In last year’s draft, the Sacramento Kings selected Willie Cauley-Stein with the sixth overall selection. The Kings were trying to improve their defense because the year before they gave up 105 points per game (28th in the NBA).
It made sense to take Cauley-Stein because his defense was what made him successful at Kentucky. The problem came when it started to become more and more clear that the NBA didn’t rely on the big man who can only do defensive things.
But the constant comparisons to a game-changing defender like Tyson Chandler kept Cauley-Stein on many teams’ radar including Sacramento’s.