A West NBA exec cautions against drafting offense-only guards: “There’s never been a worse time to build around bad defensive guards. We see this time and time again, the flashiest offensive impact doesn’t end up winning the most. It ends up being Derrick White, Jrue Holiday, Alex Caruso”
“I think there’s never been a worse time to build around bad defensive guards,” a West executive said. “We see this time and time again – the flashiest offensive impact in the draft doesn’t necessarily end up winning the most.
“It ends up being, you know, Derrick White and Jrue Holiday and Alex Caruso, go down the list. And we kind of have proof of concept of this right now on the trade market. Trae Young was traded for basically nothing. … People fall in love with guards, and I know of a bunch of teams who are falling in love with Acuff right now.”