"There is no more intriguing player in this NBA draft than Jimmer Fredette, the former Brigham Young star who averaged 28.9 points, led the nation in "Did-he-really-just-shoot-from-there?" swishes and was named The Associated Press national player of the year in 2011.

When the Charlotte Bobcatsat No.9 on Thursday, it's quite possible Fredette will be available. When they pick again at No.19, he likely will be gone. Most mock drafts have him going somewhere from No.7 to No.15.

So - given that this franchise already has suffered through the pain of the Adam Morrison Experience - would they take Jimmer?

Would you?

Unless the Bobcats are running a huge misdirection play, they won't. The team has shuttled about two dozen players through Charlotte for workouts. Fredette has not been among them and isn't on the schedule for the next few days, either.

A Bobcats source indicated that although the team knows it needs outside shooting, it is lukewarm at best toward the idea of drafting Fredette. The Bobcats already have a small point guard in D.J. Augustin and seem to favor bigger, longer players than Fredette (6-foot-2, 196 pounds) for that No. 9 slot.

The Morrison pick in 2006 came very early in Michael Jordan's watch as head of the team's basketball operations (he took over that role two weeks before the draft). It now stains his resume, although to be fair there were plenty of people inside and outside the organization who thought choosing 6-8 Morrison at No.3 overall was the right move.

Morrison has since washed out of the NBA entirely - his confidence shot, his defensive liabilities exposed. I can't imagine that Jordan, now the Bobcats owner, would want to take a player in Fredette who seems to have a similar skill set but is six inches shorter.

I don't think Fredette will turn into Morrison, since he's more grounded and a far better ballhandler. But he's not going to be a great NBA player, either. To compare him to a couple of other recent big-time college scorers, I think Fredette's NBA career will end up more like J.J. Redick than Stephen Curry.

Curry, the former Davidson star, has averaged 18 points and six assists as a starter at Golden State and may be an NBA all-star one day. Former Duke standout Redick has become a decent reserve for Orlando, playing about half of each game and averaging 10 points.

A few other opinions on Fredette:

From ESPN analyst and former college coach Fran Fraschilla: "Is he going to be Steve Nash or Steve Kerr? I'm going to lean toward Steve Kerr." Fraschilla went on to say Fredette would be a fine spot-up shooter for an NBA team but that he was concerned about Fredette's high turnover rate at Brigham Young."