NBA, NBA Draft / Jun 2, 2011 / 10:00 am

Evaluating The NBA Draft Success Of This Year’s Lottery Teams

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TORONTO RAPTORS
2011 LOTTERY PICK: 5
PICKS LAST 5 YEARS: Andrea Bargnani, P.J. Tucker, Edin Bavcic, Giorgos Printezis, DeMar DeRozan, Ed Davis, and Solomon Alabi
GRADE: B+

The Raptors took Andrea Bargnani with the first overall pick in 2006, and he has proven to be a very good NBA player, but not a true franchise player. He is a great scorer who can shoot lights out, but that is about the extent of his game at this point, and as long as he is the Raptors’ best player, they will not be making any trips to the playoffs. DeMar DeRozan averaged 17 points per game this year, and looks to be Toronto’s shooting guard for years to come. Ed Davis had a very good rookie campaign averaging seven points and seven rebounds, while shooting 57 percent from the field. He is another good building block for the team going forward.

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  • http://www.dimemag.com Aron Phillips

    Great stuff, Marks!

  • http://www.dimemag.com Aron Phillips

    P.S. I’m not naming names, but some GMs should lose their jobs.

  • top_gun

    Great read. Only problem was that you could’ve put at least two teams per page since there was only about 6-9 lines about the team, which took a couple of seconds to read.

  • Rainman

    The phoenix Suns have the 13th pick…not the Houston Rockets, they’re 14th……………………

    I wanted a damn grade for the Suns!

  • Rainman

    ^ disregard that comment, i see they’re at 12, since the Jazz have 2 picks in the top 13, as do the Cavs.

  • JA

    Would have liked to see the players draft selection # in parenthesis after their name to get a better feel for how good/bad the pick was, but nice read.

  • heckler

    @ Aron–

    Its tough to fire GMs based draft selections.
    trying to rate teenagers as pro talent is difficult. scouting is on the toughest parts of a job. every draft has 2-3 no brainers, but the rest of the draft class is pure crap shoot.

    you fire GMs based on contracts that they give and trades that they make. But you gotta cut them some slack on talent evaluating.

  • H-man

    Excellent piece. It is amazing how many of the guys who get drafted are never heard from again. Richard Hendrix, anyone? Or how about any ONE of the multiple Eastern Europeans? Unbelievable.

  • http://deleted dagwaller

    Drafting Foye over Roy at this point is turning out to be a wash…

    The Wizards deserve FULL credit for choosing Wall. Starting in 2007, there has been a phenomenon during the season in which bad teams are said to be “taking the front seat in the Player X sweepstakes”.

    2007: Greg Oden
    2008: Michael Beasley
    2009: Blake Griffin
    2010: John Wall

    Oden hasn’t panned out yet, while Durant is first team All-NBA. Beasley (and don’t forget, he was the one that all NCAA season long, people were saying “oh he’s already doing what Durant did last year!”) hasn’t panned out, while Rose is MVP. Griffin is great, but lost an entire year to injury while Tyreke Evans, Steph Curry, and Brandon Jennings proved that this wasn’t the 1 star class everyone thought it was.

    Easy to say that Wall was the no-brainer pick, but that’s simply not true – none of these picks are no-brainers, as even recent history has shown.

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