jvsimonetti0514 wrote:newyorker4ever wrote:jvsimonetti0514 wrote:Rose already made a move to trade up and people acting like he's sitting on his thumbs not doing anything
I think it was a horrible move to trade away the 38th pick to move up just 4 spots. Obviously they plan on using the 8th and 23rd pick to trade up in the top 5 or they wouldn't of made the trade for 23rd until Utah was on the clock and a player they wanted was still there cause that would be stupid.
I'm with the people that think this draft has good talent in the 20's and 30's and we only have 7 players under contract so to go from 3 picks to 1 is absolutely silly to me. I know there was news of the Knicks wanting to buy another 2nd round pick so if they end up trading 8 and 23 for a top 5 pick then i sure hope they buy at least one other pick somewhere in this draft.
I disagree that it's a horrible move. This seems to be considered a role player draft and sometimes quantity isn't quality. I don't think you're wrong that we should have waited for when the pick is on the clock but if you there's a guy Perrin really likes in the lottery, we should get it set up to try to make it happen. Plus now that we're at 23, we jump a bunch of teams that could be interested in Malachi Flynn or we'll have a better chance of someone like Maxey or Cole falling there.
I'm not one to feed into what these "draft experts" call these players cause every single year every one of these "draft experts" are wrong about multiple players and that's because there's no way to know what any player will be when he gets to the next level where it's a whole different game. Some players thrive in the NBA cause they fit better in the NBA style. Some players get stuck playing in a certain system in college with whatever place they decide to go but then you put them in a whole different type of system in the NBA and it just fits them better and again they thrive in that and then of course there's the thing of this kids simply growing and getting better at their craft and again thriving in the NBA. Nobody can see this before it happens.
Many of these players that are being called role players will end up starting level players in the NBA in 2-3-4-5 years or whatever it takes. Players that get drafted in the 20's and 30's will end up better NBA players then players that were drafted in the lottery or in the teens and it happens every year and the reason why is because there's no exact science to the drafts and as i said before you just can't predict what these kids will turn into.
