Jalen Hood-Schifino Discussion: Team Declining 3rd Year Option!

my whole presence in this thread has been about this point. we still have a higher hit rate than almost any other team over the past decade or so, imo.

i think our success spoiled us a bit to where we think max lewis not being good means we suck at talent evaluation.

now, i will say evidence is mounting that we suck at development.

 

I've honestly never thought we were great at developing guys overall. It's part of why I don't like the thought of blowing things up completely and starting from scratch.

 

the fan base also has zero patience for such things. everyone yelling for it would be yelling for the opposite like three days in.

 

Completely agree

 

Better be a good trade is all I'm going to say. We passed on combining him with Bamba and/or Beas for anything. Passed on better players in the draft. The DLO, JHS + pick(s) better really knock out it of the park

I've always liked taking NBA ready guys while we're in the win now mode, even if they have a lower ceiling. Your window might be closed by the time you get to that point anyway.

It isn't a good look though when we're touting this new development program and before November decide that he's not going to be part of it. That Bronny is the face of that. One of the 17th pick and one is the 55th pick.

Yeah, the word out there was that Cam and Kobe were who we liked. Were scared away from Cam because of injuries, ironic considering JHS and the spinal injury (maybe that's part of why we're ready to dump him). Scouts were higher on both of them though. Rob allegedly made the final call there.

I don't get from any of them why we weren't all in on Podz or Jacquez. It should have been a two horse race between them and we should've had 1000s of hours of tape on Jacquez because you can see him from the back window.

 

Rob has been astronomically bad in the margins.

 

We let Huff and Pippen Jr walk, who are much better than Castelton and JHS.
Yeah, our shiny new “developmental plan” has gotten off to a real rough start.
I’m not saying that either of those two are going to have great NBA careers, but it’s obvious to everyone that they both have looked much better than Castleton and JHS so far.