Many writers and fans alike (myself included) gave the Indiana Pacers grief for drafting another center, Goga Bitadze, in the first round (Brandon Clarke might yet prove that assessment correct, but that’s another story). Indiana already had a very good player on a good contract in Myles Turner, and had Domantas Sabonis playing the backup 5 at a near 6th man of the year level. Taking a 3rd-string center when so many exciting prospects had fallen was … frustrating, to say the least.
This, of course, was all before Kevin Pritchard announced that the Pacers were (finally) going to start Turner and Sabonis together.