Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
We're still in the best player available mode. We do not have a C of the future right now completely locked down. Adams is good but he's not a superstar, and Jax is promising but he's still just promising. Mobley is by far the second best prospect in this class: if he's still on the board, you take him.
As for the idea that this has been a guards league... arguably 4 of the top 7 players in the NBA are bigs right now (AD, Jokic, Embiid, Giannis) and both MVP frontrunners (Jokic, Embiid) are currently bigs, and a bunch of the championship teams of the last decade have been made or defined at least in part by their bigs (Bosh, Duncan, Draymond, Lebron [playing PG in a way but guarding forwards on offense, he's 6'9, he's a big lmao]).
If the best player available is a big, you take a big. Mobley is special.