WuTang_OG wrote:REJECTEDBYCLARK wrote:I don't think that's how Masai is going to see it. Glue guys are commonly available via trades and free agency for the right price whereas star players are not and he understands how hard it has been for Toronto to historically recruit and retain star players.
Draft time for the Raps needs to be about hitting homeruns regardless of where they are picking.
Masai doesn’t look at the draft like that minus bruno
Colby is high floor. We normally target those types of players. And we did it at 9 with Poeltl who had the least bust potential at the time. Not saying Colby is the pick at 15, but we will definitely target talented, intelligent players with great advanced stats. The upside will always be the question but you dont want to get burned in a draft like this where all the talent is bunched up.
I think it's always going to be relative to who's left on the board. Not sure Poeltl would have been the pick had Jaylen Brown or Marquese Chriss had still been there - two names mentioned a lot at the time (though Brown was always a little bit of a pipe dream). The Raps also had the benefit of a late first that year to swing for the fences. This year's draft has quite a few really intriguing upside bets, so if we're going to go the role-player route, you've gotta hit.
I like Jones as a later first, early-second flyer on a role-plarer. I don't see the upside with Jones that some on this board do, and you've gotta be certain that the 3pt shot is real and not a one-year outlier to draft him near the lottery. Otherwise I just don't see what separates from dozens of jack-of-all-trades below-the-rim guard sized players in the g-league. He's just not going to get the reps on this team like he does at Xavier, and he's not a pg. Felt similarly about Wendell Moore Jr. (another player that had a lot of fans on this board).
