BimboColesHair
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Man...all this talk about this draft as if anyone of the guys we got today was going to play a major role in our team the next few years.
I personally think we had a few guys in our sights for 24, but that run of the more well known named guys in the ~5 picks before ours put a damper on that.
Anyways, all this talk about revision of Cavs past drafts and how they suck at scouting and developing or what have you...you can literally go look at every team and see that they miss more than they hit in the draft, especially if they sit towards the end of the pecking order.
Let's take the gold standard during the 2000s, San Antonio, for example. For every Kawhi Leonard, there is a Marcus Williams, Bryan Bracey, Malik Hairston, James Anderson, Jack McClinton, Chris Carrawell. For every Splitter there is a Nando de Colo, James Gist, Robertas Javtokas, Ryan Richards, Viktor Sanikidze.
They make a genius draft day trade of Kawhi for George Hill. They make a not-so-genius draft day trade of John Salmons for Speedy Cla-Cla-Cla-Claxton (obviously not as impactful as the Kawhi trade, but still a major whiff based on how their careers played out). Point is, every team misses more than they hit in the draft, which is why drafts are so entertaining for fans. You never know (save for those once in a decade "can't miss" guys).
Also, winning cures all. This will all be forgotten 4 months from now when our team looks stacked after free agency and trades play out and we begin to run train on the rest of the league.
I personally think we had a few guys in our sights for 24, but that run of the more well known named guys in the ~5 picks before ours put a damper on that.
Anyways, all this talk about revision of Cavs past drafts and how they suck at scouting and developing or what have you...you can literally go look at every team and see that they miss more than they hit in the draft, especially if they sit towards the end of the pecking order.
Let's take the gold standard during the 2000s, San Antonio, for example. For every Kawhi Leonard, there is a Marcus Williams, Bryan Bracey, Malik Hairston, James Anderson, Jack McClinton, Chris Carrawell. For every Splitter there is a Nando de Colo, James Gist, Robertas Javtokas, Ryan Richards, Viktor Sanikidze.
They make a genius draft day trade of Kawhi for George Hill. They make a not-so-genius draft day trade of John Salmons for Speedy Cla-Cla-Cla-Claxton (obviously not as impactful as the Kawhi trade, but still a major whiff based on how their careers played out). Point is, every team misses more than they hit in the draft, which is why drafts are so entertaining for fans. You never know (save for those once in a decade "can't miss" guys).
Also, winning cures all. This will all be forgotten 4 months from now when our team looks stacked after free agency and trades play out and we begin to run train on the rest of the league.