At this point can we just wait for the draft? I'm starting to wonder if there is even any way to **** this up. Jalen Green? Probably one of the best scorers in the league within a few years Evan Mobley? Probably a DPOY waiting to happen, possibly an offensive weapon if he keeps working on those guard skills (which i personally wouldn't call advanced) Cade Cunningham? Probably a perennial all-star and possibly Top 10 player in the league some day. So can we really go wrong here? Even if we take Suggs, which i don't think we should - he might just become a top 20/15 player too which is what you'd be happy with in 9/10 drafts. At this point i think we all made clear which player we prefer, and i think every side has legitimate arguments. I'm coming around Mobley more and more to a point where i don't even care anymore who we pick. I just hope we develope that player right and build a good team around him.
Mobley has guard skills but he definitely doesn’t have advanced guard skills. If he did he’d be consensus number 1 and would be a Point Forward instead of a face up PF/C. Man doesn’t even have a goto move to get a bucket lol.
By the time it's all said and done, I believe there's a good chance Mobley equals or surpasses Woods best career season offensively, while at the same time earning DPOY honors. This of course means MVP and... titles!?!
Agreed, if it was only Chad Ford saying this we all should be skeptical but one thing Ford is good at doing is reading the tea leaves in the industry. Again, it's not just Ford saying this.
On my personal big board Mobley scores highest. Green is 2nd, I still want green…. sometimes your just infatuated.
I have to admit, I'd been mostly down on Mobley so far, not because anything he did but because of the diminished role the big man has in the modern game. https://www.nbabigboard.com/p/podcast-mock-draft-wryen-russillo This podcast did the most intelligent response to that sort of criticism, so my mind has been changed by it. Now I will be happy whoever we pick, and I'm really just as much on the fence as anyone else. Cade gives us a template for winning akin to Harden and Luka. But Green and Mobley BOTH have great scenarios to the upside, and significant scenarios to the downside as well. No matter what I think all three of these picks are #1 last year easily, and I might have preferred Cade over Zion even, just because I haven't seen a Barkley-like player carry his team to the championship in recent memory, and because Zion looks like he is about 2.5 seasons away, already, from going Antoine Walker/Bonzi Wells/Shawn Kemp on this league. And not in a good way. And this was something you could predict out of Duke with him, even. The immediate impact was always going to be huge, but long term he was always going to have the career arc of an NFL running back.
With the #2 pick you should always be willing to take a chance, make the risky pick and choose Mobley rather than a Green.
