BigO wrote:Hammonds made a lot of mistakes, as does every GM. But if you're being objective, which most posters aren't, the drafting of Giannis and the trade for Middleton, was not a chance happening. It was great scouting, drafting and trading. You all should be very grateful. His pick of Giannis was panned everywhere and certainly wasn't politically correct at the time.
I hate when people say drafting Giannis was luck. It was a methodology. Hammond rolled the dice on raw, high upside, lanky athletes. Giannis, Sanders, Maker, Inglis. Teams that Magee save picks weren't going to get a Giannis.
It was just a shame that Hammond never had an analytics guru who could have explained to him what replacement value meant, and because of it you don't need to waste the cap on so, so many replaceable scrubs.