Dylan Harper the PERFECT Fit For the Spurs?
Let’s talk about the number two pick, Dylan Harper. Obviously, this is fascinating as well because of the fit, because of the team. Um, they have taken Tim Duncan when they had David Robinson. That seems to be the prevailing narrative when it comes to this pick. They have the rookie of the year, they have De’Aran Fox. Do they take Harper? Does it make sense or do you just take Harper and figure it out? Um, and maybe make a trade happen like what what does that fit look like at number two? Uh, you know, we’ve got a notebook coming out here this week on the ringer that is going to sort of elaborate on some of these answers beyond what I’ll be able to say hopefully concisely here about this. But but you know, Dylan Dylan, we’ve both watched him a lot. If for people who haven’t gotten to see Dylan, you know, he measured in well, you know, he’s a 6′ guard, 6’6 lead guard in shoes, crazy positional size, and that’s legitimate. He can get really low with the ball. 610 wingspan with big hands. can really pound the ball with his left hand. He’s working to balance out the right hand and get to the point where he can throw live dribble passes with both. Um, but in the paint, man, I mean, he’s he’s one of those guys that you remember, you know, those early he’s bigger than Tony Parker, so this isn’t a onetoone, but you remember Shay has some of this going on, too, where there are these guys that in the half court, you just ask yourself, you’d be like, how is he always shooting a layup? It’s like the paint is full. How is this guy always that Brunson has some of this, too? um their ability to like knife through traffic somehow, right? And just end up on the other side. You’re like, “How’d you get through that gap?” Like, “What? What is that?” And then it works, right? It’s it’s not necessarily shot out of a cannon where you’re just flying to the basket. So, or slithering sort of the way that like a John does, but he can slow it down and his balance is crazy around the basket and he’s a creative finisher. He has big guy feet for a guard. But to I say all that to say that for the Spurs, you’re going to kind of encounter a question I think in terms of the short-term long-term thing that we were talking about a minute ago with them where, you know, he fits the mold of a Spurs draft pick somewhere in that 65 to 68 range, plus three wingspan long. And they kind of make bets on guys who have crazy defensive switchable tools, who, you know, maybe the offense isn’t quite at the same level, but we think it’ll come along. We think we can bring it along. own. That’s sort of the historic Spurs confidence developmentally. Um, but he’s he’s a guy that I think you’re going to you do sort of run into a spatial thing where, you know, Jeremy Sohan, great defender, not great shooter. Stefon Castle, great defender, not great shooter. Kell Johnson came in, he was an okay shooter, but he’s never quite gotten there. If you add Dylan Harper to that, is he going to become Are you going to stack up too many shooters that are like hypothetical shooters? Because Wimby, as much as we love him, spacing the floor, he’s not out there cashing him constantly. He can hit them, but do you want to really add a guy like that to the puzzle? So, I I think it could he really has value for them to me in the asset sense, no matter what they choose to do. If they bring him in and they get in a situation where they’re saying, you know, we we want to bet on um you know, we want to bet on maybe moving some of these guys in the short term. Maybe they move Castle or somebody else like that. he’s worth keeping because he’s a great building block, but I think he could be very valuable based on the way that he plays to another team should they want to make a bigger move, which is a lot of what people are talking about with this pick. It does feel like the one, two, and three, they’re the most talented. Obviously, duh, they’re the one, two, and three pick, but they’re all going to situations where their growth could be some way stunted because of the teams that they’re going to. Um, is there any concern like with that with Flag or with Harper where like they go they kind of get pigeonhold in a role and we never see kind of the full arsenal of them because they do feel like they have the tools to be franchise guys but they’re not going to franchise situations, right? So, could that be concerning? Yeah, you I mean you hit it on the head. I mean that’s the situation that Philly that’s situation Dallas, San Antonio, all three of those teams at the top are are in this position where and and you can be of two minds about this. Some people really think that, and I don’t know that there’s an exact answer, but if you’re an aspiring lead guard, a lead handler, Dylan Harper on a bat, you know, on a Wizards type team, you know, shout out to Joe House. Blessings up for for their situation. But, you know, I ideally Dylan Harper would just be drinking pick and roll reps through a fire hose with the with the Wizards right now, but he’s not going to get the chance to do that. So, is it better for him in the short term to be taking it on a smaller diet? It’s hard to say. It’s hard to say if like screw, you know, screwing up, I know that’s a strong way to put it, but just sort of mess working your way through the wastefulness of figuring out how to be a primary offensive option in the NBA. Um, he I I think that in terms of the shooting, the questions that he has, we didn’t really mention, you know, he’s he’s been a low30s three-point shooter across all levels for the past few years. Can he sort of graduate beyond that? Can he learn to get off the ball faster? Um those are all kind of questions but uh I I think that he is probably of the three guys would probably have the most adjustment period to moving into a smaller role because Flag I think is ready to do that and I think Ace Bailey is more set up to do that too which might you know throw to whatever you want to talk about
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00:30 DYLAN HARPER
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