Coach K is a con artist.
All these coaches promote their own players. It helps them in recruiting.
Look, Tatum by all accounts is a decent kid. But his strength is a mid range game, and that is about it. Will really struggle playing defense in the NBA. Jackson will be able to step in day one. Jackson is better than Jaylen Brown now, whom I love.
We get that you're a fan of Jackson, but you don't have to be ridiculous. By no means is he better than Jaylen, and he's barely better than Tatum, if at all (which many people think he's not).
Jackson won't be able to step in day one because Stevens probably doesn't want to run a 4 man offence.
Is my preference for Jackson that obvious? LOL.
Time will tell, but I think if we draft him, Stevens will love him, and want to get him a lot of minutes. Not starting, but a lot. Brown's and Smart's lack of offensive repertoire did not hurt their minutes as rookies. This team's culture starts with defense, and if you don't understand how vastly superior Jackson is to Tatum in that realm, I give up.
Yeah it starts with defense, and stalls at defense. We should be looking to break that logjam and improve the offense, not add to the logjam.