re: Outside the top 4 in the draft who are the top 5 guys you want for this team?

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The problem with the comparisons people make for him is that its guys who beat the odds. For every 1 Mathews their are 1000s more who failed

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Now why does this logic not apply to Luwawu?? Even more so.

Hield has in fact proven himself. He is a good defender in college above the minimum threshold needed to succeed as a defender in the NBA with pretty much every intangible you want a player to have on the next level. You are right, that is no guarantee of success, many have failed.

Where things start to fall apart is that you then go on to pump up Luwawu, a guy with many more question marks, coming from a place where success has historically been a much worse gauge of transition success in the NBA. Speaking as if the latter is much more likely to succeed and excel then the former.