2022 NBA Mock Draft 2.0: Who gets the star big men at the top?

This draft class is an opportunity for the Thunder to really pull their rebuild into focus and move forward with a much more complete and cohesive core. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Josh Giddey are special pieces and their size and versatility give the team a flexible foundation. Sochan only adds to that as a super-skilled two-way forward capable of filling multiple roles at both ends of the floor.

At 6-foot-9 with excellent athleticism, motor and defensive awareness, Sochan can defend multiple positions and is even comfortable playing as a small-ball 5. On offense, he can do pretty much everything but shoot at this point, creating with the ball in his hands, setting up his teammates, crashing the offensive glass, cutting hard off the ball and taking defensive rebounds and pushing the ball in transition himself. His creation overlaps a bit with Giddey but he’s a much more valuable off-ball threat and could be really dangerous as a screener in the pick-and-roll.

In short, Sochan can do a bit of everything and is malleable enough to help unlock a huge variety of lineups built around the rest of this roster.