Make or Miss Podcast #20: Post-Combine, Post-Lottery with Dean
After last weekend's draft combine in Chicago and Tuesday's draft lottery, as well as the several day gap between games 2 and 3 in the Conference Finals, we figured it would be a decent time to talk draft prospects with Dean Demakis of DeanOnDraft. Thankfully, we moved past the fact that I'm a little higher on Julius Randle now than I was earlier in the year, as that could easily have degraded in Kevin Love Debate 2.0, and people got sad when Rob and I appeared to get testy (it was all love, er, Love, no really, it was!) Anyway, audio and download after the jump:
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As mentioned on the pod, can't help but recommend Ian Levy's "R-Squared" podcast with Layne Vashro from last month where they talked about draft modeling and our perhaps flawed concept of "potential"
Other links of interest:
- At WaPo's Fancy Sports, I wrote about the gamble inherent in even a high lottery pick in the NBA draft.
- Relatedly, this Nate Silver post on the expected value of a high draft pick is great.
- Austin Clemens has come up with a cool visualization of player's defensive impacts by showing how they affect opponent's shooting from various areas of the court. An example:
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