I’m not overly excited about this draft because I have no confidence that JJ will have the patience to allow whoever we pick the grace to play through their mistakes.
Unless its one of the NBA ready guys. Veesaar is both a horizontal and vertical spacer. He's probably about average in terms of rim protection, like Hayes though. Down the line, he could survive with Luka in the starting lineup like KAT to Brunsen. Might have to swap out Reaves and Lebron for 3 and D in the next couple seasons. We shoudl get that a-list big to hold us over in the mean time though. Or Vessaar gets included in a trade for said big.
I’d be disappointed if we make the pick and don’t trade it. We go from having 3 picks to 2. I’m not sure any of the guys at 25 are difference makers, maybe they can develop into something but I’m not so optimistic on that front.
i agree it's more valuable in trade, but this isn't like the jhs year, where i REALLY wanted to move out or down (and i think the FO did, too). there should be at least one guy whom i'd be excited about at 25. but yeah, if we make the pick it might be a fallback. i just hope we have a parachute strategy if our targets are gone and we can't trade the pick.
