Certainly, on that list, Bol, Reddish and Little are the big dissaponments. Pre-season, they accounted for most people’s top 5, with Barrett and Zion.
Morant has at least emerged to make it more of a 1 player draft with 2 consolation prizes.
But it has been a very strange year for picks 4-14 in the lottery. You could talk me in to just about anyone in that range, within reason.
I'd add Grant Williams to that group (EDIT: to be clear, the "consolation prizes" group including Morant and RJ), personally. He's regularly mentioned as a top Wooden Award contender alongside Zion and RJ, and he doesn't suffer from the same questionmarks about age and athleticism that often prevent top NCAA upperclassmen from going top-5, so I'm not sure what's holding him back on draft boards. He would be a culture-changing guy for the Cavs on both ends of the court.
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