moocow007 wrote:Thugger HBC wrote:I know most are down on Knox, but in that draft the options of a better player wasn't conclusively there.
Outside of SGA, there still isn't conclusively, and in most known drafts he wasn't higher than Knox.
I wouldn't write him off just yet.
Honestly, there's a lot of SGA hindsight folks popping out the woodworks as well. Knox was a reasonable selection. The question for me is what criteria Mills and Perry used to select Knox. How complex, how detailed, how thorough was the scouting reports on Knox vs. the other players. What was their long term plan? I mean I would imagine that unless they were absolute blithering idiots they had to have seen and maybe even planned for this past free agency period. If so, then you would think they'd have gone into the draft with more of a win now mentality. If so, then one of the Miles would have seemingly been the better selection? You know, those kinds of things.
iirc, when Knox got drafted, Mills and Perry pretty much admitted the season would be a rough one. Fiz from time to time basically alluded to it as well, calling the team a college team quite a bit.
As for the draft that year, I recall it was reported Knox wowed them in a workout or something, but he likely was their safe pick all the long.












  











