Suns fan here - Trade proposal

[cpfsf]

He was probably joking, but at the time it didn't seem totally unreasonable to me. The wolves needed a point guard and the free agents weren't looking that attractive as I recall. A lot of people hoped Curry could be a point guard, but there were concerns about even how successful a combo guard he could be. Hindsight leaves no doubt about the choice I guess and there were plenty of people who had it right at the time.

We had just drafted Rubio, and we had the 18th pick in a draft with Lawson, Holiday, Collison and Teague who all went in that area of the draft.

This is all true. I just wanted to point out that with the sixth pick, MIN isn't trying to fill it's roster needs (an 18th is fine for that). At 6, on a bad team with no play-off expectation, a GM is trying to pluck the guy they think will have the greatest chance of becoming a star, regardless of position.

I don't know why Kahn chose Flynn, but I think too much is made of the fact that Flynn is a PG.

I'm kind of changing my stance on this. If Kahn drafted BPA, I'd let it slide. Hindsight is foresight, but did anyone really anyone believe Flynn was BPA? Any other reason would just be stupid (like if he failed on an attempt to trade him or if Flynn was just an insurance policy if Rubio stayed).

BTW, you can rip on me too because I would have drafted Hill. Curry was next on my board followed closely by DeRozan. I thought Curry was a huge question mark. He struck me as being a tweener, but he still had plenty of upside while DeRozan struck me as being the safe option.

[Worm Guts]

I actually think Kahn did think Flynn was BPA. There were mock drafts with him going as high as 4.

[Foye]

What was the bigger mistake, drafting Flynn, or hiring Rambis to destroy Flynns game?

Judging from now Rambis was the bigger mistake. At draft time I was immediately like "WTF do we want with Flynn that high?", though.

[pumunga]

If you saw Flynn play in college you would know why he went 5. He was a leader.
I still would not be surprised if he flourished under another system.

[Esohny]

If you saw Flynn play in college you would know why he went 5. He was a leader.
I still would not be surprised if he flourished under another system.

There are plenty of people who saw Flynn in college and thought he was drafted far too early.

[Wingman]

I think we drafted him to trade for Reke.

[Foye]

I think we drafted him to trade for Reke.

Yes, but if you do you make sure you can make the 2nd part of the trade happen, too. It's unbelieveable we weren't able to trade up 2 spots for James Johnson then.

[mandurugo]

I hope Kahn took Flynn because he thought Flynn was the BPA. I don't think it made any sense for the Wolves to take a PG because they needed a stopgap between the time Rubio was drafted and when he arrived.

Well, I didn't make this too clear in my earlier response, but I thought at the time that they really did think he was the BPA. Generally speaking, BPA isn't always easy to decide on after the first couple of picks, so perhaps I should say I thought they were splitting the difference. They identified a position of need and really thought that Flynn was possibly the BPA. Results were poor, but I think they thought they had a win, win.