Tyreke Evans. My reasoning: selfish, sloppy, poor outside shot, not as athletic as some say, character issues, can't be productive without the ball in his hands...
This is a guy who's upside is Larry Hughes and at one time, Jamal Crawford. His A/TO ratio is nearly 1, so he's not a good passer or a PG by any stretch. He's great at getting to the rim in isolation situations - but that worked really well for team chemistry when Ron and Salmons were here, right?
I'm just not high on this guy at all, wouldn't even take him with the 8th pick.
Its hard to say that a player is selfish when only judging him on one year of college. Neither you nor I nor anyone on the fourm knows what he was asked to do at Memphis. I have pointed out again and again that sometimes players are victim to the system they played in.
As Jerry Reynolds so aptly pointed out on the rise guys yesterday, both Jerry West and Oscar Robertson were SF's in college, and both switched to Point guard in the pro's. They both seemed to adjust pretty well. Yeah, I know, you could say that I talking about two of the all time greats. Well, they weren't at the time. They were both very good players coming out of college.
As far as Evans is concerned. I'm tired of people using the one size fits all comparison. Because he's the same height and length and has a similarly described game at this time as John Salmons, doesn't mean he's the next coming of John Salmons. Coming out of college he's a much better passer than Salmons. And If you don't think he can pass the ball then you haven't seen him play.
To say that he needs the ball in his hands to be effective is also a ridiculous critizism. So does Rubio, Nash, Kidd, etc. Who has the ball in his hands most of the time in Cleveland? Especially when the game is on the line. LeBron! Right? Its what they do with the ball that matters. Salmons has never had a proclivity to pass the ball. He also had a tendacy to overdribble while trying to make up his mind what to do with it.
Evans has a lot of talent. Whether that can molded into the type of player the Kings need, I can't answer. I can only guess. But I've stated before that I think he's one of the players in this draft that could be a star. A difference maker. If I'm wrong, I'm willing to eat crow. Yummie yummie