re: Official: Pels select Herb Jones at 35.

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“Too many teams are going to pass because he’s a four-year player, because younger guys have more upside, because he wasn’t an unbelievable shooter,” Oats says. “But they’re all going to regret not taking him earlier. He is 100 percent going to play a long time in the NBA, because he’s going to be such a good teammate, do so many winning things, and there will always be a need for guys like that on championship teams. He’s a rotation guy on a playoff team right now, in my opinion.”

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“He just wins games, and he does it in all kinds of different ways. Every big game for us, he showed up,” Oats says. The Pelicans “are just getting a guy who absolutely impacts winning, who does all the little stuff, who is an unbelievable teammate, an elite defender, a switchable defender, a guy who can definitely guard one through four and, depending on the matchup, one through five. He’s a playmaker on offense who will make every teammate around him better. He was as good in pick-and-rolls as Kira Lewis was for us the year he became a lottery pick at point guard. And at times better, because he can see over everything. He can handle it, he’s got a high IQ, he finds the open man and he can really pass.”

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