FrightCoward wrote:zero rings wrote:WillyJakkz wrote:Damn I guess us Magic fans missed the opportunity to bump this post when Paolo hit the game winner vs CHI while OKC fans took advantage of Chet hitting the clutch game tying 3.
Said it during the draft and will say it again. I thought it was between Jabari and Chet and I wanted us to get Chet. Badly.
But once we picked Paolo and I saw that guy play vs NBA comp that dude is physical and is a beast, love him and glad we got him.
Having a Chet Franz lanky SF PF duo would've been nice but we still would've been searching for a 1A which Paolo is. You can give him the ball anywhere on the court and say go get a basket and he can. Chet currently is better served as a finisher than consistent creator which I believe what Franz is as well so it would've been offensively redundant as that means we'd be relying on Fultz mainly on offense and I completely hate that idea.
So in summary Paolo Chet and Jabari (who is really really good, too) are all in the right places for them to succeed.
I fail to see how being a number one scoring option matters if you stink in the role.
Kyle Kuzma is the number one option for the Wizards. We taking him over Chet too?
Great comparison. Wizards are 2-10 and at the bottom of the East while Orlando is 7-5 despite a bunch of injuries to key contributors. Also glad we’re comparing Paolo to a guy who has been in the league for years. We won’t know his ceiling until the end of his third season which is when most players make their biggest leap.
Paolo is similar to Kuz in that he's an inefficient volume scorer (53% TS) who makes his team considerably worse with him on the floor (-18.3 pts/100).
He wasn't even that good in college. Only reason the Magic took him was because they bought into the "Chet too skinny" meme and chickened out. Chet was clearly the best player in the draft.
