You can like a player and still think of them as a mega project. The Suns traded Kevin Durant for Maluach as the center piece of the trade and then immediately got two guys to play over him because they didn't think he was even slightly close to an NBA player yet.
I'm saying nobody who had Ace #3 on their board thought he could never play on the ball and it would take 4-5 years for him to be good. People who like Ace like him precisely for his on ball creation scoring.