 What's the word y'all? This draft class had a lot of really good rookies. Now we only two weeks into the NBA career, but a lot of them have impressed me and today we're grading them. Not all 58 picks, obviously, but the top 12 players we're going to be grading. I do want to say this is based on the first couple of weeks. So this is not a projection video. A lot of these guys have a lot of potential. I'm not here to put a ceiling on any of them, but I'm saying based on what I've seen with these eyes, where do I have them right now? Leave a like, subscribe. On the Kenny Beats podcast, we did this exact thing, but with off-season acquisitions. So Damian Lillard, Slash Your Holiday, Porzigas. The link will be in the description. Go show us some love. We are the seventh-rate sports podcast in the world. We're trying to get to top five. So show some love. Thanks. I don't want to show you who we have on the list just, just yet. So we're going to take it one step at a time with a big fella, Victor Webonyama. What can I say if we're going S through D tier because nobody's going to be F tier. I'm not that crazy of a person. I'm going to put him in S tier. Hype has been real. He's been great. Sometimes they struggle to get him the ball when it matters the most. And yesterday, Zach Collin's got a lot more touches than he probably should have. But for the most part, he has lived up to expectations. The 38 point game we dropped the video on in this channel and he's been very, very good offensively and defensively. So he's an S tier. And y'all, and y'all, I gots to say, Chet is too. Chet is shooting like 60% from the field, 60% from three. And he's averaging like two, three blocks a game. If we go strictly off the first two weeks of their careers, Chet has been amazing as well. He's exceeded all of my personal expectations. And though he's not a 2023 draft class guy, he's been in the running for rookie of the year so far. I think most people probably give it to Wimby. And I think Chet will be a solid second at the moment. Who knows what the season's going to look like. But I got to put some respect on Chet because he's been way more than I expected. Again, 60% from three is not something that's going to sustain itself. But if we're just looking at the first two weeks, yeah, it makes sense. Will those be the only rookies to hit S tier? Spoiler alert, yes. Those are the only two guys that's S tier at least. Let's talk about the second overall pick in the 2023 draft, Brandon Miller. A surprise for me as somebody that doesn't watch a lot of college basketball. I heard a lot of people talk a great about school Henderson, school Henderson, school Henderson. There's no way Brandon Miller could go number two. He's not going to be good. The first two weeks, he's been very, very good. He got his first official start of the season today as I'm recording this video and he looked pretty good, man. He has a nice balance of all three levels of the floors for our scoring goals. Defensively, he's really nice. And I like some of his finishes around the basket. He's been impressive. Like 13 points per game, which I think is third amongst rookies right now. So he deserves to be probably an A tier. Let's do it, Brandon Miller, A tier. Third overall pick in this year's draft was school Henderson. And schooled is out on injury right now, but in the sample size that we have of him, it did not look good. Again, I mentioned this before, when we were talking about Wimby, I don't overreact to the first couple of weeks. So I believe that school still has the potential to be an absolute stud. But again, great on the first couple of weeks, it didn't look pretty. It's going to take us some time to adjust to the game, the speed of the game, which is crazy because he's super athletic. But there are a lot of moments when I've watched him in the few games that he played before his injury, where I genuinely questioned his decision-making offensively and defensively. Got lost on both sides quite a bit. Given time, luckily he's playing for the Portland Trailblazers team that is empowering him to be him. And with time and reps, he should be fine. But based on now, I think I got to put Scoot down here, man. Just based on the first two weeks sample size. We'll do this again halfway through the season and I'm assuming he's going to be a lot higher than this. But right now, this is just where it is. Next on our list is going to be Amin Thompson, who was the fourth overall pick to the Houston Rockets. The Houston Rockets have so many players in the roster that he's kind of get lost in shuffle, where he's averaging about 14 to 15 minutes per game. And in those minutes, there are good signs. There's bad signs. He's also missed a couple of games now with an injury. So I don't really know if they released the timetable or anything, but in the frame that we've got, it wasn't super impressive. He does obviously still have all the athletic tools. He has the playmaking that we really like. The big question about him and his brothers was their shooting ability and both of them have not showed that a ton so far. But because Amin's reps have been super limited, we haven't really been able to see him play to maybe the place he can be. I'm struggling with this one, man. I don't know if he goes here or he goes here. I think I'm gonna start off him. Shout out to the guy. Y'all know I'm rooting for him and his brother quite heavily, but again, I gotta be realistic here. So I might have to put him down in D tier based on the first couple weeks of his career. His brother though, his brother is doing everything outside of shooting the ball. Get into the basket, block his shots, stealing the ball, playing defense, rebounding, assisting. He has been empowered by the Detroit Pistons to play his game and he's starting and he looks amazing as well. Like he looks like an all defensive caliber player and two weeks into his NBA career, which you can't say that about a lot of people. He's one of my most fun watches in this entire drag class. I think Wimby's number one, he's probably number two and Chet is probably number three as far as how fun I have while watching him play ball because he's everywhere all over the court. He just had a four by five game yesterday. A four by five, he was one steal, one block away from a five by five. When he had a five by five since Youssef Nurkis did it what, seven years ago? He was two stats away from it, which is crazy. So I'm putting him in the A tier, man. If he can only learn how to shoot throughout the course of his career, he's gonna be such a dangerous player on the court. Next on the list, I'm gonna get Anthony Black. Now, some of these guys, now I'm rethinking that I'm in Thompson down here now. And the reason I say that is because Anthony Black also falls into the camp of players that have him and getting a ton of opportunity. But in the opportunity that Anthony Black has got, he's been really good. He has basically not missed much from the field. He got his first official NBA start there the night against the L.A. Lakers. And in it he was like a plus 32 from as far as own off goal, which is insane because the game, I mean it wasn't a close game, but it wasn't a super blowout either. But he hasn't had a lot of time. So I don't wanna put him down here because he's not wily in a rotation at the moment. So I think based on, everybody's scale is going to be different. Have I mentioned that? Based on the sample size that we have of him, I'm impressed. How about that? I say the same thing about Derek Lively. Based on the sample size we have of Derek Lively, I'm extremely impressed. The first game of the year, he went against Victor Wibbanyama and for most of it he was the talk of the town over Wimby. And though his minutes have fluctuated between like 15 minutes in a single game versus like the other day we had 28 minutes, like it changes a lot with Jason Kidd and the system and stuff. When he does play and he does get good minutes, he has looked really, really good. So I'll probably put him in B tier. Also in B tier, ooh, B tier. See, okay, I'm thinking about Kason Wallace. Kason Wallace was the homie. He was what, the 10th overall pick to the OKC Thunder. The man has not missed a shot this season. I mean, that's not technically true, but he doesn't miss. He hasn't missed and he's playing good defense, but it would feel weird to put him on the same tier as Brandon Miller and Asar Thompson. So I'm gonna put him in the B tier. He's looked really good, you know, making the real rotation as a rookie in OKC when they have so many young players is a feat and he's doing that. So I'm gonna put him in the B tier. Bilal Kula Bali. Bilal has showed us real good stretches of really good defense as well. Also a guy that is not getting a crazy, crazy amount of minutes. His offensive game is a lot to be desired. I've changed my mind. Scoot, you're going to the C tier. With these other fellas, with Bilal Kula Bali and Amin Thompson, because they just feel so harsh to do that. That's just, I'm just a generous guy. I'm just a generous guy. How about that? Kiante George is next on our list. I think I'll also put him C tier. I was so excited for his play from Summer League and obviously he's not tearing it up like that because the play is different between the Summer League rosters versus the real NBA rosters, but he's been really solid and they've given him a lot of opportunity to kind of place a point guard, which we really, really like. He's got a lot of points, a point guard, which we really, really like, but I couldn't say he's on the scale of these guys. So I think he'll just be high in the C tier. And lastly, the sleeper, I think of the entire draft so far at least, is Marcus Sasser, who don't even, him and Kiante George don't even got pictures of themselves in the real NBA jerseys. But Marcus Sasser has been incredible. So good that Killian Hayes better count his days because I think Marcus Sasser should be starting over him. That's how good Marcus Sasser's been. Or that's how bad Killian Hayes has been. It's one or the other. But these are the top guys. I mean, a lot of the other rookies aren't getting a crazy amount of minutes to even have a simple size big enough to be here. But I'm excited about this class. As you can see, two S tiers is rare. I mean, I can't say there's a lot of draft classes that have two S tiers through the first couple of weeks. The A tiers I love, the B tiers I love, and the C tiers just give them more time and more opportunity. I'm sure they'll be better. But we also got like Jairus Walker or Taylor Hendricks who were top 10-ish picks and haven't been given opportunity outside of garbage time. So that's why they didn't make the list. The Jack Howard also has been getting a ton of time. Grady Dick has got a good amount of time. Actually, I should put Grady on the list. Actually, it's probably better than I don't. It's probably better than I don't. Just struggle to start off. We also have seen a good amount of Jordan Hawkins. He also started a game this season. So shout out to Jay Hawk, one of my guys, known as a shooter, struggling to hit his shot, but he's got all the confidence in the world, which we love, and he's playing decent defense, which we appreciate, because that was one of the biggest question marks. Hameh Hawkes also has got a good amount of play, but I haven't sat down and watched a ton of his film enough for me to put him on the grading scale just yet. And as I look through the rest of the rookies, those are the ones that have played the most minutes. I don't think I'm forgetting about anybody, which is great, unless there's some crazy, undrafted player that I just completely look past. But I don't think that's the case. So let me know what you think. Where would you rank these rookies? Did we do good? Were we too generous? You let me know in the comment section. I'll be down there as always. See y'all tomorrow. Peace.