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Originally Posted by Moneyball16
Good stuff, Dean.
I'm not complaining at all, but it's weird to see one of your big boards line up so well with the conventional wisdom. Is this a one off draft where you think the sites are getting it right or did you change something about your process?
A little bit of both.
I definitely have fewer polarizing takes this year than in 2014. It doesn't help that for the most part the top 10 justifies the hype and the rest of the draft is as uninteresting to me as it is to consensus. That leaves me with Lonzo = god as my only strong opinion plus some minor quibbles here and there.
The other thing is that I don't thoroughly analyze enough prospects to be able to accurately declare consensus way wrong more than a handful of times per draft. In 2014 I was all in on Wiggins being a fraud, but the goodness of that read is diluted by me being too aggressive on weaker reads that have proven less sharp. So I'm learning to more selectively call my big shots, and tone down my opinions that are mere hunches.
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Originally Posted by DB21
Dean, noticed Jonah Bolden didn't make that top 50, as an Aussie slappy I obv think they're all going to be good but it does seem like he's gone from UCLA to play overseas and expanded his game quite a bit, good athlete at 6'10 and shown NBA range, won the Adriatic league best young player of the year award too (last 4 winners include Zizic, Jokic, Saric). Feel like someone will take a swing on him somewhere in the draft (could def see late 1st, early 2nd given his tools)
Yeah I thought about slating him top 50 but I have a hard time ranking internationals with any accuracy. You'll notice he's in the group that just missed the cut, and for all I know I'm overrating him a decent bit.