To be fair, we got that for pick 4, not pick 6. By the time of the draft, the 2020 first rounder tied to GWS had no bearing on our selection at pick 6. We already had it in the bag.
Is McAsey worth pick six? I don't know. But he is reportedly the best KPP in the draft, so if we wanted a KPP, he was the one to pick.
The only real question is, could we have traded backwards and still got him? No point giving up pick 6 for McAsey if we could have gotten him later. That article seems to indicate that he wasn't going to last past pick 8. Perhaps we could have traded pick 6 for pick 8 and some spare change, but I can't see why Freo would do that given that they also owned pick 7 and weren't interested in McAsey, so their selections would have been identical.
Is McAsey worth pick six? I don't know. But he is reportedly the best KPP in the draft, so if we wanted a KPP, he was the one to pick.
The only real question is, could we have traded backwards and still got him? No point giving up pick 6 for McAsey if we could have gotten him later. That article seems to indicate that he wasn't going to last past pick 8. Perhaps we could have traded pick 6 for pick 8 and some spare change, but I can't see why Freo would do that given that they also owned pick 7 and weren't interested in McAsey, so their selections would have been identical.