Oly, Sully, and Bobby Portis

[arctic 3.0]

I've had a soft spot for Oly ever since we drafted him.
The boy with the flowing locks has a lot of talent and the work ethic to improve on the skills he doesn't have. His defensive improvement attests to this. However the kid can put all the time in the world into his game, it's not going to change the fact that he doesn't have the grit to take the open shot or keep Jordan hill out of the paint.

Sully's almost the opposite. Put him on the floor and he'll shoot, scrum for the ball and hustle (on offense and rebounding) until he blows a gasket. But ask him to put in the work off the court and ...yawn...

When DA picked rosier at 16 I scratched my head. Esp with My binky Bobby Portis still on the board.
Why pass on the kid with the mean streak and 3point shot to pick up another point guard (esp a project like rosier)?

I can only assume that DA had high confidence in one or both of our young bigs breaking out and didn't want to muddy the waters.

Fast forward to today. Aside from Amir all our bigs are under performing.
Lee and zeller are riding pine, sully and Oly play because there aren't Ny other options (I'll get to Mickey in a moment).

We couldn't trade both of last years picks plus sully and Oly for Portis right now.

My only consolation here is that we do have Mickey waiting in the wings. He seems to have the skill set and mind set to succeed. If DA can swap some combo of underperforming bigs and picks for an impact player than Mickey might get a shot this year.
I for one cannot wait to see if the kid can breath some life into our front court.

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it's an old adage.... never draft for position.

is it 100% accurate? certainly not. but 97% of the time? yes. and it's true for the Cs in their current state.

[Rosco917]

Your analogy of Kelly and Sully is accurate, with Danny knowing Sully would be a free agent this year, and Kelly...just being Kelly, and Lee a one year rental, it didn't take too much foresight to realize we're gonna need talent at the center and power forward positions. Fast forward to this year, and Sully talked the conditioning talk, but came up empty when walking the walk. Kelly is mostly the same timid Kelly of last year. 
And the C's are vacant down low.

I don't think Bobby Portis is going to be a mega star, but in a year or two, he will be a better player than both Kelly and Sully. We could have taken both Portis and Mickey, and be on the way to revamping our weak big man situation.

[Tr1boy]

We got mickey already. If Portis was that good , Danny would of grabbed him at 16 in a heartveat

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We got mickey already.

This makes absolutely no difference whatsoever.