Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
You need to chill out about NAW. The vast majority of draft picks don't provide value for the team that drafted them, it's exceptionally rare that they do - we're lucky in that both Herb and Trey have done that. It's especially rare outside of the lottery, which NAW was.
NAW looks good now in Minnesota, but that's his 3rd team in his 5th season. He played almost 150 games as a Pelican and was hot garbage for that time. He had some flashes and many of us (including me!) believed in him but he was not putting it together. Eventually you have to cut your losses with someone who is not producing when they are on the court, unless you want a team filled with every coulda-been in the world. For ever NAW success story, there's a Diallo failure that you hung on to.
Sometimes guys need to be let go, bounce around the league a little, and get humbled and get experience before they can finally settle in. I'm glad that NAW has figured his game out but he wasn't doing that here. This is the first season of his career that he's produced a positive plus minus. Let's not get teary eyed.