I apologize in advance for any grammatical errors. I am not the best writer (math major).
So here is how i take a look at drafting players especially at that level (20th pick). Lets see you see this girl on campus in first year and you talk to her and she happens to be a really good catch and you know that if you just get a chance to ask her out you guys would make the perfect pairing. Well not being a douche (real man) you wait and you wait... but she never seems to be single for longer than a day or two (like Tyler Ennis) for you to get a chance to truly ask her out for coffee.
So now what do you do? Well lets say you go to a school that has a lot of cute girls. These girls are decent but you know that truly none have the potential to be as good as the other girl. The marginal utility they will bring you will be at max (7/10) but it will never get better. In your mind you are content but you are always looking at what could have been. Then you see this new girl walk by and she is really really fine and you take a look. Upon closer inspection and after getting to know her you realize that she has the potential to be just as good as the original girl or better but she has less dating experience than the others. Meaning maturity wise you may have to be a bit more patient than you would with others. If you take the chance on her though, it could work out and the max utility level that this girl could yield you on your life could be (9/10-10/10).
So who do you pick the band-aid but decent solutions or do you go for broke for the girl who could potentially be way better for you in the long run even though you have to put some more work in by waiting a bit for her while you date her and she matures?
I am curious what other people think. I, personally, am of the mindset that you always go for the one who could potentially give you the biggest yield or upside or whatever. Even if it takes longer. At the end of the day its a gambling thing and with the draft at the 20th level your not going to pick up someone as good as the top people with regards to immediate skill so you may as well swing for the fences.
I admit I laughed out loud and was stunned when the pick came out last night. The kid (Bruno) is 18 years old, 6ft9 with a 7ft6.75 wing span and he is only going to grow. He is going to spend the summer working out with the team. We have a team that is already in the playoffs so the kid will have to fight to make an impact in his first year, but bottom line he will be given a chance. Apparently he wants to learn and wants to get better. He has the time to do it. I say people should reserve judgement until we see more of this guy. He could be the next Peja for all we know. Masai didn't "throw away" a pick he made a judgement call and is standing by it.
At the end of the day we aren't trying to build a team that can make it to playoffs or make it into the 2nd round or the conference championship. We are building a championship contending team. Some of these things take time. We have a team that will be making the playoffs and giving our young core of players good experience that is needed to move forward in the future. We have the time to build from within and build strongly so yeah you have to without a sliver of doubt take someone with the best potential given where we are.
It shows Masai doesn't want to move back and tank just to try to have a chance to get someone good. It means that we move forward and get better with the people we have and we win. By winning we can later attract free agents and do so with out having to trade or draft. I think what we are trying to do is follow a Spurs model not by drafting europeans but by building a winning strong team family culture and letting the rest take care of itself. This is a pick that wasn't made so we can stash some guy for a year or two but rather it was made to get an impact guy who could potentially be really really good some day (possibly sooner than we think).
Lastly, quit complaining that there wasn't enough scouting on the guy. That is a good thing. Besides we did scout him apparently 3 times plus one with coach casey recently. Spurs scouted him as well enough said. If we let all our potential moves out then people will copy us or take what we have if they have the chance. Ujiri scouted Giannis apparently and it got out and he wasn't able to draft him. He learned from his mistake. As for Wiggins... he will come home no doubt about it just may take some time.
So here is how i take a look at drafting players especially at that level (20th pick). Lets see you see this girl on campus in first year and you talk to her and she happens to be a really good catch and you know that if you just get a chance to ask her out you guys would make the perfect pairing. Well not being a douche (real man) you wait and you wait... but she never seems to be single for longer than a day or two (like Tyler Ennis) for you to get a chance to truly ask her out for coffee.
So now what do you do? Well lets say you go to a school that has a lot of cute girls. These girls are decent but you know that truly none have the potential to be as good as the other girl. The marginal utility they will bring you will be at max (7/10) but it will never get better. In your mind you are content but you are always looking at what could have been. Then you see this new girl walk by and she is really really fine and you take a look. Upon closer inspection and after getting to know her you realize that she has the potential to be just as good as the original girl or better but she has less dating experience than the others. Meaning maturity wise you may have to be a bit more patient than you would with others. If you take the chance on her though, it could work out and the max utility level that this girl could yield you on your life could be (9/10-10/10).
So who do you pick the band-aid but decent solutions or do you go for broke for the girl who could potentially be way better for you in the long run even though you have to put some more work in by waiting a bit for her while you date her and she matures?
I am curious what other people think. I, personally, am of the mindset that you always go for the one who could potentially give you the biggest yield or upside or whatever. Even if it takes longer. At the end of the day its a gambling thing and with the draft at the 20th level your not going to pick up someone as good as the top people with regards to immediate skill so you may as well swing for the fences.
I admit I laughed out loud and was stunned when the pick came out last night. The kid (Bruno) is 18 years old, 6ft9 with a 7ft6.75 wing span and he is only going to grow. He is going to spend the summer working out with the team. We have a team that is already in the playoffs so the kid will have to fight to make an impact in his first year, but bottom line he will be given a chance. Apparently he wants to learn and wants to get better. He has the time to do it. I say people should reserve judgement until we see more of this guy. He could be the next Peja for all we know. Masai didn't "throw away" a pick he made a judgement call and is standing by it.
At the end of the day we aren't trying to build a team that can make it to playoffs or make it into the 2nd round or the conference championship. We are building a championship contending team. Some of these things take time. We have a team that will be making the playoffs and giving our young core of players good experience that is needed to move forward in the future. We have the time to build from within and build strongly so yeah you have to without a sliver of doubt take someone with the best potential given where we are.
It shows Masai doesn't want to move back and tank just to try to have a chance to get someone good. It means that we move forward and get better with the people we have and we win. By winning we can later attract free agents and do so with out having to trade or draft. I think what we are trying to do is follow a Spurs model not by drafting europeans but by building a winning strong team family culture and letting the rest take care of itself. This is a pick that wasn't made so we can stash some guy for a year or two but rather it was made to get an impact guy who could potentially be really really good some day (possibly sooner than we think).
Lastly, quit complaining that there wasn't enough scouting on the guy. That is a good thing. Besides we did scout him apparently 3 times plus one with coach casey recently. Spurs scouted him as well enough said. If we let all our potential moves out then people will copy us or take what we have if they have the chance. Ujiri scouted Giannis apparently and it got out and he wasn't able to draft him. He learned from his mistake. As for Wiggins... he will come home no doubt about it just may take some time.
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