My my my, what a world we live in that hot takes and exhaustively researched prediction models actually might not always (or often) be right.
Remember when Suns rookie GM James Jones was panned for doing very little college scouting? Remember how the whole Suns scouting department was laid off along with Ryan McDonough in the fall of 2018 and never replaced?
Remember how draft analysts, both professional and amateur, made fun of Jones’ comments that scouts don’t always have to sit year round in tiny, hot, remote gyms to find the best players, but that his small team’s scouting efforts would rely on a virtual scouting model of online research?