"Head, the draft report for the joint trial has come out."
Around ten o'clock in the morning on the second day of the joint trial, many scouting directors and general managers of NBA teams received text messages from their scouts.
For the future of the team, in order to find suitable rookie candidates in the next draft.
Most of the general managers of NBA teams went online and opened Nbadraft, the official NBA draft website.
Although all NBA teams have their own scouting systems, there is also a considerable gap in the level between scouts.
In this day and age, the vast majority of NBA teams have not yet reaped the dividends of NBA globalization.
Therefore, the wages and abilities of team staff are usually relatively low.
The position of scout has a lot of connections, and the level of most team scouts is actually not as good as the experts on the draft network.
What's more, the draft network has first-hand information about joint trials and can use big data to compare players of the same type horizontally and draw more objective conclusions.
Compared with NBA scouts who focus on one or two rookies, the draft report of the Draft Network is more comprehensive and more convincing.
Of course, from the perspective of the general manager of an NBA team, the rookie report of the Draft Network only has reference value.
What can really influence their final decision is the team trial after the joint trial.
When the time comes, call all your favorite rookies to the team for trial training, and compete to see who is stronger and who is weaker.
However, it is different from those teams that have finished their regular season and playoff schedules and are preparing for the 2003-04 season earlier.
Now the general manager of the team who still has to prepare for the Eastern and Western Conference finals can only focus most of his attention on the conference finals first.
The team's rookie trial training can only have time to start after the playoff journey is completely over.
Of course, as the general manager of the team, you need to grasp the general direction at all times. The future is as important as the present!
Now that the draft report for the joint trial has been released, it is reasonable to take the time to take a look at it and look for the team's future possibilities.
Detroit Pistons general manager Joe Dumars, after receiving the text message from his staff, quickly logged on to the draft website to look for guards and interior candidates suitable for the Pistons.
Not long ago, the Pistons just reached the Eastern Conference Finals.
However, during the first and second rounds of the playoffs, the Pistons also exposed many problems.
The first is the issue of inside height. Big Ben's athletic ability and defensive ability are very good, but he is too short.
When faced with a tall insider who is good at low-post singles, it is too difficult for Ben to defend, and even if he tries his best, the effect is not very good.
Precisely for this reason, the Pistons' top priority during the offseason is to find a big center with sufficient size and defense, or to match the big man with a second center who is good at single defense.
Only in this way can Ben's defensive and frame-protecting abilities be fully utilized to ensure the strength of the Pistons' defense in the penalty area.
Secondly, the outside defense also needs to be strengthened.
The original backcourt combination of Billups and Hamilton was not too bad defensively, but Michael Curry on the wing needed to improve on both offense and defense.
Fortunately, Prince, the rookie selected last year, performed very well in the playoffs.
When playing as the sixth man, it takes up a lot of Michael Curry's time, and can provide a lot of help to the team on both offense and defense.
According to this development, after improvements during the offseason, Prince will basically be qualified to serve as the Pistons' starting small forward position next season.
In this way, the problem of perimeter defense will only arise from Billups and Hamilton.
Originally, Billups and Hamilton's defense was in the middle of the league.
The problem is that in the previous Eastern Conference semifinals, Billups injured his left ankle, which greatly affected his lateral movement and defensive abilities.
Pistons backup point guard Chucky Atkins is too short and his defense is obviously not as good as Billups.
When Billups was injured, Atkins served as the starting point guard, which directly made the Pistons' perimeter defense full of loopholes and ineffective.
It also takes into account Billups' injury risks and the lack of defense in the Pistons' back line.
Dumars is planning to use the Pistons' first-round pick to sign a guard who is both defensive and capable.
Considering that the Pistons have traded draft picks with the Grizzlies before, the Grizzlies are one of the worst teams this season.
This means that in the next draft, the Pistons are likely to have two first-round picks, one in the top ten of the first round and one at the end of the first round.
In Dumars' plan, if the Grizzlies' first-round pick can be used, it would be best to sign Hinrich.
However, considering that in the draft, anything can happen.
In order to avoid being intercepted by other teams and being caught off guard, there will be a situation where no one can choose. Dumas must come up with a few more alternatives.
"Hey, Syracuse University's Asian guards are ranked so high?"
Dumars is looking for a defender, so he looks at perimeter players first.
Then I quickly turned around and saw that the player who ranked seventh among the outside players in this joint trial and scored 92 points in total was none other than Duan, who had previously shined in the NCAA finals.
Because on the day of the NCAA finals, the NBA will suspend play for one day to avoid the spotlight.
Therefore, Dumas, who watched the NCAA finals, still has a certain impression of Duan.
Of course, as the general manager of the Pistons, Dumars also knows the value of the draft network ratings.
This is mainly for rookies with lottery status, and basically will not complete all the items in the joint trial.
This resulted in their various data not being entered into the database, that is, each ability and total score were temporarily recorded as 0 points.
The remaining rookies participating in all projects will be compared horizontally through data.
There are a total of twelve abilities, namely athletic ability, body size, defense, strength confrontation, speed, leadership, shooting, immediate combat ability, ball control (rebounding), potential, passing (support), and influence.
Outside players are compared with outside players, and inside players are compared with inside players.
The full score is 10 points and the minimum score is 6 points.
To put it simply, if there are 30 outside players in the same class of rookies who have participated in all physical tests, then there will only be 6 outside players who can score 10 points for a certain ability.
Some people can only get a full score of 10 points, and some people can barely reach 10 points.
In short, even if you rate the forever No. 21 rookie, his potential is still 6 points.
Having said that, it is also because lottery picks have basically not completed all the tests, so under the existing scoring mechanism, most of the ability values of all rookies are more or less on the high side.
A total score of 92 points like Duane has returned to normal levels, almost in the range of 85 to 88 points.
The draft market is basically at the end of the first round and the beginning of the second round.
Considering that this year is a big year for the draft and the quality of the rookies is higher, the corresponding overall rookie rating will be lower than in previous years.
For example, 2014 is a big year for the draft. Because there are too many talents, everyone's ratings are not high.
Wiggins, the top pick, scored 99 points, Parker, the second pick, had 100 points, Embiid, the top pick, had 100 points, Gordon, the fourth pick, only had 92 points, and Jokic, the 11th pick in the second round, only had 85 points.
Looking at other draft years, Oden scored 106 points, Durant scored 104 points, Rose scored 104 points, Griffin scored 105 points, and Wall scored 103 points.
It can only be said that the rating thing is only suitable for comparison with the same class.
Excluding the 13 lottery picks, Duane ranked seventh among all outside players in the combine. Then among the entire rookie class, he can at least be ranked in the top 30.
Considering that the Pistons' own first-round pick was just enough to win Duen, Dumars, who was already somewhat impressed with Duen, naturally had the patience to continue checking Duen's specific draft report.
After a while, a call came from the Pistons general manager's office...
