Mi think alot more goes into it when looking at it in the aftermath.
What info was available on what players?
there are just so many potential scenarios that it really seems pointless because im pretty sure for every scenario tossed out there showing NO as inept, im willing to bet a scenario could be played out that he did the best with what he had at the time of the pick.
Hindsight is always 20/20. And thats why looking back in that manner is basically useless.
we all could have made better decisions at some point in our lives but then what other good decisions wouldn't have come into play if the first decision was made correctly... in the aftermath.
Im not saying dont discuss it but im saying knocking NO in this way will be taken with a grain of salt because every Gm can be scenariod out showing the whiffed on stars.
Im with kj. Seems useless to me. But then one mans trash is another mans treasure, so im not judging. Just commenting.
I have to admit....I lost the track of what your were trying to say.
I mean, for instance: "
What info was available on what players?"...my answer would be the info every GM should be responsible for having. That's draft evaluation right there
and: "
Hindsight is always 20/20. And thats why looking back in that manner is basically useless." I'm sorry, but in my opinion, that's total abject nonsense. Hindsight is invaluable. We have no other way to evaluate decisions than from hindsight. If you're slicing an onion, and slicing toward your hand, and you cut the shit out of your hand needing stitches, the next time you slice an onion you could make the same dumbass mistake if you don't apply hindsight and cut away from your hand.
if your brother-in-law gives you 3 stock tips, you buy every time and lose money, the next time your brother-in-law has a stock tip you will slap the shit out of him, justifiably....hindsight
if you eat fried eggs from a market in Oaxaca and get food poisoning, you wont eat eggs from a market in Oaxaca again. That's hindsight I personally paid to gain
if your wife and her sister are in your living room and they ask you which one of them has the better hair, you turn around and run away. That's both hindsight and survival instinct. Never answer a question like than...even under torture
If you're a GM and you use a process that tells you Martell Webster has a better future than Chris Paul or a process that tells you Meyers Leonard could be an all-star, then for chrissakes you need to use hindsight and shit-can the processes that led to those decisions
in other words, I think saying "hindsight is 20-20" is a useless bromide...sorry
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when I listed those draft results I was talking about each draft, in and of itself. I wasn't gaming future events that would spring from a different choice. It was only something like Draymond Green is better than Meyers or Giannis is better than CJ, or Abedayo is better than Zach
now it you guys are saying that in 2013 if the Blazers had taken Giannis rather than CJ then the subsequent years would have been much different, I have no argument with that. For instance, in 2016-17, Portland would have been better than the worst team in the playoffs, so they wouldn't of had the 15th pick to trade for Zach. They would have almost certainly have had the 20th and 26th picks though and a pick in the 20's to add to them
and if Portland had a Dame/Giannis duo this season, they'd be a lot higher than fighting for the 8th seed. Hell, they might have another championship by now
