SOmeone really needs to take the reigns from Danny Ainge in draft night
Given his position in each draft, Danny has done just fine. Picking after the top 10 or so is pretty much a crap shoot, and they have only had a few picks in that top group, and those have been good players, Brown, Tatum, Smart.
For the record, none of these guys are doing a thing in the nba worth their pick:
Outside of the top ten, he’s done a terrible job and our roster shows it:
Jjj/Etuan-JJJ trash. Etuan was ok
Jelly olynyk-soft trash
Rozier-ego centric ball hog.
Sully-great value pick. Who knew cheeseburgers would be his kryptonie
James young-the Gatorade bucket was more useful
I mean seriously what a waste of assets. I hope/think this years will be better.
There are some bad picks there. You left out some others Ainge has taken outside the top ten:
15 Al Jefferson; 24 Delonte West; 25 Tony Allen. Two solid NBA starters, one fringe starter.
18 Gerald Green. No superstar, but a long NBA career because he has useful skills. Good value at 18!
21 Rajon Rondo. Nuff said.
19 Avery Bradley. This was the *19th pick*.
27 Rob Williams - who knows? Even if he flames out it's hard to call missing on the 27th pick a terrible job.
Also - Olynyk was a pretty average pick at 13. You're going to bash Ainge for missing on JJJ (27th pick) or E'Twaun Moore (55th)?
E'Twaun Moore was a great pick for #55.
He has played in 515 NBA games at 21.7 MPG.
He has career shooting stats of .458/.392. Last year he shot .481/.432. Dude is already 30 and should be around for a while longer.
That is pretty incredible for someone drafted #55.
Yeah, most of those "bad" picks came late teens into the 20's, those are always crap shoots. KO v Giannis is probably the worst, I think DA thought Giannis would be there on their next pick, and the MAvs were going to take KO, so he kinda out smarted himself, trying for a safe first pic and then the project one, who really would have known that he was going to explode.
So far all the picks and the pick up of Tacko have been really good out side of Langford who we haven't seen. Edwards will have a spot playing the back up PG with the green light to shoot. Not sure about Time Lord, might take an other year, which is maybe why they got the foreign guy(can't remember off the top of my head) MAzz called him the French Tickler, LOL. It gives Williams an other year to really work and maybe get more playing time.
The last few years have been more hits than misses, remember the booing and the message board going off when DA took Brown over Dunn? So far so good on that one.
