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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
And it also shows why drafting is tough.
I would have said you were crazy if you took Stutzle over Byfield in that draft at the time - Byfield looked to be that unicorn combination of size, speed, and skill.
Even the Turcotte pick...IIRC the prevailing sentiment at the time was how lucky the Kings were to have a center of Turcotte's calibre fall to them at 5.
I think for the Kings the issue has been more the post-drafting development. Guys like Turcotte, Byfield, Clarke, Vilardi, Kaliyev, all seemed to stall out development wise in that system. Sometimes it's more the development than it is the drafting.
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Agreed though I would say that
- The compelling part of Byfield was always his physical attributes but Stutzle was on the rise because of the pure skill. Byfield had been talked about for a few years for that draft, but Stutzle was the rising one.
- Turcotte the concern was, at the time, that he was a high floor, low ceiling player.
Easy with 20/20 of course.