IT'S HARDY TIME: Jaden Hardy looking like a decent prospect

[cow]

I said this the other day, but part of what’s working is that the Mavs have low key (limited opportunity) become a good drafting team. 

Luka (seems easy in retrospect, but a lot of pros were down on him back then)
Brunson (some were saying he wasn’t even the best player on his college team)
Green (took a while, but he got there)
Hardy 

Bey and Terry were both disappointing, but there was reason for hope at the time. That’s 4/6, including trading up or back into the draft like three times. That, my friends, is more than a hint of a noticeably different approach than what we’ve come to expect. Part Donnie, part Voulgaris, part Harrison and hopefully a lot of Finley, since he’s the one who connects the whole timeline together, and I get the sense he’s sort of the “personnel evaluation” guy around there right now…whatever it is, I hope the trend continues.

I think any team would be ecstatic to go four of six on picks.