and anyone who really paid close attention to the Spurs this year can see why. The way the Spurs play now is lots of ball movement and almost everyone has the green-light to bring the ball up the floor -- Sochan, Keldon, Vassell, Branham, Champagnie, Wesley and of course Tre Jones. Only one pure point among them. One of the reasons I think they pushed the Sochan experiment is Pop didn’t want to move Sochan to the bench and sacrifice Sochan’s defense or Keldon’s scoring, since Keldon can be such a negative on that side of the ball. Ultimately, they had to do it anyway, sticking with Sochan's defense. One of the more neglected storylines in all of the NBA this past season even with the Wemby spotlight is how Pop quietly benched Keldon, their leading scorer from last year (and best player) to accommodate the Wemby/Sochan pairing. And Keldon did it mostly without complaint. Prior to Wemby’s arrival, Pop ran this offense because they didn’t have a primary on-ball creator or scorer that could get their shot consistently. But Wemby LOVES bringing the ball up the floor. It’s like their howitzer weapon when Wemby brings the ball up, makes a read or goes for a quick launch into a sidestep 3. I don’t see that trend decreasing, I see it increasing as Wemby grows even more comfortable handling the ball against NBA defenses and orchestrating. That means from a PG slot, what the Spurs ideally want is size, shooting and defensive versatility. That screams Stephon Castle who can play with or without the ball. Or in Dillingham’s case, his role would be to back up Tre Jones, similar to how he came off on Kentucky, just a solid scoring punch off the bench. In the Spurs system, Dillingham likely would be groomed into more of a Lou Williams-type -- at least to start. That benefits the Spurs and I think is advantageous vs. acquiring a Trae Young-type who is already an established on-ball creator in the Topic vein who NEEDS the ball in his hands and would have to be asked to sacrifice a lot at the outset. Reed Sheppard could also excel in the Spurs system as just being a competent ball-handler, gravity guy, with a fast trigger on the perimeter. Jeff Hornaceck-lite and Pop loves his high I.Q., coachable guys. Which leads me back to Topic. If he’s not the on-ball creator, WHAT IS HE? Topic doesn’t move off the ball well. He doesn’t spread the floor. He doesn’t play solid defense, he’s super-young and learning the hardest position in the league on a team where the head coach is notoriously hard on point guards. And Topic has injury concerns and what looks like a balky knee that could buckle any moment. You look at his latest NON-CONTACT injury and it gives you flashbacks to Greg Oden. You look up Oden’s injury and Topic’s and they look nearly identical. Maybe last week it was a sprain. 8 months from now it’s an ACL. Picking up a guy like Topic in the lottery, at least in the top-5 range where Topic is mocked, only to have him spend all that time in the G-League doesn’t make a lot of sense for the Spurs who are looking to be better than last year in the brutal West. At 8 possibly. But even then, if they're going for another PG type, I'd rather take a flyer on Ajay Mitchell or even AJ Johnson. Will they be better players than Topic eventually? Maybe, maybe not. But will they fit the Spurs system better as it continues to evolve around Victor Wembanyama? Absolutely.

I believe Dillingham would be there at 8 At 4 Castle is the play due to his defense

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Rob > Topic. As you said 2024 NBA is not played like 2014 NBA, true PG who can't shoot don't work anymore. Rob is not perfect because of his frame (height, weight) but I like this pick way more than a raw N.Topic (with his 26% from 3)

Dude, if the Spurs walk away with both these players, I would be so fucking ecstatic

Castle at 4 as our starting pg and rob at 8 coming in as for 6th man i really like that. Rob dillpickle hate is really undeserved, u casuals 😂

As a rockets fans, i stand Reed

This draft is so wide open and hard to predict I think there’s gonna be some surprises. I’m hoping my Seattle SuperSonics will be back in the league by 2025

Respectfully id cry a river if Spurs get dillingham at 4 instead of topic we are here talking about a 6‘1 164lbs guard who will always cause of his size be hunted when the spurs are on defense i always wonder what his finishing through contact at such a small frame will look like and the thing they need to most is someone to run their offense not a scorer cause if you improve the looks of vassel johnson wemby sochan no matter how much better dillingham is as a scorer as a team they will become so much better offensively that dillinghams scoring wont matter individually

could see a scenario spurs don’t draft a PG at 4 and wait to draft whatever PG falls to 8 and if it’s not the best PG trade for one

I think Spurs are going with Castle with the 4th pick. They’l take Dilly/Topic or Salaun with the 8th. I reaaally hope they take Dilly with the 4th. Cosch Pop has had a hard on for Kyrie Irvin on this time and this guy has handles like Kyrie. Would be fun to watch him breakdown defenses with his quickness. Yes his D is suspect but so is Trae & Curry’s D

Kel el ware to miami seems perfect to Me. Can play next to bam or back him up

I would much rather get Castle than Holland. Pass on Holland unless it is at 14.

As an okc fan the perfect player in this draft that fits our offense is matas everyone else is hit or miss

stephon castle already said he doesnt want to play for teams who would not play him as pg, the position he wants. if spurs pick dillingham i dont think stephon would want to play in with the spurs. also, castle and sochan at your forwards are paint cloggers

Us Blazers fans had a good look @ KWare while playing @ Oregon. Low motor big... Meh on his upside. Mainly BC I don't know of a skill set he's elite in. With his athletic profile you'd think that @ the very least he'd be an elite shot blocker. I like Yves Missi or DaRin Holmes with the 14th pick.