Chicago Bulls Get No Luck In The Lottery Will Pick #12 | Center Or Best Player Available?

Chicago Bulls Get No Luck In The Lottery Will Pick #12 | Center Or Best Player Available?

No lottery luck for the Chicago Bulls, which means what me and Pat have been telling y’all for a while. God ain’t listening. But on today’s episode, we’re talk about the Bulls getting the number 12 pick. Who should the Bulls go best available or should they draft a center? We’ll talk about it all and more on today’s Locked on Bulls. You are Locked on Bulls, your daily Chicago Bulls podcast, part of the Locked Onet. your team every day. Thank you for tuning in to Lockdown Bulls, member of the Lockdown Podcast Network, where it’s your team every single day. That’s path the designer, host and creator of the Windy City Breeze and host of the Chicago Bears podcast over at ESPN 1000. I’m Hey, social creator of Chicago Bulls Central, Chicago Bear Central YouTube pages and podcast. And thank you for making Locked on Bulls your first listen. Let’s get into it. You know what’s not first? The Chicago Bulls draft selection. They don’t have the number one overall pick, which goes to the Dallas Mavericks. The Bulls stay at number 12. Pat, I don’t know about you, I I would have loved if the Bulls moved in the top four. Make no mistake about it, but the thing I was hoping is that we didn’t drop from 12 to 14 because that’s just the way our luck has been going. How the the way that the lottery shuck out. I know the Mavs technically won the coin flip with the Chicago Bulls. They got the number one overall pick. I also think people have a misunderstanding about how the lottery works. It’s not actual like pingpong. Like they don’t actually go in, they pull out your lottery ball, bam, you got the number one overall pick. There’s a number you have to hit. They do several drawings and you have to hit a number to then get the number one overall pick than they do the same thing for number two. It’s it’s a way more complicated uh thing that I think people realize, but how do you feel about the Bulls staying at number 12? I mean, listen, it I think that the arguments on the Bulls are all over the place. Yeah. You know what I mean? That’s that’s really how I feel today. At the end of the day, I don’t care if you’re the number if you’ve got the 12th overall pick, the first overall pick, the fifth overall pick, the 30th overall pick. Did you pick the right player? That’s what I care about. Will the Chicago Bulls pick the right player? There’s multiple players in the NBA playoffs right now that are about to be in conference finals that are being led by dudes not taken with the number one overall pick. Mhm. Paul George wasn’t taken with the number one overall pick. pretty good player. Clay Thompson, Donovan Mitchell, Tyrese Hallebertton, Tyrese Hallebertton, Giannis, Bam. For every player that’s great that you can sit there and be like, “Oh, they was taking top five.” I can give you an entire list of players taking 10 through 20. Heck, some of these mugs taking 30. Jaylen Brunson was the 33rd pick in the draft. I’m getting it right. Yeah. And so today, listen. Yes. Does it suck that you didn’t get the number one overall pick? Yeah. You know why? Cuz we don’t trust AK. It made AK’s job easy. That’s what we were hoping for. Make AK’s job easy. Cooper flags a layup. If you do, Ace Duel is a layup. You know what I mean? Like that’s really what it is. It make AK’s job easy. You don’t get it. Now you got to do some work. Now you got to go out there and figure out who’s a good player. That’s how I feel about getting the number 12 overall pick. You’re still sitting 12. This is a draft that I just talked about yesterday. I said I I believe you’ll be able to find really really good talent. I’m not going to say elite, but really good talent all the way down to 22. I think you’re still getting star potential talent at 12 right now. One of the mock drafts on Tankathon has the Bears get has the Bulls getting Derrick Queen. If the Bulls come out of this draft with Derek Queen, I’m flipping a table. Now, you gota you gotta clarify that in excitement because you flipped tables in the upset of being upset before. Either way, I’m just saying like as somebody who knows you very well, I just you got to add a little bit of clarity. I’m I’m flipping a table in excitement. No, but it’s it’s you know, like there’s there’s a lot of good pieces that can still come out of this. And not to say that they’re going to be better than Cooper Flag. out to say they’re going to be more generational than Cooper Flag. I don’t know what Cooper Flag is going to be at the NBA level. I don’t know what any of these guys are going to be at the NBA level. It feels like he’s going to be that guy, but we felt like guys were going to be that guy before. And then we were sitting I remember feeling 110% like Anthony Bennett is going to be one of the greatest NBA players we’ve ever seen. He can do everything. And then Anthony Bennett got to the NBA and Anthony Bennett couldn’t dribble a basketball. So, when it when it comes to how I feel about getting the 12th overall pick, get the right pick. Now, as far as the lottery goes, as far as the draft goes, as far as, you know, how how all of that breaks out, it’s odds, dog. The draft is prob uh uh uh probabilistic. It’s not deterministic. That’s a great point. It’s all about pro possibility and probability, right? Like depending on how you want to look at it. Like there of course players that are more probable to turn out to be really good, but there’s always a possibility late in this draft as well. You got to scout. You got to And this is the thing that we’ve always said too, like, hey, getting the number one overall pick is hard and it’s rare. So every just about every other pick now, one through three, one through four are pretty sure things in this draft. I get that. I understand that. But there’s so much variance when it comes down to anything basically after whatever’s labeled as your sure things in the draft that you have to scout well. You have to make good decisions. That’s the thing that I’m more concerned about, right? Even if the Bulls would have gotten number four in this draft, I would have been concerned, are they going to pick the right guy because we don’t necessarily always scout and do those type of things the best. So, yeah. And listen, I I think that the the thing for me too, right, like the the think pieces that have come out about this on the oh well, you know, if if Josh Giddy misses that three, the Bulls get this. But these are the same people screaming the NBA’s rigged. Well, if if the NBA is rigged and they’re giving first overall picks to teams that are giving up good players like Luca Donuch and so they want to make things right by giving them the right player, don’t matter where the Bulls are at. If the NBA is rigged, that’s true. Now, if the NBA is not rigged, then the Bulls did just about everything that they could, literally the same as the Dallas Mavericks, were in the exact same position as some dude going flip clink. Dallas, you you’re the 11 seed. A.1% chance. A 5050 flip for a.1% chance is what changed it. Not how the Bulls perform this season. Not the Bulls outright winning or losing this season. Not the like it’s I I think people even right in your scenario, Hayes, you’re like, it’s not ping pong balls anymore. It’s still got to as you run this thing, it’s still got to come out with whatever it is. And the Bulls have to fit into that. It’s not just the slot. Exactly. It’s not that, oh, you were 11th, that means you got the number one pick. That’s not how it worked in this case. I think people think that that’s how it worked out and it’s like it’s not it. That’s not it. Like I get it. I understand people being upset. Never going to take away from people’s ability to be upset or whatever it is. But like I think people also have to put things into perspective. Like it is what it is. Like if you told most people coming into this that the Bulls would be able to walk away with their center of the future. People would be like, “All right, cool.” Like they’re going to be like and the Bulls still have a chance to do They still have a chance to walk away with a eight nyear center that’s going to be a starter here. Now, are they going to do it? Are they going to make that right evaluation? We’ll see. But they still have that great chance. Like you said, if you get Derek, there’s some fit concerns, but if you’re talking about just the talent of Derrick Queen, if you told me that with the way this season and oh, you’re going to add Derrick Queen to this team, bro. Cool. Let’s go. I’m in a I’m in a great spot. And you think, by the way, I love that Bulls fans think that we’re the ones getting screwed here. Mhm. The Spurs literally gave up. Two. Yeah. Philly literally gave up. Three. Utah. Utah gave up the season at the beginning of the season. This is now two years in a row where the 10th and or 11th seed, whatever it is, has gotten the number one overall pick. As much as it sucks, it does pay to be competitive in this NBA, clearly based off how the last couple of years have gone. Yeah. So, I don’t know, man. like it it’s it’s one of those things where I think the the big thing and and I I said it earlier like the big thing this all comes down to is is going out there and getting the best talent that’s available to you at 12. And you know what last season when when we were looking at the draft and modest Bzelis came down everybody went who who because you weren’t paying attention to actual names that were in the draft. We were ecstatic when we got Modus. be like, I can’t believe Mus fell to 11. If he gets a jump shot, he’s going to be one of the better players in this draft. Guess what? He’s one of the best freaking rookies out there outside of Stefan Castle. He’s better than one, two, and three. Well, Stefan Castle was three, right? Was he two? He’s three. He was three, I think. Yeah, because it was Sar uh the the other one and then Stefan. That’s what it comes down to to me. It just comes down like the Bulls are going to pick 12th. It is what it is. Use this time to get all your your angst and and sorrow out of the fact that the Bulls aren’t going to get they didn’t get the number one overall picker in the top four. And then once you come out on the other side of that, and this is what me and Pat’s job is here, it’s okay to realize the Bulls still got a chance to get a heck of a player in this draft. A heck of a player in this draft. Tell you right now, and and it’s it’s best case scenario, but you come out of I mean like all the way down now. Don’t come out of it with KJ. You come out of it with KJ. I’m going to be pissed out of out of Illinois. I don’t want a Yaka Chonis on my team. But you find a way to get Acea Newell. You find a way to get Derek Queen. You find a way to get Hey, I’ll throw a Thomas Sorber in there. Yeah. Those are all those guys, those are all pieces that you look at and go. Now, again, in in the real conversation, and we’ll we’ll talk about this coming up here, but like it’s all about how it fits with the team. Yeah. Big fact. and if you have Modis as a superstar or a star I guess and you can’t be a superstar till you win moving into next season and we’ll see. We shall see. But uh next up we’re going to be talking about should the Bulls go best player available? Should they go center or could that be both? Could that be the same thing depending on where the Bulls pick? We’ll talk about all that. But first we got to get into a message from Hungar. See I didn’t do nothing this time and you ain’t got my backpack. You ain’t got my back. I have it up. I have it up. Everyone in my house always has something going on. I call this busy season. I don’t have a lot of time to go grocery shopping or to cook healthy meals at home. That’s why I use Hungaroot. Hungry is like having your own personal shopper and nutritionist wrapped into one. 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You picked it back up. You picked it back up. Uh with that said, uh so there’s now a common thought. Of course, there’s going to be tons of centers available options there. Uh, but there are also some power forwards and small forwards that could fit next to Monus Misillus if that’s the route that you decide to go. Pat, we know that talent is the overarching thing here. Do you think the Bulls should go best player available or should they just go best center available or do you think the best player available could also end up being a center and then we don’t have to worry about it? Listen, build your team for the team that you have. Now, I do think you have to go BPA. the NBA is not the NFL where where it is a wild um or you you can just go right, oh, I’m going to go with the best player at this position, but maybe he’s not the best player on the board there. The best player on the board in the NBA will end up helping you win immensely more than the best player at a position. But it also depends on just ask the uh the Portland Trailblazers about that. Uh every time they do it, it it’s bad every time. Michael Jordan But we got Clyde, Michael Jordan. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. And they do Kevin Durant. Well, we we already got a shooter and Brandon Roy already got a shooter and Brandon Roy. Yeah, but we need that big man. But But Granted Granted, if if Greg Odin would have been able to stay Greg Odin was amazing. Greg Od. Yeah. Yeah. That’s That’s not as bad of a pick cuz Greg Odin actually was amazing. But it is hilarious that it just kept playing out that way. Uh they did give us Tyrus Thomas though. bastards. Um I I think I think here’s the thing. Go with the best player available. What scares me about best player available with AK is that uh his best player available oftent times is based on the potential of somebody being the best player available and not a good table flip. If we draft Carter Bryant, I will flip a table. Now for me, the player that I’ll say is uh Kyler Murray Boils. I’m telling y’all right now, Kylin Murray Boils is going to be either out of the league or back into the bench player within four years. But see, I I can I can deal with that because at least Kylin Murray Boils was a 20 point per game player. Oh, so you’re saying that you could at least deal with I can deal with I can understand what you saw to say, hey, this dude might be this next level player. Carter Bryant is like a six-point per game player and it’s based off of the potential of him being defensive and shooting threes. That don’t work for us here in Chicago. We’ve done that too many times. No one’s reached the potential. We don’t have a player development coach. Al we do have a player development coach. We just don’t have Peter Patton. Uh I said what I said. CB also averaged only 17 points. But yeah, go ahead. Did I got him right here? Sophomore year 19.8 points per game, 9.7 rebounds, two points. Type that wrong. his sophomore year, 16.8 points per game on 58% shooting from the field and 26% shooting from three. Hey, somebody somebody got them numbers wrong. Unless you’re just looking at are you looking at at uh tournament numbers maybe? Uh no. Colin Murray Boils, where are you looking at? Do you have him as a 19 point per game score? Tankathon. Oh well yeah, Tankathon’s tripping on that. I don’t know where they getting those numbers from. Unless I’m tripping like Uh, it is what it is. Like either way, I can at least see. Oh, those are per 36 minutes. Oh, are they? Oh, that’s gross. You know, I hate a per 36. That’s terrible. You got to change it to per game at the top. I was about to say, what is Pat looking at? Are they really? Oh, they are per Oh, that’s terrible. First, his per 36 numbers aren’t better. It’s per 36 numbers. He made a three. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why me and Pat hate per 36. Oh my god, bro. No, I hate per 36 usually cuz it lies about who the player is. Because remember uh uh what’s his name? Uh Felicio’s per 36 numbers. Oh, this dude’s going to be amazing. He’s going to be broke game player. Per 36. Felicio was crazy, bro. Bro, Colin Murray Boils literally his per 36 numbers was like, he probably is who he is. Uh, but no, man. Listen, at the end of the day, it’s I I do think that big man is a focus that the Bulls need to have, but you also have to know what you have on this team. And that’s really what it comes down to. I you don’t want to take shots away from Modis at this point if you feel like he’s developing into that kind of player. There’s a bunch of players that fit the mold of what the Bulls need to go out there and find. Like I think that the big man conversation, you wouldn’t feel like you missed on any of the big men that really are at that R. If you added Thomas Sorber, if you added Dan, well Danny Wolf is a little high and Danny Wolf probably he he a little bit later in the draft, but if you looked at his game and you evaluated his game, he was like, “No, this kid fits perfectly and will get us to the next step or the next level.” Like that’s that’s something that you can’t overlook and I wouldn’t be mad at seeing the Bulls do in this draft because it is we did leave last season feeling like Giddy and Modest might actually be something. Yeah. I mean for sure. And and like I said the I’m never going to be mad at going the best player available if it ends up working out. The problem is that doesn’t always end up working it out, right? So if if you’re going to go best player available, which you can sell you can sell me on that regardless of the position. But okay, then like that player better start looking something like that by the end of year when I better start seeing some of those flashes, right? And it’s still and even then you can’t go best cuz like you said what AK’s used best player available is, hey, this guy averages four points but they have the potential to turn into a great three and D player. No, don’t do that. Don’t do that. Don’t that’s not what I want to see. But if you try if you try to tell me like I’m trying to think of a player like I mean I mean Rasher Fleming could still very much so be a center but if you try to tell me hey we sh Rasher Fleming as being this hybrid between like Draymond Green and Todd Gibson on the team. Okay, cool. Let me see it. Yeah. And and I I don’t think you’re in a position where you could take somebody who didn’t show it in college. Right. That’s always the Zack Lavine didn’t show it in college but he ended up being a great scorer in the NBA. Devin Booker didn’t show it in college. He’s a great scorer in the NBA, right? You hear something funny? What? I’m sorry. I know this has nothing to do what you’re talking about. Per 36 for his career, Cristiano Felicio, 16 points per game, two blocks, a steal, 15 rebounds, 56% shooting from the I wish we got a fraction of that. Well, we did get a fraction. That’s the problem, bro. It might be might be worst uh contract in NBA history, bro. Bro, might be might be worst contract in NBA history. and they looked at his per 36 was like that’s our center of the future. Now I will I will ask this as we uh as as we keep this going and get into the uh nect we we’ll take this into the next topic. It does go into the center conversation but when talking about who to take at 10 is there some international eyes that you on some players that are out there not for the not if we’re trying to trying to add to this team now but we’ll talk about that. Yeah we’ll talk about that coming up next. But first, we got to tell you guys all about our sponsors over at FanDuel. The NBA playoffs are in full. You dropped the ball just like I did. Dang it. You play in full swing. 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Most second round picks don’t work out. But people who are bringing up like Roku, Roku or Ray N, and they think, “Oh, we could draft these guys and they could be our center right now.” You’re stupid. And I Hey, listen. I want everybody to be understanding in this. I’m back to being mean. I I’m no longer being nice. I said it on Twitter. I’m saying it now so everybody can know it. I’m no longer being nice to stupidness. anybody who’s sitting there acting like Rogue. Now, if you’re saying, again, this isn’t for people just saying the Bulls should take a shot on him in the second round, but there are people that have let that group think spiral into thinking, “Oh, well, the Bulls can go wing in the draft in the first round. We can draft Ro, we’re good in the He’s not good at there’s no marketable NBA skill there at all.” And don’t get me started on the Jokic comparison. Jokic showed something. The problem is that they look at Jokic like, “Hey, he’s going to be a little bit slow in the NBA.” Jokic is fat. Yeah. But there were still some NBA skills there. Roco Rog, however you say his name, he has no when you look at him, he looks like like like an elk that just got their legs. He’s not a good NBA player. He’s not a good basketball player at all. There’s nothing good about him at all. He’s bad. He’s not good. He looks like an elk that just got his legs. That’s to be one of the best lines I’ve heard. Uh, I’m sorry, bro. I for the last man, bro. You call hours I’ve been hearing every Oh, well, it’s cool. We’re good. We’re just going to get Ro. Shut up. Is he even a first round pick? No. I don’t even think he’s slated to be a first round pick. No. Hey, that’s my favorite part. I wasn’t even talking about him. I was talking about Behringer. I can get with that. I was talking about Barry. I was like, if you’re going to My whole point was if you’re going to take a chance on somebody who’s the five point per game uh uh four four rebound, one block guy. I would rather take a chance on Joan Behinger who’s who’s international. He’s he’s from France. I believe he played in Croatia last season. Um, but just the the the actual like I guess that is the per 36, but like his true shooting percentage and stuff like that. His advantage stats stats are ridiculous. I would rather see you go with a player like that. I Who’s bringing up Roco, bro? They’ve been bringing him up in the chat. They’ve been bringing him up online. Everybody’s been bringing this dude up. He sucks. I literally I’ve never been so disappointed. People are like, “Hey, you got to go check out this dude’s tape. He’s young. He’s 18. He’s international. All this.” I’m like, “Oh, cool. Maybe we can find a diamond in the rough. I looked at this guy. His feet. He got two left feet. He doesn’t rebound well. He’s not strong. He doesn’t move fast. I don’t know what anybody sees in him. He’s bad at everything. Hey, bro. You got to stop letting people get to you like that, bro. Cuz I’m not letting people get to me. He not even He’s not even I don’t I can’t even find him on a mock dress. That’s what I’m saying. That’s what I’m saying. It’s bad, bro. It’s bad. This is expected him to snap off. This is when I start hating people. This I was not expecting him to snap off like that. I’m sorry, man. I’ve been That’s been building up. It’s been building up for a while, man. I’m not even going to lie. I had a whole different player. I literally I was like he said Roco. I’m like who? I even seen this dude man. I was talking about Beharinger and I like the Barager thing. I like the Barer thing. I want to be clear there. Oh god. Oh well with drafting time of Sorber. That settles it right there. That’s what that is. A draft man bro. Um, no man, but uh, even a dude I let me ask you this. Would you would you be more intrigued? Right. We know the center position is one that the Bulls are are need to improve at, but you got to replace Patrick Williams with something. Maybe you can replace him with a center that could do a little bit of both. Or maybe Modus does that. I think you need to go out there and get yourself a true power forward. Uh and and Sorba does intrigue me from that sense. I think that’ll help you with the center position. You can get a center that does something specific if you have a power forward that is that’s wellrounded. Absolutely. Absolutely. And so like at that right now I know Sorber’s farther down on the mock drafts and people look at numbers and lock in on stuff like that he goes up in combines cuz Sorber to me looking at him play and looking at his numbers I don’t understand why people some mocks have him as low as 20. I I actually will bet you by the time we get to the draft, he is slated to the Bulls. Oh, facts. Don’t forget this time last year, remember we talked about it, Zack Eden was slated to be a second round pick. Yeah, literally he was a second round pick. I was telling you, I was like, “This boy going to go in the second round.” I don’t know, bro. I was like, “He’s going to go in the second round.” You’re like, that was the only moment. That was the only moment where where Hayes was like, “You got to stop looking at them ESPN mocks, bro.” I’m like, bro, he’s he’s I can see him like he’s gonna somebody’s going to take a chance on 73 450 or whatever he is, right? Like, for sure, for sure. Hey, they shouldn’t have, but shout out to Zack Edy for getting me that steak. Hey, shout out to Zack. Shout out to Zack Edy for actually being like he looks like an NBA player. It’s just you have to play a very specific way. He’s going to be unplayable in some playoff series, but you know what it is. I mean, listen, they just don’t want players that can play in the fourth quarter. How you going to have a whole team full of non- fourth quarter players except J and Desmond Bane? Bro, that’s literally what it is. Like, bro, both your bigs can’t play in the fourth quarter of games because they gonna foul out. And it’s and the funny thing is Jiren Jackson Jr. should be able to play in fourth quarters, but he can’t stop fouling to save his life. Bro, I it it amazes me that he’s in DPI conversations every year. Must be like, “Look at how many shots he blocks.” I’m like, “Look at how many fouls he gets.” Yeah. Like, he should not be in DPI conversations and he can’t finish games. must be looking at his minutes be like he don’t get enough minutes because he can’t stay in the game anyway. But uh no man we’ll see what the who the Bulls take at if you had to predict right now on on today who who do you think the Bulls take at 12. I I I honestly think if Derrick Queen falls you take Queen no questions asked whether the fit all of that don’t worry about that. I think you take the motor and you bet on that. Um but realistically because I don’t think Derrick Queen is going to make it past eight. I honestly think Thomas Orber, bro. Thomas Orber, Asa Newell are the two guys if we’re talking about centers in positions of need. Uh, and Rasher Fleming I and I listen, I’d be happy. Forget the position cuz like you said, if whether he’s a power forward or a center, he’s the type of player that no matter what his position ends up being, his ability to stretch the ball, shoot the threes, his defensive ability, the blocking, shot blocking, it it almost it makes you have flexibility in what you can focus on a specialist in either other position, I think. So I Rashir Fleming, Thomas Sorber, Ace New is my top three right now. Yeah, I I I would say Sorber is my number one. Uh I it’s just something about the Bulls. I see a Liam McNeely being in the mix for them. It’s just something about this. I see it. I know it, but I see it. Um and I do think I think Sorbber and Wolf both both climb the the draft uh uh rankings as as teams start to work them out. Denny Wolf is going to be right outside the lottery. If a team doesn’t that needs a center like that I could see a team actually saying, “Hey, listen. It may be a little bit of a reach, but we gonna go ahead and take them.” Like I can see the Atlanta Hawks taking them at 13. Yeah, I can see. Yeah, easily. They need something. Yeah, they need something. Oh, well, actually, they need a They need a wing, though. They If we don’t take them, which we might take them. I think they might take Murray uh CNB. They could, but I think they might take CNB. Yeah, they could. They could. It’s not like they know how to draft. They got Jaylen Johnson, though, and Dyson Daniels. Oh, that’s true, actually. Yeah, that’s true. I get that. I don’t know. We’ll see. I don’t care about the Hawks. Uh, they they can take Yakon’s fall. I care. Uh, hey, man. We appreciate y’all for tuning in and showing love. That That’ll make me sick, bro. If we take Yaka, bro. No. What pisses me off is is what ESPN has us taking Demon. That don’t piss me off. You want two You want two Josh Giddy’s on the team. It does. I was going to say it doesn’t excite me, but it doesn’t piss me off. Well, the thing is, right, I think Igor uh brings you that wing versatility where Josh is 110% a point guard. See, I I think Eiggor’s inability to shoot the three is probably going to force him to be a point guard, too. But I guess we can see. And we’ll see now. They gonna make Josh Giddy a wing. Start firing that three ball up. Hey man, we appreciate y’all for tuning in to show it love. Hit that like button, subscribe to the They just gonna keep passing it back and forth to each other. You shoot it. Now you shoot it. Now you shoot it. Hit that like button. Subscribe to the page. Lead a fivestar view. Y’all know what to do. Follow us on everything at Locked on Bulls. 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The Chicago Bulls face disappointment as they secure the 12th pick in the NBA draft lottery. Despite the setback, Haize & Pat The Designer explore potential strategies for the Bulls’ draft selection. Should they prioritize the best player available or focus on addressing their center position needs? The discussion delves into intriguing prospects like Derik Queen, Thomas Sorber, and Asa Newell, analyzing their potential fit with the team’s current roster, including rising star Matas Buzelis. The hosts also debate the merits of international prospects and warn against overvaluing certain players based on limited information.

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