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Memphis Grizzlies: Analyzing each of the top five draft spots

By Brendan Smart

NORMAN, OK - FEBRUARY 17: Oklahoma Sooners Guard Trae Young (11) dribbles past Texas Longhorns Center Mohamed Bamba (4) during a college basketball game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns on February 17, 2018, at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, OK. (Photo by David Stacy/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
NORMAN, OK - FEBRUARY 17: Oklahoma Sooners Guard Trae Young (11) dribbles past Texas Longhorns Center Mohamed Bamba (4) during a college basketball game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns on February 17, 2018, at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, OK. (Photo by David Stacy/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /
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On Tuesday, the Memphis Grizzlies will learn where they will draft their next big star, but right now we know it will be in the top five. So, our team took a look at each pick one through five and analyzed each player and who could be available.

We start out at number five, and with four days until the draft lottery, each day we will be bringing you an count down to number one, and we think Memphis would take first overall.

With the fifth pick in the 2018 NBA draft, your Memphis Grizzlies draft the 6’2 guard out of the University of Oklahoma, Trae Young. It is only right, because of the talent left on the board at five. I can argue that Young will be the best player in this draft. While, at five the Grizzlies will have to pick between a defensive stopper in Jarren Jackson and an injured Micheal Porter Jr.

It is not like the Grizzlies wont be licking their chops over all of these prospects, but Young is the best fit. Great basketball IQ, has range, and can be consistent on a good team, and is a playmaker. Imagine, Gasol gets the board, looks left Mike Conley being guarded, looks back right and there is someone just as good in Young. The Grizzlies could possibly flip their pace of play from one season to another dramatically with the addition of one guy.

Young could fit anywhere on this roster, and would make an instant impact, just like a lottery pick should. It shouldn’t take “years to develop” a guy to come out of the lottery, and in the Grizzlies now in “win now” mode, he would be perfect for now, and in the future.

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