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Follow your dreams young blood, the Pels are about to take over for the nine nine and two thousands.
If you Jimmer it, they will come.
Not necessarily referring only to our pick, although yes I'd have been happier if we had moved up for Diop or something. More referring to the general nothingness of the draft overall. No real surprises, no big trades, no small trades either to be honest, just a little bit of pick shuffling and taking 6 hours to do it somehow.
Last year's draft was much more interesting.
Basketball.
Dell said they had guys they were targeting to make a move for but they said there was no opportunity for them to jump up. The way he phrased it made it sound like they made calls but teams were not willing to move off of their early 2nd round picks or at least not without giving up something the Pels didn't want to.
Curious as to who they were targetting with a move up. Considering that some early picks were traded for 2 future 2nd rounders, I am not sure how he could not make a deal if he really wanted a player.
http://www.nbadraft.net/players/tony-carr
Impressive. Sounds like you and the nbadraft.net guys are on the same page.
Honestly I get the argument about Carr being BPA and at this spot of the draft you don't have any other choice. But I honestly think otherwise.
Since drafts and scouting are oftenly sources of good and bad surprises, I see it mostly as chance/lottery events with weighed chances. For the sake of the argument, let's say that to select a decent SF the chance go from 1/2 for top 10 picks to 1/20 for late second round (it will need a real study to have precise probability but I think it should be around this magnitude). Then you can see that drafting an SF prospect that will become decent is basically like rolling two dices with the number of winning combination varying depending on the position of your pick. Now let's ask ourselves what's better, never draft an SF (i.e. never rolling the dice) or try every year and hope for the best (i.e. rolling the dice multiple times). Since it's been at least 3 years that the Pels have been looking for a 3, probability will be much higher to get one if the team tried every time to draft one.
It may never guarantee success but I think it's a bit dumb to not try. The only reasonable arguments against would be proof that drafting other position is more likely to give you a prospect with equal trade value as a decent SF in the league and I don't see any so far.
Anyway, Carr seems a decent and overlooked player and since I tend to value skills over athlecism I have to say that I like the pick.
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