I respect people saying they're not sold in a vacuum but mock drafts who have Risacher sliding because he cooled down in the secod part of the season is terrible scouting and evaluation process. That's everything you shodln't do, evaluate a prospect player in the moment. Should he have stopped playing in 2024, he would be the consensus #1...
Meanwhile, same mock drafts keep Topic top 5 who stopped playing in 2024 after 2 terrible Euroleague outings because of a mysterious 4 week tuned month injury that suddenly got better lately afer his team was out of the Euroleague... And College players keep being evaluated upon their tounrament performances every year, while every pro scout and (good) GM will tell you the Tounament isn't that important in their evaluation and can be deceptive...
Risacher played the equivalent of 2 College seasons in one year, in pro, compe ive leagues, Put Castle, Dilly, Sheppard... in that position and they probably struggled a bit after 40 games too... It's all about potential. And if you don't like, fine. but you're betting on developing a player like Risacher so he built on that first part of the season (and what he's still showing). At least, that's something, and more than 2 or 3 Tournament games.