If we get #3, and #4 and those picks don't pan out, Pierce is a scrub. I'm no draft savant, but this draft is really good.
They said they same about the 2014 draft. I heard phrases like 'can't miss draft', it'll be like the LBJ draft, and so on and so on.
Wiggins, Parker, Embiid, Gordon, Exum, Smart, Randle - those are your top 7. None except Embiid is the best player on their respective teams, and it took him 4 years to get on the court full time.
The draft is not an exact science. How many players drafted in the top 5 in the last 10 years have turned out to be franchise changers or even the 2nd best players on their respective team . 1 definitely 2 maybe. But you expect the Hawks drafting at 3 and 4 to be the ones that gets the 2 of the top 5 right?