https://www.theplayerstribune.com/jahlil-okafor-on-your-radar/

There has been speculation that Cousins’ injury may lead New Orleans to sell at the deadline despite the team’s playoff positioning. However, Wojnarowski tweets that the team will look to acquire talent as the February 8 trade deadline nears.

This is from Hoops Rumors. It’s good for us if the Pelicans are buyers, rather than sellers. The more teams that will be buyers now the stronger the market for us to trade someone.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/jayson-tatum-1.html

Look at their numbers. Down to the measurables they are very similar, and their tape is comparable with Knox being the better athlete and Tatum being smoother. Knox is a sleeper in this class. Nobody around here was high on Tatum and personally I didn’t think the rebounding numbers would stick because I didn’t expect him to play the 4 as an NBA player and I also thought he wasn’t athletic enough to get past 3s. Turns out he’s an elite spot up shooter and plays positionless basketball in Boston. I also think Knox would be a good rebounder at the four and be an elite spot up shooter off KP and guard penetration. I’ve rated him highly from the beginning of the season and the turbulence at UK hasn’t done much to change my opinion, but that’s probably because I think Coach Kal is a joke.

With our 3 picks, we should be drafting two SFs and a PG (Troy Brown, Mika Bridges, Isaac Bonga, Jalen Brunson, Arnoldas Kulbolka, etc.) barring an obvious case of BPA

I really don’t think we should go into next year with Frank as our point guard of the future. Not because I don’t think he has the ability to play there full time, I just see him as a guard who is tall enough to play the two and smart/talented enough to add surplus value to a weak position in the league. Houston is running two point guard sets with CP3 and Harden and they happen to be excellent. We were great when we had Kidd and Felton together, and Hornacek won 48 games with Dragic and Bledsoe. Two point guard line-ups just make more sense, and Ntilikina has the height and length to make the situation work. This team’s path to becoming elite to build a defense around Ntilikina and Porzingis. Adding Jevon Carter and Kevin Knox to that equation gives us a potentially elite unit on that end for 7-10 years.

Perhaps more so than any position in the NBA, point guards are defined by their ability to excel in one particular situation: the pick and roll. While Trey Burke ranks well in both the number of possessions he used dribble off of ball screens and the rate at which he turned them into points, what is truly remarkable about his numbers in the two-man game is the degree to which he valued the ball. Turning it over on just 8.2% of his pick and roll possessions, Burke’s command of the ball makes him the only player with a single-digit turnover percentage.

Shane Larkin was also rated well in the PnR; from the same guy from draftexpress:

Shane Larkin’s value proposition at the next level is simple, he created more combined points on the pick and roll for himself and his teammates last season than any prospect in the country at 14.3 points per-game.

However, Larkin has a wingspan of 5’11 1/4″ and Burke’s is 6’5 1/2″. That’s a HUGE difference, especially on D but even on O as a finisher at the rim. He’s also a much higher usage player, so he has more upside if he can score reasonably efficiently (.540 TS% or higher?).