Every draft has it's stud. It's not like in 2006 Rondo was considered a sure thing. This draft probably will stink over all, but a hidden gem or two is pretty much guaranteed.
Who was the "stud" in 2000? Mike Miller? K-Mart? The Vanilla Gorilla? Magliore? Turkoglu? There's a few rotation players in there, but that's about it. Maybe what, three All Star game appearances from this group, total?
I mean, it's mostly still guesswork at this point, but [dang].... sucked to have been counting on getting help in that draft. Not sure if this year is projected to be quite as bad as 2000, and not sure what they were saying about that draft at the time.
1. Kenyon Martin
2. Stromile Swift
3. Darius Miles
4. Marcus Fizer
5. Mike Miller
6. Deemarr Johnson
7. Chris Mihm
8. Jamal Crawford
9. Joe Przybilla
10. Keyon Dooling
11. Jerome Moiso
12. Etan Thomas
13. Courtney Alexander
14. Mateen Cleaves
15. Jason Collier
16. Hidayet Turkoglu
17. Desmond Mason
18. Quentin Richardson
19. Jamal Magloire
20. Speedy Claxton
21. Morris Peterson
22. Donyell Harvey
23. Deshawn Stevenson
24. Dalibor Bagaric
25. Jake Tsakalidis
26. Mamadou N'Daiye
27. Primoz Brezec
28. Erick Barkley
29. Mark Madsen
Wow...What a terrible terrible draft.
I immediately thought to myself "That is an awful awful awful draft. Wait a minute. No draft could be that bad. There must have been some good second rounders"
The second round had Michael Redd at 43. Eddie House at 37.
Other than that is was a pretty horrid second round too.
There was Brian Cardinal and Eduardo Najera
Marco Jaric was the top 2nd rounder.
Scoonie Penn was 2nd to last
Kalid El Amin, Hanno Mottola, Chris Carrawel
It's slightly depressing to look at. Here you go
http://www.nbadraft.net/nba_draft_history/2000.html