There has been plenty written over the years about the harms of the compulsion to compare NBA draft prospects to past and/or present players.
Most recently, Sean Deveney of The Sporting News described at length how these comparisons “...can go tragically wrong”, using the example of the Denver Nuggets drafting Nikoloz Tskitishvili on the assumption that he might become the next Dirk Nowitzki.
However, in the case of a player like Jordan Bell I’d argue that the comparisons are useful for fans insofar as they help us to more concretely imagine how a player without a traditional position might fit into the Warriors’ system — as Deveney describes, it’s a shortcut that allows us to project what the team might look like while we try to kill time during the offseason.