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Thank you!

He looks good. I just want to see an entire season against pros. His first two games this year were more of a struggle, but he bounced back yesterday (although against weaker competition). The game will slow down for Traoré more as the season goes on, so I'm not worried. I have a hard time seeing him drop out of the top 5 barring a surprise.

Thanks, truly appreciate that! 🙏

I’ll have a Ben Saraf video. Thanks for watching!

@@FloorandCeiling Great! I'll gladly watch it.

In all honesty, I'm not convinced he's 6-5 in shoes. Traoré has been listed at 6-3 and 6-4 as well. I wouldn't be surprised to see him wind up closer to the latter.

@@FloorandCeiling Yes, he's listed at 6"3 ... As a Nets fan, I hope we'll get a tall PG next to Cam Thomas

@@orlandoallen5324 I’m covering Brooklyn for Nets On SI this upcoming season, so you might be interested in some of my coverage there once things get underway. I’ll have Nets-related draft content on their website too

Excited to get underway 🏀🔮

Totally agreed. Creighton is doing things really well lately

It's solid overall. I feel okay although not great about it, but I trust what OKC does in the draft. I know they're not the same type of player and some Thunder fans don't love this comp, but I kinda see Topic as a beefed up Josh Giddey for OKC's intents and purposes. The shooting is going to be the most important thing - and even that may be somewhat offset if Topic is surrounded with enough outside threats. Not to mention he'll slash to the basket more powerfully than Giddey, so backing off Topic and daring him to attack the rim might not be as useful. Like you pointed out, I like the idea of him with OKC's bigs and expect him to have good synergy with both guys down the line.

​@@FloorandCeiling They needed another primary playmaker since both SGA & JDub are great passers too but in honesty they're just secondary while adding in some pieces in iHart then Caruso who can playmake add a bit more as connectors who are their tertiary passers. Their betting to have either one of Topic or Wallace to fill the void that Giddey left since Presti is not just focusing in the present but also planning for the long term future, that's the main reason they took Nikola especially in the Playoffs OKC's passing have dipped severely like the ball stopped moving or got stagnant. The Thunder are banking/investing high to develop a pure playmaker for them going down the road as the contend for a Championships in this up coming years also Nikola Topic wouldn't fall to them if he hadn't got injured before the draft so getting to pick the best talent plus potential available was a good move with how they're familiar handling redshirt rookies with Chet or having Serbians drafted back then in Poku and Micic.

He has to stay in the gym but has what it takes to be real successful in the league

The 42 inch vertical isn’t showing up functionally in game. I’m not saying Reed is unathletic. His hand-eye coordination is incredible, so is his timing. But he undoubtedly has limitations in traffic or against length handling and finishing at times, for example

@FloorandCeiling Did you watch his blocks when he played for Kentucky?

Yeah, he played well but he shot 35.7% from the field as a big (no problem in Summer League). The most noteworthy aspect of Clingan's SL experience imo is that he took 3.2 threes a game and made 3/13. If you've followed FLOOR and CEILING for a while, you'll know just how high I've been on Clingan ever since he got to college.

Good positional size for sure. Should shoot the ball well both off the catch and off the bounce. I actually wanna see him shoot spot-ups at a higher clip.

They objectively exist.

I think he deserves a bigger chance in the NBA.

Liked him as a late second round or UDFA out of Miami last draft. Not really sure where he fits with the Clippers despite being very productive. Same question I have about someone like Jalen Wilson, who was also really good in SL. Role is everything.

Thanks as always!

He played incredibly well, but only 3 games so that's what kinda tilted it towards some of these other guys. Pound for pound, Da Silva was better than Furphy or Buzelis. He'll be good for Orlando.

Appreciate it as per usual! On Castle, I thought he looked relatively solid in the California Classic. Only played a game in Vegas before his wrist injury unfortunately. It was cool to see the Spurs let him play with the ball in his hands, which didn't happen as much as UConn. I wanna keep seeing more.

He'll be featured in my next video.

Part 2?

23 years old. like tristan too. u expect that outcome from them against 19-21y guys.

I thought Knecht ended up having a decent Summer League, but I didn't really come away super impressed while I was watching the Lakers. As you said, it was a rougher context. No real point guard and sort of an unbalanced roster. Lots of guys were forcing the issue, so it kinda stood out when Knecht, Bronny, or Colin Castleton played in the flow of the offense (something I wish Maxwell Lewis had ended up doing more of). But even then, Knecht shot 34.2% from three and 36.7% from the field (6 games). It's a tiny sample size, so I'm not reading too much into it and I remain high on him (especially for the Lakers) but I expected a bit more.

Memphis in general had a handful of guys who played really well. With Jaylen Wells, I think one of the main concerns was probably how much improvement he has left (started off at Sonoma State in D-2) but he shot the lights out at Washington State. In my final big board, I had him as in the "idealistic but actually shaky potential" range, which was in the mid-to-late second next to guys like Nikola Durisic or Ulrich Chomche.

Appreciate you!

Been playing well in Summer League so far.

He's a number one option type guy.

I think so yeah. Check out the full video clipped to the short and I get into his full game a bit more!

@@FloorandCeiling Thanks.

I believe that he's the best prospect in American basketball right now.

Philly has the chance to get really high value from Edwards. Had top 5 buzz, including from myself, before his freshman season. There's talent there. Needs to find his NBA role.