Conventional wisdom says that the Philadelphia 76ers need backcourt help in a very bad way. Most of the attention to this team’s draft prospects has been spent on the many elite point guard prospects in the upcoming draft. Some of those options, like Markelle Fultz, are no-brainer fits, but will require a lot of lottery luck to attain. Other options, such as D’Aaron Fox are elite talents but poor fits with Ben Simmons.
Simmons is going to initiate the offense, so Bryan Colangelo is correct that stretch four is a position of need. With that context, let’s look deeper at an intriguing option in the 2017 draft to fill that role — Jonathan Isaac.