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Yep, the teams that are bottomfeeders are there for a reason. Jordan/Rich Cho keep screwing up in Charlotte too. It's sad to see some of these badly managed franchises dragging down the quality of the league from what it could be.And another inept franchise, the Wizards, gave Minny that #5 pick in 2009 for Mike Miller and Randy Foye. That could have been Curry.
Or even after that, in the first round of 2011 they took two D-league level players who will be out of the league within 1-2 yrs (Jan Vesely and Chris Singleton). Washington's #6 and #18 picks could have been Klay Thompson/Kawhi Leonard/Vucevic + Faried/Tobias Harris.
So all things being equal, Washington could be looking at Wall/Beal/Leonard/Faried/Noel, all under 23. Or maybe Wall/Beal/Porter/Faried/Vucevic. Instead they're overpaying for journeyman SFs. Stupid teams gonna stupid..
Yeesh. That's a damn good example too.
Exactly the point I've been trying to make. These teams stop screwing up the draft, they don't throw dumb money at mid level players. All that market blaming crap before the lockout was smokescreen blame deflection.
I don't have all the names, but I know the Suns have sold a ton of picks that turned out to be great players. Loul Deng, Marcin Gortat, Rajon Rondo, Rudy Fernandez, Nate Rob, Captain Jack all players the Suns sold. In the middle of the Nash/Stat/Marion/Bell/Diaw teams they could have had Deng and Rondo off the bench learning the NBA their way. There's your difference between being "good" and winning a title or two.
Crazy stuff, that seems to keep happening to the same teams.
Wall will almost certainly resign for the max before that point. If he decides to wait till he's a UFA he'd be leaving millions on the table.So in retrospect if Jan Vesely is considered a bust then Washington pretty much got a do over with the Otto Porter pick.
How Porter develops could be directly tied into whether they can keep John Wall when he becomes a UFA.
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