This pick may not have a lot of staying power. With OKC’s financially motivated sacrifices of Aaron Wiggins, Isaiah Joe and, most recently, Lu Dort, the runway might be fully cleared for a Cason Wallace take-off. And it just so happens to be a perfectly timed showcase, considering this will be the last season on his rookie deal.<\/p>\n
In some ways, the word is already out on Wallace. After all, there’s only so far outside the spotlight a player can stray while regularly logging significant minutes on a heavyweight contender. Plus, Wallace just snagged an All-Defensive second team spot as a third-year pro this past season while leading the league in total deflections<\/a>.<\/p>\n It still seems like the collective has undersold his total package. While he can only show so much offense in a support role on such a stacked team, he did just blitz the Thunder’s playoff opponents to the tune of 48.4 percent three-point shooting. And in the 21 regular-season games where he logged 30-plus minutes, he tallied 78 assists against 34 turnovers.<\/p>\n Wallace might be too highly ranked to slot him any higher here, but he still deserved a top-10 spot. Folks know about his defense, but his offense is quietly creeping toward a full-fledged breakout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This pick may not have a lot of staying power. With OKC’s financially motivated sacrifices of Aaron Wiggins,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-814400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}