This should ease your post-draft blues

[George O'Brien]

This is why I'm glad the Suns traded out of the bottom of the draft.

They haven't been as good at finding the sleeper type picks late.

A case could be made that the Barbosa pick was pretty good. Of course they passed on Josh Howard, but nobody's perfect.

 

[Joe Mama]

Aldridge is now an analyst for TNT whose basketball presentation blows away ESPNs and his replacement on ESPN was the shouting moron Steven A Smith, a guy who knows nothing about basketball but what people tell him. I don't even like Aldridge so I idon't know why it feels like I'm defending him, I'm sure just about everyone here has made just as bad if not worse prediction about drafted players.

Come on and admit it. You have a closet with a wall full of David Aldridge pictures with a giant lipstick heart drawn around them.

I can't remember when it was, and I'm certainly not going to take the time to search for it, but I do seem to remember at least one chat 2003 or later where he just couldn't admit Amare Stoudemire was better. I'll leave it at that though because like I said there's no way I'm going to waste the time trying to find it.

He definitely got that Casey Jacobsen pick correct in his analysis.

This is why I'm glad the Suns traded out of the bottom of the draft.

They haven't been as good at finding the sleeper type picks late.

Have they really even taken anybody in the last several years where you would expect a sleeper draft pick? With the exception of Casey Jacobsen I can't remember the last time they drafted in the 20s. It was probably Jake Tsakalidis, and I really don't think he was a bad draft pick.

Cabarkapa was not a great pick, but that wasn't a great draft. Oh yeah, they got Barbosa later, and he was a very good draft pick. I wanted either David West or Brian Cook in that one, but I didn't have a problem with Cabarkapa since I didn't have much to go on for him.

Jo

 

[jbeecham]

The Jacobsen pick was definately a reach pick based on the need for 3pt shooting. I'm pretty sure everyone on the board at the time was hoping for Prince or Boozer (my pick) and some even liked Gadzuric. We had already drafted Amare earlier, but we had Penny & Joe Johnson (who hadn't done much yet since we just traded for him in Feb 2002, 4 months before drafting Casey) at SG already.

 

[Mainstreet]

I still haven't changed my mind about Wilcox. The Clippers just did not know how to use him. IMO, I think he could have even played center better than Kaman.

In other words, he would still look great in a Suns uniform. Too bad he is a RFA with Seattle. He is a player for whom I would do a sign and trade.

 

[JCSunsfan]

Wilcox is Chicago's #2 option after Ben Wallace, he's going to make a boatload.

 

[Cheesebeef]

You're becoming a friggin' buzz-kill.

just adding a little perspective. Sometimes the truth hurts. Believe me, I hope Amare will just be AMARE and not Micro-Man, but if you weren't a Suns fan, you'd be writing the same thing.