I've only read what you quoted, but some of this is pretty much just piling on. I mean, completely ignoring an All-Star like Cousins or the potential that still exists in Cauley-Stein and Fox, and the fact that in several of these cases (Thompson, Stauskas, Papagiannis) the draft was basically dry once our pick came around... It's easy to go around saying the Kings are morons for taking Papagiannis, but I want to know who Verrier would have taken, on draft day 2016, in the #13 slot, without the benefit of hindsight. You get to be GM for a day - who do you take? Wade Baldwin, who seemed to be every NBA writer's man crush in the late lottery? Well, congratulations! Baldwin was out of the league before Papagiannis was!
That said, the quote above may not age very well. Harry Giles has a lower ceiling than Zach Collins? Lower ceiling?!?! No, because of injuries he has a lower floor. His ceiling is best player in the 2016 draft, even with the injuries, and Verrier should know that.
Who put all their chips in on Malachi Richardson? We spent a #22 pick on him that we received for dumping the bad money owed to Marco Belinelli. That's not all the chips. That's not even some of the chips.
I mean, I understand. We're not where we want to be. We could have done better building this team. We darn well should have done better building this team. But the piling on gets really tiresome for me, as if we're the only franchise that has ever missed in the draft.