unstopaball12 wrote:I don't get why they are not high on wiseman?
Take Wiseman's ceiling, then take his floor. Then look right smack dab in the middle. That's usually how most players pan out.
Can the Warriors find a guy in Tier 5 of free agency who can give them 70 percent of the same for 15 percent of the price? ( Basically a pivot who can't space the floor, can't pass and offers questionable rim protection)
The answer is Yes.
Let's say the Warriors take a wing, any wing prospect.
Can the Warriors find a wing in Tier 5 of free agency who can give them 70 percent of the same for 15 percent of the price?
The answer is No.
Big men are more injury prone, harder to use to switch on defense, tend to be poorer free throw shooters, tend to excel where game trends have been devalued ( rebounding) and usually, barring a few exceptions, clog up your floor spacing, ball movement, game flow/pace, transition offense and turnover differential in a league that has functionally neutered any kind of defense whatsoever.
You have a better chance at winning drafting a wing and mining FA for a cheap pivot than hoping for a 5 percent chance at a pivot breakout driving you into the tax zone while resting your hopes on bargain bin leftover wings that even overseas basketball teams don't want.
LeBron James decided to overpay Haslem, Varejao and Tristan Thompson. He also decided that aging Danny Green was worth 15 million a year. These dumbass decisions reset the marketplace. By caplocking the Heat with Mike Miller and Haslem's contracts, Spolestra was forced to turn Bosh into a small ball 5. Which he perfected with Bam Adebayo. Other teams saw it could work. The league was already trending towards devaluation of the big man, but LeGM kicked it up to turbo speed. The Decision also forced changes in the tax structure, how rookies are paid ( fucking over generations of NBA players to come), the sign and trade, the mid level exception and on and on and on. LeGM is also part of the toxic culture for coaches where high level college coaches want nothing to do with the NBA. He's a Nike employee who has fucked over the game on multiple levels, including positional value in the draft. It is staggering how badly LBJ has fucked over all those kids who have his poster on their walls now and will suffer the legacy that he gave the game. It's only Nike and the suits and networks that make him out to be some kind of balding basketball Gandhi. He's a dipshit fuckwit who should have stuck to peddling fast food pizza as a side hobby instead of trying to run the entire league into the ground. Do you see elite players rushing to play with this guy? A few have and then become cautionary tales. Individuals win sneaker sales, teams win championships. Well, they do when the refs, networks and shoe brands allow them.
If Wiseman was in the 88 draft, he'd be a future Hall Of Famer. If Ellen Page didn't smoke and live the life of a creepy tone deaf vegan feminist SJW wearing a little tux, I wouldn't have to stare at her airport runway sized forehead shrouded by the receding hairline of Prince William whenever I surf through Netflix. Life is about timing and choices.
