re: I’ve noticed that Ochai Agbaji is not a popular candidate on this board

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And one thing that contradicts itself is the board all agrees our window is the next 3-5 years, why would you not want someone who can come in and contribute pretty soon compared to developmental guys that may not pan out.

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I’ve addressed this before. If we believe that we are going to be consistently making the playoffs for the next few years, then this is going to be our highest pick for a while. You can find bench contributors and rotation guys throughout the draft and in FA. It’s much harder to get high-end starters/finishing 5 players. The guy we take in this draft either needs to have the potential to be a finishing 5 player to replace someone who might leave in a few years when the roster gets expensive or be valuable enough to be a trade piece that helps us get that last guy that pushes us over the top. It’s why a lot of us were banging the drum for Sharpe so much because he could be that guy.

I don’t view Agbaji as that guy. I don’t think in 3 years from now we are going to be saying “man if we could have just upgraded our 8th best player with Agbaji we could have gone far.” So if he’s not that guy, then why not take a swing with someone like Daniels or Sochan who maybe could be?

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And one thing that contradicts itself is the board all agrees our window is the next 3-5 years

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3-5 years? How old do you think Zion/BI are?