Ochai Agbaji
Your number 14 selection: Ochai Agbaji. I’m not going to slow play this one, I don’t like the selection, which is more or less why I’ve been low key ignoring him in other pieces so far in the season preview. The first issue is that 3pt shooting is wildly overrated in the NBA. Not that it isn’t important, but being really, really good at it- great even- can still leave you struggling to find a role while yammering fools talk about how you ‘always need more shooting’ as if its some unique talent. Joe Harris led the league twice in 3pt %, and has posted 4 full seasons on good volume (350+ attempts) at > 41%, and he didn’t find a good rotation role until his age 26 season after he had been dumped by a pair of teams. Seth Curry is a 44% career 3pt shooter who didn’t find a role until he was 26, until his 5 team- and that team let him walk for a 1 year/2.8 million dollar deal. OK, so how about more direct comparisons. Ochai was a...