It could prove to be interesting. Some people were praying that the Celtics wouldn’t pick Yi, some wanted Brewer.
Ray Allen is a bad man. Great game. Could be interesting. Now you’ve gotta get rid of Doc Rivers.
Oh, don’t get me started on Doc Rivers. After his extension and losing the lottery, it’s not like things could have gotten any worse tonight…
I wanted Al Thornton or Chris Young. Either one and I’m happy. We get one of the two (the Pistons, that is). I’d have prefered the big body, but to get th enumber one rated shooting guard and an excellent scorer, I’m very happy with it.
You know better than that…you don’t say those things as a Celtic fan…
That’s as much a harbringer of disaster as Wile E. Coyote cracking open a crate marked “ACME”.
I accidentally named the young shooting guard from USC “Chris Young”. That’s not his name.
I shoulda seen Stuckey coming. The paper and ESPN has been touting him a lot. I’m kinda impressed that all the pundits liked the pick as well.
Either Afalo or the Italian guy, Bellinelli, and I’m a happy Trevor.
I’m pretty sure that all three of the major SoCal guys in this draft are overrated to various degrees. That said, I think Afflalo can make a pretty good second-round pick if he slips that far.
The Knicks just STOLE Zach Randolph, assuming that deal is completed as reported. How does this happen? Isiah made a trade that I heartily approve of? MY WORLD IS TURNING UP-SIDE DOWN!
I wouldn’t know…yet…
Anti-basketball dad changed the channel. I’ve properly beaten him and made him change it back.
Isiah Thomas just solidified his spot as the worst GM in the league. Zach Randolph epitomizes everything that is wrong with the Knicks. No defense, selfish offense, poor passing abilitiy, inefficient scoring, low basetball IQ and a huge contract. Besides, his strengths are the exact same as Curry’s. Those two are going to be the worst defensive 4/5 in the league. This is going to crash and burn worse than Marbury/Francis.
Reported as Randolph, Dickau, and Fred Jones for Steve Francis and Channing Frye. So, they dump Francis, they give up Frye (some value, but not even as much as say Lee), and they get back Randolph and some junk. Randolph is basically an automatic 20-10 if you can control his off the court issues, maybe even better in the East. Maybe more important - he has a TON of trade value, much more than what they paid for him IMO. On the one hand, his contract is a little large, and he does have those issues. On the other hand, he is exactly the kind of players that, say, the Bulls could use. Or maybe move him to the Lakers. Or move him wherever else - there is actual desire on the behalf of teams to have Randolph.
Which is more than you can say about Stevie Useless.
(as for treis, some of those may be valid criticisms… but did you say “inefficient scoring”? I don’t know how familiar you may be with John Hollinger’s Player Efficiency Ratings, but he was 16th last year… right between Amare and Chris Bosh. If you get past the off-the-court stuff, he is almost undeniably more valuable than Ray Allen right now, and the Knicks paid an itsy bitsy fraction as much as the C’s did for their guy.)
PER measures a bunch of other things besides offensive efficiency. Randolph’s is high because of his volume scoring and rebounding. His 47% is terrible for a PF, and his 3.1 TOs is very high.
As for his value, NJ and Chicago were both desperate for bigmen, and neither wanted anything to do with Randolph. This is going to end very badly for the Knicks.
Don’t you think it was nice of Joaquim Noah to stop by the NBA draft center on the way to his prom? Me too.
Noah will probably be ok, but it seems like they had the exact same guy in Tyson Chandler. They basically did a reset to before the Wallace move except they now have Wallace’s white elephant of a contract and limited production. I wish they’d move Gordon while he is at peak value, there’s a few guys I’d have loved to have in this draft playing in his place.
Buuuuuuuuuuut Mr. Randolph was a less than model citizen in Portland. What’s he going to be like with all those extra diversions that the Big Apple can provide?
Ben Gordon is a glorified 6th man. The best thing Chicago could have done was to put him back on the bench and get a shooting guard. If they could have traded down and got one, they’d have had a great draft as far as I’m concerned.
I don’t really understand the Noah pick, although I admit that I really wanted them to take him a year ago. He fits with their M.O., but that also means they already have people like him. What they need most is a low-post scorer, and everybody knew it. Maybe they just had too many questions about Hawes - the ESPN guys kept talking him up, then admitted after Sacramento chose him that he’s had a few knee injuries - and took the best player available. Could they be assembling spare parts for a deal?
Well, Chicago is frickin loaded at the 4 and 5 spots (expecially with defensive big men that are poor scorers). Maybe they’re getting ready to move Ben? That’d be the dream for Chicago, I’d think.
I’ll say this much for Noah, though: in this photo, he looks more like an anime character than I thought any living human being ever could.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0706/draft.fashion/content.8.html
Ha. That’s friggin awesome. Care to fill in the thought bubble over the commish’s head?
Prom? That’s a seersucker suit he’s wearing; I’d be more likely to suspect he was a folksy lawyer on his way to some sleepy Southern courtroom. (As envisioned by a Japanese animator, of course.)
Stern: “Can this man really be The Humanoid Typhoon?!?!”
Noah: “This land is made of love and peace!”