Whether it is a case of recency bias over-reacting to an injury- and pandemic-inflected season or a case of defense chronically being undervalued, veteran Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart found himself drafted a spot later than he was initially in the 2014 NBA draft in a recent re-draft of his class.
Ahead of Smart in order of the re-draft by the staff of our sister site HoopsHype are Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, Zach LaVine, Clint Capela, Julius Randle, and Andrew Wiggins. We can agree that Jokic, Embiid, LaVine, and Randle all have excellent to respectable cases for being ahead of the Flower Mound native, but Capela and Wiggins have a less clear-cut case to be taken earlier.
Capela has the better case of the two with the former no. 1 pick still a mediocre defender at best who puts up big numbers but rarely makes winning plays.
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Given the high degree of subjectivity built into any such exercise, we’ll just take it as bulletin-board material for Smart heading into 2021-22.
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