Comments on: NBA Draft Promises Could Cost You The Next Paul Pierce

By: Seven Duece

Seven Duece — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:51:11 +0000

At the time, Larry was on some next level ish when he was at St. Louis. His game got messed up somewhere along the way, but he was on some Penny Hardaway type stuff in college. Actually, he was fire at Golden State until they wanted to feature Antawn more plus Gil started doing it up. He wasn’t horrible until he got to Cleveland. He never should have left the Wizards, where he was on a team perfect for him. Trading money for happiness never works out, does it?

By: doc

doc — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:22:59 +0000

Talk about some bullshit.

By: Ender

Ender — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:08:15 +0000

I can’t figure out why more teams don’t just draft for value, and ignore whoever they have on the team. If a vet can’t beat out a rookie, he is not worth keeping.

By: Austin Burton

Austin Burton — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:52:27 +0000

@Celts Fan — Exactly right. I don’t use hindsight to bash Michael Jordan for taking Kwame Brown, because if you go back and read a lot of mock drafts and draft previews from 2001, and a lot of media/experts/scouts were all on Kwame’s jock. People were saying Kwame would change the power forward position, he was the next Kevin Garnett, he had All-Star talent, etc.

By: Celts Fan

Celts Fan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:25:35 +0000

Oh,another real fun draft promise: kedrick brown over richard jefferson

By: Celts Fan

Celts Fan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:22:40 +0000

Ya, revisionist history is one thing, but this isn’t Darko (the ONLY guy that anyone was saying should even be thought of over him after Bron was Melo.). Pierce was a better prospect than Hughes and people were pointing and laughing at the Sheldon Williams guarantee. Ill never mention Darko or Kwame cuz the “experts” tended to agree they were top-tier prospects, but the shit no one liked/understood – like Yaroslav Koralev, or sheldon’s guarantee, or one of the Graham brothers over Danny Granger – is shit ill harp on forever cuz it was fuckin stupid.

By: Kudabeen

Kudabeen — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:00:02 +0000

I’m with fallinup

The revisionist historians will always have changes to make. I understand what he is saying. Sixers envisioned a big guard that can run the offense as well as play off of Iverson. Hughes wasn’t terrible, but he had much more on him than basketball.

Also the lame thing about the sixers is that they traded Larry in his second year for what amounted to Kukoc. He amounted to a taller less effective Iverson more so than a versatile lead guard. He is a bad bad shot maker…And he takes a lot of bad shots.

Every team has horrible draft decisions. If you look at the drafts from the last 3 years and see how many teams still have those guys or got any value for their pick by comparison to the players picked afterward it is incredibly poor results. The draft seems like a crap shoot or GMs and front office people are more business men than basketball minds.

I’ll go with the latter. Drafting potential over proven talent and buzz of best fit is the name of the game for many franchises.

By: insider

insider — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:54:40 +0000

Dunleavy gave a draft promise to Yaro Korolev. At least he can’t mess up this year.

By: fallinup

fallinup — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:30:13 +0000

@ Celts

True Dat.

But damn… hind site is indeed 20/20

By: Celts Fan

Celts Fan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:25:25 +0000

@Fallinup, don’t think Pierce woulda been there any longer than Stackhouse or Hughes. Young PP woulda butted heads with AI and been shipped outta town like so many of his other running mates.

Another reason you never make draft promises, Mr. Candace Parker, Sheldon Williams. Atl couldn’t use BRoy though, right?