Exploring Zack Edey's Draft Potential and Immediate NBA Impact

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00:00Zach Eady had a 5 to 1 price plus 500 to be a top 10 pick.

00:10His draft position over under 14 and a half in the under had plus money.

00:15In a national championship game between UConn and Purdue, we focused on the big, 7'2 Klingon,

00:217'4 Eady.

00:22If the year was 1984 and not 2024, they would have gone 1-2 to start this draft, but both

00:28still top 10 picks.

00:29Yeah, and you like to see that.

00:31And also, let's keep in mind, what happens if we actually had been a truly stacked draft

00:35all the way through?

00:36Where does Zach Eady actually land at this point?

00:38So a lot of these players benefited and also going to benefit in their bank account for

00:41getting drafted much, much higher.

00:43But I talked about it yesterday.

00:44We're not worried about Donovan Klingon in the NBA, because if a big can run up and down

00:48the court in the super athletic, he's always going to have a job.

00:51The problem is, what is Zach Eady going to give you?

00:53But I also counted that point saying, you know exactly what you get day number one.

00:56Zach Eady is not like, OK, he's over 7'0, what a reclamation project.

01:00Let's see if he can actually get some minutes.

01:01You can plug and play him and get decent minutes.

01:04And that's worth a lot to a team like Memphis, that if you're looking to make the playoffs

01:07or get back into the picture with John Moran, this is the perfect guy, because it's not

01:10an extension of, well, in a couple of years, Ben, let's see what we have.

01:13He should be good to go right away.