Re: 2023 NBA Draft Discussion - Lakers Have Picks #17 and #40
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:19 pm
^if it’s one thing I trust within our organization, it’s the scouting department
hoosierdaddy34 wrote:Most of these teams but the Lakers especially trust their own private workouts with players over anything else. They want them in with coaches running nba stuff and see how they react to different things. JHS and (Jacquez a pick later) were guys that were reportedly killed their workouts with teams. So it didn’t matter if a guy like Whitmore fell, the Lakers believed this kid was the dude and they stuck with their process and made the pick.
Yeah, that's true. Whitmore probably didn't even work out with most of the teams that passed on him, that's why he probably fell. Since he was touted as a high lottery pick and all.
It's no coincidence that Houston got him eventually, after he was in consideration for as high as #4 according to sources(Hou also had #4). One of the few teams that did work him out.