Given that guards from Kentucky typically have a high success rate, the LA Clippers could have done minimal research, examined examples like De’Aaron Fox and Devin Booker, then drafted Shai Gilgeous-Alexander with the 11th pick in the 2018 draft.
The very next pick is where the Clippers failed miserably, as they believed their backcourt for the future was set in stone with Gilgeous-Alexander and Jerome Robinson, a shooting guard from Boston College.
The Clippers must only be blamed to a certain degree for selecting Robinson, a major draft bust, in the lottery, as he averaged 20.7 points, 3.