March Madness NBA Draft Stock Risers with Ahmed Jama - How Deep Runs can raise 2025 NBA Draft Stock for guys like Derik Queen, Khaman Maluach, Kon Knueppel, Bennett Stirtz, Nique Clifford, JoJo Tugler

Learning Basketball

Ep. 45 with Ahmed Jama @SlipTheScreen

Ahmed covers the NBA Draft and Grassroots Basketball Scouting with Swish Theory and Next Up BBall

Today we learn about the impact of March Madness on how we talk about the NBA Draft and we talk about prospects who stand to see the biggest rise to their draft stock from a deep postseason run.

Timeline

00:00 Introduction & Background

01:15 March Madness Legends

03:13 Impact of March Madness on NBA Draft Stock

09:54 Can any projected top picks secure the #3 overall consensus slot away from Ace Bailey? (who won’t play)

16:40 How Duke's Draft Prospects Khaman Maluach, Kon Knueppel, Sion James, Tyrese Proctor may help or hurt their draft stock if Cooper Flagg is limited

23:20 Tahaad Pettiford, Will Riley, Otega Oweh - Could an impressive March Madness Run from prospects deciding between testing the draft waters this year and staying one more season in college lead to them declaring for the 2025 NBA Draft?

30:25 Miles Byrd, Bennett Stirtz - Could a deep March Madness run from Mid-Major Prospects move projections from 2nd round/undrafted all the way up to a late first rounder?

36:52 Boogie Fland’s return to Arkansas just in time for March Madness - he went from lottery pick talks to out of the first round on some boards all in this up and down season. Could an impressive showing put Boogie back in projected mid/late first round talks?

42:00 Braden Smith, Predicting the March Madness Small Guard Who Gets Hot For A Few Games is harder than it looks

42:47 Nique Clifford - Could a deep March Madness run from Mid-Major Prospects move projections from 2nd round/undrafted all the way up to a late first rounder?

45:55 Jojo Tugler, Danny Wolf, Ryan Kalkbrenner, Alex Condon, Could any big men pop out in a March Madness run to improve their draft stock?
53:00 PJ Haggerty, Predicting the March Madness Small Guard Who Gets Hot For A Few Games is harder than it looks

54:18 LaBaron Philon, Jeremiah Fears, Liam McNeeley, Jase Richardson, VJ Edgecombe, Carter Bryant, Kam Jones, Jacob Toppin, Chaz Lanier - Predicting the March Madness Small Guard Who Gets Hot For A Few Games is harder than it looks
1:01:29 - Derik Queen & Bennett Stirtz - We each predict the 1 prospect who sees the biggest rise in projected draft stock on the public media mock board side after an impressive March Madness run

Ft. scouting thoughts on

Bennett Stirtz

Derik Queen

Miles Byrd

Nique Clifford

Khaman Maluach

Kon Knueppel

Boogie Fland

Tahaad Pettiford

Will Riley

Johni Broome

Danny Wolf

Ryan Kalkbrenner

Jojo Tugler

PJ Haggerty

Jeremiah Fears

LaBaron Philon

Ace Bailey

Braden Smith

Alex Condon

Liam McNeeley

Jase Richardson

VJ Edgecombe