Reed wasn't the wrong pick at the time. Castle was not rated in a tier above. They made a call on two evenly rated players and it seems to be the wrong one. I don't think the pick itself was wrong with their process, the other guy just ended up being better. Only top pick they missed on clearly was Green over Mobley. Most of the national media had Mobley in a tier above Green and our organization pumped up Green to be the next Kobe. He was this 6-6 super athletic competitor with a 7 foot wingspan. In reality he is 6-4 on a good day with a +1 wingspan and a very low feel for the game. G League Ignite got Jalen drafted higher than he should have. The system sucked and that's why it was canned. I won't even consider missing on Barnes or Wagner. Mobley was viewed as in a tier of his own after Cade and the Rockets flubbed it. I was fooled by their messaging too at the time and felt it was more of a coin flip than it should have been. Mobley was the better prospect and now he's the better player. Amen/Jabari were very clearly viewed as BPA at the time. Some people had Jabari lower on the tier list but that's not how the pundits were viewing it. You cannot fault them for not taking Jalen Williams at #3. The only problem i have with those drafts is they attached themselves wayyy too closely to Paolo. I'm honestly shocked they didn't go all in to trade to #1 to get him. The Rockets went into a rebuild with a brand new FO and a very weak scouting department and it ****ed them to a certain extent. The thing that ****ed the organization the most is that they didn't get the PG package for James Harden that summer after the Clippers approached Morey first. Instead they ruined the future for Westbrook and now we are stuck in a new era with two dominant teams in the West and very few avenues for true contention for the next five years.
I see you are steadfast in your proclamation that Reed was the correct choice and can not be swayed. What do you see that 99% of the basketball community does not?
