In retrospect, our 2009 draft was pretty poor

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In February 2008, Morey's 2007 drafting of Brooks and Landry looked poor also. People have changed their opinion in the last 2 years.

 

In retrospect, it was a mistake not to rookify JCDenton earlier.

 

there's a winning statement

 

Exactly. It's a miracle that Morey got anything done last year. Dumb thread.

 

Is it possible for you to be anything but a Debbie Downer? I ardently disagree about Llull. You should read up about him and watch some film. He's far easier to have come over in a year or two, compared to Rubio. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we have him after next season, when he'll make you chew on your words, in my opinion. Taylor is a nice young prospect and just might turn into somthing nice, given time, which you obviously don't have.

Honestly, is it a fad around here to just talk down our young players? Rarely do rookies come in and immediately have an impact. Often it takes a couple of seasons, sometimes longer, for players to "get it" and start fulfilling their potential. I just don't understand your reasoning at all. You're like the 10 year old who got a bike for Christmas and complained because it wasn't a motorcycle.

 

If I could rate this thread a -5 stars I would. How do you judge 2nd round rookies half way into the season? We have Budinger playing in the freaking rotation and he's not deadweight. Most 2nd rounders don't even make the team or even crack a rotation for a few years. Taylor just needs more work and polish, but you can tell he moves very well when he's on the court. Llull can develop in Europe until he's ready and is nice insurance in case that either Brooks or Lowry gets traded/injured or leaves via free agency.

As far as Blair goes... every team passed on him. We didn't need any more forwards with Scola/Landry/Hayes at the time which is why we drafted SG, PG, and SF.

All in all... In retrospect, your thread choice was pretty poor.

 

There are too many users that create new threads to try and stretch a weak analysis/take, by method of digging deep into topics with questionable approaches to come off as insightful and profound. This being one of them

Your basically saying a draft where we had no picks, came away with 3 players, one a rotational player who was once considered lottery talent, a guy who is supposedly doing well overseas, and a guy who was one of the top overall scorers in college basketball last year, while physically giving up only a second round pick (IIRC) a failure JUST because we didnt draft Dajuan Blair? Again...read my previous paragraph.

 

Correct.

And this thread is so spot on, because Jermaine Taylor is clearly never going to amount to anything as an NBA player after 2/3rds of one season where he has been behind 2 vets and a fellow rookie who shone brightly in the pre-season and earned playing time.

Clearly Llull was just a ploy of Morey's to waste some of Les' money - kind of a way of saying SEE LES, I TOLD YOU WE SHOULD PAY TAX SOME TIME

And Budinger - well, he's going to be a decent 9th man in the NBA - and really that's not good enough with a pick in the 40-50 range. You should really expect stardom from there.

What an epic failure of a draft. Morey was a moron to pass on Blair, who was clearly one of the top 5 players in that draft. Why the heck didn't he scoop him up in the second round? What was he thinking?


[for those who have an inability to comprehend, this thread is completely sarcastic, I think our draft was fine, and basically EVERYBODY passed on Blair - in fact even the Spurs passed on him, preferring to trade their pick for Jefferson instead. The Blair draft moaning is completely r****ded]

 

What?

- Blair is just another undersized PF, Hill is a much better prospect, that's why he's an 8th pick and Blair a 2nd round.
- Budinger is already a good player. And players who perform well in his rookie year become important in the league.
- Taylor. No minutes in his rookie year does not mean he's nothing, give him a chance.
- And finally about Llull. He's already an NBA player, and today he just scored 29, being the leader of a Real Madrid, and not being considered a scoring PG. (Now I will update his thread).

Summary: bad thread

 

Hahaha I just reread the title.."In retrospect, our 2009 draft was pretty poor"

Again...no picks, 3 players, 1 rotational contributor

 

you're an idiot.

 

Out of curiosity, what teams DID do well in the draft, according to you? The Spurs, whom got Blair, and..... who else? I mean, they all passed on Blair after all, so did they all stink it up?

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It's the 2nd round. Most of those players wont see more than 100 minutes of playing time in their career. You have a 1 in 50 shot of getting someone decent in the 2nd round, we got lucky with Bud. I think Taylor will get a bigger role in the future as well.

 

This thread is funny because in 4 years when we look back on this thread and realize that Taylor, Budinger, and Llull were all good picks.

And we'll also see a injury plagued Blair struggling to stay on the court.

Sure, Blair can produce. But did anyone want to take a chance on a guy that probably would have been out of the league because he is playing without ACLs?

 

You read my mind

 

Blair has no ACL in either knee. That makes him a huge medical risk and is the reason that he slipped to the 2nd round.

 

I wish we could have that pick back, I would even trade back what essentially we gave up to get him....last years playoff run