The Tank Commander Podcast

In the second part of our recording, we conduct our first mock draft of this season, with the real lottery order and with team needs in mind. It gets a little chaotic, but that's the fun of this exercise! 00:00 Introduction and Setup 00:54 Deciding the Draft Order 02:22 1. Mavericks 07:06 2. Spurs 08:20 3. 76ers 10:23 4. Hornets 13:16 5. Jazz 15:23 6. Wizards 18:01 7. Pelicans 20:33 8. Nets 23...

This week was a special week, with both of our teams being eliminated in the playoffs, plus the Draft Lottery and Combine. We react to everything in this first episode for the week, and do a quick analysis on Nique Clifford. In Part 2, we do our lottery Mock Draft! 00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview 01:45 Noah's Celtics Cope Pod 11:58 Jeffrey's GSW Cope Pod -- 17:26 Draft Combine Quic...

We bring back Jeremy AKA On Ball Creator back to our show to help us talk about Israel/Ratiopharm Ulm point guard Ben Saraf, as well as break down some draft sleepers. Jeremy is always a fun and insightful guest, so don't miss this one! Ben Saraf required help in analyzing his strengths and weaknesses because his game has some good nuance.  00:00 Introducing Ben Saraf and our guest On Ball Cre...

We are finally back to normal for a little bit: scouting a single 2025 prospect, and not having a guest! This week, we look at the Georgetown big Thomas Sorber. Even though his season ended short with surgery, he still had a lot of very intriguing qualities as pretty much the one true semi-traditional big. We'll call him a Traditional-Plus big. His tape and his stats jump out of the page, so m...

We have our first ever repeat guest! We bring back high-powered consultant, friend of the pod, and father of the cohost, THE Chris Sharp. This time, he's here to help us change gears by looking at the 2024 class of rookies and evaluate the final Kia Rookie Ladder. We determine our own First and Second Teams, then we ask the deeper question of: who will the best out of all of these five years f...

After deep diving into 20 prospects so far, we now get the chance to rack and stack them. This is not necessarily a true Top 20, but instead us reviewing our 20 players we've reviewed so far, and ranking them against one another.  It's a pretty tough job, so we got the legendary founder of the No Ceilings Hoop Collective Tyler Rucker to help us out! Here's the players in the order we r...

Our 20th prospect reviewed this year is none other than Kon Knueppel. He is one of the top two best shooters in the class, a very good passer, and someone who uses his stout build really well. His game was more well rounded than we expected, so tune in to see what levels his game could reach at the NBA.  00:00 Introduction and Overview of Kon Knueppel 07:21 Defensive Skills 19:57 Offensive Skills...

Today we hit our 19th prospect Labaron Philon, and this time we get to do it with a special guest! Corban Ford joins us and breaks down the game of the crafty, gets-anywhere-he-wants two-way guard from Alabama, and we get to have a blast doing so. Corban also drops his hot takes, to include whether or not we may have chosen the wrong guard prospect to scout with him.  Philon is super shifty and ni...

This week, we get into some extended conversation on the one-of-a-kind game of Danny Wolf, a true 7-footer with a 7'6" wingspan with the handles and passing of a guard. He has phenomenal playmaking and is more effective on defense than we expected. Why is he not going Top 5 in mocks and big boards? We examine reasons why this is right or wrong here.  00:00 Introduction and Stats 05:16 Offe...

Hot off a stellar performance in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Xavier, we take a look at Illinois swingman Will Riley. His crafty and high-BBIQ game make him a very intriguing player with a very translatable role in the NBA, but his defense does require some projection. We break his strengths and weaknesses down, and project what he'll look like at the next level. His stock ha...

We have a special guest help us in breaking down another 2025 NBA Draft prospect. On Ball Creator is one of the finest draft minds on social media, and he is also one of the analysts very very high on Michigan State's Jase Richardson. Jase is the son of Golden State Warriors legend Jason Richardson and brings a much different, heady skillset to the game than his father.  Find out just how far...

This week we look at the super versatile combo forward in Rasheer Fleming. He brings some immense measurables with the skills to back it up, and is a statistical darling. Does he have weaknesses? What will his role look like at the next level? We dive deep into his multi-tool game and start to provide some answers to those questions. Stick around for our recommendations, and some surprise hot take...

This is our first shooter in a while! Texas' Tre Johnson is on our scouting docket as one of the highest scorers in our notes this season with a very strong offensive game, and a defensive game that... requires nuanced conversation. We talk about his strengths, shortcomings, and whether those shortcomings can be overcome. He's an intriguing prospect so make sure to tune in to get the fulle...

In Part II of our doubleheader, we break down the oddly tough eval in Asa Newell. He has pretty much all the skills you could ask for in a versatile big, and yet he's still a tough eval for the both of us. Find out why! 00:00 Introduction and Statistical Breakdown 03:48 Offensive Skills and Analysis 19:10 Defensive Skills and Analysis 27:09 Comparisons and Potential 29:24 Investment and Draft...

In this special Part I of our doubleheader this week, we discuss two things:  1) The MAJOR dynasty trade in our league, trading Anthony Edwards for Paolo Banchero. Noah explains the trade, which leads to a discussion on the long-term futures of Ant vs Paolo, and how Amen Thompson fits into the mix. 2) Jeff got to scout VJ Edgecombe in the matchup of Baylor at CU Boulder. It was a pretty muted game...

We finally analyze a non-guard! We took a look at Duke's big man Khaman Maluach. His numbers don't pop out on the box score, but there is a lot more that he has to offer, and it merits a deeper look into the tape and the advanced stats. He's a very, very intriguing prospect so tune in to see why he is so high on a lot of major draft boards. 00:00 Introduction and Player Overview 01:22...

We have a special guest this week! Hoops analyst Ben Pfeifer joins us to help us analyze two of the toughest evals at the top of our boards: Ace Bailey and Derik Queen. He also happened to join us following the most insane trade deadline of all time, so of course we had to collectively wrap our heads around every transaction that went down.  On a sidenote, two things occurred after recording that...

We're back to scouting players for the 2025 draft, and Jeff is back to his desktop podcast setup! We celebrate the occasion by scouting the Illinois lead guard prospect in Kasparas Jakucionis. We dig into his offensive and defensive games, and even dig into advanced stats just to understand him better.  And yes, this pod was recorded just minutes before the Luka trade, so expect zero reference...

After a long time away with Tank Commander Jeff packing up his family's life and driving a moving truck across the country, your favorite brothers in arms are back! This time, we take the time to review the 10 prospects we've done deep dives on so far, and finally rank them relative to one another. This won't be an exhaustive overall Top 10, and instead an ordering of only the 10 prosp...

Riiiight in the middle of the regular NBA season, Old Man Squad Podcast Network Contributors and some keen outside experts got together to start a dynasty league! We started a slow draft in Week 8, and dynasty values proved to be VERY different from dynasty drafts last season and REMARKABLY different from drafts that started in the beginning of the 2024-2025 season.  Tune in to Tank Commanders Jef...

Riiiight in the middle of the regular NBA season, Old Man Squad Podcast Network Contributors and some keen outside experts got together to start a dynasty league! We started a slow draft in Week 8, and dynasty values proved to be VERY different from dynasty drafts last season and REMARKABLY different from drafts that started in the beginning of the 2024-2025 season. Tune in to Tank Commanders Jeff...

While he wasn't part of our original boards and scouting plans at first, we just could not help but take a look at the rising Jeremiah Fears out of Oklahoma. He's been red hot as a point guard in leading his currently-undefeated OU team, and we take a deeper dive and break down his strengths and weaknesses, and stack him up against the other point guards in this stacked lead guard class. ...

This week we look at the Sophomores! We give our 5 non-Wemby standouts and talk about some mythbusting for some sophomores who might be struggling this season.  It's a fun episode, and even gets serious with the sophomores and whether some of their struggles are warranted or not, and whether they can climb out of their current pits.  Next week, we go back to regular scouting and take a look at...

We're at the quarter of the season mark, and we review the rookies so far. Here, we talk about our individual Top 5s, before we dig down and look at the 4 December Kia NBA Rookie honors. Last, we'll talk about the guys who didn't make either cut and talk about how they're doing, why they're not getting minutes, and any hope we have for them. It's a really good one, and give...

This week we look at BYU and Real Madrid's Egor Demin, a 6'9" point guard forward. Not to spoil too much of the episode, but he did drive both of us to rework our big boards. For our big board updates, we both had massive shakeups, but definitely tune in for seismic shakeups that took place on Noah's board. Next week, we take a break from the 2025 class and review the 2024 rookies...