I don't like any draft for where the Cs will be picking in 2021, unless they keep losing a lot. I like Ainge in the Top 5 picks or the bottom 5 picks of the 1st round. The rest has been not so good.
True but you’d be hard pressed to find any GM who drafts particularly well in that middle range.
This is the classic CsBlog excuse. Draft's a crap shoot, no GM is perfect etc. If I had a nickel for every time I'e heard it...
The notion that no GM is good at finding players in the late lottery (or later) is just not accurate. I just think too many posters pick on Ainge for things he's actually pretty darn good at, and make excuses for him on this particular topic.
The premise of this thread is that we should have traded our 2021 first round pick for an established player. The insinuation was that since Danny is such a bad drafter in this range of picks vs. other ranges that this simply reinforces that Danny should have traded the pick.
Drafting is a crap shoot, even the #1 pick. Just ask Philly how Fultz turned out or Sacramento how Pervius Ellison turned out and so on. That is why teams that are trying to rebuild through the draft tend to stock pile more picks than it appears they need. They know roughly half the picks will underperform or be flat out busts.
I am all for trading picks for established players for just this reason but it is hard to sit here and say it was a big mistake to not have traded the pick already. Other GM who have established players are not going to just give them away for late picks. Past their prime salary dumps, sure, but a legitimate starting level PF for example? Not so easy.
The 2021 pick has more value going into this draft than it did a year ago. Let's see how this all works out.
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