Joe Soriano
O.J. Lewis2010 NBA Draft Ramblings
June 29th 2010 22:00
Sorry about not posting regularly. In fact, I won't be posting much because I am going to be on vacation. Anyway, I've got this here NBA Draft review that everybody has been waiting for.
Draft grades are really useless. I mean, who else where the Sixers and the Wizards going to pick? Jarvis Varnado and Gani Lawal? There were no big surprises in this draft. Everybody with top selections took the right guys. I guess that's what happens when there''s no Al Davis.
What I didn't get was the fact that Scottie Reynolds was not drafted. You may not like his tape, but it puzzles me that you would take some European player like Paulo Prestes that needs to be in Europe for a few years than a guy like Reynolds who can play immediately and was a superstar in college basketball.
I think that all the stuff about looking at tape is bogus in a few cases. As a whole, you have to look at tape. However, you can't just take Prestes over Reynolds. The last pick by the Suns was Dwayne Collins. They should have taken Reynolds. At least that would have been a relevant Mr. Irrelevant.
Every draft deal this year had to do with a free agency player trying to shore up cash. Chicago and Miami both made a deals. Right now, the Heat have the most cap space remaining of every team in the NBA.
Productive college careers like Reynolds's don't translate into a great NBA career, but I would rather have him than a guy waiting in Europe that has long arms and nothing else. That is a Hasheem Thabeet story. Don't draft on potential. Reynolds is not a first rounder at all.
The only players that have a good chance at becoming superstars are the top 20 picks. The only guys with certain star value are Evan Turner and John Wall. Turner is the better player, but Wall is more valuable.
Any team pick 20 and after would have picked a certain quality role player if they were smartly managed. Almost no teams did this, so most teams aren't managed well. The good teams like the Spurs picked up role players. Do that, and you'll build a dynasty.
This draft wasn't surprising and was rather boring as a whole. The teams with top 10 picks did great, while most of the other teams had almost nobody to choose from.
People hyped this as a great and deep draft, but it was anything but. We had a great draft last year, but this year there was no depth. We had an incredible top 5, a great top 10, and a decent top 20. After that, there were D-Leaguers all over the second round.
Draft grades are really useless. I mean, who else where the Sixers and the Wizards going to pick? Jarvis Varnado and Gani Lawal? There were no big surprises in this draft. Everybody with top selections took the right guys. I guess that's what happens when there''s no Al Davis.
What I didn't get was the fact that Scottie Reynolds was not drafted. You may not like his tape, but it puzzles me that you would take some European player like Paulo Prestes that needs to be in Europe for a few years than a guy like Reynolds who can play immediately and was a superstar in college basketball.
I think that all the stuff about looking at tape is bogus in a few cases. As a whole, you have to look at tape. However, you can't just take Prestes over Reynolds. The last pick by the Suns was Dwayne Collins. They should have taken Reynolds. At least that would have been a relevant Mr. Irrelevant.
Every draft deal this year had to do with a free agency player trying to shore up cash. Chicago and Miami both made a deals. Right now, the Heat have the most cap space remaining of every team in the NBA.
Productive college careers like Reynolds's don't translate into a great NBA career, but I would rather have him than a guy waiting in Europe that has long arms and nothing else. That is a Hasheem Thabeet story. Don't draft on potential. Reynolds is not a first rounder at all.
The only players that have a good chance at becoming superstars are the top 20 picks. The only guys with certain star value are Evan Turner and John Wall. Turner is the better player, but Wall is more valuable.
Any team pick 20 and after would have picked a certain quality role player if they were smartly managed. Almost no teams did this, so most teams aren't managed well. The good teams like the Spurs picked up role players. Do that, and you'll build a dynasty.
This draft wasn't surprising and was rather boring as a whole. The teams with top 10 picks did great, while most of the other teams had almost nobody to choose from.
People hyped this as a great and deep draft, but it was anything but. We had a great draft last year, but this year there was no depth. We had an incredible top 5, a great top 10, and a decent top 20. After that, there were D-Leaguers all over the second round.
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