My comparison to Cade is Kawhi with handles. I didnt watch alot of college basketball back then up into this year. Why did Kawhi get overlooked so much when his team was #2 and he's the primary scorer.
Take Chris Bosh aka Mobley Sign Olynyk Trade wood for a sg Porter Sg(obtained from tradeing wood) Tate/kjmartin Olynyk Mobley You know at the beginning of season I had high hopes for wood I thought we had a steal I thought he was a superstar in the making, but over the past three months I've seen a lot of red flags... The ankle twice, the pouty attitude regarding not getting enough plays, no touches,... Getting abused on the defensive end... No go to move.. contract up in 2 yrs I just don't think those problems will be fixed with wood.. kind of funny how he has been here for months and then Olynyk comes in on day one and plays better than him I also like cade.. if we get Cade then sign Olynyk as our center/pf and maybe keep wood. Basically I feel what we do with wood depends on how the draft ends up
I think scoring-wise, Cade has some similarities to modern day Kawhi. The pull-up mid range game, the ability to big body past defenders. I think Cade has more of a natural facilitator mindset, whereas Kawhi is more scorer/defender. Kawhi can definitely pass, but it usually comes after he's unable to get to his spot/past his man. Coming out of college Kawhi was labeled an undersized PF, defender/rebounder with scoring potential. He had perimeter skills, but they were question marks at the time. Definitely not a good shooter, but the pieces were there. People said he'd need to tighten his handle and improve his shooting to play SF and be a perimeter threat. Lo and behold, that's exactly what he did.
Alternative option: Do what you said, but just keep Wood. EGO is returning. I doubt we get better than him by trading Wood anyway..
I don't think you can go wrong during a tank season if you end up with Cunningham, Green, or Mobley. Lany any one of those 3 and it has to be considered a successful tank and draft.
If the guy we draft ends up having a career like John Wall's, will you all consider this as a successful tank? Real question.
DaVion Mitchell and Butler outplayed him in the finals. But I give Suggs credit for taking on the tough assignment of Johnny Juzang (UCLA) man to man. Where was the great Evan Mobley vs Timme? Oh that's right, USC was hiding the biggest man on the court for USC defensively. Isaiah Mobley had to anchor the middle. SF at best in the NBA. Thamba made Timme look pedestrian, unlike USC.
Juan Wall was an All NBA player at Guard in the Golden age of NBA guards. If you get an all NBA guy in the draft you've done well
Wow. That would be great if we could get a "Grant Hill" he was a superstar talent before the injuries
We shouldn't be relying on one draft pick to judge whether we have a successful tank but there is a danger our draft picks come up a bit underwhelming. Including this season's draft, we got a 3 season window to draft great players.
