if you're really going for upside...eventual-best-player-on-the team upside...I'm position agnostic. If you want a more likely contributor, go for a wing. If you are trying to find a guy who could lead the franchise...just go for pure talent and unusualness imo - ThreadSky

avi-wa.bsky.social • 7 days ago

if you're really going for upside...eventual-best-player-on-the team upside...I'm position agnostic.

If you want a more likely contributor, go for a wing.

If you are trying to find a guy who could lead the franchise...just go for pure talent and unusualness imo

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avi-wa.bsky.social•7 days ago

if you're looking at best players on recent championship teams...it's a diverse bunch

Tatum, Jokic, Steph, Giannis, LeBron, Kawhi, Steph again

Maybe it trends a *little* toward wings. but not much

acphila.bsky.social•7 days ago

All but two of those guys are wings and one of them had KD on the team lol. There’s always exceptions. But it’s like trying to find the next Greg Maddux

acphila.bsky.social•7 days ago

also I think that argument has been put to bed. Tatum isn’t a top 10 player but because of him and Brown the roster was so easy to build around.

avi-wa.bsky.social•7 days ago

i think there's two viable paths. 1) The Boston+OKC path of wing-overload with switching across the roster. (Don't think the Sixers can ever get here without *truly* blowing it up.)

or

2) Get an unusual, special talent at any position and build around that guy while buffering his weaknesses

acphila.bsky.social•7 days ago

i just think the Boston OKC path is more replicable. The other way you need to not just hit on a pick, but they have to be a top 20 talent of all time. Also very true Steph won without KD as well he's the exception. Just like Olajuwon Jokic etc.

acphila.bsky.social•7 days ago

the other exception would be Tim Duncan I guess.

avi-wa.bsky.social•7 days ago

it's replicable...if you completely tear it down to the studs and get the ammo to draft and develop a ton of wings (some of whom will not pan out).

or you can let the Nets tear it down to the studs for you.

either way...it takes a *lot* of assets.

avi-wa.bsky.social•7 days ago

Giannis is basically a big on offense who does wing stuff in transition. if you were looking for prototypical wings you'd never draft him (which probably explains why Otto Porter Jr went 10 spots ahead of him. (also KD wasn't on the most recent Steph team to win)

acphila.bsky.social•7 days ago

I don’t agree with that Giannis is a wing. In a super end of game scenario he’d play like a rim runner but he ran a TON of half court PnRs

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