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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 4693545, member: 1674"] These were two of probably my five least favorite picks of the first round (not the worst though, that was reserved for Jett Howard by a mile). I'm not really sold on Coulibaly being a high ceiling guy. He's a good athlete in general, but once the ball is in his hands, he's pretty stiff and just undynamic. Doesn't seem to have a good feel for the game either. Doesn't project as a good shooter either. You never know how 18 year olds are going to develop, and on top of being 18, he's also grown like a foot in the last two years so maybe he's just figuring out how his body works, but I just don't like drafting guys as unproductive/passive as he was on Wemby's team. He was in the 20s on my board and I think there were a handful of similar wings that I would have taken ahead of him. The guys I would have taken in the Wizards' shoes are not similar to Coulibaly; I would have gone with Jarace Walker, Gradey Dick, or Cason Wallace personally. As mentioned in my post about Andre Jackson, I'm relatively low on Ausar. Still a late lottery prospect though so it could have been worse. I do not understand how Orlando landed on Jett Howard. He's a worse shooter than Gradey Dick and Jordan Hawkins and worse at everything else too. I just do not see that at all; I don't even think I had Howard in my top 30. I don't love Derrick Lively, but Dallas did a great job with their trades and addressed some important needs IMO. I'm not really sold on Jalen Pickett's game translating to the NBA, but I loved watching him and think he's a fun fit in Denver and Julian Strawther was one of the guys that I thought should be getting 1st round love, so it was cool to see a team I consider to be very smart "reach" on him there. San Antonio is obviously the biggest winner of the draft though. Wemby was by far the best prospect and Sidy Cissoko is IMO a better prospect than Bilal Coulibaly while trying to address the same kind of mold. [/QUOTE]

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