Prospect Dong wrote:Hield of Dreams wrote:Fewwwshhhh...missed the point. The draft is a crapshoot. Always has been. Always will be.Prospect Dong wrote:
Drafting Bagley was absolutely not a "swing for the fences". He was viewed as a pretty safe, high floor, #3-5 pick who Vlade inexplicably picked second. The Kings mostly have a string of notionally safe picks who couldn't even hit their theoretical floor, not a lot of failed high stakes gambles...
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Sure. But if that's your point I don't think you made it very well. Struggling teams probably should swing for the fences, but even that can fail really badly. But the Kings mostly didn't do that under Vlade, and Bagley certainly isn't an example of trying and failing. If you want to say "building through the draft is hard", sure. But the other ways are all pretty tough too, especially for a small market without a winning reputation. Nailing one of those pick for an upper-tier all star is probably the best available option, and the one time the Kings had one on the board they picked another guy instead. If they'd stayed at 3rd or whatever, and picked Bagley there, I'd be right there with you about how sometimes even the safe projected pick is a bust. But that isn't what happened here.
The swing for the fences from the Bagley draft was Porter Jr. at the time we all knew Vlade liked him but thought he might be trying to trade down or something.
He wasn’t and was considering him at #2
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