15. Dillon Brooks (Originally Picked 45th)

Box plus/minus is the internet's most accessible catch-all metric, and it loathes Dillon Brooks' career. Among the 1,001 players who've appeared in an NBA game since 2017-18, Brooks ranks 1,001st in wins over replacement player (the cumulative variant of box plus/minus).

Part of the issue is his way-below-average shooting, which is easy to understand. But this rank also illustrates the blind spot that box plus/minus and several other catch-all metrics have: a struggle to measure defensive impact.

Because Brooks' tenaciousness on the ball doesn't lead to a ton of individual counting stats, those metrics may make the mistake of thinking he isn't doing much. On the contrary, his willingness and ability to hound the opposition's best wing is part of why the Memphis Grizzlies are plus-0.6 points per 100 possessions when he plays compared to minus-3.2 when he isn't.

14. Jonathan Isaac (Originally Picked 6th)

At this point, taking Jonathan Isaac in the top half of a re-draft would be a legitimate risk. A torn ACL has kept him out for more than two full seasons. The last time we saw him play was in the bubble in August 2020.

There's no telling what Isaac look like when he returns in 2022-23. But if he plays as well as he did in his 34 appearances in 2019-20, he might launch himself into the top 10 of this group.

In only 28.8 minutes per game that season, Isaac averaged 2.3 blocks, 1.6 steals and 6.8 rebounds while shooting a respectable 34.0 percent from deep. Those are Andrei Kirilenko-like numbers, and that kind of defensive versatility can be a game-changer.

13. Josh Hart (Originally Picked 30th)

Before Josh Hart got traded to the Portland Trail Blazers this past season, the compliment on steadiness paid to Monte Morris probably could've applied to him as well. In his first four seasons, he averaged a solid 8.7 points, 5.4 rebounds, 1.5 threes and 0.9 steals in 26.0 minutes while shooting 34.8 percent from deep.

In Portland, after Damian Lillard had been shut down for the season, Hart showed an ability to scale up his game. He played 13 games for the Blazers, but that included a 44-point outburst and an average of 19.9 points per game.

12. Kyle Kuzma (Originally Picked 27th)

But he's made big strides in other aspects of his game over the last two seasons, particularly on defense.

For someone who looked like a volume-scoring, heat-check guy at the start of his career, Kuzma's development toward multipositional defense and strong rebounding is encouraging. Over the last two seasons, he's averaged 8.6 rebounds, 2.3 threes and 0.9 blocks per 75 possessions.

11. Lauri Markkanen (Originally Picked 7th)

For his first four seasons with the Chicago Bulls, Lauri Markkanen looked like something of a prototypical stretch big from the post-Dirk Nowitzki era. He averaged 15.6 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.2 threes while shooting 36.6 percent from deep, but he didn't offer much in the way of playmaking or defense.

Then the Cleveland Cavaliers acquired him in a sign-and-trade last summer and had the radical idea to start him on the wing, while Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen occupied the 4 and 5 spots. Markkanen more than survived in that lineup.

When he shared the floor with Mobley and Allen, Cleveland allowed only 103.2 points per 100 possessions, a mark that ranked in the 97th percentile leaguewide. Markkanen still doesn't really create for others, but his shooting and the recently discovered positional versatility make him a borderline top-10 pick here.