Showtime:Part2 wrote:regardless of what we all think of him, i think we can all agree he is a dead eye shooter. as a result i'd be stunned if minn doesn't pick him at 5. they were one of the worst 3pt shooting teams this year.
It is not as simple as that.
It's a fact that Minnesota was one of the worst shooting teams this year, and Buddy Hield is probably the best shooter in this draft, buy 1+1 not always equals 2, and certainly this is not the case.
Hield is going to play strictly SG in the NBA (He does not have PG skills and is not big enough to guard most SF) so his minutes will be like 90 % at the SG position. However the Wolves have a promising young SG that has the same positional restriction in Zach LaVine. In addition to that, the Wolves were an awful shooting team, but LaVine was one of the only two starters that could be considered above average shooters (the other one being Karl-Anthony Towns).
So, if the Wolves draft Buddy Hield, he will be taking his minutes away from LaVine, and in fact they would be replacing an already good shooter with another great shooter with less NBA experience, and I don't think that would suddenly fix their shooting woes.
In my opinion, to improve their overall shooting the Wolves need Andrew Wiggins to work hard on his shot, Ricky Rubio to maintain his percentages from the last two months of the season, and of course to add some good shooters to their bench, but preferably players that can play multiple positions. Buddy Hield is an option there, yes, but as long as they trust Zach LaVine moving forward, they would have little use for Buddy, and he would produce poor value for them as a #5 pick.
