The Thrill Of Competition. Basketball Team Building and Rotations. nilehoops@gmail.com. Scouting/Analytics @CapitanesCDMX
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Jun 12
My @thehwcollectlve debut:
No Start. No Now. No Future?
Game Over?
Brandon Boston Jr., Sharife Cooper, Trayce Jackson-Davis, Dalen Terry, and Jarred Vanderbilt have shared promising, imperfect career beginnings. How much can be expected moving forward? Star-impact outcomes?
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Nah, but I can prop the true Chicago Sky sleeper prospect: Aicha Coulibaly
NCAA query=drafted, 4 USG%, 3 STL%, 2 BLK%, 15 AST%, sub-15 TOV%
Scoring is pretty cooked (36 2PT%), but NCAA OAS -> pro FT% leap kicked in (89%), and has the best/only positive net rtg on the team by far
eye guess I can’t be delusional
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Jun 13
Going into his 4th professional basketball season, Jalen Slawson has been coined "The Man On the Moon," existing as a prospect unable to yield the advantages of the portal, yet still getting drafted from a small school.
May 30
New writing on some of my favorite prospects in this upcoming portal class!
Also featuring some historic background on the portal, and the players to come before it
Link below ⬇️
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Finn (@FinnDraft) and Nile (@NileHoops) are joined by Luc (@AtTheLevel) to give their final scouting reports on all of the best point guards in the 2026 NBA Draft. Hear their thoughts on every guard prospect mocked in the first round (Mikel Brown, Darius Acuff, Keaton Wagler, Ebuka Okorie, Christian Anderson, Bennett Stirtz), as well as all of their favorite sleepers in the second round (Bruce Thornton, Ja’Kobi Gillespie, Jack Kayil, Quadir Copeland). Links below:
Jun 11
Finn (@FinnDraft), Nile (@NileHoops), and Avi (@100guaranteed) pick who they think will be selected by each team based on GM history, intel, and more. Hear their thoughts on the best player-team fits within the T3, Mikel Brown Jr as a Clipper, and more. Links to all podcast platforms below 👇:
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While Tobias Harris never found the lofty heights predicted by Flocka, his NBA peak speaks to the relevance of prospects with developed (LeBron-esque?) physiques (38' max vert, 223 pounds, 3.17 sprint @ ~19 years old) and hitting admittedly mediocre physical/processing baselines
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Tobias Harris the next Lebron James
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Plz don't get too used to this, Sky Nation
SYDNEY TAYLOR TONIGHT 🔥
• 30 POINTS
• 4/7 3PM
• 10/14 FG
• 21 MINUTES PLAYED (!!!)
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I got more anti-Rondo prop!!! Rubio CLEARS fwiw
RR shot 26 FT% (5-19) in the 2010 Finals, and instead of improving, altered his process to avoid FTs, posting his lowest career FTr to that point in 2011 (.19, .32 in his first 4 szns, .44 @ UK)
Pinnacle of a scared man @ age 23/24
11 Sep 2024
Ricky Rubio played 20k minutes from 2012-22 and was a 2.1 on-court and a 5 net, while never shooting above league average TS% (and was nowhere near for 5/10 seasons)
Pretty goated, better overall than Rondo? I believe so. Post-ACL rondo was so dreadful.
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And it's not like he improved at the line either. 58% from the line on 870 RS attempts from 2011-2020, after being a marginally better 63% over his first four seasons
Keep this mouse out of Dr. Neismith's Hall at all costs.
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Jun 13
nile taking us back to the prospects we scouted before the sheets 😭
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Game Over? Long-Term Outlooks of Sharife Cooper, Jarred Vanderbilt, Trayce Jackson-David & More of Basketball’s Forgotten Prospects by @NileHoops
thehardwoodcollective.com/ar…
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Jun 12
My @thehwcollectlve debut:
No Start. No Now. No Future?
Game Over?
Brandon Boston Jr., Sharife Cooper, Trayce Jackson-Davis, Dalen Terry, and Jarred Vanderbilt have shared promising, imperfect career beginnings. How much can be expected moving forward? Star-impact outcomes?
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Jun 11
t30 big board 3.0, the finale!!
each prospect will be fitted with some final words, a cool / kinda non-traditional player comp & some notable metrics — use them to fuel your narratives & push your agendas.
all questions are welcome, enjoy :)
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Jun 11
Finn (@FinnDraft), Nile (@NileHoops), and Avi (@100guaranteed) pick who they think will be selected by each team based on GM history, intel, and more. Hear their thoughts on the best player-team fits within the T3, Mikel Brown Jr as a Clipper, and more. Links to all podcast platforms below 👇:
Today, Finn (@FinnDraft) and Nile (@NileHoops) answer some questions asked by listeners via Twitter. Hear them answer questions such as “If you only had access to 3 Data points ( like ft%, height, dunks etc….) to evaluate a prospect, which ones would you choose?”, “Anything you’ve seen from these playoffs that is influencing your board or draft philosophies?”, and “What prospect are you the most worried about being wrong about and why?”. Links to all platforms below.
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22 Jan 2025
Euro-step 3-pointers
-not that hard to do, just foreign
-was a very ineffective animation in 2k13 so I’ve seen it lead to a made shot before
-etc
16 Jan 2025
I have both decided and concluded that three-point line post-ups are the final frontier of basketball with the current court layout, though that should also be altered
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Today, Finn (@FinnDraft) and Nile (@NileHoops) answer some questions asked by listeners via Twitter. Hear them answer questions such as “If you only had access to 3 Data points ( like ft%, height, dunks etc….) to evaluate a prospect, which ones would you choose?”, “Anything you’ve seen from these playoffs that is influencing your board or draft philosophies?”, and “What prospect are you the most worried about being wrong about and why?”. Links to all platforms below.
May 2
Send me NBA/Draft related questions for a mailbag episode!
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Jun 4
Start with our debut piece down below, an all-encompassing analysis of Kingston Flemings' fascinating pre-NBA profile.
We break down Flemings' playstyle trajectory, shooting projection & explore why his excellence in a regimented system is indicative of NBA stardom.
Jun 4
Introducing the Collective, a writer-owned platform designed by David Lee to elevate the collective consciousness of basketball programs, front offices & fans.
thehardwoodcollective.com/
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