Or maybe it just shows KPJ is really a shooting guard and best used off ball while Jalen is growing into a mini James Harden mixing playmaking and lethal scoring.
Stone has actually done a really good job, even without drafting he has found KPJ, KMJ, Tate and to a certain extent Matthews who I think has potential to be a 3 point shooting specialist journeyman for good teams. His worst draft picks have been Garuba, Tyty and Christopher.. Tyty and Christopher could both still turn out legit starters on a team in the future, they have ton's of talent. Now we add the draft picks and he hasn't really missed. Green, Jabari and Sengun are all potential cornerstones. Jabari could still be that guy, he is soo young to count him out of it. If those three pan out that's a playoff contender.
Stone agrees with you 10000%, especially since those two are connected to him for life being his two pack that broke him in as first time GM As much as Stone wants his KPJ experiment to work(which is alot), its 10x the feeling he has for the ones he drafted to jumpstart the rebuild, including now Smith
I think Stone deserves legitimate criticism for having too many projects at once without much vet presence. Green, Sengun, Jabari, KMJ and even KPJ should be surrounded by a quality vets akin to Conely Jr. This team has too many young projects like TyTy, Garuba and Josh playing at once leading to entire line ups of players still learning who they are in the league leading to discombobulated messes where players are constantly in wrong positions. The roster needs vets in those slots.
Still not sold on them being “franchise cornerstones”. Right now they look more like Jamal Crawford and Enes Kanter.
The plan always was to bring in the vets after the 23 draft (preserving cap space). He has built up a huge pool of young talent. He will bring in some reasonable vets and cull the herd this upcoming year. Vets or no, he needs to get a real NBA coach in here in the off-season at worst.
They are 20 years old. After a few seasons, they will look like Jokic and Curry. Jabari will look like Giannis with a 3 pt shot.
I mean that's the other extreme end. Here is where they most likely end up: A better Sabonis/Fox duo with Jabari being Bam who can shoot. And we if we nail this draft with Wemby or Scoot, that makes a potential dynastic core in my opinion. Will be in a similar situation where OkC was more than a decade ago when they had Durant, Harden and Westbrook but screwed it all up by trading Harden which led to Durant being like "I can't win with these fools and snaked his way to GSW
It was tongue in cheek, but those 3 will all be all-stars in my opinion. I think Sengun will be better than Sabonis but not as great as Jokic. I think Fox is the floor for a fully developed Green. I doubt Jabari will ever have the handles of Giannis, but should be a better shooter from outside and he has the frame to put on a lot of muscle (probably not Giannis or Lebron muscle, but plenty to become an all-star).
Totally get your point but can we please stop using kanter as a sengun comparison. Kanters career high in assists was 7, and he had more than 5 assists in 3 total games in his entire career. Sengun is already better than kanter ever was.
There is a ton of potential with Sengun/Green in the 2 man game with Tari and Bari being 3 & D players. The two already have chemistry. the future is bright. I would like to see a little more consistency with Green. He sandwiched a game where he looked like he had no business being in the NBA between two career nights. I don't expect him to have career nights all the time but I hope his off games look better than his abysmal Saturday night performance.
Jamal averaged 4.6 ppg 2.3 ast as a 20 yr old. Kanter averaged 7 pts 4 rebs when he was 20. Maybe you meant prime Crawford and Kanter which I think is pretty good performance for a bunch of 20 yr olds. They arent Jokic and Kobe but they still trending into multi all star players IMO..
