James Wiseman

You still got a guy you want to watch.

You still got a guy that brings you joy, but the idea of ever figuring out how to get Jonathan Kaminga and freaking James Wiseman or whoever that was around him to build a second dynasty, it's probably not going to

happen.

No, and Curry did drag them to one more when it seemed like it was over, that 22 thing against Boston, but You know, if you had to set the over-under for Patrick Mahomes' Super Bowls right now, what is it? Is it one?

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I was thinking about like with the development like just for instance, James Wiseman, like I thought James Wiseman was gonna be like, not the next big thing, but shit, I thought he was gonna be with us for a little minute.

And like where he at now? Last time I seen him he was with like the Pacers or some shit like-

Yeah.

You weren't allowed to do in-person workouts for the most part.

select few the draft was remote and we are going to talk about the james wiseman pick number two overall at the time there was a debate on who could go number one between anthony edwards and mamela ball it really wasn't a case for james wiseman to go number one just because they had carl anthony towns at the time which then allowed the golden state warriors who had a horrible 2020 season because kevin durant left and he was hurt anyway steph got hurt they traded away d'angelo russell that year And Minnesota, you're maybe lucky for not making this video because them trading for D'Angelo Russell in the 2020 season, which gave up the pick to Kaminga in the 2021 draft, did not age well.

But James Wiseman played three games at Memphis in 2020.

He averaged 19 points and 10 rebounds in those three games, in which he played South Carolina State, Illinois, Chicago, and then they were able to play Oregon in the final game where he had 14 points and 12 rebounds.

It's been well documented that Steve Kerr loved Tyrese Halliburton in 2020.

Bob Myers even said that Halliburton had one of the best workouts he has ever seen, and it was considered a weak drift at the time, and a lot of analytic rooms loved Tyrese Halliburton, and just imagine if the Warriors either traded down and took Halliburton or just took LaMelo Ball instead of James Wiseman with the second overall pick.

You can kind of lump in this decision or this move with the 2021 drift, which allowed them to get Jonathan Kuminga and Moses Moody and kind of just fumbling back-to-back top 10 picks when you could have theoretically in hindsight had Tyrese Hobart and or lamella ball and Franz Wagner now the reason why it's not higher on this list because the Golden State Warriors ended up winning the NBA Finals in 2022 a season in which James Wiseman did not play a single game in because he had a knee injury he would go on to play 21 games for them in 2023 and then got traded to Detroit that season I think it's the worst traffic in the 2020s unfortunately it didn't work out maybe it was just a bad system for Wiseman to go to you let me know if you think any other draft pick mistakes should have made this video I also thought about Zachary Sashay number one in the 2024 draft.

You can let me know if I should have had that here as well.

If a nigga says something like that to you and you don't have a rebuttal, you just got to say, I'll beat your ass.

James Wiseman in his Pistons debut had 11 points and five rebounds in 23 minutes.

Bag him up.

Okay.

They drafted the big men and only played three games.

This is a big one.

I could make James Wiseman a Hall of Famer, but I'd need a video game.

The role of the center on the Warriors is an easy job, too.

And at the first opportunity they had with those high draft picks, they completely defied that model, that type of player.

They draft James Wiseman over Tyrese Halliburton.

They draft Jonathan Kamingo over Franz Wagner.

They draft Moses Moody over Alperen Shengun.

And you have to believe.

Okay? James Wiseman.

he's healthy he's healthy now right remember he had supposedly he had a serious injury before

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when he wasn't

even on the team.

I think there's some people that are going to listen to this and be like, man, James Wiseman, take a flyer at him.

Young, I have concerns beside the health.

Ricky Rubio at least was supposed to be kind of a good player.

Marvin Bagley was James Wiseman.

It was so bad.

That was my