First pick of the draft(s) anyone?

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(12-06-2018, 12:20 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: One has to wonder if that has to do with the lack of scouts.

Glenn had been hurt a lot over the past 2 years. Price? I don't know what his deal is.

I think they identify good players, I think their philosophy in drafting them is more the problem.  You can look at Jefferson this year as an example: great athlete, high upside but low floor.  We made the same mistake with Akili Smith, Og and Fisher.   You add to that players we draft in the later rounds or UDFAs that have high floors (mentally - think Nickerson) but little if no adequate upside.

The disappointment for me is that they have overcome that tendency before (Whit, Vigil, Montoya, Walter, Reimers, Braham), but drifted into an overly speculative trend (if they have the talent but no brains - just draft them and we'll "coach them up")

I don't think it's a lack of scouts.   Every team has their chain of multi player fails.