A top 10 pick in a very weak draft who might correspond to a 15-20-ish pick in most others... maybe you do for the right deal. There's no univeral rules that say you do or don't do that in all eternity, that's not good business. Every situation is different and you have to anlyse all the paramaters:
- Wemby and the (real) quick help he needs, not a prospect who might take 4 years to develop (or not).
- the quality of your roster (bad, outside of Wemby).
- The quality of the draft. Don't expect Dilly or Sheppard to come and kick ass, or maybe even start, from day 1, iff they ever do. Wish the kid the best but not sure Sarr crack top 5 at very best in most other drafts. "Mobile but raw rim protector" is a pretty low bar for #1 pcik. So imagine the rest of the pool.
- Giving top 5 pick money for 4 years to a kid who might a bench a bench guy at best.
- All the prospects you already have (Wesley, Branham, Sochan, Sidy) not to mention the "bargain bin" guys (Champ, Barlow, Mamu) who can also be consdered as guys to develop gving their little NBA experience...
- Two years of terrible sucking.
- The moves you could make. If you add one or two rooikies, obviously, that's playing time you can't give to experienced vets you could sign.
Now if you ask me if I'd like around the same roster than last year + one or two rookiees... Well that's another awful year in perspective...
Tre/Dilly/Wesley
Devin, Branham, Champ
Keldon/Sochan/Mamu/Sidy/Cedi?
Wemby/Zollins/Barlow/Bassey?
that's like 7 or 8 guys who have nothing to do here you'll have to gove time to hope they develop into something.