Perhaps this is early, but he was absolutely the correct pick at third overall.
I guess I’ll be the bad guy here. Didn’t want to, but it’s not my call what others say.
I do think it’s too early. In fact, all the teams in the top five should at least be questioning their pick. I think to begin with you aren’t going to know what you have with a player after a full season, but I think we saw that all of the top five had struggles in certain respects this season that you wouldn’t expect out of a player picked that high. I said before the draft that the top was very watered down and these weren’t true top caliber players, and I think it’s looking more like that was correct. I think all of them had disappointing seasons.
Maybe it ends up the right pick. Maybe Dach ends up being the best player from the draft, but it’s too early to know and after the season all of these kids had, not only Dach, their teams should feel more uncertain about their pick than they would usually feel about a top five pick. I think we tend to make too much of how players compare to their peers picked in similar slots from the same draft after the draft. It doesn’t help your team win games to make these comparisons. At this point, it’s really only about if the player fulfills their draft slot and helps the team.
And before someone says, “Watch the game”, I did, and thought Dach played well. I also watched Kakko’s game and thought he played well. Pumping the tires of these guys performance as a response to your question at this point is missing the larger point. I think unfortunately a lot of posts above mine have done that.
