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It would be perfect timing. For a first pick, the choice is made around the best available potential. For a second, around the best player available. And this seems to me especially valid for contender teams. Are the Spurs now a playoff team?
The best possible comparison in my opinion would be the Lakers' choice last year of Konnect (I don't remember how it's spelled). Old, but the best player available capable of being immediately impactful.
Of course, last year, at pick 14, that was precisely where we expected Konnect, from memory. And even if Raynaud seems to be climbing in mocks, it still seems high.
The question that probably arises is not whether the Spurs would be interested. But if they are interested in another player at the time of the 14th pick.
I was the first lawyer to associate Victor with another Frenchman, like Sarr, like Salaün, even Yabusele. But Raynaud already seems better to me than Sarr and Salaün. In a healthy environment, an intelligent player will necessarily adapt much better. So he is already better, but in my opinion he still has room for improvement. While Sarr and Salaün operate among children's playgrounds or gang backyards, it could be that by combining two chess players the silver and black turns into a chessboard.
Regarding his defense, you shouldn't see everything through the blocks. I watched his last college games. He is very impressive vocally. How that would translate with other teammates remains to be seen, but when you have Sochan and Keldon Johnson, I guess it helps.
I would also be impatient to see Raynaud associated with Mamukelashvili.
Last anecdotal point. Raynaud sounds like Reynaud, Émile Reynaud, one of the inventors of cinema (he maded the first preserved cartoon, Pauvre Pierrot). Austin has the oldest known photograph, I can't wait to see Maxime Raynaud presenting a 'film' by Émile Reynaud at the Alamo Mission...
