« Reply #38 on: August 12, 2018, 07:33:10 PM »
Redo your list. Here's how it should look like.
1st rounders
Hit
Kendrick Perkins (2003)
Al Jefferson (2004)
Tony Allen (2004)
Delonte West (2004)
Gerald Green (2005)
Rajon Rondo (2006)
Avery Bradley (2010)
Jared Sullinger (2012)
Kelly Olynyk (2013)
Marcus Smart (2014)
Terry Rozier (2015)
Jaylen Brown (2016)
Jayson Tatum (2017)
Miss
Marcus Banks (2003)
JR Giddens (2008)
Jajuan Johnson (2011)
Fab Melo (2012)
James Young (2014)
RJ Hunter (2015)
Guerschon Yabusele and Robert Williams are TBD at the moment.
Note that Jeff Green, Marshon Brooks, Randy Foye and Lucas Noguiera don't count because they were traded in the draft day.
2nd rounders
hit
Ryan Gomes (2005)
Leon Powe (2006)
Glen Davis (2007)
E'twaun Moore (2011)
Semi Ojeleye (2017)
Jabari Bird (2017)
miss
Justin Reed (2004)
Orien Greene (2005)
Gabe Pruitt (2007)
Bill Walker (2008)
Semih Erden (2008)
Lester Hudson (2009)
Luke Harangody (2010)
Kris Joseph (2012)
Colton Iverson (2013)
Ben Bentil (2016)
Demitrius Jackson (2016)
Abdel Nader (2016)
Kadeem Allen (2017)
I'll reserve my judgement about Jordan Mickey since he's still in the league.
Ainge have more miss in the 2nd than in the 1st, but so does all the GMs. I can list many players that Spurs and OKC have missed too. 2nd round is a great place to gamble because you don't lose much with them.
A very nice list there.
Wonder if Bill Walker's couple of years gunning on the Knicks qualifies him as a non-bust. Never played one possession of competent defense, but played a few years and had some high scoring games in there as a regular rotation player on a crappy roster.
I just had the worst time trying to look up Bill Walker's stats on basketball-reference and finally figured out that he's listed there as Henry Walker. But I'm certain he was Bill when he was playing in Boston.
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