Daggone it!
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- May
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Did you make the connection?
Chicago gets the No. 1 overall pick in the upcoming draft, which means Mike D’Antoni probably could’ve been a contender next season. Needless to say, the question was raised.
“That’s a layup for you guys,” he said with a laugh.
Donnie Walsh didn’t appear to be rattled by dropping a spot in the order. He didn’t expect to get a good bounce when the Ping-Pong balls were put into motion.
“I just didn’t want to drop two or three spots, so I was happy,” he said. “I gave up on being lucky. To me, it’s all hard work. I just really wanted to know what the pick was.”
Walsh might keep the pick. He might trade it. Those decisions will come later, perhaps as the names start dropping of the board. There wasn’t a lot of discussion tonight about individuals, but that will come in the days ahead. In the meantime, keep dropping names from the previous entry. Lets us know who you like at No. 6.
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Instant karma for Mike D’Antoni dissing Chicago. I’m so depressed and disappointed. There is nobody they can get at 6 that will help them. They desperately needed a franchise changing talent. Eric Gordon, Russell Westbrook and Kevin Love are not that good. Trade the pick with David Lee and Malik Rose’s expiring contract for a young player like Carmelo Anthony.
Karmas a biatch.
Well, I wouldn’t say I’m happy, but, Trent Tucker was a sixth pick and look how he turned out.
All kidding aside, what I’m trying to say is that it’s not where you draft it’s who you draft.
I dont believe in drafts…...My other non believers are…Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Karl Malone, Manu Ginobili, Carlos Boozer, Luis Scola, Mark Jackson, Gilbert Arenas, Paul Millsap, Kwame Johnson, Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, Darko Milicik, Ron Artest, and others.
There are still a lot of players we can target at 6 that would a be good point guard. OJ Mayo will drop is my prediction and Authur from Kansas will move up. I personally would trade that 6 pick to for a player & another latter first round pick for Zach Randolph or Curry to go by by.
Hey Mike (or anyone else)- Is there a page somewhere that explains all the tedious rules and regs of the draft lottery this year? I tried to follow it but still don’t get how they get the final results with all the clauses. Some of my foremost questions:
How come when Chicago wasn’t at 9, they automatically were known to be int he top 3?
I saw that whole board of 1,000 scenarios of 4-digit numbers and I get that. But so do they just pop out a 4-digit combo 14 times and thats how they have the draft order? I would assume the same team (Miami) would keep coming up, so then what? Just ignore a team if it already got its spot, and go on and on forever? That can’t be it.
How do they guarantee the Knicks wouldn’t fall lower than (what was it?) 9?
And oh yeah, who came up with the arbitrary number of ‘chances to win’? 25% for Miami, then 19.9, 17, 13.8, 13.7, 7.6% for the Knicks. Where does THAT come from?
The easiest job in this year’s draft goes to Pat Riley. He’s got no thinking to do! Regardless of who Chicago takes, Miami is taking the other guy. Really, is there any other scenario possible? No. So now Pat and co should spend their time focusing on their 2nd round pick, and maybe (though I think it would be foolish), listening to what they could get for trading that pick.
But what a luxury, no preparation necessary. Show up, and automatically take Beasley or Rose, whoever is left.
Mike, its not lost on us that you are a Chicago native and ultimately a Bulls fan. Its getting harder to keep visiting this blog when your team is consistently one-upping us for the past, oh, 15 years?!?
The NBA draft is littered with guys taken too high and too low, so I don’t worry about the draft spot, per se, but the Knicks ability to draft and develop the talent.
They need the best starting caliber player available since I think everyone agrees that the best of the current Knicks would make a nice 2nd unit on a championship caliber team.