2012 NBA Redraft: How wrong we were in real time
By Corey Rausch
#15 Pick: Evan Fournier (Originally: Maurice Harkless)
We have exited the lottery but there are still some interesting prospects available for the Sixers at 15. Maurice Harkless was actually a solid pick but he never played for them as they traded him that summer as part of the ill-advised Andrew Bynum–Arron Afflalo–Dwight Howard–Andre Iguodala swap.
In favor of avoiding this trade again, I changed the pick hoping that would stop it from happening to the Sixers again. Landing Evan Fournier (and hopefully keeping him and the also-traded Nikola Vucevic) boosts the Philadelphia roster being built around Jrue Holiday and Evan Turner.
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Fournier provided a consistent scoring punch off the bench and makes it so the top three guards for this team all have a chance to run the offense with some degree of success. Specifically pairing him with Holiday makes up for any defensive limitations Fournier may have.
This is the calm before the storm as the Sixers are only a year away from truly committing to the Process and I am not certain any pick made here changes the course of that, or if it even should. That being said Fournier would have also grown into a popular player during the tanking years as he would have scored in bunches for a team not winning many games.
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