HiRez wrote:clyde21 wrote:makes more sense in our system than Mitchell but ugh
How does Davion Mitchell not "make sense in our system"? He shot 56% from 2 and 45% from 3, he's a very good passer, a good athlete who plays bigger than his listed size, plays tenacious defense, good motor and work ethic, and high BBIQ. By all accounts is more NBA-ready than most people in this draft. What about that isn't good for us? Now I'm not saying he can't be criticized (his FT% is the main one for me), but the guy appears to have a lot of things we need, and can plug into our system without blowing it up.
this Mitchell nonsense is getting tiresome. let me put it to **** bed once and for all.
first of all, based on all the evidence we have now, Mitchell's 44% from 3 this year has been the outlier, not that pattern. in the previous TWO years he shot 28% and 32% from 3 respectively, in total both years he shot 31% on 2.5 attempts per. to make it worse, he shoots 66% from the FT line for his career, which indicates poor shooting scalability again. not only that, his FT% got progressively worse every single year in the NCAA on higher volume...again, absolutely terrible for a 6-foot, almost 23-year-old guard, and a massive red flag when it comes to projecting him as a shooter/scorer at the next lvl.
so, the idea that he's surefire 40+% shooter from 3 point land is ridiculous. maybe he's that guy, maybe not. i'd say we have more evidence today that he's not vs. that he is.
as for his fit in our system...not the **** sure what 'high motor and work ethic' have to do with our system. i hope anyone we're drafting has a high motor and good work ethic, otherwise we shouldn't be drafting them. that has nothing to do with whether he fits in our system or not. on defense he's primarily a POA defender, nothing more. he's not very switchable and can only defend up a position (if that). that's why Giddey is a better fit for us defensively, because he's more switchable and can slide up or down a position, even tho he's not the POA defender Mitchell is...kinda like what Liv was for us coming off the bench.
also, Mitchell got most of his assists via breaking defenders down off the dribble top of the key for a drive+kick, which is fine, and there are spots for this offensively depending on the matchup, but that is not what we want to consistently do on offense, and on defense he doesn't project to be any type of legitimate spot-up shooter or cutter...neither does Giddey, but at the very least there is some versatility to Giddey on both sides of the court that this team has coveted previously (before Myers turned into a turd). because he's not a guy that's you're gonna want running actual offense for you outside a few off-bench minutes here and there unless you want to lose a lot of games. he most definitely doesn't have the creative juice that Giddey has.
really this talk about Mitchell in the lotto is just garbage, doesn't make any sense...everyone that is actually simping for us to draft a 23-year-old, 6 foot guard with who can't shoot **** FTs 7th or 14th should have their bball card revoked on the spot.
