SCOOP: Brooklyn Nets’ Draft Strategy STUNS NBA Insiders | Which rookies can prove doubters wrong?

SCOOP: Brooklyn Nets’ Draft Strategy STUNS NBA Insiders | Which rookies can prove doubters wrong?

Coming up, which Net’s draft pick is best positioned to shine during his rookie season? I’ll answer that after this. You are Locked on Nets, your daily Brooklyn Nets podcast, part of the Locked On Network, your team every day. Welcome in to the Locked On Nets podcast right here on the Locked On Network. It’s your team, the Brooklyn Nets, every single day. I’m Eric Slater, Brooklyn Nets beat reporter for clutchoints.com. Thank you for making me your first listen of the day. This show is 100% free on all those great platforms. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Football season is right around the corner. Visit the FanDuel app today and start planning your futures bets now. And on today’s show, I’m going to be breaking down expectations for Brooklyn’s draft picks this coming season. I’ll outline which of them has the best chance to shine during his rookie campaign and which may struggle out of the gate. And if we’re talking about expectations for Brooklyn’s rookie class and which has the which player has the best chance to shine this coming season, for me it has to start with Jaor Gman, the team’s first lottery selection since 2010. And I think expectations for Gmen should be high. you know, because this is obviously there was a ton of anticipation heading up to this next draft and it was centered on this first pick. Obviously, they fell to the number eight selection, but they took a big swing on Domen, one that, you know, left a lot of draft analysts and fans scratching their head and the Nets front office kind of stuck their neck out for Dyman. And, you know, expectations as a result are going to be high. But, if we’re talking about does Yoyo Gore have a chance to shine, what should fans be expecting? I think it has to start with what is his role going to be and that obviously has been somewhat of a question because Jaor came out of the draft he was considered a point guard everybody kind of hammered that home point guard point guard point guard best passer in the draft and then he came out at summer league and he really played an offball role and then I also talked to some draft analysts I had them on the show they said they felt that his most natural position was going to be on the wing moving forward so what role is he going to play from things that I’ve heard Jaor is going to be the next starting point guard this coming season. And that might surprise some Nets fans based on what we saw at summer league, he spent a lot of time off the ball in Las Vegas, but one of the Nets coaches uh during an interview with Spottracks Keith Smith after summer league said that Jagor’s role is going to be much different this season than what we saw in Las Vegas. And I think naturally they’re going to have the ball in his hands a decent amount because he really is the starting point guard, the logical starting point guard on this roster. The Nets did not bring in a veteran point guard to replace Dennis Shruder or D’Angelo Russell. So, the options on the roster are really the rookies and I would expect that Jagor has to have a starting spot and the logical spot for him to be as a result is at point guard likely alongside Cam Thomas. And it’s going to be somewhat of a mixed bag because I’m saying that I think that Jaor has a very good chance to shine during his rookie season, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not going to struggle. I think that there’s going to be enough moments of bright spots, enough enough encouraging signs from him to excite the Nets fan base, but if he’s playing point guard to start the year, there are going to be some struggles because we saw what he did as a ball handler at BYU and at summer league. He’s very raw in that regard in terms of having the tight handle. He’s a guy who his handle is obviously very high off the ground standing at six foot nine. It’s not the tightest. He doesn’t have a ton of strength. He’s gonna need to add a lot of bulk to his frame. and he also is not the most natural selfcreator. So that’s going to lend itself to some struggles when you’re talking about going against NBA level defenders. But I also think that Jaor, you know, in the step up in competition is going to benefit from the increased, you know, capabilities of his supporting cast because I watched Jaor at BYU a fair amount. I dug into I dove into his tape a lot obviously after the draft. I saw him play in person at Barclay Center during the Sweet 16 or not at Barkley Center at Credential Center during the Sweet 16 against Alabama and I was not at all impressed with his supporting cast. I don’t think they were a bad team per se. He had some nice guys at center. He had some guys who could shoot on the wing alongside him. But in terms of self-creation, in terms of guys who can do things in an offense offscript outside of him being relied upon to be this high usage, you know, pick and roll ball handler and self-creator, I was not impressed with what they had to offer. So, I think that you saw Jagger play a lot off the ball at summer league. You saw him struggle initiating offense and doing some things as self-creator at BYU and in Las Vegas. But, I would say that there was definitely a lack of structure in both of those settings. not so much at BYU, but if we’re talking about summer league, the structure was just not there. It’s kind of every man for himself. It’s a little bit all over the place. He was not playing at all with optimal floor spacing. You look at the guys that he was playing alongside a lot. It was, you know, Nolan Troy was in the game alongside him. You had Danny Wolf and Drew Timmy, none of which I would say are good or even decent three-point shooters at at this juncture. So I would expect him to have a lot more know ability to do some of the things that made him shine because you look at what he did so well at BYU. He was a pick and roll ball handler. He was a savant operating in the pick and roll. He was a guy who was just had a great feel for the game. Whether it was hitting rolling big men, whether it was reading the help side and hitting guys to the corner, whether it was playing off script on some passes, he was a guy who did really well in that regard. And at Summer League, we didn’t really get to see that. But you put him in the in the net system alongside Cam Thomas likely the two guard. A guy who can shoot very well off the catch is up near 40% as a catch and shoot three-point shooter. Obviously will also take pressure off of him as a self creator. You have a guy like Michael Porter Jr. alongside him who’s a 6’10, you know, sharp shooter. I think that that’s going to help him a lot. And you look at just the traits of what Jaor showed us at summer league and what he showed us at BYU. Obviously, he has the passing ability. He’s a high field player. you know, the self-creation and some of those things has not come along very well. But what was the next the next biggest question alongside that was the three-point shooting and he didn’t shoot it well at all at BYU. He struggled was around 27% for the season there, but it was really high volume. You know, he attempted he was at around 10 attempts uh per 100 possessions at BYU from deep. And then you look at what he did in Las Vegas. We had heard so much about him being this highle three-point shooter in the workouts. Shawn Marks in the Nets front office said they weren’t worried about it. And he came out and he shot close to 44% on eight three-point attempts per game in Las Vegas. So, small sample size, but the confidence looked real. The stroke looked real. So, if he can shoot it at a high level, I think that obviously lends it, you know, lends possibilities of what he can do as a guy on and off the ball. He could play a little bit more alongside a Nolan Troer or other point guards. He can also have the ball in his hands. that’s going to benefit him in um in the pick and roll as being a guy who can pull up and punish guys if they go under screen. So, I think that that will open up a lot of a lot in his game as will just having a more highlevel supporting cast around him. And you look at some of the things that Jagor does, the passing obviously the three-point shooting if that can come around. And then defensively, the Nets front office voiced optimism that he was going to be a good defender at the next level using his length. He’s obviously 6’9, 6′ 10 wingspan. And when you saw what he did in Las Vegas, he was active. He was digging down on drivers. He was getting in passing lanes. He was trying to stay in front of obviously ball handlers. And I think the want to is definitely going to be there. And I think that want to is going to be a big part of what we see from Jagger in his rookie season. This Net’s coaching staff and this player development staff led by Jordi Fernandez has a good track record or Fernandez has a good track record in player development as do a lot of the guys he brought in on his staff. And they are going to be hammering home points of what they want to do. both ends on both ends of the floor as a pick and roll initiator, as a guy who could potentially run some other things off the ball, whether zoom actions, whether delays or pin downs or any of those things that you want to talk about. I think that they’re going to put him in position to get downhill offensively, to let his passions, to let his passing gifts shine. They’re going to tell him to let it fly from three-point range, and they’re also going to be on him about using his size, his measurables, and all those things on defense. And are there going to be some struggles through that? Yes. But I think with the high field, the IQ, the intangibles, the want to, all of those things that we see, if you couple that with his physical gifts and with his natural things that he can do just as a basketball player, I think that combination is going to be enough to have a lot of bright spots and a lot of moments that can get Nets fans excited, even if there are some struggles with him running the point in his first season for an NBA team. So, Jaor Dilman, I think he’s going to be a guy who is going to excite fans at a lot of points during this season. I think he’s also going to struggle, but those struggles may not be too bad because some of that might lead, you know, rookie ball handlers struggle naturally and some of that might lead to the Nets getting a better draft pick. So, I don’t think fans are going to be too upset about it. But, I would think even though a lot of people were skeptical of this selection at number eight, the jury is going to be out for a while until he proves them otherwise. I think that Jaor is going to be in a position where he has a lot of traits that can make him a very useful NBA player who has the potential to be even more than that. So, we’ll see with Jaor this rookie season who be on Jagor is in a position to shine for the Nets next season who may struggle. I dive into all that after a quick break. But before that, want to tell you about our friends over at FanDuel. Guys, August 26 is officially FanDuel Futures Day. 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Coming out of the break on today’s Locked on Nets episode, talking about Brooklyn’s rookie class, which players will shine next season, which may struggle out of the gate. I touched at length in my opening segment on Jaor Dealman, why I think that he’s going to be in a position to have a lot of encouraging moments for Nets fans next season. And now talking about the Nets Nets rookie that I think is best positioned to shine in 2025 26. I’m going to go with Drake Pal, the Nets number 22 pick out of North Carolina. And I think that there’s a lot of reasons that I’m excited to see what Pal can do. And I think there’s a lot of reasons why Nets fans may come away from this rookie season excited from him. And along a a big part of that is going to just be the role. I think of all of these players, Drake Pal is going to be the one who is asked to do the least in terms of a ball handling, in terms of self-creation, in terms of all those things that are really difficult for rookie players to do out of the gate. And that’s because Drake Pal is obviously a three and D wing. And I think that he’s best positioned to maybe have one of the higher floors of these Nets draft picks just because of the physical attributes and what he showed at North Carolina. This is a guy who is one of the most athletic draft picks in Nets franchise history. And I think that that is going to excite a ton of fans because the Nets are not a team, you know, since the move to Brooklyn that has really been known for prolific athletes, for high-flying guys, for guys who are just walking highlight reels. And Drake Pal has the ability to be that. had, you know, posted a 48 inch max vertical leap at this year’s combine that was the highest among all participants. He also ranked towards the top in the agility testing in straight line speed and all of that. So, he has those athletic gifts and those really served him well on the defensive end um last season at North Carolina. You look at what he did. He emerged as an elite defender. If you look at the players who matched up with that Duke squad that just had a crazy lineup of Cooper Flag, of Kenipple, of Tyrese Proctor, of all of those guys who could do so much on the ball, there may not be a guy who guarded them better last season than Drake Pal. And that’s because of his athletic gifts, obviously. That’s because of his motor, his want to, and that’s also because of his understanding of how to position himself defensively. So, I think that right off the bat is going to make him a fan favorite because we talk a lot last season about what Jordan Fernandez came in preaching out of the gate and the defense was the number one thing that he was talking about non-stop. It was pressuring 94 feet. It was being relentless. It was making the opponent uncomfortable on a nightly basis. And we saw some Nets players buy into that. Obviously, Dennis Shruder out of the gate was a big part of that at point guard. But then you also had guys who had a lot of athletic gifts and what some would call untapped potential. Guys like Keon Johnson, guys like Zire Williams, guy who guys who had the size, the athleticism, the measurables, came in and were really defensive pluses for the Nets last season were really spark plugs for the Nets, you know, defending 94 feet and doing all those things. And Drake Pal, I think, comes in and has as much athleticism and size and length as any of those guys. He’s 6’5, six foot 10 wingspan. I obviously said all the athletic testing numbers. So, I think that he’s going to come in out of the gate. He’s going to be hungry and he’s going to be a guy defensively I think who fans are just going to love. And then you talk about what he can do on the offensive end. He was extremely limited outside of a spot-up role there last season. But from a three-point shooting perspective, he did shoot 38% from three. It wasn’t the highest volume. I think it was around five or six attempts per 100 possessions. But the stroke looked smooth. He was able to shoot. So, if he can do the things that he did on defense and shoot decently from three, I think those are two things that are very within his range of outcomes because we saw him do it last season at North Carolina. So, I think that those two things alone will be enough encouragement and enough flashes to, you know, excite Nets fans and the role obviously is not going to be as demanding offensively as it is for some of these other guys like Nolan Entro, Jay Gordon, Ben Saraf, even Danny Wolf. So, I think that that is going to lend itself to some excitement. I think there may be some growing pains obviously from an offscript offensive perspective outside of just the three-point shooting. If he’s run off the line, if he’s asked to do some things, maybe even within the flow of the offense, you know, some set plays run for him, he may struggle there because he’s a guy last season who had an extremely low usage rate, one of the lowest that we’ve ever seen from a first round pick in the last two decades. So, that may be a struggle, but he’s a guy who does have past predigory. You look at Drake Pal, he was a five-star recruit, number two ranked small forward in the country out of high school. He was a guy that many expected to be a lottery pick at this time last year. So, he could come in, maybe the Nets player development staff can work with him and it can unlock some of the other aspects of his game that could lend itself to a higher ceiling. But even if not, I think that he has enough defensively, he has enough, if the three-point shooting can hold like it did last season, he can expand that to a little bit higher volume to make Nets fans really excited about the floor of what he could be long term. So Drake Pal, a guy who I think in a more complimentary role, a less ball dominant role, I think should provide some flashes of excitement for the Nets next season. Next guy, Nolan Troy, I think should also have a pretty expansive role for the Nets this coming season as a point guard off the bench and a guy who can even play point alongside Jagor Gman. If Jaor slides to the wing sometimes, you bring Nolan at the point. I think that’s a lineup we saw at Summerlake and I think you’ll see it a lot this coming season. And I do think that Nolan’s going to be a guy who has some struggles out of the gate, as I expect all these Nets rookies, but he is the smallest of this group. You know, he does still have great size for a point guard. You know, 6’4, 6’8 wingspan, a guy who is obviously athletic, one of the fastest players in the draft, but it’s going to be a big step up to the side, the speed, the size, the speed, the physicality of NBA defenders. He’s a guy who has a little bit of a more slight frame. So, there’s going to be some growing pains there. I think the three-point shot obviously is a major question right now as it is with all of the Nets rookie point guards. You know, the finishing at the rim. I think he finished well last season, you know, in France, but we saw some struggles there at summer league when he got deep. But just the advantage creation, I think that there’s going to be so many flashes of what Troy can do with the ball in his hands that is going to get Nets fans excited because this is a guy who has been described as a walking paint touch and I think that he backed that up with what we saw at summer league. A guy who can turn the corner on screens with the best of them. A guy who can consistently get by defender just using that wicked first step and that speed. So, he’s a guy who can create those advantages and I have seen enough highle passing ability from him that I would be excited for what that could lend itself to. I think he’s also a guy who has some room to grow and has shown some flashes of being able to play with pace, being able to probe in the mid-range, being able to have a little bit of an in between game, you know, a pull-up game or a floater game. So that advantage creation and that passing ability, I think that’s going to be exciting for Nets fans with the way this Nets team wants to play because Jordy Fernandez has made it clear that this is a team that he wants to attempt 40 plus three-point shots per game and he wants a lot of those to be catch and shoot threes. You talk about the principles of what Jord’s trying to implement. I’ve talked to him about it several times and it’s get downhill, collapse the paint, get the ball into rotation and create catch and shoot three-point looks. And I think for Troy, that is going to be his bread and butter with this Net’s offense. So, if he can do that, I think that will be exciting. And then I also think the three-point shot, it’s going to need to develop and he’s going to need to improve there. But if he can do that, the ceiling is very high with him just because of the speed and what he can do with the ball in his hands. Also, the Nets want to play in transition and that shouldn’t be understated with any of these players, with Jagorman, with Drake Pal, with Nolan Troy, any of those. You know, Dman obviously is a guy he liked to shoot the three in transition. He’s obviously an incredible passer in transition. Drake Pal is a high-flying athlete. You pair with um with Diego Gman with Nolan Troy. Could have a guy like Nick Claxton running alongside him. That could be a very exciting fast break. And then Trouore is a guy more than any of these guys has really excelled in transition. He shot at an extremely high uh really efficient clip in transition last season in France. He’s obviously a good player and he’s obviously just a blur with the ball in his hand. So, if he gets out passes, I’m going to be expecting him to go right away. And I think that that will be an exciting way for the Nets to want to play. They want to be in the half court as little as possible. And they want to push that pace. And with Troy speed, his passing ability with athletes like Drake Pal, um, you know, Nick Claxton, with guys who can spot up from three like Michael Porter Jr., Jorman, whoever else you want to say, I think it’s going to lend itself to an really exciting brand of basketball. So overall, I think, you know, Troy may have some struggles as a shooter. Finishing against these NBA level athletes may be a work in progress for him, but I think that the advantage creation, the speed, what he can do with the ball in his hands, he’s going to have some electrifying highlights for this Nets team. And I think it’s going to be a lot of things that fans can get excited about for a guy who’s only 19 years old. So that’s what I’m expecting from Pal and Troy. I think there’ll be a lot to excite fans there. But we still have two more rookies in this historic draft class for the Nets. Obviously, Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf. What can they bring to the table? Where may they struggle? I’ll talk about all that when I close out Locked on Nets after a quick break. Coming back from the break on today’s Locked on Nets episode, talking about Brooklyn’s rookie class expectations, who may shine, who may struggle. I talked about the Net’s top three picks on the first two segments and the remaining draft picks are Danny Wolf and Ben Saraf. These are these are two guys who I think are going to be more a little bit more of a developmental project. All of these guys are going to be, but I think these guys the most so and I don’t don’t think that should necessarily, you know, surprise fans given that they were the Net’s last two picks of this draft. But they’re guys that I think fans should be excited about. But I’ve talked about it on a previous podcast. And I think if you’re looking at the volume of this rookie class, five first round picks, historic class. You look at all the guys on the Nets who are going to need to get minutes. You know, I outlined I think the starting five is probably going to be Diego Dilman, Cam Thomas, Terrence Man, Michael Porter Jr., Nick Claxton. But beyond that, you have a bunch of guys who are need going to need to get minutes. Obviously, Don Sharp, Zire Williams, Noah Clowny, uh Dariq Whitehead will probably be in there. And then you have the next three other rookies that I already touched on. You know, Jordi Fernandez said they’re going to go 10 deep on most nights probably. I named more than 10 guys already there before Danny Wolf and Ben Saraf. So, these may be guys who could start the season out in Long Island. I definitely think that they’re going to need to there’s going to need to be some of these rookies spending some time in Long Island because it’s just not going to be feasible to get all of them minutes all the time out of the gate unless you’re making concessions and you’re not playing a guy like Dariq Whitehead. Maybe Noah Clown’s minutes do his minutes take a step back. I don’t expect that. I think Zier Williams, Dron Sharp have to get minutes after what they showed last season and the contracts they just signed in free agency. So logically, there’s going to be some odd men out. I think there’s going to be a lot of guys who obviously get injured as they do every year and there’s also going to be guys who probably sit gum sit some games with what the Nets, you know, focus should be from a draft positioning standpoint. So, I do expect Danny Wolf and Ben Sarra to get NBA minutes this coming season. And I think that they’ll get a decent amount, but of the draft class, I think that they’re the most likely guys who could spend some time in Long Island at the start of the year. And that is not at all a bad thing. I mean, we’ve seen the Nets use Long Island as a developmental place, and they’ve had success there with Nick Claxton spending time in Long Island and then coming out and breaking out onto the NBA scene. Noah Clowney obviously spent time in Long Island, and they came up and showed some promise with the Nets. Uh Dariq Whitehead, same thing. So, I do think that it’s a good place for the Nets, obviously, and they have a lot of synergy between Long Island and between Brooklyn to try to develop guys and have everybody on the same page. But we’re talking about Ben Sarra and Danny Wolf, what they can bring to the table, where they may struggle. I was really, you know, encouraged by what we saw from Saraf at summer league. And, you know, he had some struggles obviously from an efficiency standpoint. He had some struggles as a three-point shooter. He frankly just looked unwilling from three. I think he only attempted four threes through four summer league appearances. But like Tror, I think the advantage creation was really exciting. And if you think or if you talk about what fans are going to like to see from rookies, I think that Sarra plays with a flash and a flare to his game that is just going to be exciting to a lot of Nets fans because you look at what he can do as an advantage creator. He doesn’t do it in the same way that Troy does it where he’s just blowing by guys and using speed. I do think he has a decent first step, but it’s just nowhere near the straight line speed that Troy does. It’s a little bit more about the size. He’s a guy who was 6’6 barefoot, so has great size at point guard, but the craftiness, the dribble moves, we obviously saw his bag with the crossovers, the spin moves, and everything. He used to get downhill and he really was a guy who was able to get downhill at a really impressive rate in Germany with Ratzio Farm last season. And then we saw the same thing at summer league. And there were just some moves at summer league that you saw his ability to create advantages for himself, his ability to get defenders momentum going one way and then use that against them. We saw, you know, some moves at summer league where he was able to go to a crossover, get a defender’s momentum going really hard one direction, spin back, create that advantage, and then recognize a helpside defender coming, use a del, create another advantage, get that defender on off his feet, and then draw a foul. So, that’s just a, you know, ability to have enough moves in your bag, enough counters to be able to recognize defensive rotations, be able to do those things. I think that that is really encouraging for a player that the Nets got with the 26th pick in the draft and obviously like you know Gmen and Troy maybe not to their level but he is a very good passer or at least he was in Germany so he has that advantage creation he has that passing ability I think that those things obviously pair really well especially with what the Nets want to do obviously same thing I said as Troy as being a guy who can collapse the defense get the ball into rotation create catch and shoot three-point looks so I think that that’s exciting with him obviously The three-point shot is going to be a big part of it because he’s a guy who was not a highle three-point shooter or even a good three-point shooter in Germany. He was unwilling at summer league. He looked pretty uncomfortable, I thought, shooting the ball. So, it’s going to be big for him. I think that, you know, Long Island is a good place that he may be able to go there and get a ton of three-point attempts up and get more comfortable in that regard. So, you know, that lack of three-point shooting, I think, you know, some of the finishing struggles, maybe that will hinder what he can do at the NBA level next season. But I do think that there is a ceiling there with what he can do from an advantage creation standpoint. What he can do as just a sizable ball handler because this is a guy who is probably plays at 6’7 with shoes on, has a 6’8, 6’9 wingspan, has a little bit more bulk to him than Dyman and Shore because we also saw drives at summer league where he would get downhill and he was not afraid to kind of use his body and discard defenders and get to the rim and create space that way. So, I think that there’s a lot to be excited about from the intangible standpoint, from the size, you know, what he can do as a ball handler, the craftiness, all that. It’s going to come down to the three-point shot, and obviously there’s going to be need need to be some things that he works out as a finisher and having the init game, but I think there’s a baseline skill of of, you know, advantage creation that I think will serve uh Sarafh well the next level and does give him some upside. And then talking about Danny Wolf, he, you know, is just such an interesting player. He’s a guy who I think we saw at summer league him kind of struggling on you know figuring out how he’s going to fit in on the fly and I think that summer league’s not a great place for big man and I you know I also think that him playing alongside a center in Drew Timmy who’s not a rim roller or a lob threat or really a highle three-point shooter that probably hurt him a lot and that’s why he looked his best um you know playing center in that one game without Timmy out there but just talking about a guy who’s 6’1 who can handle the ball the way that he does I think that that’s going to provide a lot exciting moments and highlights for the Nets. But I do think that it’s going to be a big step up for him because the best thing that we saw Danny Wolf do at Michigan was the pick and roll ball handling was what he can do with the ball in his hands. Going against NBA level defenders, the you know step up in size, in range, in physicality, the windows are much smaller. We saw him even at summer league struggle a little bit with that ball handling in that regard and he didn’t do it as much as he did it at Michigan. But those windows, all of those things, it’s going to be much harder to do that against NBA level defenders. And also, if he’s coming in and he’s being, you know, he’s a reserve guy and he’s playing a backup role, how much is he going to have the ball in his hands as a pick and roll ball handler? Is he going to be a guy who’s warranting, you know, really high usage in that role? He could, but probably not. It’s going to be a little bit more complimentary, obviously, than what he did at Michigan. So, the three-point shot there is going to be a big area of growth for him. and he didn’t shoot it at a high level at Michigan. I think he was a little like a smidge below 34% from three there, but the stroke does look really smooth. So, I think that that is going to be a big area of growth for him. And that’ll be really, you know, a big a huge thing for him to be able to play center also as a potential pick and pop guy, but also to play off the ball a little bit, you know, or not off the ball, play a power forward a little bit, you know, as another guy, another guy can be a little scheme versatile, maybe be that jumbosized wing the Nets talk about and playing different looks. So, the three-point shooting is going to be big. The step up to NBA level defenders, the physicality, athleticism is going to be tough. And then defensively, you know, trying to guard NBA centers, trying to bang with those guys and match that physicality if he plays at the four, trying to move his feet on the perimeter and guard some of these wings and some of those other guys with some of the things that they can obviously do as ball handlers. Just being in rotation a lot more, having to close out to shooters. It’s going to be a lot more demand demanding for him defensively. So, I think there could be some struggles out of the gate, but you know, like Sarra, I think that there’s a really intriguing skill set that he has as a sizable, you know, a 6’11 pick and roll ball handler. You don’t see that in the NBA every day. And if he can get the three-point shot to come along, I think that that lends itself to a lot of intriguing possibilities as a guy potentially who can play power forward and, you know, play the wing somewhat and then also at center be a guy who is a short roll playmaker or a pick and pop option and a guy who can also run inverted sets as a ball handler. I think that that’s really intriguing and I think that Danny Wolf will be able to get there, but he might have to spend a little bit of time on Long Island. There might be some growing pains at the NBA level before he ultimately is able to reach that potential. But it should be exciting nonetheless. All these Nets rookies, we’re going to have no shortage of conversation surrounding what they can do at the next level. But that does it for this episode of Locked on Nets. If you guys do not already, make sure to subscribe to Locked on Nets on YouTube and wherever you get your podcast, whether Apple Podcast or Spotify. If you enjoy this content, smash that like button. Only takes a second. Really helps to grow the channel. And leave a comment as well. Let me know what you think about these Nets rookies. Who has the best chance to shine in your opinion? Who are you the most excited about? We got a lot more to talk about this off seasonason. I’ll be rolling non-stop through August. So, plenty of more Nets talk when I’m back tomorrow talking Brooklyn Nets basketball.

Erik Slater discusses the Brooklyn Nets’ historic rookie class. He outlines which players are best positioned to shine this season and which could struggle out of the gate.

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