When looking at players to draft, NBA teams sometimes overthink things and, consequently, overlook or just plain pass on drafting very good basketball players. Reasons why NBA teams might overlook a player include the player not having the preferred height or size for the position they’ll likely play in the league, or maybe the player doesn’t seem to fit a team’s system, or, perhaps, a team doesn’t think a player’s college strengths will translate to the NBA level.
Before this season I didn’t pay much attention to Grant Williams, a now 20-year-old junior power forward for one of the country’s best teams in Tennessee.