Don't care about his age at all, only if he can play. Same age as Reaves when we got him, sounds good to me.
Sooo.... 1. All-white backcourt dream is alive 2. I am going to HATE commentators butchering his name and saying "Connect" all year, Pau Kasol style It's must be "necht", isn't it, since it's German in origin and that "k" must be silent or near silent.
I can’t believe he fell all the way down to 17. I wasn’t even checking for him before because I assumed he’d be gone at 17. Amazing pick!!
I think he’s more of a 3, even if a little undersized, but I guess he could be a big SG. The reason I like this pick is because by all accounts we took the best player available. At 17 I think you take the best player available regardless of positional need and don’t look back. Last year I feel like we went positional and didn’t take Whitmore or Juaqez because we had those positions more filled in already, and it turned out bad so far. I don’t see anyone markedly better at least at this point in time than who we took. Da Silva or Holmes or Walter etc may end up better, but as of right now I feel like this was a super safe pick,
Love this pick! Great size, great shooting, some decent athletic ability. Now he needs to learn how to play some D. I find it funny that some consider his age a drawback- on our “win now” squad, it’s actually a bonus.
