Continuing on with TI’s 2017 NBA Draft prospect series the next athlete is big man Mattias Lessort. If I’m sounding like a broken record here, my apologies, but Sam Presti simply isn’t going to waste his 21st pick on a big unless they check off multiple categories the team needs to improve upon. The fact Scott Howard-Cooper doesn’t even rank him among his top ten list in either power forwards or centers is extremely telling.
Although less tends to be known about international players Howard-Cooper is big on a couple of them, so that argument doesn’t exactly hold here.