These may very well be our last prospects of this draft cycle! These gentlemen take us to 31 prospects total this season, with all but one of them, Labaron Philon, sticking around in the draft.

This time around, we take it back to the United States and look at the late-rising NCAA prospects: Arizona's Carter Bryant, Washington State's Cedric Coward, Florida's Walter Clayton Jr, and Arkansas' Adou Thiero.

This was more thorough than we intended, but we hope it helps you round out your scouting for this year's draft!

00:00 Introduction

01:42 Carter Bryant

22:26 Cedric Coward

39:57 Walter Clayton Jr.

56:29 Adou Thiero

01:13:37 Recommendations

Recommendations:

Noah - Underappreciated, and sometimes misclassified hyper-pop susperstar Underscores

Jeffrey - The best craft beer in Central Coast California: Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company

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We made it to episode 50!!

This week we try and do a little bit of a speed-run catch-up scouting session for everyone. This time, we round out our scouting with four rising French prospects: Maxime Raynaud, a skilled forward/big out of Stanford; Noa Essengue, a rangy athletic wing; Noah Penda, a crafty passing wing; and Joan Beringer, an uber athletic defensive big.

We provide the essential breakdowns for each player and help you catch up on your scouting for this year's draft. Use this knowledge of deeper cuts to outdraft your friends, enemies, and frenemies!

00:00 Introduction

01:52 Maxime Raynaud

17:31 Noa Essengue

34:32 Noah Penda

51:52 Joan Beringer

01:02:46 Recommendations

Recommendations:

Noah - Underappreciated, overlooked Soundcloud-exclusive dubstep artist Modal Nodes

Jeffrey - The addicting and stress-inducing spy show Patriot, on Prime Video

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In the second part of our recording, we conduct our first mock draft of this season, with the real lottery order and with team needs in mind. It gets a little chaotic, but that's the fun of this exercise!

00:00 Introduction and Setup

00:54 Deciding the Draft Order

02:22 1. Mavericks

07:06 2. Spurs

08:20 3. 76ers

10:23 4. Hornets

13:16 5. Jazz

15:23 6. Wizards

18:01 7. Pelicans

20:33 8. Nets

23:27 9. Raptors

25:46 10. Rockets

27:47 11. Trailblazers

30:47 12. Bulls

32:47 13. Hawks

35:18 14. Spurs

39:54 Mock Draft Recap

41:08 Recommendations

Recommendations

Noah:

1) Re-iterating Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 now that he's beaten the game.

2) Swiss Army Man, a surreal Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano movie from 2016, with the former as a very useful corpse.

Jeffrey:

1) Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, both the 2013 Broadway version and the 1998 made-for-tv classic starring Brandy and Whitney Houston.

2) The book "The Inner Game of Tennis" by W. Timothy Gallwey.

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This week was a special week, with both of our teams being eliminated in the playoffs, plus the Draft Lottery and Combine. We react to everything in this first episode for the week, and do a quick analysis on Nique Clifford. In Part 2, we do our lottery Mock Draft!

00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview

01:45 Noah's Celtics Cope Pod

11:58 Jeffrey's GSW Cope Pod

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17:26 Draft Combine Quick Reactions

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25:50 Nique Clifford Intro

28:25 Nique Clifford's Offensive Skills

37:14 Nique Clifford's Defensive Skills

41:31 Comparisons and Big Board

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We bring back Jeremy AKA On Ball Creator back to our show to help us talk about Israel/Ratiopharm Ulm point guard Ben Saraf, as well as break down some draft sleepers. Jeremy is always a fun and insightful guest, so don't miss this one! Ben Saraf required help in analyzing his strengths and weaknesses because his game has some good nuance.

00:00 Introducing Ben Saraf and our guest On Ball Creator

01:16 Player Stats and Analysis

06:51 Comparisons and Draft Potential

28:05 Analyzing Player Roles and Comparisons

32:05 Defensive Potential and Versatility

34:54 Future Projections

47:03 Recommendations

Recommendations:

Jeremy - Underground hip hop artists: Louis Logic, Brother Ali, and Masta Ace

Noah - The full album, "The Fox and the Bird" by Ok Goodnight.

Jeffrey - Kathmandu Momo Station, Nepalese food with two locations in Omaha, NE.

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@onballcreator

His team:

@thecenterhub_bb

https://the-center-hub.com/

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We are finally back to normal for a little bit: scouting a single 2025 prospect, and not having a guest!

This week, we look at the Georgetown big Thomas Sorber. Even though his season ended short with surgery, he still had a lot of very intriguing qualities as pretty much the one true semi-traditional big. We'll call him a Traditional-Plus big. His tape and his stats jump out of the page, so make sure to catch this episode to find out why!

00:00 Introduction and Player Overview

04:16 Offensive Analysis

18:11 Defensive Analysis

24:38 Comparisons and Scaling Game

34:28 Recommendations

Recommendations:

We both recommend video games this week!

Noah - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, one of the most-hyped and probably most-deserved RPG releases in a while.

Jeffrey - The original Final Fantasy Tactics.

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We have our first ever repeat guest! We bring back high-powered consultant, friend of the pod, and father of the cohost, THE Chris Sharp. This time, he's here to help us change gears by looking at the 2024 class of rookies and evaluate the final Kia Rookie Ladder. We determine our own First and Second Teams, then we ask the deeper question of: who will the best out of all of these five years from now? There are players who may not have performed well this year that still have sky high potential. As a result, we name our own "All Five Years From Now" First and Second Teams.

And as a content warning, this episode is filled with some of the hottest takes we've had, and you never know who's going to catch strays.

Recommendations:

Chris - "The Fall of Civilization" Podcast focused on rise and falls of dynasties and peoples, and a huge add for people also interested in "Hardcore History."

Noah - The full album "Always in a Hurry" by Medasin. Expect a percussion heavy jazz fusion that works for pretty much all moods.

Jeffrey - Another book, "Conclave" by Robert Harris. Have not finished the movie yet, but the book is thrilling and keeps you guessing the whole time while still being a very earnest book.

00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview

00:56 Introducing Chris Sharp

01:42 Discussion on the 2024 Draft Class & Kia Rookie Ladder

53:57 All-Five-Years-From-Now Teams

01:24:24 Recommendations

Follow Chris!

He has no social media, but please listen to every episode he's in. We will pretty much always allude to him.

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After deep diving into 20 prospects so far, we now get the chance to rack and stack them. This is not necessarily a true Top 20, but instead us reviewing our 20 players we've reviewed so far, and ranking them against one another.

It's a pretty tough job, so we got the legendary founder of the No Ceilings Hoop Collective Tyler Rucker to help us out!

Here's the players in the order we reviewed them:

Cooper Flagg

Dylan Harper

VJ Edgecombe

Ace Bailey

Nolan Traore

Collin Murray-Boyles

Liam McNeely

Derik Queen

Egor Demin

Jeremiah Fears

Kasparas Jakucionis

Khaman Maluach

Asa Newell

Tre Johnson

Rasheer Fleming

Jase Richardson

Will Riley

Danny Wolf

Labaron Philon

Kon Knueppel

00:00 Introducting the Tyler Rucker Top 20

01:20 Evaluating the 20 Prospects We've Deep Dived This Year

52:23 Halftime Break and Speed Run

01:16:01 Looking ahead to the 2026 Draft Class

01:19:34 Recommendations

Recommendations:

Tyler - The classic film "Heat" by Michael Mann, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and the late Val Kilmer.

"The Franchise" a book on the Detroit Pistons, by Cameron Stauth.

Noah - The book "Thinking Basketball" by Ben Taylor. Yes, there's the Youtube channel and the Podcast, but this is specifically the book, which is a very thought provoking analytics read.

Jeffrey - "The Fifties," "The Best and Brightest," "Playing for Keeps," and pretty much anything by David Halberstam.

Follow Tyler! @tyler_rucker

@NoCeilingsNBA

noceilingsnba.com

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