eyriq wrote:Oh, I got your point while putting my kid to bed. You are saying Jett's actual value is much worse than 11. I don't disagree with you there, he looked like a terrible prospect to me and was mostly mocked outside the lottery.Knightro wrote:eyriq wrote:The fact that they picked Jett 11th over all possible players available at that point in the draft implies he holds a high value to them.
That isn't the point I'm making. The other players on the board are irrelevant.
The point is Jett went 11th because the Magic were picking 11th and liked him. Not because he was worth the 11th overall pick.
Had the Magic been picking 18th instead of 11th, Jett would have gone 18th.
That said, my point is that the same talent evaluators took Jett 11th and Houstan 32nd, so they think one is a lotto talent and the other is a fringe NBA player. So holding talent evaluation constant which you can do cuz it's the same talent evaluators it makes more sense to prefer Jett to Houstan. And considering they selected Jett 11th it implies they expect Jett to have lottery talent upside, upside that includes All Star outcomes.
I too put my kids to bed they have school in the morning, the weekends go by way to fast.