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Well I havn't seen a thread like this so I thought I'd make one.

I thought that maybe this could be a thread were you could talk about how you think you're favorite team did and maybe what you wanted them to do. Or just your overall thought on this years draft.

I'll start:
I'm a die hard warriors fan, so I was really hoping we could get someone that had defensive potential, because we really lack that. I was hoping we would get someone like chris singleton, but instead we went for a big guard who is a below average defender in Klay Thompson. We got the size we wanted since he's 6-7, but we didn't address our biggest need. Maybe we have a chance to get Dwight Howard lol.
 
haha good luck. im a heat fan . yep . i hate how ppl think im a bandwagon when i hav BEEN a fan . anyway there arnts any good centers or pointguard in this draft that can fall to the second round so the only reason im watchn is to see where ppl from florida go. go gators
 
Ya this draft is rediculously weak. I've never really liked the heat, but I rooted for them in the finals because I HATE the mavs. Oh and sorry but I'm hoping cleveland ends up winning the finals before you guys do, I feel bad for them lol
 
Idk about cleveland b4 Miami.... But ya this yr was terrible and I absolutely hate how teams draft european players high and at all!!! I mean what European players r actually good and wuts with all the "this team has the rights to this player" god come on it's the damn draft get who u want and stay wit em
 
Ya the only succesful european player I can think of is Dirk, every other one seems to just be a flop or becomes a role player. And ya it is so dumb how european players enter the draft, but end up not being able to play in the nba for a couple more years, just wait to be drafted then! You have the potential to be much better, and you don't take up a teams pick. Oh and just fyi, this year more international players were taken in the lottery than ever before.... :confused:
 
It's all about the money all about the money. A NBA team can draft a euro players and not have to pay him! It's like they r mexicans or something haha
 
i'm an nba fanatic but there's nothing to talk about in this draft. i don't recognize a name beyond like pick 15 or 16 and half the foreign players are unknown to me. it's not like previous years where some of these foreign guys were already house hold names. i was hoping to see some trades but nothing i saw excites me.

as far as successful european players.....pau gasol, marc gasol, vlade divac, jose calderon, tony parker (lived in france but born in belgium), peja stojakovic, arvydis sabonis. no maybe some of them haven't reached the level of succcess but every one of these men except calderon is an all-star...if marc gasol hasn't already, he will soon

What's this non sense about not paying development players? lots of u.s. players are taken and stocked in the developemental league for a few years, it's no different then what we do with international players. you're reserving the rights to them for when they're ready to contribute. you can't blame the players when the TEAMS draft them, not the other way around. plus...you know there's a rookie wage scale? they won't make any more money if they come in 3 years from now or come in today?
 
just an fyi, that list only includes european born players. it does not include great international players like hakeem olajuwan, dikembo mutumbo, tim duncan (virgin islands but obviously played college ball here at Wake Forest), Steve Nash, patrick ewing and role players like leol dang, hedo turkoglu, ben gordon etc etc.
 
ballinouttacntrol said:
i'm an nba fanatic but there's nothing to talk about in this draft. i don't recognize a name beyond like pick 15 or 16 and half the foreign players are unknown to me. it's not like previous years where some of these foreign guys were already house hold names. i was hoping to see some trades but nothing i saw excites me.

as far as successful european players.....pau gasol, marc gasol, vlade divac, jose calderon, tony parker (lived in france but born in belgium), peja stojakovic, arvydis sabonis. no maybe some of them haven't reached the level of succcess but every one of these men except calderon is an all-star...if marc gasol hasn't already, he will soon

What's this non sense about not paying development players? lots of u.s. players are taken and stocked in the developemental league for a few years, it's no different then what we do with international players. you're reserving the rights to them for when they're ready to contribute. you can't blame the players when the TEAMS draft them, not the other way around. plus...you know there's a rookie wage scale? they won't make any more money if they come in 3 years from now or come in today?
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Your right about how there are a good amount of strong european players, Dirk was the only one that I could think of at the time.


When players from college get drafted and go to the development league, they are usually lower round picks. I'm talking about lottery picks that end up not showing up for 2-3 years. Other than Hasheem Thabeet, I can't think of a college player picked early in the draft recently that has spent the first few years of their career in the development league. A team would never pick a player if they didn't make themselves eligable for the draft. I want a rule where you can't enter the draft unless your contract from a european league is expired or can be terminated.
 
you do realize the GMs, scouts, coaches, owners ALL know that the players are going to be stashed and it's all a part of their plan? they didn't just learn it after they drafted them? personally i see no problem with bad teams (early draft picks) wasting their picks on players that won't help them for a couple more years but it's really no different then what the good teams do in the late 1st around and additional rounds. it's only more noticeable for the bad teams because they needed help yesterday.

The only one that seemed to truely catch their team off guard was the minnesota timberwolves and the whole ricky rubio saga. i've seen him play quite a bit but i don't cannot tell if he's going to be a productive nba player. This past season his team won the euro league championship but he averaged something like 2.2 points......that's like lebron's 4th quarter point average during the finals but for the ENTIRE season!
 
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