MrSparkle wrote:Houston’s in that funny situation where they super tanked 3 years and drafted a bunch of busts… besides for their 16th pick (Sengun).
Which side note… wonder-boy Presti traded the rights to Sengun for two future picks of ambiguous value. A little retribution for the Westbrook trade, I suppose. I think everybody has their wins and misses on draft night.
Amen is a hell of a talent, but at 19% 3P, he’s a big project. Jalen Green looks like a talented but low efficiency, low IQ scorer. The whole team is young but the top-5 picks are not appealing.
I really feel like as the years have gone on the value of draft picks has become more and more randomized, for lack of a better word.
I also feel like like draft picks evaluations often use "All-star" has a measure of success when that is often highly subjective - example: Banchero was an all-star this year and i'm not convinced he "deserved" it.
An analysis done using All-NBA honors would be far more interesting
Only 4 of the last 10 MVPs were guys drafted in the top 5 (three of them once played together which is crazy).