Cavaliers at Suns Game Thread

[asudevil83]

with 15th they took nash, with 13th morris, with 57th gortat and so on.

don`t be too pesimistic. let`s hope everything will be ok

"and so on"....that's basically it.

and Gortat doesnt even count.

with first round picks after #10 in any draft after drafting Nash have about a 10% success rate. and with 2nd rounders its 0%. meaning that no second rounder in the past 15 years has made any impact on our team after WE drafted them.

in fact, and this is sad. the ONLY players we have ever drafted in the past 15+ years in picks later than #10 that we considered even being bench players were Casey Jacobsen, Iakovos "Jake" Tsakalidis, and Robin Lopez.

any pick outside them was either garbage or we traded away before they step foot on the floor in a suns uni.

 

[asudevil83]

With the 13th pick in the 2012 draft, the Phoenix Suns select..

a.) a star player who gets traded away
b.) a role player with "potential" who doesnt ever live up to it.
c.) a garbage player we give up on in less than two years.

 

[Trifecta]

a.) a star player who gets traded away
b.) a role player with "potential" who doesnt ever live up to it.
c.) a garbage player we give up on in less than two years.

Let's hope drafting Morris is the end of that trend. He's the first draft pick we made with Blanks in charge of talent evaluation, so I have some belief that he knows what he's doing. Hopefully there's more picks like that to come, but with a higher draft position than the mid teens so we can actually get some star talent in here.

 

[dziki]

That`s true asudevil but it`s not my point. The thing is that all of the stats can stand that some guy drafted with 13 number will be a garbage player but reality can prove that he will become solid/great player for a team like Suns. You just can`t say that 2012 draft will be crappy for Suns after 1/6th of the season - don`t you think?