Everyone knows that this year's draft would be better than last year's draft?
I was under the impression the opposite was true based on stuff I have been reading for two years.
A quick google search will show you that people thought 2018 draft was solid, but there were few probable stars.
https://www.nba.com/da-big-board-wings-2018-draft
This years draft has been alot of talk about potential stars being more available than last seasons.
LAst year ealry projections had the top 5 as Bagley, Ayton, Bamba, Doncic and Porter Jr.
This year had
Williamson, Barrett, Reddish, Little, Bol Bol.
Alot more superstar potential in 2019s class.
And the early notes on next years draft is it being very weak.
I did a lot of Google searches and am not finding claims as last year being only solid players and no stars or superstars. Heck, the article you sited only talked about wings and didn't even mention Doncic as a wing. No Aldridge had Doncic as a guard. You failed to look at Aldridge's other pages on guards and bigs that were attached to that page where he raved about the quality there, didn't you?
Mark Cuban stated he made the Doncic trade because he knew the 2019 draft wasn't very good. The Athletic had an article going over the weakness of this draft. I have seen this year called an ultra top heavy draft with little special in it after the top 2 picks. On multiple pages I have seen this year's crop called weak compared to the lottery heavy in talent previous drafts.
Sorry. I am not finding what you claim to be just assumed given fact on the quality this year being any better than previous years.
I will post some of the articles later if I desire to go lookibg for them.
But I remember alot of talk of last year having 3 or 4 guys at the top then that was it
This year has always had 6 or 7 guys at the very top with alot of potential talent afterward.
Barret
Williamson
Reddish
Little
Bol bol
Langford
To name a few being talked about ahead of last years draft.
And last season you had alot of questiins about if trae, doncic could translate to the nba.
If Ayton was good enough to impact now...same as bamba. And that was your top 4. This years draft no one has the same level of questioning.