Ben Saraf
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Oct 10, 2026
Daniel GranadanHOST
Um, nothing crazy.
Daniel GranadanHOST
Uh, Ben Saraf.
Daniel GranadanHOST
I, I hear some people say that they're hopeful.
Daniel GranadanHOST
I have no hope for Ben Saraf.
Daniel GranadanHOST
I don't, I don't know why some people do.
Daniel GranadanHOST
Like if-- some people say that Ben Saraf and Drake Powell are, are out of those, the five rookies, those are the worst two.
Daniel GranadanHOST
I have Drake Powell like a full level over Ben Saraf.
Daniel GranadanHOST
I don't believe in Ben Saraf at all.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
But the second unit was really interesting to me.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
Brooklyn's second unit came out, Ben Saraf, Terrence Mann, Noah Clowney, Chaney Johnson, and then obviously Mo Wagner.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
And it had a little bit of a different feel, I want to say.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
Excuse me.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
Oh, it's important because Brooklyn has different looks this year.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
And I also think that when it comes down to the conversation of is Ben Saraf ahead of Nolan Traore, I don't want to say that that is the case.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
I don't want to sit here and say, oh, well, Saraf came in first, so he must be ahead of Traore on the depth chart.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
No, I don't think that's the case.
Erik SlaterHOST
And the first position battle that I think Nets fans should have their eye on is the backcourt battle.
Erik SlaterHOST
And you look at beyond Yaeger, Mikheil, um, Keon Ellis, the three guys I said are probably locks to start the season getting minutes, you have Nolan Troy, Ben Saraf, Terrence Mann, Drake Powell, and I expect all of those guys to be in competition for whether you say there's one spot left in that backcourt rotation, or whether you think there's two spots.
Erik SlaterHOST
Those guys, I think, are all gonna be competing because once Mikheil is back- You know, to 100%.
Erik SlaterHOST
I fully expect him and Ye- Kor- Jegor to be the backcourt starters, and I fully expect Keon Ellis to have a role from day one.
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Erik SlaterHOST
Like we saw, you know, Yegor Gilman, we saw the size that he's put on.
Erik SlaterHOST
Nolan Trore, we saw how he's gotten stronger.
Erik SlaterHOST
Same thing, you know, Ben Saraf and Drake Powell, like Danny Wolf has spoken about how playing with more physicality has been a big emphasis of his this off season.
Erik SlaterHOST
He is a bigger guy.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
It's gonna...
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
I mean, do they start Keon Ellis if Mikal doesn't play? Is Terance Mann gonna get the nod and go ahead and start since he's comfortable? Is MB- is MPJ the three, the four, the two? I mean, do we see the, the big lineup? Does Julius Randle start at the four? Does he play center? Does De'Ron Sharp start? Is Noah Clowney in there? Is there somebody else that we're even missing that could be in there as well outside of Nolan? And it, it's the first five is gonna tell us what Jordi wants to look at first and, and honestly I'm m- even more interested in seeing what happens after the first sub because that's when the experiment- uh, the experimentation begins Who comes in first? Does Jordy stagger Randall and MPJ to start? Does he stagger the young guards? Does Yeghor run the offense if Mike Kell's not playing? Or do they have a guy like Ben Saraf or Nolan Traore getting the extended run to run the offense? And that's the stuff that I am watching.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
We also get to see the first
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The mighty dollar.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
He's coming in with an understanding that there are young players on this roster who are at the beginning of their careers.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
Mikal, Jagor, Ben Saraf, Nolan Traore, uh, uh, Drake Powell, Danny Wolf, Noah Clowney even.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
A-and Julius Randle has, has been through every single kind of basketball environment you could imagine.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
He's experienced losing seasons.
Tim CapstrawGUEST
And so I, I, I think, I think, um, I think we're gonna be better, but I want...
Tim CapstrawGUEST
If m- like, a guy like Mike Cal Brown jumps out at you like he's special, and then maybe one of these other rookies that we had last year besides Diomande makes a jump, maybe a Nolan Traore, a maybe a Drake Powell, maybe a Danny Wolfe or, or, or, uh, Ben Saraf, they make like, "Ooh, he's a lot better than we gave him credit for." We need a little of that right about now.
Tim CapstrawGUEST
We need a couple of...
Tim CapstrawGUEST
And, and I watch these coaches and how good they are at development and all that.
Andrew SchlechtHOST
They do
Erik SlaterGUEST
... is Michael Brown Jr. as a rookie, and then Nolan Troy and Ben Saraf, who are second-year players, who I didn't, I don't necessarily think looked great as rookies.
Erik SlaterGUEST
So-
Andrew SchlechtHOST
Yeah
James BarloweHOST
... whatever.
James BarloweHOST
But Ben Saraf's, like, numbers for Israel that year were amazing.
James BarloweHOST
You know what I'm saying?
Raphael BarlowHOST
Yeah.