Draft bandwagons of the past

[VanillaGorilla]

Yeah he had a baby face haha

 

[cloudydays]

My draft bandwagon

I was on the Brandon Roy train ever since I seen him play against Uconn in the tourney. I really liked Russell Westbrook in last years draft also.

man he kinda looks like Stephen Curry.

Did you see that video I posted earlier?

 

[hasoos]

I don't follow college ball so I don't have an informed opinion. I was pretty sure Morrison was going to be a bust, though, because of the ridiculous hype. It just felt like mass hysteria.

barfo

Every year or so there is a guy who can score bundles in college but is too slow/unathletic to play the pro game. Morrison was just the latest. Before there were guys such as Danny Ferry. They come through every few years. The thing that blew me away was that Jordan picked him. That alone basically told me that Jordan didn't even watch any workouts. From what I read, Morrison was on the south end of every workout against the group he worked out with. One of those guys, was Roy....

 

[MAS RipCity]

2008-Wanted Rose & Westbrook the most, sour on Bayless for a little bit but was thrilled to get him at 13, loved the Batum pick
Did not want Beasly, Mayo, Love, Lopez, Danilo
Indifferent on DJ Augustin

2007-Torn on KD and GO..actually have the BBB.net link to prove it if anyone wants to see it, Im sure a few of you spoke in that one
Really wanted Jeff Green, Conley, and Young added onto our #1 pick, thought Zach could net us another high pick. Loved buying the Rudy pick
Really was high on Brandon Wright before the lotto..but after we won it no use for him, still thought he would be good..yikes
Thought Brewer would suck as well as Noah...wasn't sold on Horford either
Indifferent on Julian Wright, Spencer Hawes

2006- Hated the Roy pick..was a Gay/TT guy..wanted to keep Foye over Roy..ouch..thought LA's draft workout video looked great but hated the pick b/c I was so pissed at dealing bassy that everything was pissing me off
Was torn on Bargs, wasn't sure if he'd be great or not, I'm sure he was on top of my wish list one time or another
Not really fond of buying sergio at the time
Wanted Stache

2005-Did not want CP3 b/c I thought Bassy was "it"
Really didn't like trading down, wanted Marvin or Bogut..yikes
Didn't think Deron would be that good
Liked Webster a smidgen better than Gerald Green
I did wonder why Granger fell so far on drat night

2004- Wanted Dwight and Shaun..thought Emeka was taken too high @2...had a man crush on Devin Harris
wanted Telfair (thought he was better than Jameer) but not at 13, wanted Big Al at 13 and Bassy later on.
Was super pumped with Monia at 24..didn't know what to think about Viktor
Thought Luke Jackson would be good...wow
Knew Ha would be a bust
overall, sadly, I thought we had the makings of a significantly great draft....WOW

 

[VanillaGorilla]

2008 - DJ Augustin, Joe Alexander

2007 - Greg Oden

2006 - LaMarcus Aldridge

2005 - Deron Williams

2004 - Jameer Nelson

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I also liked that we got two russians for some reason..

 

[illmatic99]

2008- Augustin initially, but I was screaming for Bayless (over @ OLive) when I realized he was gonna drop past #4.

2007- Oden and Rudy after we bought the pick.

2006- Gay, coming into draft day. But after the Bassy for #7 deal, I wanted Gay and Roy (with #7; I didn't think he had the upside to warrant a top 5 pick). I wanted us to stay as far away from Aldridge (especially after his performance against LSU in the 06 tourney), Thomas (had "head case" written all over him), and AMMO (vehemently against him for pretty much everything).

2005- Gerald Green (the McDonalds dunk contest/game had me sold).

2004- Jameer Nelson or Bassy.

 

[illmatic99]

Was super pumped with Monia at 24..didn't know what to think about Viktor
Thought Luke Jackson would be good...wow
Knew Ha would be a bust
overall, sadly, I thought we had the makings of a significantly great draft....WOW

I agree about Monia. I thought he had the makings to be the next Peja. I felt the same way after the draft, but then Nash dropped a bomb on us by predicting that we'd win about 19 games (or something close to that #, I think) in 05. sigh.....

 

[LameR]

Every year or so there is a guy who can score bundles in college but is too slow/unathletic to play the pro game. Morrison was just the latest. Before there were guys such as Danny Ferry. They come through every few years. The thing that blew me away was that Jordan picked him. That alone basically told me that Jordan didn't even watch any workouts. From what I read, Morrison was on the south end of every workout against the group he worked out with. One of those guys, was Roy....

Jonathon Benderrrrrr!

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

2003 mock drafts had Monia as a top-10 pick. So when he slipped as far as he did in 2004 I was happy about the pick. But some players just aren't cut out to survive in the NBA. I still think Khryapa has a place in the League.

Another player I was high on for years was Tiaggo Splitter. Two years after he was drafted he's the best Center in the world not in the NBA. I hope we can steal his rights from the Spurs much like how the Rockets fleeced them for Scola.

 

[STOMP]

Jonathon Benderrrrrr!

thats not really accurate as dude suffered multiple knee injuries after he was drafted... post injury he wasn't the same guy. Luke Jackson would be another decent prospect who was derailed by injury. Injury has struck down many established NBA stars as well.

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[THE HCP]

I thought Joseph Forte and Harold Minor were going to tear the league up!

 

[MAS RipCity]

new avatar HCP!!!!!!

 

[Wizard Mentor]

new avatar HCP!!!!!!

I don't think it's new. HCP is obviously an environmentalist - He regularly recycles his avatars

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Jonathon Benderrrrrr!

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[Uther TheGardener]

well i wanted stache....oopps and monia....oops...and ha.....but I wanted oden, rudy, freeland....

this year? rubio, llull, daye, jonas, FREELAND, claver....i dont want a short pf got to be at least 6'9.

i am not too sure if i like blair....if previous drafts he wouldnt be number one, tiny tiny pf in a sg/sf tweener body...I would much rather have rubio.

 

[MrJayremmie]

05 - Green and Webster
06 - Aldridge and Foye
07 - Oden then Durant
08 - Rose then Westbrook
09 - Rubio and Harden then Blair and Maynor

 

[andalusian]

In '05 I really hoped we would take Deron and was upset we moved the #3 pick for the #6.

Did not really pay attention in '06 to college - so was smart enough to shut my mouth on the entire thing and not take a side in the for/against 'Stache - glad I did that. Other than that - did not really know much.

'07 was on the Jeff Green bandwagon before we won the lottery - Oden after. I also liked and argued on the BBF that Noah would turn out to be a pretty decent NBA player - which he is.

'08 I was hoping Westbrook would fall to us and assumed it could happen because I suspect Seattle would take Bayless. How funny was that... - I also argued that K-Love would work just fine in the NBA - it is pretty clear that he did.

This year - I have paid really little attention to the college game - so the only prospect I really like and can talk with some knowledge about is Rubio... I have seen Stephen Curry last year - and would like him as a late lottery pick - but no higher.

 

[Minstrel]

2005: Gerald Green and Marvin Williams
2006: LaMarcus Aldridge and Rudy Gay
2007: Greg Oden and Kevin Durant (shocking)
2008: Derrick Rose and OJ Mayo
2009: Ricky Rubio and James Harden

 

[STOMP]

05 - Green and Webster
06 - Aldridge and Foye
07 - Oden then Durant
08 - Rose then Westbrook
09 - Rubio and Harden then Blair and Maynor

those two were both pretty obviously out of range for Portland's #13 pick... I recall you as my one co-signer on Anthony Randolph (who btw kicked ass)

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