coolhandluke121 wrote:
Just because we wanted top picks doesn't mean we have to automatically anoint every top pick a future star.
As Tracy Lord (the original, not the porn star) said in
The Philadelphia Story, "With the rich and mighty always a little patience." Substitute
top three pick for
rich and mighty and you have the reason for forbearance here. If Jabari proves over time to be Marvin Williams-like in his underwhelmingness, I doubt that anyone would object to cutting him loose. The delta between what he would bring now and what he would bring then is less, in my view, than the distance on the probability distribution table between his floor as a player based on what he has done so far and what he might become if his development trajectory is more Kawhi Leonard-like.
In other less annoying words, I know you see holes in his game. We all do. However, we're not all afflicted with the confirmation bias that comes with defending an initial impression the expression of which accounts for most of my own posts and half of everybody else's. I'm glad Bob Cousy suffered from it when he refused to change his low opinion of Oscar Robertson and let the Bucks have him. We all suffer from it at times. It's hard to see and hard to shake.
The quote erroneously attributed to John Maynard Keynes -- "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" -- applies here. Let's wait and see if those facts change.
"The Bucks in six always. That's for the culture." -- B. Jennings
