Draft recap
Again, I've said it before and you folks are going to really stop believing me, but I'm sincerely not a big NBA fan. Yet, oddly enough, I am fascinated by the league and, most importantly, the NBA Draft. So what can we come away with from this year's draft?
- Despite the overwhelming need for a point guard - highlighted by selecting unproven Marvin Williams over eventual NBA Rookie of the Year Chris Paul last season - the Atlanta Hawks picked power forward Sheldon Williams from Duke with the first pick and then power forward Solomon Jones from South Florida with their second pick. The rationale? General Manager Billy Knight (also known as the worst NBA executive not named 'Isiah Thomas') said he'd look to the free agent market for a point guard ... a market which includes Speedy Claxton and Bobby Jackson. Yep. That turnaround is right around the corner.
- Tons of trades. Many mind-boggling. Why would the TrailBlazers do an unnecessary trade to get LaMarcus Aldridge ... particularly when the Chicago Bulls wanted Tyrus Thomas all along?
- If anyone had a worse draft than the Hawks, it was the Knicks. Cementing his role as the underlord of professional basketball misery, Isiah Thomas passes on UConn's Marcus Williams, arguably the best point guard in the draft (who was amazingly available at the 20th pick), to take South Carolina's Renaldo Blackmon. Then, with their second first-round pick, the Knicks tab Mardy Collins ... a point guard. Not only is it laughable enough to take perhaps the third-best player from South Carolina's basketball team with your first pick, but you don't think he's going to be around at No. 29? So much so, you pass up the best player available in the draft?
- The Celtics had a busy day, dealing their first round pick away to land Sebastian Telfair and former Hawk Theo Ratliff (who must be pushing 50 now). Telfair's a good pick, though still a project. He could become the point guard Boston needs is he can live up to his potential.
- Despite the overwhelming need for a point guard - highlighted by selecting unproven Marvin Williams over eventual NBA Rookie of the Year Chris Paul last season - the Atlanta Hawks picked power forward Sheldon Williams from Duke with the first pick and then power forward Solomon Jones from South Florida with their second pick. The rationale? General Manager Billy Knight (also known as the worst NBA executive not named 'Isiah Thomas') said he'd look to the free agent market for a point guard ... a market which includes Speedy Claxton and Bobby Jackson. Yep. That turnaround is right around the corner.
- Tons of trades. Many mind-boggling. Why would the TrailBlazers do an unnecessary trade to get LaMarcus Aldridge ... particularly when the Chicago Bulls wanted Tyrus Thomas all along?
- If anyone had a worse draft than the Hawks, it was the Knicks. Cementing his role as the underlord of professional basketball misery, Isiah Thomas passes on UConn's Marcus Williams, arguably the best point guard in the draft (who was amazingly available at the 20th pick), to take South Carolina's Renaldo Blackmon. Then, with their second first-round pick, the Knicks tab Mardy Collins ... a point guard. Not only is it laughable enough to take perhaps the third-best player from South Carolina's basketball team with your first pick, but you don't think he's going to be around at No. 29? So much so, you pass up the best player available in the draft?
- The Celtics had a busy day, dealing their first round pick away to land Sebastian Telfair and former Hawk Theo Ratliff (who must be pushing 50 now). Telfair's a good pick, though still a project. He could become the point guard Boston needs is he can live up to his potential.
posted by Jmac at 7:02 AM
1 Comments:
it's balkman, but, you know... kinda makes the point, eh?
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