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Re: Villanueva and Graham

Villanueva's a tweener. I thought you hate those. He's too small and
too weak to play 5. Too big and too slow to play 3. The team basically
drafted Bosh's backup for the next three years with their highest pick.

When the GM said Villan could play the 5, I laughed. You know Sam's
just itching to use him there the way he did with Marshall. He's not
even as good defensively as Marshall. Now they're accepting a lesser
version of him, at centre no less?

Freewheel, you've preached "size" all this time. The team just drafted
an undersized centre and an undersized SF in Graham, and you're not
the least bit upset? I'm surprised.

This draft was beyond a disappointment. The team says they solved
their bigman issues, but they really didn't. Villan is a step down
from Marshall in the post: rebounding-wise, defense-wise, and
offense-wise. Graham isn't much of a rebounder or scorer in the post.

If the Raptors played "by the book," it would've landed them a big
guard with loads of potential in Green and a big SF with long arms who
can do a bit of everything, especially defend.

Taft was still available in the second round. If I want an
underachieving bigman, I would rather have him 41 than at 7. At least,
Taft is strong and plays defense.





Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:35 am

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Sigh. It's gonna take a while to get over this draft. Maybe I'll never get over it, as long as Babcock is still GM....
vincecrossover
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Jun 29, 2005
1:54 am

Naw I'm pretty happy with it. In fact it went how i thought it would. Big at 7, swingman at 16, pg at 38, stash a euro at 58. Now i admit the players were no...
freewheel_99
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Jun 29, 2005
5:27 am

Villanueva's a tweener. I thought you hate those. He's too small and too weak to play 5. Too big and too slow to play 3. The team basically drafted Bosh's...
vincecrossover
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Jun 29, 2005
6:36 am

Too small to be a centre and too big to be a SF? Thats not a tweener, thats a powewr forward. Now I'm not saying the raps needed a Pf in a big way, but the...
freewheel_99
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Jun 29, 2005
5:45 pm

... A soft power forward at that. He plays more like a 3 than a 4. ... Frye fits on this team more than Villan because he can do one thing really well that...
vincecrossover
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Jun 30, 2005
1:38 am

If you're going to go by what the masses say about the raptor picks then you are also going to tahve to credit what the masses say about the other picks. Bynum...
freewheel_99
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Jun 30, 2005
2:23 am

... The masses had Granger and Green ahead of Graham. ... The Lakers are being panned because they need immediate help and drafted a HS-schooler. Bynum's a...
vincecrossover
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Jun 30, 2005
3:22 am
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