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By this logic, every prospect linked to us that we didn't take means that nobody knew ****. Every team that Keyonte was linked to besides us is evidence of the media not knowing anything.

I don’t remember a lot of players specifically linked to us besides Black and Keyonte. We obviously didn’t have a chance to take Black.
 
How do we know this is correct? It is certainly not corroborated by any actual evidence. The top 8 teams all picked in the top 8, no one wanted to move. If any team had wanted him at 5 or 6 then the Jazz should have been just fine saying they were one of those teams after the fact, but they did the exact opposite.

I'm not saying I'm right or you're wrong, but I do think my position is a bit stronger than then one without a single whiff of evidence.

One of the clearest ways to do this is look at some better odds. This forum's opinions isn't reality. And odds aren't reality either, but it is how the draft was viewed by the public consensus. Bilal was a surprise at 7 but maybe should not have been considering at least two teams had him in the top 8 for sure. You can see here that Hendricks had odds to go 4 and 5.


Bilal's prop bet over under was 11.5. It was certainly a surprise to the public that he went 7.

 
I really wish they had been right.
Me too. Of course next year we may be happy they were wrong. Too early to tell anything at this point.
 
One of the clearest ways to do this is look at some better odds. This forum's opinions isn't reality. And odds aren't reality either, but it is how the draft was viewed by the public consensus. Bilal was a surprise at 7 but maybe should not have been considering at least two teams had him in the top 8 for sure. You can see here that Hendricks had odds to go 4 and 5.


Bilal's prop bet over under was 11.5. It was certainly a surprise to the public that he went 7.

Good data here. Thanks.
 
One of the clearest ways to do this is look at some better odds. This forum's opinions isn't reality. And odds aren't reality either, but it is how the draft was viewed by the public consensus. Bilal was a surprise at 7 but maybe should not have been considering at least two teams had him in the top 8 for sure. You can see here that Hendricks had odds to go 4 and 5.


Bilal's prop bet over under was 11.5. It was certainly a surprise to the public that he went 7.

The public consensus is exactly what I'm not interested in for this conversation.


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The public consensus is exactly what I'm not interested in for this conversation.


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Well there's zero way of determining a non-public consensus. Even with the Jazz blatantly listing that they had Hendricks 9, you don't know how close they had him to the other guys at 7 and 8.
 
What’s crazy is Keyonte was a heavy favorite to go before pick 14. You would have had to lay $310 to win $100.
 
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