00:00am i wrong it was like they gave the analysts the night off and just interviewed parents
00:04all night it was i mean i just said during a crosstalk i spent most of the time watching
00:07the tigers but then you know tigers game ends and i'm able to watch full bore in the
00:12the draft and during commercial breaks i'm flipping over and i'm like this is strange
00:16coverage all around it didn't feel like like the nfl draft they got it down right it's it's great
00:22to get your analysis you got your pre-packaged everything ready to roll and when a trade's
00:26announced you know what's going on they announce it right away the nba is totally different they
00:31take their sweet ass time announcing trades so by the time you know silver gets up there and says
00:37we have a trade to announce everybody's like oh and then it's like oh yeah we knew that half an
00:42hour
00:42ago you're just now announcing i don't know whatever it seems kind of strange but it's a tv show right
00:48it's a television show and they're they've got the the basketball fan and and look human interest
00:55stories are part of it i get it and that's going to appeal to people but am i wrong did
01:00they just
01:00turn the entire draft over to parents it was a little strange okay my parents and family members
01:07it was a lot of human interest and i think that's why you know like you just said i talked
01:11we talked
01:11this morning it's a tv show and so they're thinking how do we get the most interest most ratings and
01:17i
01:17think they they've in their minds their production meetings whatever they said let's focus on the
01:21families because this is a big night for the family not just the player and but as far as
01:25analyzing goes doug but there are times because there's so many trades so many trades right and
01:31none of these trades can be finalized so that's why they can't put on their new hats or whatever
01:34like they're not finalized till july that the analysts are analyzing for teams that not even going
01:40to they were confused they i mean i they made they were like breaking down players that were going to
01:44the knicks knicks traded out of their the entire first round they were analyzing players for the knicks
01:49the fits that don't even exist it's all mucked up and it doesn't have to be the nfl doesn't muck
01:54it
01:54up like that just figure it out no it's because they can't be finalized until july yeah but why
01:59because there says there's a date somebody edicts the date i mean change it change it to make it it's
02:06not hard less confusing yeah i mean it's really not that difficult to do i was like change the date
02:12or
02:12something and they do eventually announce it like i said it's just a half an hour later when they
02:17make it official but he also says it's not till finalized until july yeah but it's just dumb
02:24and that's why they can't like oh cory can't put on a pistons hat because he wasn't drafted by the
02:30pistons and he's not he doesn't belong to the pistons yet well they were doing interviews on
02:33espn radio and telling guys they've been traded yeah you don't need that hat anymore right you're
02:38talking to me so uh who are you on the phone with oh milwaukee i was just talking to milwaukee
02:42are you allowed to say that i mean you're part of that the big honest trade are you allowed to
02:46say
02:46you're talking milwaukee or you're supposed to say oh he's on the i was on the horn of miami
02:49i mean miami look i think that we i don't know for how cynical we are but i'm like if
02:56you ever
02:56wonder what caleb wilson's mom looked like now we know we just what what uh what darius acuff like
03:02all the parents that were up there it was just like huh they only talked to like one of them
03:07well
03:07and i mean because you got two people sitting there on the couch with the mic up next to their
03:12mouth
03:12right right hey hey up here up here yeah like they're not they're not media savvy don't put
03:17them on hey look yeah you know for me it's like it's cool i wanted more analysis of the picks
03:23and
03:23i wanted to know more about the trades not gonna lie i was a big fan of keaton wagler's mom
03:28though
03:28okay oh yeah should i google that i mean you might have been watching tigers at the time so
03:37just saying yeah well canadian kid right is he can he's canadian kid right
03:43or am i wrong hello jennifer
03:47yeah all right there we go now gator's changing his mind you know they should have interviewed
03:51her for the entire first round that probably is something yeah let's get some insight anyway look
03:57with that said all we're doing is bitching about something we didn't want to see more of so
04:02um what'd you think abuka or cory all right so as far as the player is concerned you know because
04:09i remember i read the description of him yesterday not on the air but i did i was going through
04:12players
04:12and he was one of the players i went through and it took a mental note and my mental note
04:16at the
04:16time when i was reading about him i'm not gonna lie to anybody it's not like i sat there watched
04:20a
04:20ton of stanford basketball and stanford playing in the acc and you didn't put in time in the film
04:24room no i did not do that so i'm gonna you know look at what disappointed in me right so
04:29i'm reading
04:29these descriptions of the players and this is yesterday so i i put a mental note that it sounds
04:36like this guy plays a lot like jaden ivy well that was my initial thought because hearing a guy who
04:43attacks the rim has good handles he can shoot from the outside a little bit uh creates his own shot
04:50when he led the acc in scoring with 23 points a game and that's the acc you know i mean
04:55that's
04:56kind of impressive and you know there are things he's got to work on um fair enough but it sounds
05:01like this has got this guy could be an instant score when he steps onto the floor and is wicked
05:06fast and that's what i thought when i used to watch jaden ivy play at purdue i'm like this guy
05:11is so fast
05:12up and down the floor yeah and and to another extent kind of like it's why i like d'aaron
05:16fox back
05:17before this playoff but uh d'aaron fox is is wicked fast and i love that about players that they
05:24they're in particularly if they're fearless too and this guy seemed like he was fearless getting
05:28to the rack so i'm like okay are they taking another swing at a at a jade at a jade
05:33and ivy
05:34type player and i'm fine with that here's what i like about it okay what i like is that the
05:40general
05:40manager is going out there and he's showing conviction for the player that he wants right
05:45or wrong okay the time is going to let us know if this guy's worth it or not but what
05:49i like is a
05:50general manager that's going to tell everybody i don't care what anybody says i need to go get
05:53this guy and i'm going to go get him it's going to be costly here's three second round picks i
05:58know
05:58lots of people think second round picks don't matter but three is a lot to move up four spots
06:02whatever he did it he didn't want to wait for him to fall to him at 21 and risk losing
06:07him he said
06:07screw it i'm getting him now so i give trajan langman credit for doing that now it may end up
06:13being the
06:13wrong decision and that could be his undoing like great he had conviction for a guy that sucked
06:17i hope that's not the case again i i for me it's a comp to to ivy and and hopefully
06:24it's a good
06:24thing if he can stay healthy because if ivy stayed healthy we'd have a different story but
06:27he didn't and he couldn't so what does this guy do moving forward hopefully it's it's a lot of
06:33instant offense because it sounds like that's exactly what it is he creates his own shot and
06:37create shots for other big others because you know i kept reading different comments from different
06:41people he touches the paint he's always in the paint okay great if he lives up to the scouting
06:47report he's going to be great for this team and that's that's the question is will he live up to
06:54the scouting report looked a conviction for ron holland who has been a contributor but not a heavy
07:00contributor in the last couple years they had conviction and and some i mean let's face it chas
07:06lanier was a second round pick but there was some analysis that chas lanier could be a difference
07:10maker and you know he played half the games in the regular season and really obviously not much
07:16in the post i think he made a postseason appearance but the bottom line here is it's it's a it's
07:22a player
07:22with a high upside and when you read the scouting report and we'll go through all that the way that
07:28he fits could be fantastic it's just a question of is this guy truly one of those great sleepers who
07:39was undervalued out of high school high iq player was on his way to harvard stanford discovered him
07:45gave him a chance and he goes to stanford and he explodes and you know quick riser suddenly he's in
07:54the draft and now the pistons got an 18 year old that had he stayed in college would he be
08:02a lottery
08:02pick in the next couple years i mean if they the way that's trending it feels like they got an
08:09early
08:09they got in early on a future lottery pick at 17 and you know time will tell um i think
08:19there's a
08:19chance this one can work because the one thing that i like about the scouting report on him
08:25is the the iq and the work ethic and i feel like when you put those two things together
08:32what you're likely to get is a player's ceiling if they're smart and they work hard i think they're
08:38likely to reach their ceiling if they got basketball smarts and you work hard whatever you can possibly
08:44be you will likely be barring you don't you don't have your career derailed by injuries yeah and one of
08:50the
08:50i mean the good things about him that he has to work on one of the things is it's a
08:55fun thing to
08:55work on he wants to be a better three-point shooter shot 35 beyond the arc and he said you
09:00know i got to
09:00work on that part of the game i'm gonna spend all summer in the gym that's awesome if you're a
09:05player
09:05and that's what you're working on to improve from being 35 35 isn't great but it's not bad
09:10they're pretty good base for a 19 year old you know i mean he still has room to grow he's
09:15got great
09:16length he's got what a wingspan of a guy who's six foot eight uh and he's just just under six
09:21two so
09:22he is he undersized yeah but lightning quick there are plenty of guys you can make up for it if
09:28you
09:28have other special qualities seems like his game iq his wingspan and his quickness can help make up for
09:35his lack of size um but we'll get into who he is as a player as the show goes on
09:40the other thing is
09:41we had a twitter question this morning uh if you follow us on twitter at douggator 971 uh you
09:46perhaps saw it we'll take your votes there's two things this is two-pronged question one is a you
09:53have multiple choice and the other is an essay question gator oh and i said yeah uh the pick of
09:59abuka okori do you approve of the draft pick that's the multiple choice you can vote yes or no yes
10:05i approve
10:05no i do not approve it's pretty simple uh go vote at douggator 971 on twitter but here's the essay
10:11part
10:11uh what would you like the next move to be uh a trade or a free agent signing and if
10:18you if you
10:18come up with a trade give us you know give us some parameters of a trade you know it's great
10:23to say
10:23trade for steph curry oh i chose steph curry but i did okay how you getting steph curry yeah how
10:31are we
10:31getting i'm not sure trade for ja morant he's available 248-539-9797 so go vote and what would
10:40you like the next move to be if you don't like typing out your essay answer that's why we have
10:45the phones and you can just call us and tell us what would you like the next move to be
10:48so do you
10:49approve of the pick and what's the next move 248-539-9797 it's carson anderson here on a wednesday
10:55following the first round of the draft the always exciting second round coming up tonight i'm glad
11:01they split the split these into into two days yeah very very happy about that uh vote comment
11:11carson anderson 97-1
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