2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[mvossman]

If we guess right who the best player available is at #26, he´ll be a far better player than anyone we can sign/acquire via the TPE or TMLE. Since we won the championship the top 3 players available at #26:

2011: Butler, Bogdanovic, Parsons, (Thomas)
2012: Draymond, Middleton, Crowder (Satoransky)
2013: Gobert, Covington, Theis/Neto
2014: Jokic, Grant, Bogdanovic, (Clarkson, Dinwiddie, Joe Harris, Kyle Anderson)
2015: Harrell, Holmes, Richardson (Looney, Connaughton,Osman)
2016: Siakam, Murray, Brogdon (Zubac, Korkmaz)
2017: Kuzma, White, Brooks (Hart, Hartenstein)
2018: Brunson, Graham, Trent Jr. (Robinson)
2019: Poole, Porter Jr., Gafford (Claxton, Paschall)
2020: Bane, McDaniels, Maledon
2021: Dosunmu, tbd, tbd,

He´ll probably be the 2nd best player on the team, when Luka is 24.

This is wildly overstated.  Luka will be 24 next year.  Brunson and Dorian are better than over half these guys now, let alone in their rookie year.  And there is very little evidence this FO is capable to make that correct choice (which when narrowed down properly is probably less than 10 percent hit rate).

I'm not against using that pick to try to get some long term cheap value from the draft, but thinking we are going to get someone at 26 that is going to significantly contribute (especially a big) in their first year is wildly optimistic.