I would have traded all those wasted firsts for ONE good player
S M H
Indeed.
There's a bright side to last night's horror, however.
Lots of laughs in the frantic attempts to spin this draft on this board.
One maybe, and a bunch of SMH picks.
Not trying to spin anything but this was a good draft based on where we want to go. We are an overachieving, rebuilding team that is the 5th youngest team in the league. It's weird for us to look at CBS resurrect the careers of ET and IT (to all star level) and then question their draft choices because ESPN didn't hype the prospect.
Any trade would have gutted our core or stifled our long-term potential. Especially when good pieces are available in Free Agency and we are an up and coming team.
Read Jaylen Brown's draft profile and then go and read Paul George's coming out of Fresno... extremely similar assessments. Based on "experts", I would have loved Davis as a young big, but all 1st round teams passed on him; so where is it coming from that he "fell" or was "good value" when the value was created by media houses. Even so, Ainge was able to flip him into a potential lottery 1st rounder (cuz this is the last run for the Clippers Big 3... 2019 pick is really valuable).
Yabusele seems to be a good find as well, his highlights show a lot of what we've been missing in the front court - athleticism.
This definitely wasn't an expected draft, but at least our 48-win, young core stays intact and we've acquired players that can potentially improve on areas of need... with free agency still to come.
Good Draft!!!