This is scary for the prospect of fultz career. He was also supposedly injured around the middle of the college season wasn’t he? Then they shut him down. I feel like he was hidden for draft purposes. They were able to sell fools gold to the sixers. Then the sixers shut him down to figure out what to do with the bust in their hand... Fultz May be a complete bust. It’s not like he can fall back on his defense... he has none at all. The draft videos only talk about his"defensive potential from his tools and length" but that only goes so far without instincts.
We may have traded a bust for the best rookie and we were paid a lotto pick to do this. If fultz ends up a bust, this trade goes down as lopsided as that Brooklyn trade
Jeez. How does a professional sports franchise get sold a bill of goods with the #1 overall pick?
Didn't he do some shooting against a chair predraft at least?
From what I understand, they didn't see him play in person in their facilities until the deal was essentially done. Since he was widely expected to be the #1 overall pick, he only tried out for the Celtics. It wasn't until we heard reports that the pick was being traded that he flew to Philly to have a night time workout (remember the FEDS tweet) -- and based on the video we saw, he stunk there too. I guess Philly viewed the workout as just a formality because if I sucked in an interview I wouldn't get hired.
Gotta hand it to Ainge. He's one of those "show me" type of people. He doesn't care what the scouts say. He saw Tatum and he saw Fultz live and he knew the better player visually, knowing full well that in this town if he botched this decision he'd be crucified regardless of his past wins. I'm not sure that I would have had the balls to do that.
We may have traded a bust for the best rookie and we were paid a lotto pick to do this. If fultz ends up a bust, this trade goes down as lopsided as that Brooklyn trade
Yeah, the closest thing I could think of in a situation like this is when Dallas traded Traylor for Dirk & Nash. It's not as good as Joe Carroll for Parish & McHale because he wasn't a bust albeit it was quite a haul.