Wemby is back home in France and is watching Oscar's game (lil bro)… are we drafting Risacher?
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Spurs could turn into the French national team if they wish it
I won’t pretend to be good enough with faces to say that that is Brian, but I mean it would make sense right? If we’re looking at fit around Victor and his playstyle, one of this team’s biggest gaping holes is a high level, low usage, 3 and D plus cutting style modern Wing. Julian had a fun end of the season, but he just doesn’t really look like someone destined for more than becoming a high-level third string end of bench guy.
nd while people may have sourd on zaccharie I think it’s really important to not nitpick little bits of a whole season to build our narrative.
The reality is he was always viewed as a high-level defensive prospect with some untapped ball handling and self-creating shops whose biggest question entering the season was his jumper.
If you told scouts 12 months ago he would finish the year shooting right around 40% from three. They would have been absolutely giddy. He was never going to be a 47% three-point shooter on high volume. He’s also not going to be a 24% shooter on high volume. He’s a young guy and I think it’s also important to remember that When things are said and done, he’s going to have ended up playing practically double the games of all the collegiate prospects. And doing it against better competition, higher physicality, and a lot of minutes and expectations thrown on a very young pair of shoulders. Toby, one of the most important players on a team that has real aspirations this year.
Fatigue has most certainly been a factor. And it’s disappointing that he really hasn’t shown any improvement in his ball handling.
But I feel very confident after almost 60 games of film this year that his jumper is vastly improved, and he’s one of the two or three.l Best Wing Defenders in this entire draft with crazy good height/length/ fluidity.
I’ve started to get a bit more love for the guards in this class than I had previously which has caused me to move zaccharie down a little bit but the difference between the number two guy on my board and say the number seven or eight guy on my board is… Practically non-existent right now.
I wouldn’t hate him At all with our pic And I definitely feel like the front office is interested considering they’ve had personnel/scouts at at least a handful of games this year. Plus the French connection doesn’t hurt lol
Looks like him to me I think
where can we find footage of this game? I want to see how oscar plays. The only highlight i’ve seen of him was when he had a steal and fastbreak dunk in some youth game but like that’s it
All them euros that played soccer growing up like ginobili and Parker. They’re a different breed.
I would prefer literally every other prospect but Risacher. He’s not a good enough defender to offset his offensive question marks (like Castle can). 41% from the field is nasty. Especially when you’re not offering even any playmaking or passing upside like Topic. If your shooting is not a definite thing, your defense or playmaking have to be promising. And so far, there are way better defensive prospects and higher IQ players than Risacher. Not to mention, there are people that shoot the ball better as well like Sheppard.
Risacher doesn’t really do anything better than any prospect in this draft. I find it hard to believe he hasn’t fallen down in the rankings since his shooting fell off a cliff. No prospect in this draft is perfect, but the top prospects are usually elite in one area in this draft. Risacher doesn’t excel in anything compared to his competition.
It’s also possible that a GM wants to build a stronger relationship with our franchise player a little bit outside of the regular season as well. I highly doubt this has anything to do with drafting. And if the slight chance it does, there are better prospects in this draft playing in France than Risacher.
I’d recognize that genius General Manager scheming pencil mustache anywhere
Why would we assume Risacher from BW being in Europe.
Topic is IMO the best PG prospect in the draft and the guy I’d want for us to get
Salaün probably doesn’t happen but he’s still worth scouting in case he falls to a range where we’d be willing to trade up
Dadiet seems like a great get with our 35th pick, feel like he could end up being Bilal-like so hopefully his stock doesn’t improve this much
Ajinça has potential as a 3&D player, maybe PATFO doesn’t want to swing for the fences on every single pick and they go for a slightly more NBA ready product
Nunez looks like the best passer that isn’t poised to go in the lottery, he lacks pretty much everything else but he could be an interesting project
Djurisic has been on a tear lately, who knows how much he can keep this up but would like to see him get drafted by us
And finally there’s a bunch of UDFA targets, Yannick Kraag if he declares had some draft buzz in the past, Nadir Hifi went undrafted last year, he’s a cool combo guard that led Paris to winning Eurocup/making Euroleague.
Risacher’s fine by me btw, me naming other guys isn’t some weird form of hate, draft sub clinged onto him as this year’s Brandon Miller, as if a dude who has played 57 games this year wasn’t going to suffer from a rookie-wall like crash, you know the hate is made-up when you start looking for what a prospect isn’t while not using that same set of standards for other dudes.
No, her name is Alice Franks. She is a writer for the local paper in a town outside Paris called Gonesse.
9 comments
Spurs could turn into the French national team if they wish it
I won’t pretend to be good enough with faces to say that that is Brian, but I mean it would make sense right? If we’re looking at fit around Victor and his playstyle, one of this team’s biggest gaping holes is a high level, low usage, 3 and D plus cutting style modern Wing. Julian had a fun end of the season, but he just doesn’t really look like someone destined for more than becoming a high-level third string end of bench guy.
nd while people may have sourd on zaccharie I think it’s really important to not nitpick little bits of a whole season to build our narrative.
The reality is he was always viewed as a high-level defensive prospect with some untapped ball handling and self-creating shops whose biggest question entering the season was his jumper.
If you told scouts 12 months ago he would finish the year shooting right around 40% from three. They would have been absolutely giddy. He was never going to be a 47% three-point shooter on high volume. He’s also not going to be a 24% shooter on high volume. He’s a young guy and I think it’s also important to remember that When things are said and done, he’s going to have ended up playing practically double the games of all the collegiate prospects. And doing it against better competition, higher physicality, and a lot of minutes and expectations thrown on a very young pair of shoulders. Toby, one of the most important players on a team that has real aspirations this year.
Fatigue has most certainly been a factor. And it’s disappointing that he really hasn’t shown any improvement in his ball handling.
But I feel very confident after almost 60 games of film this year that his jumper is vastly improved, and he’s one of the two or three.l Best Wing Defenders in this entire draft with crazy good height/length/ fluidity.
I’ve started to get a bit more love for the guards in this class than I had previously which has caused me to move zaccharie down a little bit but the difference between the number two guy on my board and say the number seven or eight guy on my board is… Practically non-existent right now.
I wouldn’t hate him At all with our pic And I definitely feel like the front office is interested considering they’ve had personnel/scouts at at least a handful of games this year. Plus the French connection doesn’t hurt lol
Looks like him to me I think
where can we find footage of this game? I want to see how oscar plays. The only highlight i’ve seen of him was when he had a steal and fastbreak dunk in some youth game but like that’s it
All them euros that played soccer growing up like ginobili and Parker. They’re a different breed.
I would prefer literally every other prospect but Risacher. He’s not a good enough defender to offset his offensive question marks (like Castle can). 41% from the field is nasty. Especially when you’re not offering even any playmaking or passing upside like Topic. If your shooting is not a definite thing, your defense or playmaking have to be promising. And so far, there are way better defensive prospects and higher IQ players than Risacher. Not to mention, there are people that shoot the ball better as well like Sheppard.
Risacher doesn’t really do anything better than any prospect in this draft. I find it hard to believe he hasn’t fallen down in the rankings since his shooting fell off a cliff. No prospect in this draft is perfect, but the top prospects are usually elite in one area in this draft. Risacher doesn’t excel in anything compared to his competition.
It’s also possible that a GM wants to build a stronger relationship with our franchise player a little bit outside of the regular season as well. I highly doubt this has anything to do with drafting. And if the slight chance it does, there are better prospects in this draft playing in France than Risacher.
I’d recognize that genius General Manager scheming pencil mustache anywhere
Why would we assume Risacher from BW being in Europe.
Topic is IMO the best PG prospect in the draft and the guy I’d want for us to get
Salaün probably doesn’t happen but he’s still worth scouting in case he falls to a range where we’d be willing to trade up
Dadiet seems like a great get with our 35th pick, feel like he could end up being Bilal-like so hopefully his stock doesn’t improve this much
Ajinça has potential as a 3&D player, maybe PATFO doesn’t want to swing for the fences on every single pick and they go for a slightly more NBA ready product
Nunez looks like the best passer that isn’t poised to go in the lottery, he lacks pretty much everything else but he could be an interesting project
Djurisic has been on a tear lately, who knows how much he can keep this up but would like to see him get drafted by us
And finally there’s a bunch of UDFA targets, Yannick Kraag if he declares had some draft buzz in the past, Nadir Hifi went undrafted last year, he’s a cool combo guard that led Paris to winning Eurocup/making Euroleague.
Risacher’s fine by me btw, me naming other guys isn’t some weird form of hate, draft sub clinged onto him as this year’s Brandon Miller, as if a dude who has played 57 games this year wasn’t going to suffer from a rookie-wall like crash, you know the hate is made-up when you start looking for what a prospect isn’t while not using that same set of standards for other dudes.
No, her name is Alice Franks. She is a writer for the local paper in a town outside Paris called Gonesse.