2016 NBA Draft Thread

[cltc5]

Guys, this is what happens when you have way too many picks.

You reach for draft and stash candidates and sell off quality second rounders for future picks that might never vest.


What a crap show this draft has been.

In ainge we trust hahahhahahaha

[Rondo9]

Do you guys realize we have limited roster space?  This forum is nuts tonight.

Honestly I just don't get what's going on.

[Dino Pitino]

What a horrible night. Proud of us fans. The ownership and front office deserved every single boo. And they seem to have had no idea. Wyc seemed genuinely shocked that we'd be that unhappy. They needed the ****ing reality check.

[greece66]

Givony of DX said that a lot of players who dropped had agents who insisted on avoiding competitive workouts interacting with other players.

this is an interesting piece of information

having said this, this was a doomsday for DX: I have to check but I'm almost sure they got everything wrong outside the top-2. A completely random mock should have done better than this.

[danglertx]

I can't see the Clippers falling off a cliff in just three years but I guess Golden State will still be good, the Spurs will be, Portland is on the way up, Timberwolves are looking up, Houston is a wildcard, OKC is probably heading down, so I don't see the Clippers falling past the 5 or 6th seed and we are losing 3 years of the picks.  Seems pretty bad.

[LarBrd33]

Guys, this is what happens when you have way too many picks.

You reach for draft and stash candidates and sell off quality second rounders for future picks that might never vest.


What a crap show this draft has been.

In ainge we trust hahahhahahaha

but leverage tho

[jpotter33]

Really aggravated at the night.  Can't take any more going to bed.  Just an all around disappointing night.

Just think this could have been the night

Noel
Covington
Yabusele
Zizic
Luwawu
Korkmaz/Labissiere/Murray
Davis

Lots of high end potential there and that is with Ainge taking Yabusele way too darn early.

Yep, yep. Pretty disappointing. Noel would have been our anchor in the middle for years to come, and he's even a hometown boy. Yet, we decide to take a prospect that has BUST Derrick Williams 2.0 written all over him.

[PhoSita]

Trader Danny is gonna keep us hanging until he can finally swing that big trade. Or retire.

But free agency is around the corner. Fireworks! Heh.

[vjcsmoke]

31st pick is a borderline 1st rounder though.  It really depends on the protections on the 1st rounder we get back.  Giving up #31 and #35 appears to be a steep price to pay for a pick that might not convey.  If the protections rumored are true.

[PhoSita]

I don't ever want to hear from people saying there's no such thing as too many picks.

[danglertx]

Trader Danny is gonna keep us hanging until he can finally swing that big trade. Or retire.

But free agency is around the corner. Fireworks! Heh.

Maybe it is a free agent signing or two and not a trade.

[PAOBoston]

Overall , pretty meh feeling though I son't think they did that bad. Everyone was clearly waiting for fireworks that never materialized so I think it it understandable that anything other than that is a let down.

Jaylen Brown, to me at least, isn't a bad pick. 19 with a high ceiling and projects to at least be a solid defender right out of the gate. C's need athletic wing players. He is a project though so it will take a few years to see what you got. I think people are being overly harsh on the pick.

The French guy pick I didn't get. I saw a tweet that it could be salary cap related to help the C's open up some more cap space. He can at least shoot the 3.

Zizic is a good pick. He can rebound and we need that. Had great numbers for a 19 year old in a competitive league. Sounds like he is coming over to the USA.

[albas89]

Do you guys realize we have limited roster space?  This forum is nuts tonight.

This is a situation Danny should have been prepared for beforehand. Just throwing away these supposed "assets" for nothing because "other teams are trying to rip us off" is a sign of incompetence.

If nobody's trading with you, maybe you should stop stockpiling draft picks...

[Rondo9]

Trader Danny is gonna keep us hanging until he can finally swing that big trade. Or retire.

But free agency is around the corner. Fireworks! Heh.

Patience.

[LooseCannon]

What was the trade??

31st & 35th pick to Memphis in return for a 2019 1st rounder(I believe that is via the Clippers)

Wow, both picks for one pick in 3 years?  That seems pretty crappy.

I think it is a great trade.  This is exactly the sort of pick consolidation trade that people were begging for and there is a non-negligible chance that Doc Rivers can run the Clippers into the ground just in time for the Celtics to get a near lottery pick out of it.