Toronto Raptors - Malachi Flynn (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)
In the recent history of the NBA Draft, the No. 29 pick has produced some viable rotation players – especially if you’re the San Antonio Spurs – but little in the way of true ‘home run’ selections. Malachi Flynn may not have been a home run, but he sure felt like a safe bet to be a contributor considering how he was the Mountain West Player of the Year.
That may well still be the case, but Flynn hasn’t shown it yet. Expected to be a heady, high character competitor in the same vein as fellow point guards Kyle Lowry and Fred VanVleet, Flynn has instead looked overwhelmed and uncertain in brief spurts of floor time in which he’s failed to assert himself.