06-20-2026, 02:18 PM
(06-20-2026, 02:07 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: I could bring up the DSJ disaster to make a case against the consensus pick but I don't think looking back at past drafts in hindsight helps either case. In the end it's about talent evaluation and in some cases the consensus option was the right choice. In others it didn't workout. Based on the odds at least one of the five guards is going to bust. But that's another narrative that shouldn't impact decision making.
They absolutely have to get it rid but I would argue that just picking whoever drops to #9 is the safe option. Not necessarily the best option. No one could blame them if things don't workout because it was the consensus pick. Thankfully Schmitz's and Ujiri's track record suggests that they aren't scared to make unpopular decisions in the draft.
Re: DSJ: We had good enough scouting at that time that there’s no excuse in retrospect that we didn’t draft Mitchell - by trade down, sure, if that would have been the most prudent way to do it. But of course if we did that we’d have never gotten Luka.