Were you right or wrong on the draft?

[Biff Cooper]

I was shingling my roof, so my satellite dish happened to be out last draft day. I was sitting in front of my computer at home constantly hitting refresh to the draft board and first yelling for Rubio and then for Curry. My kids thought I was nuts. I was a little disappointed with Flynn over Curry, but oh well. I have trouble thinking that someone like me that spends X amount of time watching and researching prospects has would know better than the Wolves management that probably spends 1000X amount of time watching and researching prospects. I still am upset at Taylor for not looking for and hiring someone as GM until so soon before the draft however. My top 6 in order were Griffin, Harden, Rubio, Evans, Thabeet, Curry.

[Devilzsidewalk]

as a whole, I remember the Curry and Evans fan clubs being rather exclusive to a few members, I recall most people here being all about Jrue Holiday and Derozan. Fess up and then hang your heads in collective shame

[Devilzsidewalk]

I think horaceworthy was the first person (that I recall) to mention Evan Turner as top 10 material though last year, he wasn't really even on my radar at the time, I didn't know much about him. So I'm gonna have to prop him up on that one.

[Esohny]

as a whole, I remember the Curry and Evans fan clubs being rather exclusive to a few members, I recall most people here being all about Jrue Holiday and Derozan. Fess up and then hang your heads in collective shame

I already did. And I feel no shame, especially about Holiday.

[john2jer]

Last draft, the guys I liked were: Rubio, Evans, Harden, Terrence Williams, Earl Clark, Casspi, and Holiday.

Earl Clark and Jrue Holiday have been a bit slower about coming around, but I feel pretty confident in my likes.

Terrence Williams has been playing great towards the end of the seaosn here when the Nets have actually been winning a couple games and being competitive. If you look at the draft thread, I was freaking out because I missed when the Nets picked him and I was hoping he'd fallen to the Wolves. I basically teased myself.

Last 5 games - 17/8/5
Last 10 games - 16/7/6
Last 20 games - 14/7/5

Outside of a dreadful game against Milwaukee, he's been shooting the ball pretty well in the last part of the season.

[Worm Guts]

I'll also say that advocated BJ Mullens at 18 strongly before the draft. On draft day, I changed my mind. When he was there 18, I was thinking "crap, please don't take BJ Mullens". I'm not sure why.

[horaceworthy]

as a whole, I remember the Curry and Evans fan clubs being rather exclusive to a few members, I recall most people here being all about Jrue Holiday and Derozan. Fess up and then hang your heads in collective shame

The Evans love grew a bit as the year went on, but I think you're right about early in the year, when DX had him in the 15-20 range. I'd say you and J2J were driving the Evans bandwagon from early on. I think J2J actually accused me of having an anti-Evans agenda at one point, even though I thought he'd be a borderline All-Star (although I definitely didn't think that would be the case his rookie year) and be gone before we picked. I did like Harden more than him, which was stupid.

I was driving the Curry bandwagon from the start of the year, but like the Evans bandwagon, that got more crowded as the draft approached.

I was one of the handful of posters that advocated for Jennings, and took some heat for it, but it's not like I was basing that opinion on having seen him play a ton.

It's funny, I remember when Ford reported that some teams were considering picking Flynn as soon as #4 and that we were among them, just about everybody on the board shot that down as a possibility.

[theGreatRC]

Before the draft I wanted(My thought process was that Rubio would be gone, but I wanted him 1st)

*Rubio
Harden
Evans
Curry(If Evans was gone)

Jennings and Flynn never crossed my mind.

I remember when Griffin, Thabeet, Harden and Evans were gone, My eyes lit up knewing we were about to aquire Rubio.


....Then we picked Flynn..Can't complain though. He's pretty solid.

[Devilzsidewalk]

I think most guys people weren't super passionate about most guys either way, except Brandon Jennings. I recall people almost unanimously not being interested in him with our picks at all except maybe 1 or 2 people. That might be a good call, we'll have to see, but he's shooting 37% right now.

[TheProdigy]

It's way too early to be writing off some of these rookies as busts especially the guys who came out after their freshman year. That being said here's who I wanted(head down in shame):

5. Rubio
6. DeRozan
18. Mullens
28. Budinger

Had we not taken Flynn at 6, Lawson would have been the pick at 18 instead of Mullens.

Yes, Steph Curry is making teams look stupid for passing on him. I think he happened to land in the perfect situation though in Golden State. Had he landed in Minnesota, I think he would be putting up numbers comparable to Flynn's.

[Slum_Dillinger]

as a whole, I remember the Curry and Evans fan clubs being rather exclusive to a few members, I recall most people here being all about Jrue Holiday and Derozan. Fess up and then hang your heads in collective shame

I was huge on Holiday. Though I remember several people thinking it would be foolish to take Holiday at 5/6, so I was hoping he fell and we would take him at #18. I liked Holiday more than Curry, but I was definitely on the Evans bandwagon.

I definitely remember thinking Derozan would be picked #6 immediately after we took Rubio.

[cpfsf]

I didn't know too much about Holiday other than him supposedly being a decent defender. He didn't look like a top 6 pick and I didn't believe he would be available at #18, so I paid no attention to him. I was surprised he fell as far as he did. If we didn't draft two point guards back to back, I might have drafted him over Casspi if Philadelphia didn't draft him.

[The J Rocka]

I thought it was to good to be true if Evans fell to us (who I originally wanted in Wolves uni), so I wanted Harden and I liked Flynn or Jennings.

[Klomp]

I liked this....

Apparently Rubio and Flynn are the second coming of Dumars and Zeke. If this is true, is Laimbeer the coach?

and lol'd at this...

How about taking another PG at 18? :E

john2jer is so smart....

Hell, let's go point guard and grab Ty Lawson. We'll just trap and press them all game.

Only through 30 pages.

[john2jer]

I liked this....

Apparently Rubio and Flynn are the second coming of Dumars and Zeke. If this is true, is Laimbeer the coach?

and lol'd at this...

How about taking another PG at 18? :E

john2jer is so smart....

Hell, let's go point guard and grab Ty Lawson. We'll just trap and press them all game.

Only through 30 pages.

You're JUST realizing this?

[Klomp]

Kahn is too smart to trade Rubio. Not going to happen. All along he's been very careful about pleasing the fan base.

well we'll have the worst record this year and another top 5 pick.

[mandurugo]

I thought grabbing Rubio was a no-brainer when he fell, I didn't anticipate that happening. Because I didn't expect him to be available for two years that aspect didn't surprise me or bother me. I'm a big proponent of taking the best player available, so I don't think they had to draft a point guard right away even though the team didn't have one - but I accepted that Kahn thought Flynn was the best player available so that was fine by me too. It turns out that he probably wasn't, but it's easy to second guess draft choices. If Flynn truly was the bpa in Kahn's opinion then that was the right choice at the time. With my limited knowledge of college players I probably would have gone Derozan at the time though. I really thought there was a slight chance for an Evans/Harden draft - that was dream combo for me.

[Breakdown777]

I thought for sure we would get either Evans or Harden, then take Curry/Flynn/Deroz dependingon who we got 5th. When we got Rubio I was estatic, then was like "wait a minute, now who are we gonna take....I guess we'll end up with Deroz, Maybe we'll end up trading 6 and another pick to move around a bit because I'll be just as happy with Jrue Holliday or Henderson a littlte later...OH WTF FLYNN????? I smell a trade"....And that was my thought process through the first two picks.

My board (never thought we'd land Rubio) was Evans, Harden, Thabeet, Curry/Flynn (was expecting Curry and was prepared for it even though I wasn't crazy about him)

I thought it would go:
LA - Griffin
MEM - Trade/Evans
SEA - Harden or Thabeet
SAC - Flynn
MN - leftovers (Harden/Thabeet/Evans/Deroz)
MN - curry