Errntknght said:
>>Plausable but the logic is flawed. You might as well say "any financial analyst who picks stocks for a living should vastly outperform the S&P 500".<<
There's a flaw in your logic as well - the S&P 500 is an average of real prices while the mock drafts are media products put together by people we generally hold in very low esteem for their basketball knowledge. (Not to mention the fact that financial analysts have a built in conflict of interest - they profit from the buy & sell action they generate not from their customers financial well-being. Imagine how much worse BBall GMs would do if their income was tied to their trading volume.)
The similarity is that in both cases everybody starts out with the same pool of choices to pick from. Even if these media pundits are picking at random, half of the GMs are going to do worse than the pundits predict every year, as long as the pundits have enough reporting skills to put each player in the proper 'neighborhood'.
Errntknght said:
>>Daniels can be effective in Dallas because they go small and invert their offense, but the Suns don't have the personnel (or let's hope, the inclination) to do that. Give Daniels a few weeks of jacking up bricks from the perimeter in a Suns uni, and you'd be ready to pronounce him DOA.<<
Precisely what I like about Daniels is that he slashes to the basket and posts up instead of jacking up perimeter shots. I would expect him to do well in a high post offense, which is what I think the Suns should play with the current collection of players. His D looks quite solid to me compared to Barbosa - Leandro probably gets more steals though Daniels is pretty 'light-fingered' as well. True he's not a PG but Barbosa isn't either - he made little progress at operating the offense despite being our nominal starting PG most of the season. (Eisley ran the halfcourt offense better than Barbosa - his problem was that he called his own number too often.)
Barbosa is recognized as a long-term project, though, while Daniels is much more of a finished product. Plus, the Suns couldn't create as much space for Daniels as Dallas does, even with the high post--Dallas puts both of their bigs outside, not just one.
Dallas can afford to play Daniels to his strengths because they space the floor with their shooters better than any team in the league. The Suns need that kind of spacing to allow Amare, Joe Johnson and Marion to play to their strengths, and Barbosa's shooting can help make it happen.
