WeekapaugGroove wrote:The spreewell comp for Jackson is good one. I also saw someone on another board throw out stephen jackson as a comp for josh I like that too. Not that its some ground breaking take but jackson falling is my favorite scenario.
Now if he's not there at 4 as much as a personally like isaac I've really warmed on taking fox with the qualifier that it would be combined with a bledsoe trade. I love his attitude and its important your pg is a leader. I also think he fits a running style they want to play and will be good on the break from day 1. He needs work in the half court but the suns can take some of that off his shoulders by having booker initiate some of the p&r and i think the suns should let bender run some o out of the high post. I even like his paring with ulis because you would have an identify of running 48 minutes of fast as hell pgs who are going to run on o and pressure the ball on d. Lastly this might be their best shot at finding their long term pg so that opportunity might be too much to pass up even for two good and safer prospects in isaac or Tatum.
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I think there's a fair chance that Jackson falls to us, whether because Philly identifies Fox, Tatum or Isaac as the best pick or because Philly and Boston trade #3 for #1 and Boston makes the same calculation. I think that empirically, Tatum is likely BPA over Jackson because of his physical profile, smooth shooting and his repertoire of NBA moves. I also think it is feasible that Isaac gets identified as the player with the highest ceiling due to his potential on both ends. Despite the fact that I think Tatum is likely the third best prospect, I hate him as a fit with us for reasons I've discussed. That said, he's no lower than sixth on my board, ahead of Isaac and in the discussion for me at #4 along with Jackson, Fox and Collins (yes, my love is unabated).
Like you, I think Fox could work well next to Ulis as well as Booker. I think Fox will be able to guard most 2s in time, and I think that his proclivity as a scorer can be utilized at the 2 as well as the 1 on offense, provided (a) he has shooters around him and/or (b) he becomes at least respectable as a shooter. I like him as the third piece of our backcourt of the future - Booker, Ulis and Player X.
If we draft Fox, I agree that trading Bledsoe immediately makes the most sense. If we draft Tatum, we may be in a similar spot with TJ. TJ may, in any event, be the piece on our roster that ultimately doesn't fit whether we draft Fox, Jackson, Isaac or Tatum. The respect in which TJ is most deficient, IMO, is playmaking. Offensively, he's one of those players who generally needs the ball on the move. He has elite finishing skills, and his versatility as a mid-range scorer is incredible. His defense is uneven - he has talented hands and instincts on the ball, but his conditioning has not always been the best, his footspeed is below average, and he can lose concentration (on both ends), actually.
If anyone would have benefited as much as or more than Booker from the addition of Lonzo, it was TJ. I think Lonzo's passing ability could have tapped into a lot more of TJ's potential than we've seen. But taking Fox is a move in the direction of the guard-oriented offense we've deployed with little success the last few years. Taking Tatum is a move toward a slow, deliberate approach that has typically only won titles for teams that were elite defensively as well as offensively. Neither suits TJ well, I think.
