SL Game 5: Dallas Mavericks vs. NY Knicks | 7:30PM CST | PRIME

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Some thoughts after watching this one:

I don't know what people are seeing that makes them think Ischenko isn't ready for the NBA. I don't think he's ready to be in the rotation for a playoff team, but I don't think Dallas will be that, anyway. This kid is just ooooozing IQ and effort. He played a ton of PG today, and I'm not sure that shouldn't be his position. At the very least, he can be an awesome secondary guy, once he learns to pull the trigger on those catch and shoot opportunities (I agree with that criticism). But my goodness, he plays a fast and active game. He has genius feet and hands on defense. Needs to get a little stronger, but I love watching him.

Lawal is raw, but I have to say he already seems to be taking to the game more naturally than O-Max did. Tough for me to admit, given I'm the owner of three empty, state of the art resort towns on O-Max island, but this guy's measureables are already amounting to impressive things about 3-4 times in these games. Yes, the rest of his minutes are scary, but those 3-4 moments in each game are pretty encouraging, imho.

It's early, and all of them need development on a massive scale, but I think there's a chance Dallas went 4/4 on their draft picks. Even if it ends up being only 2/4, that's pretty great, but I'm pretty excited about all four of them. Frankly, I'd have Ischenko in 2nd place at the moment in my Dallas rookie rankings.

I'll rent you a condo on the Lawal island that I own.

Agreed on Ish.  He just looks like he belongs.