Joel Brigham of Basketball Insiders has published a thought-provoking examination of why NBA teams so often make egregious mistakes on Draft Night.
He lists 7 reasons leading to errors of judgement, of which #3 (according to him) is drafting for size. In his list of busts selected for height alone, he names Jakob Poeltl of the Toronto Raptors. Wait…what?
There’s so much wrong here. To begin with, calling somebody a bust after his rookie season is woefully misguided. Our guy is 21 years young, and nowhere close to a finished product.