Means he’s a rotation player instead of a first overall pick

Risacher last year: “Back in France I was super athletic, and now I’m just a regular dude”

Not a very promising thing for a first overall pick to say

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1gfsdo1/john_hollinger_zaccharie_risacher_back_in_france/

He’s a bust and it was fairly obvious from the beginning. Idk why 90% of the comments are rationalizing otherwise tbh.

Sorry my b!

Salaün’s been way, way more efficient

Sometimes coaches do things with reasoning behind it

Cuz he’s bad and they’re trying to win.

That really depends on your definition of a bust. If he was the 14th pick, you’re ok with this being the case. But the expectations of the 1st pick, even in a down year, you still can be a bust if you’re at best a rotational piece. Kwame Brown is widely considered a bust but he had a solid NBA career; he played for 12 years.

He’s looking like he could be a top 20 player next to an MVP, which is awesome

Reed was not more NBA ready lol I know folks said that about him pre-draft but nobody that watched him last year was like “yeah I was right.”

No, but there is obviously better picks in hindsight

But there were players that had a much higher upside, even if their floor was lower than in a normal draft.

Risacher just never seemed to have potential to be more than a 4th/5th starter, and before the Hawks’ interest was leaked, he was always seen as a borderline top-10 guy.

He’s a 6’9 wing who could eventually defend and develop a shot, with no self creation or playmaking upside. His best case scenario is the Warriors version of Harrison Barnes, and at that point trading back to 8 or 9 (because even if they could not get a huge haul, I’m sure someone would have given up a decent asset to move up for Sarr) is a much more valuable use of the #1 pick

There’s been a lot of people trying to portray the draft as actually good, like they’re rebelling against “the media” for calling it garbage through the whole build up. It’s very silly, refusing to accept that maybe all the experts calling it bad were just right and it’s no deeper than that. Yeah Atlanta could have done better, but at the end of the day there were no great picks at the time and even in hindsight the draft still looks underwhelming

And he doesn’t look like the right pick at all.

And after an underwhelming rookie season for a 1st overall pick he continues to look like a bust

I mean he was first on mock drafts for like the whole year but you’re right not head and shoulders above everyone but he also does fill more of a need than risacher. They continue to utilize him for like 25 mpg but sarr would be getting legit run rn cause okongwu is too undersized

Neither was Rissacher so why not just grab Sarr instead. Sure he wanted to go to the Wizards instead but not like rookies can choose.

Tbh it’s been turning out pretty well for him so far. He probably wouldn’t develop as well in Atlanta or a team that’s actually trying to win

He wanted to play with his French buddy Bilal

Cavs with Goodyear were the best, just looked like part of the jersey, especially bc they let us blend the color with it

Don’t draft #1 overall if you aren’t willing to put up with 2 years of development. Sarr was right to dodge them.

Hes bad because he doesnt get the chance to grow, since hes been drafted hes forced to be a 3&D guy who occasionally gets a freedome to run a fast break, go look at his minutes and watch an actual game.

Quinn has him on a leash by any marginal mistake he gets janked as if the Hawks were a championship or bust team.

I have watched a bunch of Hawks game last year and this year and the only thing i dont like about him is from afar it looks like he didnt work on his body. He only worked on his 3 which tbh always looked good as far as mechanics…

Zach development has been stuck it doesnt help that Jalen has finally blossomed whiles Trae an all star lvl pg who can only play with the ball hinders his growth, dont forget Nickeil and Dyson who got payed and need the ball. Porz isnt even playing full time yet.

But people wont add any context and dump him as been shit and im not even a Hawks fan.

and that entire organization is probably still very mad over the sarr drama

they didn’t even want risacher

This post shows him as mid young player rather than bad aside from his drtg, which can be explained (to some extent) by some of his teammates being dogshit defenders.

Not saying he’s great but to some extent it is a negative feedback loop. Guy doesn’t look too promising, coach gives him fewer mins, the guy gets less confident and less reps, etc.

You’re forgetting McCain, possibly Bub, Yves Missi, Dunn, Collier, Filipowski, Kolek Wells, Bona, Cam Spencer, Pelle Larsson

jaylen wells erasure is disgusting

Wait Tidjane is good now?

Clinton’s already one of the best defensive bigs in basketball and Risacher might not even get a 2nd contract w the Hawks lmao

I can’t see how Castle doesn’t go #1, at least from what we’ve seen so far.

Sarr, Sheppard, Castle, Clingan, Edey, Buzelis, Ware, Kolek, Mccain, Kyshawn, Tyson, Ajay Mitchell, Collier, Carrington, Filipowski

Yep, 15 sounds about right