Call me crazy. This kid is not even fair. Keep Wiggins, Keep Parker, This kid is 18, he's 6'11" 275 pounds he's got a 7'5" wingspan and best of all It's not because he's the best athlete you have ever seen in your life, It's because he plays like a super strong super sized Tim Duncan, This kid will be so good barring injury it's scary.
If we get Okafor we win a title within five years. Heck maybe sooner if we could lure someone else here, hell, a Celts fan can dream, Can't he?
I agree that Okafor is great. Problem is that even if we finish as bad as 5th from the bottom (really unlikely considering that Philly has already established itself as the worst, and then you have Utah, LAL, NYK, Pistons, Minny, Charlotte and Orlando) this gives us only a 8.8% chance of getting Okafor.
Even if Okafor is not nr1, the chance of getting a top-3 pick will be 29.1%. I wouldn't get myself too excited.
Cleveland against all odds won the #1 pick last year, and I believe the Bulls in 08 did as well
Which, really, isn't making it any more attractive to tank.
I'm just not really interested in basing my organizational strategy on the outcome of lottery balls anymore.
thank you. My manager was right about basketball vs football. Now correct me if I am wrong or feel free to add what I missed
The teams that tank or does bad does have a guaranteed top 10 pick, to get lotto pick is another story. But essentially, the best players in the NBA are USUALLY picked in the top 10, vs football where good players can be in any of the rounds.
How can we solve the tanking issue with all the teams and how do we get more talent in the draft that can also prevent tanking assuming pick 11 to round 2 are also decent players?
I guess the biggest argument from what I heard is the size of the team in football vs the size of 15 players on a basketball roster
50% of all HOFs were in the top 5 in draft. Having said this, especially in the last 15 years or so there have been plenty of excellent players outside not even the top-5 but even the top-10. Think Giannis, Ginobili, T. Parker, M. Gasol. Good scouting can be the answer to our problems.
In any case, next year's draft has enough Centers to keep everyone happy- even with a 7 to 10 draft pick we ll probably be fine.
I completely agree - we need much better scouting if we're ever going to be able to get great players at whatever point in the draft. Now, I realize that you're referencing international players in your argument, but don't forget that Paul George and Joe Johnson were picked at 10, Lance Stephenson and Michael Redd were second rounders, and even Reggie Lewis was picked at 22 (the second to last pick in the first round in 1987), so it is possible to find guys, but you have to know what you're doing. Look no further than Jimmy Butler, and, to a lesser extent, Chandler Parsons from the 2011 draft. That said, we're not going to change or even upgrade our scouts, and Danny seems to have the owners convinced that he's a great drafter
, so I wouldn't get my hopes up lol
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