I think Cleveland is terrible at drafting.  I think 3 of their last 4 picks were all pretty bad mistakes.

Kyrie was good obviously.

Then Thompson, Waiters, Bennett.

Imagine Kyrie with:

Valincunas
Drummond (or Barnes, I always loved Drummond in that draft)
Oladipo


But instead they go their way trying to be clever.  Not that Thompson or Waiters are bums but I'd much rather have those other players.  And then Bennett... I don't know what to say yet.

And it's not really as if I'm cherry picking those alternate picks.  They were pretty much no brainers.  Valincunas in particular was a no brainer since the team wasn't going to be good anyways and they could stash him overseas.  And then if you didn't want Drummond, Barnes made a ton of sense for Cleveland.

I feel bad for Cavs fans.  Gilbert and front office are pretty ridiculous.  They not only pick bizarre picks at the top of the draft, they seem to be almost drafting for need on bad teams.

Thompson is pretty decent, Waiters is okay, but I think Bennett will be a bust. Thompson is a pretty dang good rebounder for his size, and Waiters is a solid scorer. But I don't think Bennett will be able to take Thompson's spot at the 4.

Bennett was a beast last year in college and in tremendous shape. I wonder if going number one went to his head and he decided to party and take the summer off rather than working twice as hard to live up to the expectation of going number one.

Hard to believe that college players wouldn't show up to their first NBA camp not in the best shape of their lives, but that appears to be what Brown is saying about Bennett.

Bennett was a beast last year in college and in tremendous shape. I wonder if going number one went to his head and he decided to party and take the summer off rather than working twice as hard to live up to the expectation of going number one.

Hard to believe that college players wouldn't show up to their first NBA camp not in the best shape of their lives, but that appears to be what Brown is saying about Bennett.

There were injury concerns about him prior to draft night, so I'm not surprised he's started slow.  I rememebr literally screaming in shock when he was picked.  Didn't think he'd go top 5.  I think he'll be an okay NBA rotation player, but I doubt he'll ever have so much as an all-star appearance.

While I totally agree with those of you who would have taken somebody other than Bennett with the first pick, we do have to remember that there were like 8 different players that could have gone first and none of them were really supposed to be all-star types.

A couple of these guys will have very nice careers and, in hindsight, Cleveland will look stupid for not taking one of them. Picking first in this draft was a bit useless.

Quote from: BballTim on November 05, 2013, 09:44:25 PM

It must be fairly awesome to have a coach who doesn't watch the players when they're on the court, relying on them to let him know when he should sub them out.

He needs to save his mental energy for all of those plays he doesn't run.

Mike Brown is such a bad offensive coach.  Ugh.

They should have made the trade with Philly.  Holiday and Irving together would have been tremendous and because it was #1 they probably could have protected the future first a lot more or gotten more than just Holiday and a 2nd.