I was super skeptical on him in the draft. It really felt like he was riding Wemby’s coat-tails and in reality he was mostly bad besides the final 7/8 games in the French league which does not translate many non-bigs to the NBA.
All that being said, he looks a lot more like the final stretch of the year (defensive pest and passable shooter) than the beginning. Wiz fans should be pumped. Why he’s left out of such a ranking is though somewhat explainable — he looks far along for a 19 year old who was supposed to be a major project, but there are a lot of rookies contributing in more immediate ways to winning teams.
In general, who cares if he’s not getting buzz? The point of a prospect is not media coverage it’s to contribute to a team in the long run which it seems like he’ll do
Blasphemy cause he does so many things well, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence this run has happened without Fultz.
Youre not missing his defense since the Magic are stacked at guard defensively. On offense Banchero/Franz are getting more shots per game (2 and 3 per game respectively w/out Fultz) + Suggs has been shooting very well so far. Black has been a work in progress but moving him to the starters has made the bench lineups having more shooting around Cole Anthon instead of Black.
Fultz is good but if they’re going to play Anthony Black (which they probably should), it’s very hard to balance three guards getting minutes who do not space the floor (Suggs likely not getting a ton of attention from defenses yet but could change that if he keeps it up)