Trading Perk to get younger doesn't make sense to me

[Greenbean]

First: Let's be honest, we are not getting cough Durant cough in 2012. Not a chance he is already working on an extension from what Ive heard and read.

Second: I dont like the idea of trading Perkins and a pick to get a guy like Cousins who seems to me, (im no expert of this years draft so please correct me if im wrong) is a very similar player to Perkins only with a few less years. He is what? 6 11 290? Thats beastly, but we need an athletic center who can get above the rim and get out on teh break to finsh with Rondo... I mean this guy is getting the NBA comparison of Eddy Curry... I mean seriously? Trading Perk who is an established defender and is big in guarding guys like Howard for a kid who might turn out to be Eddy Curry? I just dont like it.

We need length, athleticism and an above the rim game is we are going to go ahead with trading Perk.

Cousins is bigger and more agile than Perk. And he really knows how to use that crazy wingspan of his already.

Even though he isn't a big time leaper, that body and those arms are very intriguing.

Pearl Jammer,

Cousins is more like Bynum than Perk if that helps.

[FallGuy]

Totally agree. The second round is a pretty much a crapshoot. It's not reasonable to attack a GM for failing to draft one of the one or two guys who actually make it.

I beg to differ.  The second round isn't a crap shoot, and isn't it the job of a GM to find the guys that make it?  I mean, Glen Davis, Leon Powe, Blair, Jerebko, Marcus Thornton, Sam Young, Chase Budinger, Mario Chalmers, CDR, Goran Dragic, L.R. Mbah a Moute, Bill Walker, Carl Landry, Marc Gasol, and Ramon Sessions were all picked in the second round over the last three drafts.

Look, I don't have the info that Danny has, so I can't say that I would have done any better; and I know that hindsight is 20/20, but you do have to admit that looking back at what might have been is hard not to do.  Personally, I'd like to believe that any of us, if given the same info that Ainge has/had, could have made a better selection than JR Giddens.  Regardless, we are where we are.

Generally speaking, I think we can look at Danny's late-first + second round drafting history and feel pretty good compared to the results the rest of the league has seen. Let's use the word excellent - compared to his peers.

Agree/Disagree?

[EmilioBonilla]

Totally agree. The second round is a pretty much a crapshoot. It's not reasonable to attack a GM for failing to draft one of the one or two guys who actually make it.

I beg to differ.  The second round isn't a crap shoot, and isn't it the job of a GM to find the guys that make it?  I mean, Glen Davis, Leon Powe, Blair, Jerebko, Marcus Thornton, Sam Young, Chase Budinger, Mario Chalmers, CDR, Goran Dragic, L.R. Mbah a Moute, Bill Walker, Carl Landry, Marc Gasol, and Ramon Sessions were all picked in the second round over the last three drafts.

Look, I don't have the info that Danny has, so I can't say that I would have done any better; and I know that hindsight is 20/20, but you do have to admit that looking back at what might have been is hard not to do.  Personally, I'd like to believe that any of us, if given the same info that Ainge has/had, could have made a better selection than JR Giddens.  Regardless, we are where we are.

Generally speaking, I think we can look at Danny's late-first + second round drafting history and feel pretty good compared to the results the rest of the league has seen. Let's use the word excellent - compared to his peers.

Agree/Disagree?

I may have to disagree with the picks last year with Walker and Giddens