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Which Husky will be picked first in the 2024 draft?

Who will be picked first in the 2024 draft?

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Clingan. Oddly I am not seeing much media stories about Castle except in draft projections.
 
Serious question- why isn't Tristan as highly regarded? UConn wins two championships in a row and Tristan is leading scorer in both championship games. Tristan is a very good defender, rebounder, scorer- he is good at everything. Why not more love for him at the draft?
 
Conndog said:
Serious question- why isn't Tristan as highly regarded? UConn wins two championships in a row and Tristan is leading scorer in both championship games. Tristan is a very good defender, rebounder, scorer- he is good at everything. Why not more love for him at the draft?
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older, so less room for metaphorical growth. NBA draft is all about potential upside value.
 
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Conndog said:
Serious question- why isn't Tristan as highly regarded? UConn wins two championships in a row and Tristan is leading scorer in both championship games. Tristan is a very good defender, rebounder, scorer- he is good at everything. Why not more love for him at the draft?
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He's a 23-year old guard with a 32 inch vertical and an okay jump shot.
 
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JayKoz said:
You people kill me.

He’s a two time National Champion. Can we please spell his name correctly?
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It's unbelievable to me that posters are still spelling his name wrong. I get that not everyone is a a good speller, but would you spell your own child's name wrong? I think we've all probably seen Tristen's name in print more than our own children's names.
 
Castle. He's a potential star. Donovan is maybe an eventual starting big. Those are still rare, and valuable.
 
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JSB60 said:
Kevin Ollie had more than 10 years in the league. Tristan can do everything Ollie did with much more offensive pop.
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except defend man to man
KO was highly regarded for his work ethic on the court
Newton was/is a much better offensive threat than KO - KO as a PG was distributor and quarterback.
 
gtcam said:
except defend man to man
KO was highly regarded for his work ethic on the court
Newton was/is a much better offensive threat than KO - KO as a PG was distributor and quarterback.
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I still remember the story about OKC bringing in KO as a possible assistant. They had the team run that day so KO ran with them at 38 or whatever years old and beat all of them. If I thought Newton was going to put in that much work, especially on D, then maybe he could carve out a similar career. He is more skilled, but I think Ollie was a better athlete.
 
Mike Honcho said:
If he wins 3 we'll consider it
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This gave me a good laugh.

Can’t wait to see “Leeum” next year.

Proud of Tristen, has his jersey up there with the likes of Rey Allen, Richard Hamuhlton, and Shubazz Napeyear.
 
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HooperScooper said:
It's unbelievable to me that posters are still spelling his name wrong. I get that not everyone is a a good speller, but would you spell your own child's name wrong? I think we've all probably seen Tristen's name in print more than our own children's names.
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Yeah, it's not about being a good speller or not. No one should care about minor spelling errors in random words on here, but learning a person's name and spelling it correctly is about respect.
 
I think Castle might actually go ahead of Clingan.

I think when the dust settles the speed and agility tests will hurt DC a lot. He basically tested as one of the slowest players ever? In a league thats increasingly putting everyone behind the 3 point line and switching on most screens I think that could be problematic for Clingan. Everyone keeps making the Gobert comp from a size/drop coverage perspective but they couldn't be more different types of athletes. The Twolves also make it work because they have amazing defensive guards. Not all systems work like that.
 
Clingan. He’s a unicorn. Only comp for him in the draft is Edey and all the experts seem to think he has more upside.
 
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I love Newton and greatly appreciate all he did for UConn. He's a first team All-American and will have a great career, , , , overseas. He will be drafted late in the second round as some team takes a flyer. It's 50-50 if he gets a part time contract.

Castle with the highest floor and ceiling will go before DC.
 
If I'm starting a team from scratch, Im choosing Castle 10/10 times.

Most teams have guards though, and 7'3 mobile centers are in rarified air.

Clingan will go first unless a team trades up to get Castle, or teams will wait for Clingan to go and then trade in right behind the pick for Castle.
 
If you look at the drills and each of their performance, it seems Castle helped his stock and Clingan did not help his stock.

Now that we are over a month removed and some of the championship push a few of our players got as the mock drafts and draft news cycle started, we are starting to see more of the same player analysis we have all been talking about start to come to the forefront.

Castle shot well in the drills. Does that translate to game situations? I am not surprised that AK nailed the shooting but how will he perform during the scrimmages.

I see Baylor getting good pub on his performance in the scrimmages. Although there have been opinions about Scheierman’s viability at the nba level, but his stock seems to be climbing the media draft board. I find that surprising as I think AK is currently a better player than BS and I also believe AK has a higher upside. But maybe that is why I am posting on a message board and not in the arena that this is happening real time.

Donovan and his agility scores were really surprising. Before those drills there is no way I could be convinced that Clingan would not score better on agility that Edey. To me that is the biggest surprise of the “combine”.
 
And to actually answer the question that the thread is based on.

I think Castle is going to be the first UConn player drafted.

Both he and Clingan go in the top ten.
 
Verne said:
I think Castle might actually go ahead of Clingan.

I think when the dust settles the speed and agility tests will hurt DC a lot. He basically tested as one of the slowest players ever? In a league thats increasingly putting everyone behind the 3 point line and switching on most screens I think that could be problematic for Clingan. Everyone keeps making the Gobert comp from a size/drop coverage perspective but they couldn't be more different types of athletes. The Twolves also make it work because they have amazing defensive guards. Not all systems work like that.
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There is video of Clingan beating the entire Arkansas team up and down the court in the sweet 16. The NBA teams have all seen it. That is going to get a lot more weight than a single trial of a contrived agility drill.

But actually, I would pick Castle ahead of Clingan too. Not because Clingan coasted through a meaningless agility drill, but because Castle is that good.
 
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