Nance is solid, but I'd be hoping for someone that's still ascending or we hope will....Nance to me seems like he is what it is...but not enough of needle mover by himself to slide down to 5? Plus, I do think he really likes playing for Cavs (dad's old team...think they unretired the jersey even for him?).KGdaBom wrote:shrink wrote:KGdaBom wrote:I'd rather do #1 for #5 and Nance. Hunter had a disappointing rookie year. Nance would meet our needs much better.
I haven’t seen anyone talking about this. Nance seems like a CLE guy, especially since his dad is fondly remembered for his seven season as a Cav. We might have to overpay. I don’t have strong feelings on Nance jr, one way or another, so I can’t comment on the values.
One thing that this post reminded me of is an economic/psychological phenomena that might make it harder to get full value out of the #1 pick. The easiest way to describe it is “sour grapes.” Fans/front offices may have had specific players at the top of draft until the lottery happened, and they didn’t win the number one pick. As they started looking at more prospects around their pick (here, #5), they start to fall in love with the players there as they envision the kid wearing that Cavs jersey reaching their highest ceiling. I often see this manifest on the Trade Board, where a poster with the #5 pick (or whatever), is more likely to see a tier that stretches higher than it should, and ends just after his pick. For example, a Cavs fan may say, “I think the top 5 picks all have the same value, so I wouldn’t give anything to trade up.” Obviously this is false - even if all the players were in the first tier, getting to choose your favorite of the five has value, but people tend to rationalize that value away.
Right now (and this could certainly change once we see pre-draft workouts), I feel there is a definite top three tier. I feel Ball, Wiseman and Edwards have a significantly better chance of becoming a star than anyone else in the draft. This doesn’t mean becoming a star is likely for any of them, but stars are what have real value to NBA franchises - not role players.
Look at Nance's #s. https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/n/nancela02.html
He'd be the almost perfect PF for us. Nance does everything well. We use #5 to get the SF we need possibly Vassell and we are a solid team.
Last thing....isn't he kind of in that middle class pay range...that it seems Rosas at least for the moment wants to keep off the radar (speculative on part but the vibe I get)...
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