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I wrote a summary of how my prospect evaluation process has evolved every year. Always my favorite column to write; check it out!
Lessons from the Draft Cycle, 2026
In this annual column, Editor-in-Chief @DraftPow details how his prospect evaluation and philosophy have evolved over the years.
Read below!⤵️🔗⤵️
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In light of Cayden Daughtry's season opener I wanted to put into perspective just how ridiculous his summer was, and how he compares to a few recent 1-and-done guards.
Although its a long ways until the '28 draft, Daughtry is right on pace to be in the league sooner than later
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🧵Lots of rambling from me but Utah basically changed their whole P&R Coverage/Protection from last year and it was the perfect setting for Ty Jerome’s explosion in game one
A theme from last night's game was Utah guarding the two-man actions straight up by either switching or playing a deep-drop
On Ty Jerome's 45 Point-night! ! Q via @langwhitaker
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DMX Model All-Americans
@thebigwafe's model has predicted the meteoric rise of Yaxel Lendeborg, Tyler Tanner, Jaime Jaquez, and many other notable draft picks in past years.
Who are the best draft prospects not currently on consensus boards?
Read below! 👇
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Wafe has a great hit record on these. Check out this year's edition before they rise up draft boards.
DMX Model All-Americans
@thebigwafe's model has predicted the meteoric rise of Yaxel Lendeborg, Tyler Tanner, Jaime Jaquez, and many other notable draft picks in past years.
Who are the best draft prospects not currently on consensus boards?
Read below! 👇
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Happy NBA RS Day! To celebrate, I refurbished 3 of my unreleased pre-draft player profiles and dropped them on my blog, explaining my view on each player entering draft night.
Words on Boozer’s dominance, Hannes’ underrated passing, and Swain’s overvalued creation.
Links 🧵 ⬇️
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One of the Most important basketball articles in recent memory nobody is doing it like Maurya please give this a read
No tweet has affected my evaluation paradigms as much as this. So I wrote an article about:
1. My definition of cognition
2. Linking “OAS” theory to cognition
3. Why the cognition found in OAS drives outlier development
The debut of my R&D blog, Neural Nets, is live. Link ⬇️
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No tweet has affected my evaluation paradigms as much as this. So I wrote an article about:
1. My definition of cognition
2. Linking “OAS” theory to cognition
3. Why the cognition found in OAS drives outlier development
The debut of my R&D blog, Neural Nets, is live. Link ⬇️
the most important precocious skill integration is oreb-assist-stocks
this is the ultimate functional athleticism x feel proxy, a synthesis of skills that exponentially raises ceiling beyond perception of raw box stats/bpm
lots and lots of instructive developmental stories here
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The college basketball season is only a few weeks away so here's my 2027 preseason board! With this being such a wide open class I'm expecting a healthy amount of early season movement, but for now feel free to ask any and all questions about prospects' placements!
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How can the Los Angeles Lakers maximise their current Roster? I will try to answer this question in the following article by analyzing possible lineups, find 2 or 3 man synergies and propose possible trade or unsigned targets. Check it out down below!
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Been catching up on potential one-and-done prospects. Maximo Adams is criminally low here - a good chance to finish the cycle top 10 for me.
First version of the 2027 NBA Draft Consensus Board. I’ll try to share this monthly, as people send in and update their boards throughout the draft cycle.
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DMs open, or contact me via email (in bio). thank you all!
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Scouting Advice on Evaluating NBA Draft Prospects
"Build your intuition for what a good prospect looks like...
Players fail in the NBA for lacking skills where there's an identical player who succeeded – you have to find what made somebody lose.
You are actually trying to cut off the bottom before you try to predict the top" – @NileHoops
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 from @beyondtheRK
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My NBA breakout player picks for this season:
sbnation.com/nba/1131368/nba…
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The next part of my dream is to be a part of an NBA broadcast.
I’ve worked with CBC, TSN, the CEBL and the 905.
My new demo 👇🏼
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