Has Danny’s bargain hunting hurt his drafting

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I consider the Sullinger pick a success considering where he was chosen.  That’s a bad example.

If you’re picking outside the lottery and you find a guy that can start for you, I’d call that a win.  Danny’s worst first round picks are probably Fab Melo and Yabusele, there’s an argument to made for JR Giddens too.  But he’s had plenty of other wins too.  Sully, Rondo, Rozier, Bradley, Perkins, Tony Allen, Delonte.  Just off the top of my head

I know it’s early but I do agree with you that the Nesmith pick is gonna be a fail

Sullinger had a back problem  that made him fall in the draft. Teams ran away from drafting him, but Danny took a chance. The back problem plagued him, affected his conditioning, his play, and he had to have spine surgery. He did not last long in the league. How is that a success?

The point of this thread is analyzing whether drafting players whose draft stock fell because of injury has worked out for the Cs. I do not think it has.

I gave example of players that fell in the draft because of injuries only to be snagged by Cs. The injuries have hurt their performance, their development, and the team.

How long before the Jays ask for a better supporting cast?

When Sullinger was drafted the Celtics were a team with aging stars that was still trying to compete.  Sullinger if I remember correctly was projected to go really high in the draft but fell, like you said, because of his back problems.

So you’re a GM, what do you do, roll the dice and draft the top5 pick with the back problem but could potentially reinvigorate your team with some star power.  Or draft one of the projected 20 something players on the board who usually become bench players at best but are more statistically likely to be out of the league in 5 years.

I’m sure the Bucks fans and Twolves fans love their team management for passing on Joel Embiid by following your approach BTW

I knew someone would bring up Embiid. How is that working out for Philly... he is always out of shape.

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Three games ago we were at the top of the division and everything was bright. Then we lose three games without our best player and we are bums. So it goes. If we play those games over but take Embiid off the Sixers and have Tatum play, we’d be 11-3 or 10-4, and then what would the mood be?

Choose any of the top 10 teams in the league and subtract their best player. How good are they?

Except this place was ready to trade tatum after we won that 1st game without him.

These arguments don’t make sense. This is the most popular Celtics UGC site besides Reddit. People say anything and everything, it doesn’t mean everyone here wanted to trade Tatum. We cover a wide range of smart insights and zany overreactions here.

We’ve truly got it all here at CelticsStrong!

I'm old, help me out.  What is UGC???

Sorry, not super clear by me, UGC = user generated content. Content that’s created by visitors or members and not the website owners / company or its employees. Reddit being a prominent one.