He didn’t say anything about contracts.
And we are less likely to actually swing on one of these guards (if we had another pick) in part because we have a couple prospects at that position. At #6 or #7 or whatever we just take the best player available... but if we had another pick in the middle of the first there will be some pretty amazing guard talents I'd rather try.
Wasting picks is a factor of churning through guys. WCJ, Key and Collier were all upside gambles, and tbh the results are absolutely fantastic even if Collier and WCJ turn into 100% busts.
Right... I just don't think its ideal to keep drafting smallish guards and there are some really really intriguing (far more intriguing that WCJ and Collier imo) that will be drafted between 15-40 this year. You'd ideally be making some bets on bigs and such too.
Pretty sure P3 just hypes their clients through any possible spin angle they can put on the data
How is taking a 4 year small college guard an upside gamble?
Id say thats fair criticism of the point. He carried his team to natioanl title but I guess that was never fully gonna translate anyways.
I honestly do not understand what the hype is about with WCj. The list of amazing college players that do squat in the NBA is longer than the list that do, and he is the archetype of a player that doesn’t translate (positionally undersized, pedestrian athleticism, old).
I dont know if they "force picked" any guards but they used the highest picks on wings/forwards so it makes sense they complement the roster with guards on the later FRPs. They could have also picked BPAs in their minds, but I think they wanted to maximize youth across the roster.
I liked him a lot. It's been pretty shocking how rudimentary his ballhandling ability is.
You know what ratio is even worse? The list of young raw prospects who bust vs those who turn into anything.
