I mean, the way things go in draft rooms, we almost certainly flipped the pick for future picks without knowing who Portland wanted to take with it. If I recall the rumor from the time, we had a (never-named) player targeted at 37, and when that player went off the board, we pulled the trigger on a deal. That might have even been from the Vlade post-draft presser, I'm not sure where that came from, but that's what I remember hearing.
I'm actually not at all sure what happened to Trent in the draft process. He started out his freshman year as a late-lotto guy in the mocks and then dropped down after a poor start to the season, but I just looked at my notes for him that year and early in the year I was down on him and by the end of the season I was saying I didn't know what 2-guard I would take in front of him and slotting him in the late lotto again. If you had told me he was going to drop to 37 I'd have been shocked. But he did, and I don't know if somebody red-flagged a medical or if teams were just getting cute (there were some..."interesting"...picks in the 2018 draft, and I'm not talking about the top five) but Trent basically went into a freefall. I kind of doubt that we worked him out at all - he wasn't going #2 and he wasn't working out for a team that didn't have a pick in at least the 20s. Even if we had stayed in the #7 slot he was probably not high on our radar during the college season anyway because he was a late-lotto/20s guy and we weren't going to be picking anywhere near there. When our target at #37 went off the board, yes, it's our job to know who's left but if Trent is sight-unseen, and he's falling for some reason - all these other teams who had a shot at him are taking other guys for some reason we don't know - should we really take a stab in the dark? Portland on the other hand had almost certainly worked him out since they had #24 (and used it themselves on an iffy player) so presumably they had a better idea of Trent's standing.
I do think that if Vlade has made one thing clear about his draft philosophy, it's that he doesn't want to draft a player that he hasn't taken a real good look at. To the extent that you can't take a real good look at 75 guys, given where we were picking Trent would have been pretty far down my personal "take a real good look at list".
Not gonna lie, when #37 came up I thought we were going to take Kurucs, but when Trent's name got called I was like "Yeah, that works real nice too" until the word came down that we were picking for Portland. Oh well. Can't win 'em all. Maybe seems we can't win any of 'em, but we surely can't win 'em all.
I'm actually not at all sure what happened to Trent in the draft process. He started out his freshman year as a late-lotto guy in the mocks and then dropped down after a poor start to the season, but I just looked at my notes for him that year and early in the year I was down on him and by the end of the season I was saying I didn't know what 2-guard I would take in front of him and slotting him in the late lotto again. If you had told me he was going to drop to 37 I'd have been shocked. But he did, and I don't know if somebody red-flagged a medical or if teams were just getting cute (there were some..."interesting"...picks in the 2018 draft, and I'm not talking about the top five) but Trent basically went into a freefall. I kind of doubt that we worked him out at all - he wasn't going #2 and he wasn't working out for a team that didn't have a pick in at least the 20s. Even if we had stayed in the #7 slot he was probably not high on our radar during the college season anyway because he was a late-lotto/20s guy and we weren't going to be picking anywhere near there. When our target at #37 went off the board, yes, it's our job to know who's left but if Trent is sight-unseen, and he's falling for some reason - all these other teams who had a shot at him are taking other guys for some reason we don't know - should we really take a stab in the dark? Portland on the other hand had almost certainly worked him out since they had #24 (and used it themselves on an iffy player) so presumably they had a better idea of Trent's standing.
I do think that if Vlade has made one thing clear about his draft philosophy, it's that he doesn't want to draft a player that he hasn't taken a real good look at. To the extent that you can't take a real good look at 75 guys, given where we were picking Trent would have been pretty far down my personal "take a real good look at list".
Not gonna lie, when #37 came up I thought we were going to take Kurucs, but when Trent's name got called I was like "Yeah, that works real nice too" until the word came down that we were picking for Portland. Oh well. Can't win 'em all. Maybe seems we can't win any of 'em, but we surely can't win 'em all.
Against playoff caliber teams too...and Washington.