When is Frank Jackson going to be active

Everybody wants.
Good luck with finding minutes in the GLeague Frank.

When you see him play, it will be in the G League. Hope you are not expecting him to get real minutes on the actual team

I think Moore is playing well enough that you have to wonder where a guy like Jackson gets minutes down the line. Presumably you'll have Rondo or another starting PG meaning he's a 4th guard at best long term. His prospects are different if you plan to trade Moore, but what can you realistically get for him? It's not like Washington would trade Porter for say Moore/Asik or even Moore/Asik/1st. The teams with a clear starting SF upgrade won't trade them for spare or future parts.

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Hope you are not expecting him to get real minutes on the actual team

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while i don't expect a 2nd round pick to get quality minutes as a rookie, it's not like it's something that never happens, and it's not crazy to have expectations of a guy you rated as a 1st round pick, that you got with the 31st overall pick after paying cash and your later 2nd round pick to move up to get, to be able to contribute fairly quickly.

Can we for once, outside of DWest/CP3/AD/Rivers have a guy we draft in the last 15 years actually be able to contribute in any year, yet alone his first year?
Just looking at this year, Dillon Brooks, Frank Mason, Juwan Evans, Dwayne Bacon, Sindarius Thornwell, Jordan Bell, Semi Ojeyele, are all giving their teams 14+ minutes a game, and they were all 2nd round picks, and there's a host of undrafted guys as well that are giving quality minutes to teams as well.

We can't even get Diallo quality minutes.
Kyle Kuzma went 4 picks before Jackson and he looks awesome.

We've made 2 picks in the last 5 years. What do we have to show for the other 8 picks? $25M Jrue, about to be $30M Cousins, $11M Asik instead of Rolo, cash. I will say that having Jrue and Cousins is likely better than the 4 picks we would have used instead of them, and i have no issues with those deals, but it sure would be nice to actually have a 2nd round pick, or acquire a late first from someone, and actually groom a guy into a contributor. The lack of backup bigs on this team right now could easily be solved by finding one in the 2nd round in any of the last 3 or 4 drafts.

I really like Charles Cooke. He's got the tools, confidence and physicality to be a good defender. Unless he's just dumb I really expect him to be in the rotation next year replacing someone like Tony Allen.

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however they didn't draft a back up big they drafted a tweener guard with a broken foot

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I'm talking about the last few years.
You know in 2014, our 2nd round pick that we traded for some crap money move, was the pick before Jokic? that would have been nice.

and last years 2nd round picks were litered with centers, and we traded two of those picks to move up to grab a PF/C who still has no idea how to play the game of basketball and is too small to play C. Granted most of those centers in the 2nd round last year have not done much, but the point is, when you trade away picks to move up in the 2nd round to grab a guy, you better have a real good feeling that this guy is going to contribute at some point. Trading the 39 and 40 pick to get to the 34th, or whatever Diallo was drafted at, just seems really stupid. The liklihood of a 2nd round pick working out isn't that high, so why lower your chances?

It is rare for a.Freshman.

I have done the research on this and have educated people on this dozens of times: underclassmen second round fnpicks do not play for playoff teams. End of story

If they had taken an upperclassmen like I have suggested the past two years, they could have a rotation player. Guys like Brogden and Bell can play for playoff teams.

Underclassmen don't. And that's why Brogden and Bell were listed as guys we should take in my articles the last two years -- Diallo and Jackson we're not

History speaks clearly on this

I dont disagree with any of that. It's just frustrating that we NEVER find guys in the draft, either b/c we don't have the pick, or the pick didn't turn out.

I mean, you need picks to find guys and we never have those.

Diallo could be good but I think this staff has already ruined him

I believe in Jackson in a Fitch offense if both are still here in 2-3 years

BTW - the guy they actually wanted? Derrick White

I am 100% in agreement with what you said in that article.
The fact remains, we gave up assets to move up to draft these two guys. You better be right when you do that, at least be right half the time.
We literally have no backup 4 or 5 and Diallo can't find minutes. He has about as much trade value as Asik at this point.