Well, everyone got another glimpse of what next year could be like if #LakersPick doesn't convey...
19 draft is depleted of talent due to guys like Bagley jumping to the 18 draft. That Kings pick is a lot worse than what it looks like.
This is not really true. Bagley jumping a year meant RJ Barrett jumped from 2020 to 2019, so there wasn’t a net loss.
True but we do need a young big rather than another wing/guard.
as much as I agree, Ainge tends to draft best player available regardless of need. See- us drafting millions of guards past few years when we need rebounding and rim protection. Didn't Ainge already publically comment saying he's not particularly interested in a project big that will take years to be a core piece? I believe he was referring to this upcoming draft too. Got a feeling he's looking at doncic/porter/young or swinging the pick down for a more ready prospect in someone like jackson jr/carter/bridges. That or its a typical smoke screen
He was talking about selecting real project bigs though, I don't think any of the top bigs in this draft are that much of a project, they'd probably at least soak up some rotation minutes at C from the get go.
No, when discussing the Nets pick, he said that Cleveland would probably get a talented young big who will take a couple of years. Now, there’s always some Ainge smokescreen to look around, and that comment was made in the preseason so it’s not impossible that they see a big as ready to immediately contribute based on what they’ve shown this year in college (although that player is going #1 anyway), but when he was talking about project bigs and not being completely excited, it was definitely with regard to the 2018 draft.
Besides, the point is that Barrett makes the overall draft class as deep as it was with Bagley. Bagley was likely going #1 in 2019 — we were never getting him. Barrett is the current favorite to go #1 — we won’t get him either. It just means that we have the same pool of players from #2 and below as we had before, so the class, insofar as who we could potentially draft, hasn’t been weakened at all.