The most insane thing of all—well, aside from Isiah Thomas—has to be the 4 UConn Huskies picked in the first round, not that they probably didn’t belong there, but that the team accomplished so little. OTOH it’s also true that nobody in the draft got dissed like Marcus Williams and Rudy Gay didn’t exactly get all loved up either. And I had seen Boone in the lottery before the workouts. And Hilton Armstrong, the only one of the 4 who was drafted any earlier than he could possibly have been, nobody thinks he is anything but a journeyman, a career back-up.
Still, the question for me is whether the Wolves have improved themselves. You got Foye, you got 3 wasted 2nd round picks and maybe it is silly to think there was anything worthwhile to be had anyway. And you got $1 million and, I’m told, another $1 million available by not re-signing some free agents (Banks?). What is $2 million gonna get you? Some teams get great value for $2 million. With the Wolves, if they don’t pay twice as much as a guy is worth, they tend to get very little. So we’ll see. But it says here that Foye better be the second coming of Chauncey Billups or else.
Marc
On 7/1/06 8:25 AM, "Alan Holst" <alanholst@...> wrote:
Why are you applying the term "sane person" to the NBA draft?
From: brian burns <brian_burns@...> To: Alan Holst <alanholst@...>, mnbuckets@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: NBA Draft Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:53:46 -0700 (PDT) >Left Coast item: While I realize teams draft for
>position, before the season began, no sane person
>would have imagined Ryan Hollins going ahead of Hassan
>Adams.
>
>Brian
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