{"id":2483,"date":"2023-06-23T04:48:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T04:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:47:27","slug":"fan-react-to-wizards-selecting-bilal-coulibaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/23\/fan-react-to-wizards-selecting-bilal-coulibaly\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans React to Wizards Selecting Bilal Coulibaly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Washington Wizards may have <a href=\"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/22\/wizards-president-michael-winger-this-will-be-odd-nba-draft\/\">new energy in the front office<\/a> but they seem to still be full of surprises. After making several trades this week and stacking future draft picks, the Wizards put some of their return in use via a trade with the Indiana Pacers to get forward Bilal Coulibaly from France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to DC\u2026the Wizards receive Bilal Coulibaly from the Indiana Pacers. Coulibaly played alongside Victor Wembanyama in the French League. <br> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBADraft?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBADraft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gkJubNmdVN\">pic.twitter.com\/gkJubNmdVN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Double Take Sports (@dbltakesports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dbltakesports\/status\/1672050413720285191?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the most part, Coulibaly was a surprise pick. With the Wizards in need of a guard to replace Bradley Beal, most mock drafts had the Wizards selecting either Cason Wallace of Kentucky or Anthony Black from Arkansas.&nbsp;Black was taken off the board by the Orlando Magic with the sixth overall pick. It&#8217;s hard to tell if the Wizards pivoted their strategy with the Indiana&nbsp;trade or if Coulibaly was the guy they wanted all along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coulibaly played with No. 1 overall pick Victor Wembanyama on the Metropolitan 92s in France last season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/wizards\/news\/wizards-nba-draft-rookie-bilal-coulibaly-reminds-me-of-clyde-drexler-glenn-consor\">Coulibaly<\/a> who did not play much during the first half of the season but his stock began to rise on pre-Draft boards after he helped guide his team to the finals against Monaco.&nbsp;He also impressed scouts during individual workouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Draft experts are calling Coulibaly a \u201chigh risk, high reward\u201d player. He is physical and athletic but still very raw. However, Coulibaly has tremendous upside.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wizards were willing to take the risk and although there are mixed reactions from fans, most can see Coulibaly\u2019s future potential.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I still get Vesely flashbacks whenever we draft another Euro player in the first round&#8230;.but given that we&#39;re innit for the long haul, why not a guy with upside like him?<\/p>&mdash; Tim Blank-@Otakon2023 (@TheOtakuJock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtakuJock\/status\/1672052959171969028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coulibaly is one of the most interesting mixes of immense upside and raw, unrefined polish to enter the NBA Draft in a long time.<br><br>I don\u2019t think there is a prospect in this draft with a wider gap between what his floor and his ceiling. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBADraft?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBADraft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DCAboveAll?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DCAboveAll<\/a><\/p>&mdash; C\u029c\u1d1c\u1d04\u1d0b \u1d05\u1d0f\u1d1c\u0262\u029f\u1d00s \u272a (@ChuckDouglas_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckDouglas_\/status\/1672045205141241859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We just got the next Giannis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DCAboveAll?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DCAboveAll<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Big C (@bigcswagg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigcswagg\/status\/1672045878469689347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans react to the Wizards selecting France&#8217;s Bilal Coulibaly in the NBA Draft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wizards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bilal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}