Joshua Jefferson

That's tough.

Again, my brother, not driving, but in the chat, Josh Jefferson was also taken ahead of Malik Thomas.

Yeah.

Yeah, he was.

And also Trevon Brazil.

Josh Jefferson is out with a back injury, but I think he has been sent to the G League.

But at the same time, you know, you get off to a slow start.

Chaney Johnson is playing well for the Nets.

thing bronx it's 30 83. you're gonna be judged whether you think it's fair or unfair on the selections that you make because especially when you have five picks there's always going to be somebody that says oh we should have took this guy instead of this guy And but at the same time, I feel like, you know, you hit on if you had what six picks, if Nolan and Mike Hill are the ones that emerge as like really and Yegor as rotation guys, you'll take a 50 percent hit rate.

on draft picks because the draft is a crapshoot but i do see some of your your your road dogs you know uh is it joshua jefferson hasn't he hasn't played yet but you know then they see trevon brazil out there hoping and then they'll say oh man you should have took trevon that's just the nature of the draft um you know whether front offices take that seriously, but like the fans are always going to look at who you're picked around.

I mean, I saw even before today, like Arkansas fans, you know, everything is a cover.

It's Mike Hill round versus Kingston.

Moving on, Iowa State plus 650, TJ Otzelberger's year six, 29-8 last year.

My concern with Iowa State is you ran everything through Joshua Jefferson for the most part, obviously Lipsy's Lipsy, but Joshua Jefferson, A lot of scoring there.

A lot ran through him.

Milan was the best shooter maybe in the entire country.

Maybe of all time in a season of college basketball.

Shot like 49% from three.

How do you replace that? Especially because we saw you play without Joshua Jefferson.

Now this is a different team.

consistent playing time.

Joshua Jefferson.

I mean, we haven't even talked about him at all.

He got such a

Which again, is tough to say, and it's tough to see, but that is what you need.

But moving on from that, I do want to talk about the Nets also assigning Ben Saroff, Drake Powell, and Josh Jefferson to the G League, and I think it's worth discussing because it gives us a look at how Brooklyn is managing its young players early in the season.

First of all, I would not treat these assignments as some major indictment of any of these three players.

The G League can be useful, especially as a place for the young guys to develop.

We haven't really seen that yet with Drake Powell in legitimate games.

We've seen the defense last year 100%, but I haven't seen him play too consistently on the offensive end.

Josh Jefferson, I think he just needs time to develop.

Obviously, he missed a lot of time with his injuries in the preseason and coming into the regular season.

Yeah, no, we were pleased with our season.

Unfortunately, you know, Joshua Jefferson sustained an injury down the stretch, which, you know, was a challenge for us.

You know, he was such a critical piece of everything that we did.

So not having him provided challenges.