Name: Stephen A. hopes the Knicks draft Tyrese Haliburton & predicts the No. 1 overall pick | First Take
Uploaded: 2020-11-18T19:30:49.000Z
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You know, I understand that he's not the sexiest or flashiest name, but I don't see a perfect player in this draft.

I don't see a pic where you go like Edwards, not a shooter.

Wiseman too easily approximated like a rim runner who can defend the rim but doesn't really have range on his shot.

But maybe eventually, you can pick those kind of guys up in free agents.

Biggs like that, even if they're not quite as talented as him.

And that's not the way you win in the modern MBA, anyway.

Not with that guy is one of, say, your two best players.

I looked down the list and I think Halliburton, there's a guy who's ready to play right now, right?

It's a funky shop, but it's a repeatable motion.

He has high basketball I Q and court vision, like he could do every and and he can play next to anybody I think he works in any system.

The things about him that you don't like like the funky shot.

As I said, that's a repeatable motion That's not like a guy where you're like, Oh my God, you're gonna have to tear that down and start again And he's hitting a lot of those shots, you know, things like he's not a great ISO scorer.

And even if he never turns out to be a great ISO score, which I understand is ideal if you're gonna be picking number one, right, he's gonna be a highly effective N b a operator for a long time.

You would think, barring injury, at least he should add to it.

So, guys, what I see, um, Halliburton, as is a guy like Stephen A.

Remember when I said Jamal Adams would have been a smart number one pick?

I didn't know what my homes would be in a draft where you weren't sure of anyone.

Take the dude you know is gonna be really good and really good right away.

Well, I can't I can't summarily dismiss that.

I got, I got I got respect for Halliburton.

I'm actually hoping that the Knicks end up getting him, that he falls low enough so the New York Knicks can get a player.

To be quite honest with you, I'm not unapologetic about that.

Having said all of that, however, if I'm going number one, if I'm going number one, I would say this.

Anthony Edwards out of Georgia, somebody I can't ignore.

It's about the need of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Okay, you've got a point guard, all right.

You know, Russell, I'm looking at a guy like Anthony Edwards, and I think, along the lines of Dwyane Wade, 65 and then BA Body to 25 to 30 shot 50% from two point range, got to improve his three point shot.

Only 29% but can put the ball in the hole, can finish at the basket.

Is athletic is Lee is lethal in the open court and he's a guy that goes and gets his own shot.

So when I think about that and I think I think about him with Russell and Karl Anthony towns.

I think that feels the need for the Minnesota Timberwolves, not to mention the fact that gives you that off guard that you're looking for to peer what?

Obviously an elite big man and a point guard that can score from the perimeter and can pass the basketball.

I think about him as the number one overall pick.

I think that's a safer bet in my estimation.

Anthony Edwards will go number one in the draft to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

I mean, just check out what Dwyane Wade says about him.

Check out what Victor Oladipo says about him.

The question that some people have had about him is that does he love the game of basketball?

But mark this guys, he will go number one almost by default.

You have three of the top teams in this draft that you all here want to trade down.

People are saying, you know Phoenix, for example, being at the 10 spot Phoenix is like Whoa Thistle is great for us.

There's so much value in the middle of the lottery.

Instead of feeling the media pressure to take a James Wiseman, You don't think Golden State we want to package up Andrew Wiggins and the number two pick to trade for Bradley Bill of that kind of trade scenario came on the market place.

I mean, Charlotte will probably end up taking the mellow ball, but you know, Charlotte is trying to make moves from Russell Westbrook.

We've been hearing out between the relation between Michael Jordan and Russell Westbrook down in Charlotte.

They can pull that trade off with Houston if they have no passes to give up.

So you have a lot of these teams, even from Minnesota.

Like there's nobody's gonna say, regardless of whatever you bring to the table, deal wise that I'm not taking it, I'm taking them.

The question you have about Anthony Edwards is to have a very young basketball team.

You know, your Karl Anthony towns who's going through a lot this year.

We watched him grow when he was in Brooklyn to becoming an All Star.

Now he is he to bona fide leader of this team.

Or, if you're Gerson Rose Sauce, would you rather get a veteran to help lead your younger guys who are learning how to become winners?

There's so many moving parts here, there's nothing.

That's a lot for me in the upper part of the problem.

When I hear about Anthony Edwards or anyone like the question is, does he love it?

What made Dwyane Wade Dwyane Wade was not his athletic ability or his basketball skills.

That's why he's one of the greatest of all time.

Dwyane Wade was very skilled, but I've seen players as skilled or more skilled, but they're not Dwyane Wade because he wanted it.

So I get why you would say Edwards or Lemelle a ball or someone with high upside, because when you're picking first, you wanna trans transformative kind of player for your franchise.

The reason I like Halliburton actually is he may not be that, but if that guy doesn't exist in a draft, you go broke trying to invent him in your own mind, trying toe will him or wish him into existence.

Ah, guy who with with court vision an excellent passer, a guy who who at least projects into a good defender, a versatile player who can play multiple positions, a style of play.

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