Modsdontlikeme wrote:Dominater wrote:For whatever reason, prospects and unproven guys are WAYYYY too overrated these days. I semi understand not wanting to give a top prospect for Paul George because hes such a huge threat to leave after 1 year. But guys like Butler and Kyrie?? i can guarandamntee that Josh jackson will NOT be as good as either one of these guys
You sound like a fool. You cant guarantee anything... you crisiticze someone's judgement and then make a ridiculous assertion in the same sentence.
During the Butler trade rumors someone did a graph of players drafted in the 2-5 range (since the rumors were a pick in that range for him) over the last 10 years from 2005-2015, leaving out 16 due to not enough evaluation yet. Out of 40 players, only 5 were hands down better than Butler and 1 arguably better. Even if we count that as 6, by my math that is a 15% chance that a 2-5 pick will end up being better than Butler. Paul George and Kurkewich are in the same tier as Butler, and Kylie is also younger than the other 2.
When you add in Cousins who was recently dealt, that's 4 proven all-stars who I've seen fans on here left and right talk about how they aren't worth a top 5 prospect. That's just Ludacris imo. Guys like Josh Jackson haven't proven a damn thing in this league, and isn't regarded as a Lebron/Duncan/Shaq type of prospect. Hell, not many consider him a...............Kyrie level prospect.
Let's see, a 25 year old proven yearly all-star and boarderline superstar, or an unproven 19 year old that may or may not be good??? I would go with the former. But for some reason lately it seems everybody is scouffing at the proven all-star and getting major hard-ons over potential instead.
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