Charlotte Hornets select Tidjane Salaun with the number 6 pick in 2024 NBA draft?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Reported a few hours before the draft that the hornets were targeting Salaun, it still ended up being a shock to many in the hornets fan base! Who is Tidjane Salaun and what type of player is he and is it a good pick? Watch to learn more about the 2024 number 6 pick!
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I think about Tidjane in terms of Giannis. 23 games started his rookie year, 24 minutes a game, 6.8 points 4.4 rebounds, 1.9 assists, .8 steals, .8 blocks, 1.6 turnovers... seventh in rookie of the year voting. Then he doubled his production. Then 16 ppg, then 22, then 26, now he's putting up MVP numbers....Giannis shot 44% as a rook, now he's above 60% most years. I see lots of bricks from Tidjane early on, but he also has the type of attitude it won't phase him if he gets a little embarrassment here and there and I think he can defend every position. His work ethic seems to be his best trait too. The issue would be... when he loses his man, he gets absolutely cooked, lol. But Charles can work on that.
8/10 good pick, would have been legendary if we traded back and got more assets and still took Tidjane, but I'll take his upside over Knecht or even Buzelis. Seems like Jeff Peterson fell in love with this kid before he even came to Charlotte, so I rock with it. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt in that respect; maybe you're scared someone snags him if you wait around so its better to just snap him up.
Not only Peterson. Steve Clifford allegedly was also raving about the kid.
I think Salaun will be great in the dunker spot. he can rotate to the perimeter too which makes him versatile. im excited to see how Charles Lee uses him.
Right I’m excited for summer league I’m glad Charles is coaching because it will let him know what he has in the young players on the roster and how to use them
He just looks like a lob threat or a potential miles replacement. My only problem is that this pick doesn’t make us “competitive” like management said we would be. I just hope that if we tank we tank hard.
It wasn’t that many immediate win now players in this draft anyway so I don’t mind that we swung for the fences as long as we have a healthy team I think we will have a competitive team
There isn't a player in this draft class from #6th pick to #30 that'll make you competitive. All have some major flaw or the other that needs to be cleaned up.
Couldnt trade to 9... spurs wanted Salaun ya know. Lee coached Tatum and Giannis to Championships... maybe ole boi got a similar DNA. He got the Clifford seal of approval too. IM HYPED UP BRUH
Kid is raw af but his potential is insane. His floor is very low right now but his ceiling is sky high. With the right development he could be a star in the league. Just be patient and give him some time. Trust
Love the pick
Glad to see someone does lol , I see the vision
The front office has cooked ever since they got here. I’ll sit back and wait on this. I got trust in Jeff. I’m assuming they were planning on trading back and getting Tidjane a bit later, but trade talks fell through.
Yea talks with Memphis fell through and I think we were scared spurs would take him at 8 and yea im gonna trust this new regime until they give me a reason not to
Concerning the trade with the grizzlies: I read they only offered Marcus Smart to move up. How effing frugal is that?
Also, word on the grapevine is that Spurs were eyeing Salaun. We took him so they traded the pick.
Now I heard Hornets actually sent scouts to Europe to watch & scout Salaun. So they knew what they were getting.
Jeff Peterson went 3 times according to him. Even before Charlotte.
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I don’t think he would’ve been there the spurs wanted him and that’s probably why they traded out at 8
I think so too but I woulda been happier with buzelis or Cody Williams and the assests
I like it ❤
He definitely has potential
All I can say is they better work on getting some future draft assets for Miles cause they missed the opportunity here not trading down with the Grizzlies.
I want to keep miles I like him more as a 3 anyway but if he does leave hopefully it is a sign and trade and not for nothing
@@BUZZBOYS919 I like Miles too and I'd love to see him stick here but not at $25M. The models seem to value him at around $17M which the Hornets should jump at if they can pull that off. Maybe the new staff can get him to play team defense. Otherwise, we appear to be in 2-3 yr rebuild mode now so cap space rules.
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I do not think it was a great pick, I've watched the tape from his two years in Cholet. I do see potential, but it's hard to take what you see on that international tape at face level, the surrounding play is not anywhere near an NBA caliber. His shooting splits were 37/33/77 last year and what I'm reading is that people expect him to develop his short and long range game simultaneously... while also stepping up to the most competitive league in the world? Per 36 minutes he's a 14 - 6 - 2 player on low efficiency, with unremarkable defense.
There probably are better picks.. unless we're really reworking our roster this year, there is a log jam at forward now between Miller/Bertans/Bridges/GWill/Pokusevski/Martin and I don't know that Tidjane will provide enough value to be more playable than any of them. We have so many forwards we're making Cody start at SG! I think the obvious choice for team need was to go get a combo or shooting guard, Martin is a crowd favorite but is not playing winning basketball.
Excited to see what we do with our new coach heading into this season though, obviously we'll be making some deals and trimming the roster soon
I actually disagree; I think people have been calling for Cody's head but he's done a fair job given he was used at point guard sometimes. Healthy and used in the right position, I like Cody. I agree with you about the log jam though; I am confident Bertans will be gone and I don't know about Miles, to be honest. We've spent a lot of time developing him, but a sign and trade would probably benefit our asset collection. The pick up of Reggie Jackson with the 3 2nds... seems like we are stockpiling for some kind of future move.
@@averiskonsept Yeah, I know he's a crowd favorite. I like him as a person too. It's not winning basketball though, we're playing 76% of his minutes at guard right now. He's high turnover and low efficiency. Since he's become a professional he's been chucking high volume on terrible percentage. He's not fast enough to defend guards and he's not tall enough to defend forwards. There are better options for us if we move on from him
I think we might move Bertans Jeff Peterson keeps talking about possibly taking on contracts but honestly I think miles moves to the 3 grant to the 4 salaun comes off the bench at the 4 or vice versa
@@BUZZBOYS919 I like moving Bertans, I think we should even explore trading TS to the spurs and trying to get one of their misfits back. If we traded for a starting SG even someone like Vassell from spurs (I'll give them Bertans and Salaun):
PG: Melo - Micic - Mann
SG: Vassell - NSJ - McGowens
SF: Miller - Cody - Leaky
PF: Bridges - GWill - Pokusevski
C: Mark - Richards - Bolden
Miller is also going to fill out his frame a bit more too so I feel like we're going to have more of a F category and less of two individual SF and PF's this year. He is going to be swapping screens onto PF's. All of our forwards are a similar build and they are all already stretch players
If the Hornets had traded down to 9, Spurs would have drafted and kept Salun at 8.
They can have Salun if they give us Castle.
Had no problem taking assets and buzelis or Cody Williams tbh
@@BUZZBOYS919 that's fair. But we don't know what their board looked like or their competence level yet. Let's hope they're better at it than us. 😆
they def letting miles walk
i see the opposite because they can run some wild lineups. this hornets team bouta shock a lot of people
I think they could still keep him and he just play the 3 which I feel like is his natural position anyway, same thing if we would’ve drafted buzelis
@@madm1n1I think so too lot of size and athleticism that can shoot and switch everything it could work