Mfw I looked up the main character’s stats IRL

Better than his brother at least

Nahhhh Coach Carter gotta be in there somewhere

Talented mfs drop to second round all the time when they have a Nad reputation for drama, shout out my local Chris Porter

I think I might even put O(thello) over that one I kid I kid.

But the basketball diaries best movie with basketball in the name

Bro you’re not getting it

He’s had no formal training and he’s hanging with the consensus 2nd pick

Sure he’s not going lottery but he’s 100% getting drafted.

He can shoot, defend the rim and looked like he could pass

There is no way no one isn’t drafting him cause he has issues lmao

Fair point, that was a lil hollywoody

league needs to cut some teams

Hey, maybe you don’t get it. How do we know Juancho’s character wasn’t a first rounder? They made his talent level out to be that high. Look at the dude who loved his game, Brad Stevens. They do not tell us when he got drafted.m

Basketball is the sport that requires the least formal training of them all lol. easy to get good at individual shooting and dribbling because it’s just about the hours of work. Even easier when you’re 6’10 - people wanna rebound for you.
Those kids in the DR become baseball millionaires without formal training. Sometimes they play pickup games without real baseball bats, cleats or gloves

The point of the movie was that he had talent but dude hadn’t played organized basketball in eight years. There is absolutely no precedent for a player like that being in the nba combine. That’s why they’re worried about him getting drafted. Oh and the 76ers owner ran a smear campaign against him.

By the way, even though to our eyes he hung with the second pick in the first open gym, the film shows that higher up basketball people viewed the matchup differently. He plays well the second time, but almost punches buddy in the face.

I know you’ve never hooped high level competition bevause dude wasn’t really shooting like curry. I’ve played in high level open gyms with pros. there isn’t a whole lot of missing going on. It’s no different than Dwight Howard being a 85% FT shooter in an empty gym. Dwight could prob make a couple 3s in that pickup run setting.

Juancho’s highlights looked like every player at Chris brickley’s open runs. Throw Jevon Carter in a LA fitness and watch him never lose a game even with scrubs on his teams. Or watch him keep up with Kyrie at a Rico Hines run, it happens.

Look at Ant edwards college stats and stats of most freshmen entering the draft. Ant was super inefficient in college.

The nba draft favors youth over everything. Half the draft is freshmen every year. Of course, the film explains this if you keep your ears open to it.

“In the nba years are like Dog years.”

So it makes sense that a 22 year old with no stats or real film to go off of would not jump to the top of every draft board because he shut down 100 hoopers at his local park. Giannis goes top 5 if he plays at pretty much any d1 American college. His lack of film / competition level caused him to drop - and he was the youngest draftee.

Desmond bane had an incredible collehe career. in 2020 he got drafted 30th because of his age. He was 21/22. Should’ve went earlier. In 2022 a prospect named Peyton Watson went 30th because of his age. He averaging 3.3 ppg. Should’ve been drafted later

There are a dozen guys that played strong defense against 18/19 year old Ant that now work in an office or play in Europe. The idea that he wouldn’t be able I don’t buy at all.

Cade Cunningham, Jabari smith, Jaden ivey, Chet, trae, MPJ, etc all played for team usa national team U16-U19. They all had success but they’ve also had no name international players lock them down.

By the way, nikola Jokic was at the usa hoop summit and other all star events. He played against all the guys drafted higher than him. Even with all his exposure, and a change in guard in the perception of euro prospects - dirk just won a title, he still dropped to #41.

This character’s gameis also a lot like Nikola joVic who got drafted 27th this past year. Played in the Serbia pro league like joKic. He hung with the #6 pick in the fiba u19 gold medal game. Played against better competition than most of the draft. Only 19 years old. So, not out of the realm for a player with a similar game with no film/anger issues/three years older to feel shaky about his draft status.

End of the road for Bo

Exact type of guy the Lakers should jump on but they way too dumb to get an athletic youngster on the cheap, they gonna blow their load on has beens like kemba walker and Blake griffin instead

He good he just had a bad stint in late 2000s n early 2010s-ish that tarnished him tbh for easy bags.

90s to early 2000s & late 2010s Sandler pretty good for the most part.

this movie was aight. it was cool but not amazing or anything.

Stan really is the GOAT still getting his guy paid all these years later