The Whale Capper Drew Dinsick discusses the NBA draft
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00:00NBA draft in a couple days, and I think our audience remembers you stuffing Adrian Wodronowski
00:06in a locker a couple of years ago with the Paolo Bancaro situation, so I think your opinion
00:10on the NBA draft matters a lot to people, matters a lot to us.
00:14So we've seen some interesting movement in the first overall pick market.
00:17I don't even know who these people are, like Zachary, Risa Shay is now the favorite, mine
00:22is 250, Risa Shay, Donovan Klingin from UConn, plus 210, Alexander Assar is born.
00:29I saw a video, by the way, of him dribbling, guy looks like LeBron James to me, what the
00:33hell do I know off of a workout?
00:34Stefan Kassel, who I bet at 75-1 last week, is now 40-1, for whatever that's worth.
00:40That's the first pick market.
00:41So Will, we have a couple minutes here, anything that you like for the NBA draft coming up
00:45in a couple days, which is for some reason a two-night event.
00:50Yeah, buckle up for round two on day two.
00:55Will LeBron James go before or after the 45th pick?
00:59No, it definitely did not need to be two nights, I 100% agree.
01:05And for someone who claims to not know the players, a little golf clap for your pronunciation
01:10of Risa Shay.
01:11Risa Shay, yeah, that was slick, man.
01:14The resatcher, I've heard, I've gotten caught on saying it, I've heard people get caught
01:19saying it.
01:20It's not obviously a French last name, but you nailed it, so well done there.
01:25And yeah, I mean, him being a super heavy favorite to go number one has all the whiffs
01:31of the Jabari Smith from Deja Vu all over again.
01:37I'll kind of paint the landscape as I see it.
01:40The Hawks are a mess of an organization, and I shouldn't say they don't know what they're
01:46doing, but it's a relatively new and kind of very uncertain place that this franchise
01:55finds themselves in.
01:56And then you have a weak GM in Landry Fields.
01:58Who knew?
01:59Did you guys know Landry Fields was a GM?
02:01Did you know that Kyle Korver was an assistant GM?
02:04Yeah, and like Trajan Langdon's running the Pistons now?
02:08It's like it's NBA Mad Libs.
02:09Yeah, yeah, that's right.
02:10Did you guys hear J.J.
02:11Reddick's coaching the Lakers now also?
02:12Yeah, there you go.
02:13There you go.
02:14Surprise.
02:15But yeah, I mean, it's like you have a lot of weak voices, and I say weak in a space
02:23that might sound like somewhat challenging, but really I'm just being like, they're not
02:29entrenched, right?
02:30Like these guys don't have a track record that affords them like, no, they're going
02:34to go through this process.
02:35They're going to evaluate these players.
02:36They're going to make the right call.
02:38We have no idea.
02:39This could be anything.
02:41We don't know that they know what they want to do.
02:42And in fact, if you read or listen to people who kind of have tipped their hand about the
02:46process, it doesn't sound like they know what they want to do yet.
02:49Guess what?
02:50They don't know what they want to do yet.
02:51I mean, you shouldn't have a favorite that's minus two anything, particularly in a draft
02:55that is this weak.
02:57You have weak.
02:58So basically, you have a weak front office, you have a weak draft class.
03:00And I think the potential for there just being some wild uncertainty is very real.
03:06The Alexander Saar aspect of that is maybe the only like hard intel that there is out
03:12there in terms of what's going to happen in the top three.
03:15He's represented by Bill Duffy.
03:17Duffy apparently has specifically steered him away from Atlanta because he wants him
03:22to be sort of the center, you know, the focal point of the offense in Washington as Washington
03:27is in a more sincere rebuild.
03:29The Atlanta question is like it's it's very it's very uncertain, you know, do they tear
03:34it down?
03:35Do they trade Trae Young?
03:36Do they trade Deontay Murray?
03:37Do they you know, do they blow it all up to try to get draft assets?
03:40Because if you look at their future draft capital, you know who has it all the Spurs
03:45like the Spurs are making all of the Atlanta's picks.
03:48So they can't really like make a clear and obvious move to tank unless they, you know,
03:52recoup something in this draft.
03:54So they could trade players.
03:56They could we got 30 seconds left, though, we only got 30 seconds left, whatever.
03:59Like you have like a bet for first overall picker where you're leaning 30 seconds.
04:02I'm with you.
04:03I swung away on Castle just because like he we got news that he was going to Atlanta to
04:08work out.
04:09And you're just like, OK, well, he's going to work out.
04:10They haven't made their decision yet.
04:12He fits like he's he's kind of exactly in the mold of a Jalen Brown type of player.
04:15Oh, yeah.
04:16By the way, the Jalen Brown who just won finals MVP, a guy who, you know, didn't shoot three
04:20point well in college and can lock down point of attack defense and provide, you know, kind
04:25of the perfect, you know, he's six, seven, he's huge as far as, you know, being able
04:28to create as far a point guard shooting guard.
04:31So, yeah, I think Castles is live to go one overall and I bet into it at one hundred to
04:36one.
04:37But we don't really have and I got it and I got it and I got a worse price because Drew
04:40betted at one hundred to one and then Trey Young tweeted the hourglass and then I bet
04:43more on Stefan Castles.