Pacers select Joseph Young with 43rd pick
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The Indiana Pacers selected Oregon shooting guard Joseph Young with the No. 43 overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft on Thursday night.
Only 11 players in college basketball averaged more points than Young's 20.7 in a tough Pac-12 conference for a top-20 offense in the country. With deep range and a knack for getting his shot off quickly, even off the bounce, Young has one of the most impressive resumes for a scorer in the draft.
Scoring is exactly what the Pacers need. They finished 23rd in the NBA in offense last season, and even with a healthy Paul George a season earlier, they ranked just 22nd on that end.
Hurting Young's case is that he's a 182-pound shooting guard, and a senior to boot. With his limitations on defense and as a distributor, there's not a strong case to be made that he'll ever be a starter, but at No. 43, that's not exactly an earth-shattering revelation. One of the quickest penetrators in the country, the Pacers may have landed a microwave man for their second unit.
Or the next D-League scoring champ.