Brooklyn Nets Select Egor Demin With The 8th Overall Pick

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00:00The pick is in. The Brooklyn Nets in front of their home crowd have officially sent in that

00:06selection to Commissioner Adam Silver. At eighth overall, the Brooklyn Nets take out of BYU the

00:13Russian guard Yegor Dimmon. Dimmon goes eighth overall to the Brooklyn Nets. And J.Y., when you

00:20look at what he did in his lone year in Provo playing for BYU, a facilitator, an apt shooter

00:26at times. Are you surprised the Nets reached up to grab Yegor Dimmon in this spot?

00:35They wanted to. And, you know, I mean, I'm going to do something I haven't done yet. I'm

00:39going to throw it to Kevin Walsh because Kevin Walsh was not a big fan of this kid, thought

00:43he should be playing at BYU. Kevin, thoughts on this move with Yegor going to Brooklyn?

00:49Coach, I owe you a drink. What an atrocious pick. Congratulations, Brooklyn. At least

00:57you didn't trade up for the kid. Two games against Houston this year. Maybe that's a comp

01:02for an NBA defense. A nice and shiny three of 15 from the field. Nine points and eight

01:08turnovers for Demmon in those games against the Cougs. He shot a putrid 27% from three this

01:14year. Don't worry. He was only down to 23% in Big 12 play. His offensive rating, bad. His

01:22defensive rating, worse. This is a kid with an over-under draft position of 13 and a half.

01:28You're reached easily. Not close. The worst pick we have seen in this draft. And the nice

01:36part of it is I don't see anyone touching a pick this bad, even though we're only eight

01:43picks in. F. F. F. F. Brooklyn Nets. Oh, and by the way, they get another crack at it

01:50four more times. Yikes.

01:52Yikes. So, a lot of raw talent. Great passer. Disagree. He stinks. He's a great passer. He's

02:02got a good anticipation, good feel for the game. Extremely unrefined skill set outside

02:06of that. Can't shoot. Can't shoot. Can't guard. So, the sizes there continue to grow. Can't

02:12beat anyone off the dribble. He's not going to play that role. I think they want to play

02:16him in some type of just pure facilitator role between the shooting from Cam Thomas

02:21and the lob game to Nick Claxton. But I'm not sure how long Nick Claxton is going to be

02:25on the Nets. Maybe their thought was, since all Cam Thomas wants to do is shoot, and all

02:31Igor Demin can do nicely is pass. Pass it. That's a good backcourt to have. Just pass. Pass. Pass.

02:36This is a tank pick. They're trying to position for Dyk Bonsa, who should be playing with Demin

02:42next season at BYU, Ben. Definitely not the pick to make.