I had this thought yesterday while watching his scouting video, but he plays a lot like Tony Parker. If he can use it as a weapon like Parker would you still hate that? Now I’m not say he’s Tony Parker or anything but that wouldn’t be so bad… so long as he’s efficient.
If I was his camp, knowing it is the biggest knock on the guy I am rep'n going forward, I would pump as much smoke into the atmosphere as possible, to get someone,anyone, to think maybe they missed something if he didn't work out for them and they are going on only college stats as a shooter on low attempts. I also might pump up his value if I was the Jazz and Danny Ainge hoping some org out of the loop decides to try to trade up, leaving the guy we really wanted there for us at 9 or if he slides to 9 give us trade down power etc.
If he is the bpa they might. He could have more trade value a month later than anyone else they could draft at that point. But yeah Dallas is most likely trading down to pick up a cheap young big . I expect they could move back a couple picks to do just that.
Nobody they pick at 10 is going to help them much as a rookie unless they overpick them, and there is a significant chance they just trade down to late lottery or 6 spots to get some type of front court help on the cheap like Precious from the Raps or maybe Larry Nance Jr from NOP and then draft a older prospect.
