NBA Draft: Luka Doncic rises to first in 2018 NBA Redraft

The end of the 2018 NBA Draft first round was a rough one. Jacob Evans, Dzanan Musa and Omari Spellman went off the board with the final three picks of the round, and none of them look like an NBA player. The Golden State Warriors took an older prospect hoping to catch lightning in a bottle with their core, but Evans turned out to be borderline unplayable and he didn’t factor into their present or their future.

Instead in our redraft they pivot and take Josh Okogie, a player who hasn’t lived up to his potential yet but is certainly an NBA player. The Nigerian native and Georgia Tech star was originally taken 20th overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves, and he has been a defense-first (and only) wing for them since.

There are many things that Okogie is not, including a shooter (27.3 percent from deep), a scorer (7.3 points per game average) or a passer (1.3 assists per game). He answers the mirrored question emphatically, attacking opposing ball-handlers or denying the ball from his man off-ball. He averaged 1.7 career steals per-36 minutes, and even blocks a fair amount of shots too at 6’4″.

The shot has to improve for Okogie to earn a lucrative next contract, and there is no better place to improve that shot than with the Golden State Warriors. In our redraft, they get the chance to oversee his development on offense while allowing him to learn from the best in Draymond Green.