Whatever you make of Drew Gooden’s commentary and analysis, the former number four pick dishes out some occasional insights. Take Wednesday night’s win against the Orlando Magic. After Justin Kutcher enlightened us to the heavy heart Deni Avdija was playing with by giving us some backdrop on the importance of Yom HaShoah to Israelis/Jewish brethren, Drew served up the following nugget:
“Deni had high expectations coming in,” Gooden said. “There were folks talking about him possibly being a number 1 pick.”
Right, he was. And we believed those folks. Some of us did, anyway. “Shades of Luka Doncic,” we were told during the pre-draft process.