His protective consistency might stand to enhance, but upon entering the league, he might establish the currently refined components of his video game and bloom into a Cali - Jabari SmithJake Crandall/ USA TODAY NETWORK From the minute the Magic won the lotto to the minute I typed these words, I have believed the Orlando Magic would certainly pick Chet Holmgren with the first pick. He simply looks like the type that Jeff Weltman and John Hammond would build if they were building a player in NBA 2K. Holmgren's size, range and shot-blocking ability will likely render the Magic brass blind to his potential defects, starting with a build that makes Mo Bamba appear like the Incredible Hulk. While Holmgren is the gamer I anticipate them to take, he's not the player I always want them to take. That would certainly be Jabari Smith, who possess most of the exact same qualities that WeltHam drool over while being a far-less risky choice that Holmgren, in my eyes at the very least. Smith appears to be the most effective shooter in the draft, he could have the prospective to bloom into a number-one choice regardless of his limitations off the dribble and he has the protective versatility that is longed for throughout the league. For a group that has actually long had hopes of winning the lotto game and getting a possibility to choose a franchise-altering gamer, the Magic remain in a high-pressure and rather unenviable placement of determining between the safer pick and the benefit pick. They have actually waited a long time to be ready to make this selection and they can not afford to obtain it if the Magic do take Holmgren, and he has the ability to include mass and stand his ground in ways Bamba is yet to do, that extremely well could confirm to be the ideal pick. The bust-potential and injury threat that features that job appears like years of tension that must not be connected with the top pick in the draft Magic Jersey.