Somewhat of a tangent, but I feel quite vindicated by how strong the 2020 draft was for role players, as I said it would be. From the first round there are only four players not playing 10+ minutes a night - Jalen Smith, Zeke Nnaji, Leandro Bolmaro and Udoka Azubuike. Three project big men and a Euro stash.
That seems like a pretty solid number for a draft that was heralded as the worst since Anthony Bennett was the #1 pick.
On the other hand, there appears to be zero generational stars, zero future top 10 type guys, possibly only one All-NBA type guy and maybe 2 All-Star types.....maybe.
Yes, a whole bunch of role players, but as a total draft, devoid of real top end talent, it makes it a bad overall draft, as I thought. Drafts aren't usually judged by how many role players it creates. The are judged by how many stars it creates.
So in that way, I feel vindicated.😁
Oh yeah, for sure. That was why I wanted us, a team with two All-NBA calibre wings and a fringe All-Star PG, to buy into that draft. Could have plugged some holes in our bench.
Instead we traded out and persevere with some very average players
We traded out one guy. It's not like the two guys we drafted moved any needle this year. And it's not like any guy we would have gotten at #30 would have move the needle towards contention either.
I mean, sure, as rookies Pritchard and Nesmith have shown promise, overall their impact has been negligible. Would grabbing one other guy like them have made any difference this year? I doubt it.
What this team needed was a defensive oriented 4 that could score and some veteran 3&D players at other positions. The emphasis being veteran, defense and shooting. There just wasn't any of that at #30.
I don't agree at all. I think Tillman is exactly what this team needed as a backup 4/5 insofar as he plays good defence, passes, is a good short roller and can stretch the floor enough to be a threat. Infinitely would have preferred him to Semi and Grant.
Jerami Grant or Harrison Barnes would have been just what this team needed this year. A rookie that scored 2 points per game more and grabbed 2 rebounds more per game over Grant Williams and maybe might not have picked up the defense quickly, like his fellow rookies didn't, would have done nothing for this team.
Maybe what Tillman will become in 3-5 years would be what the Celtics needed this year, though even that is debatable given how poorly this team has played and how much they were affected by injuries and Covid, but rookie Tillman being what the team needed this year is a fairly ridiculous comment given everything we have seen happen to this team this year.
Would Tillman have fixed the team's bad defense all by himself? The iso heavy offense? The god awful starts that cause them to fall behind by 20 so much? The turnover problems? The player games missed that caused a severe lack of chemistry? And the craptastic other bench players like Semi, Edwards, Javonte Green, Grant, Waters and Tacko, were they suddenly all going to get better if Tillman was here? Was Stevens coaching decisions going to get that much better because of Tillman?
Come on gouki, you're better than that. You know Tillman wouldn't have made the team any better this year. You might have preferred watching him over a couple other players, but Tillman would not have made this team appreciably better.
And neither would Bane have. They might have been nicer pieces moving forward, but they wouldn't have made any difference this year.
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