2021 NBA Draft Superthread
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What’s hilarious are many of these same fans complaining about the this team’s porous defense are the one’s complaining that they just drafted the best on-ball defender in the draft. Go figure.
IDK whether Mitchell was drafted as part of another deal that has yet to materialize, but assuming not -- I have no problem drafting a player that might well help address a major weakness.
I also don’t know that Mitchell was BPA, but several of the analysts had him in their top 5. So if that’s the case and Monte McNair took BPA on his board — I can’t fault it at all.
That’s what a good GM should do. Take BPA and figure everything out later.
IDK whether Mitchell was drafted as part of another deal that has yet to materialize, but assuming not -- I have no problem drafting a player that might well help address a major weakness.
I also don’t know that Mitchell was BPA, but several of the analysts had him in their top 5. So if that’s the case and Monte McNair took BPA on his board — I can’t fault it at all.
That’s what a good GM should do. Take BPA and figure everything out later.
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I think the worst defensive team in the draft picking one of the best individual defenders does make sense. I also think wingspan is overrated as a draft criteria, as I've already harped on about for months. Ever since switching has become the defensive standard the word wingspan has replaced upside as the end-all-be-all of prospect ranking and I hate it. I absolutely hate it. But I'm but a pebble in a vast vast ocean so I was trying to make a joke out of it.
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Is this going to be yet another draft where the Kings make zero moves, stay exactly in their slot and draft a mediocre to poor player who just helps keep them on this same pathetic treadmill?
Sure seems like it so far.
There were so many options where I would have been okay with this front office's moves, but standing pat at #9 and drafting a backup PG is apparently the one to push my buttons.
It is exhausting to try and root for this team to even be average for one year after 15 years of being terrible.
Sure seems like it so far.
There were so many options where I would have been okay with this front office's moves, but standing pat at #9 and drafting a backup PG is apparently the one to push my buttons.
It is exhausting to try and root for this team to even be average for one year after 15 years of being terrible.
It does make sense in some ways in a vacuum, but in terms of position it doesn't unless they see him as a spot backup PG. Or at least have considered that as a possibility and the value impacts that go along with it. Which they might have, who knows. I hope not but who gets the short end between he, Fox, and Haliburton? Maybe against all odds it works but it still doesn't make it anything other than against those odds.