re: Sharpe cancelled his Pelicans workout with us

I’m less sold on Sharpe than I was 2 weeks ago, but I do feel like this is another case of people interpreting things in the direction of the way they were already biased toward.

98% of teams picking in the top 6ish range are not looking for a guy to just be another guy, they want them to be a franchise cornerstone and prospects are almost certainly trained to interview in that direction to show teams they have the confidence and understanding of what they can do to be that guy. I.E. they want cocky and alpha attitude. I mean we ate it up with Zion. Chet’s doing it now.

And if I had a gun to my head I suspect the cancellation has to do with a guarantee from another team and Sharpe’s advisors telling him not to go do anything that could perhaps cause that team to second guess themselves.

All that said, this close to the draft and I’m honestly not sure what I want us to do this year. There really isn’t that player that is jumping out at me personally as that guy I want that can be a long term 3rd foundational piece, though I’m sure someone in the 8-15 range is going to hit from this draft, but a lot of the 6-10 consensus range is feeling eerily like 2019. Where you had all these lower ceiling, high upside guys like Jax, Rui, Culver, Coby White, Reddish, but in hindsight ended up being one of the weakest sections of the draft. Where the next three players have outplayed the 5 guys drafted before, but were seen as lower ceiling but higher floor guys. Then 20-30 was a treasure trove of high value unheralded guys that have made major impacts as role players.

Cause it’s really not difficult to imagine a world where Dyson Daniels, Sharpe, Griffin, even Mathurin end up being thought of below any number of higher floor guys that aren’t exactly tapped out ceiling wise either like Sochan, Duren, Branham, Williams, Ogbaji, or under scouted international guys like Jovic or Dieng.