Syd-TK3 wrote:HeadtopChunes wrote:casual_raps_fan wrote:What do people think about drafting a guard with our 1st round pick?
Although we have free agent guards coming up soon (Fred, Kyle, Norm), we are stacked at that position. Since there probably wouldn't be playing time available on our team, we'd have to send them to the G league for a season or two to let them play. Is it really worth spending a first on a guard?
I think if you look at it by ball-handlers and not gaurds we aren't stacked there at all. Really we just have one elite one in Lowry(who’s 34) and a good one in Fred whos also a free agent. Norm doesn’t do much in the way of ball handling or playmaking and TD is a wild card at the moment. Raptors like to play with multiple ballhandlers too (hence starting Fred and kinda of forcing Mccaw into that role)
So if there’s a ballhander our FO deems worth drafting it makes alot of sense to me. Especially since most of them just seem like straight up better prospects than the wings/bigs in this class.
Would also say that not contributing on elite teams as a rookie is the norm and really shouldn’t dissuade us from drafting the best talent possible especially when we have probably the best player development system in the league
I mentioned before that I don't see us drafting a pg at 28 cause it's a deep position in this draft and I'm almost certain we resign Fred so it's not as important. I'd only consider it if one were to drop but it seems unlikely that that happens.
If we weren't keeping fred I'd been down for taking Dotson as a good replacement but currently I just don't see how we manage to fit a small pg in rotation with how small we already play.
Looking at it in the way you mentioned about just simply needing a ball-handler I think that's true and is probably why Bolmaro makes sense
That makes sense. Unless somebody drops a lot, selecting a guard doesn't make too much sense. Our need isn't a guard but wing ball handlers.
Which guards would worth taking over Tillman and/or Reed if they drop? Which guards would be worth taking over the wings that drop (Saddiq Bey, Patrick Williams, McDaniels, Precious Achiuwa)?
I saw people like Kira Lewis and Tyrell Terry. I personally was interested in Theo Maledon since he has solid height (6'4) and a great wingspan (6'8) for defensive versatility. He might be able to defend bigger players which helps if we want to play him beside Fred, Norm, Kyle, TD.
I think something we can take into consideration is that if we select a guard, they will probably be sent to the 905 for most of the first season so we wouldn't need somebody NBA ready from day 1.
