Mock Draft Profiles of 1996 ?

ahwi_quacoe · Post #1 » by **ahwi_quacoe** » Wed Jun 4, 2008 3:47 am

Does anyone have the Mock draft profiles of 1996 ? I just thought it would be interesting to see what was said about these players back then with the insight we have now .

UptownPhilly · Post #2 » by **UptownPhilly** » Wed Jun 4, 2008 4:05 am

Here's a site that may be helpful:

http://www.ibiblio.org/craig/draft/1996 ... draft.html

SendEm · Post #3 » by **SendEm** » Wed Jun 4, 2008 4:05 am

I recall there being a Marbury as #1 overall group and a AI #1 group. Larry Brown certainly was a Marbury guy...1996 was a little bit before the internet became filled with websites dedicated to scouting and sports. Back then it was HUGE for some guy to make like a geocities webpage with his thoughts about the prospects etc..Now people like him own well known sports/scouting websites.

I found this http://www.ibiblio.org/craig/draft/1996 ... /list.html
"Iverson should be picked in the top 5."

SendEm · Post #4 » by **SendEm** » Wed Jun 4, 2008 4:12 am

Roletagg wrote:Here's a site that may be helpful:

http://www.ibiblio.org/craig/draft/1996 ... draft.html

That's crazy. We posted the same site at the same minute.

UptownPhilly · Post #5 » by **UptownPhilly** » Wed Jun 4, 2008 4:15 am

Indeed. You're right though. These type of things weren't huge on the internet in the mid-nineties. I think it wasn't until Y2K that the internet really blew up, and people put all of their stock/life into these types of things.

carltong23 · Post #6 » by **carltong23** » Wed Jun 4, 2008 5:30 am

Steve Nash: "...comparisons to Stockton are skin deep..."

Post #7 » by **tk76** » Wed Jun 4, 2008 2:22 pm

I remember AI was very much the consensus #1 by the draft. There had been some discussion the weeks before. 2-6 was very much up in the air.

I remember being excited to see AI, but disappointed there wasn't a franchise big like Shaq or Duncan.

ahwi_quacoe · Post #8 » by **ahwi_quacoe** » Wed Jun 4, 2008 3:05 pm

So I guess Kobe wasn't a mystery but was well on his way to becoming what he is today. You get the feeling that they knew he was going to be successful sooner than later.

Post #9 » by **The Guilty Party** » Wed Jun 4, 2008 3:12 pm

tk76 wrote:I remember AI was very much the consensus #1 by the draft. There had been some discussion the weeks before. 2-6 was very much up in the air.

I remember being excited to see AI, but disappointed there wasn't a franchise big like Shaq or Duncan.

Spot on, ol' chap. I had season tickets in 95-96 and I remember there being a group of us in our section all agreeing that Iverson was the obvious pick if he came out. The idea of an Iverson-Stackhouse backcourt seemed pretty damn exciting back then.

Post #10 » by **tk76** » Wed Jun 4, 2008 4:00 pm

Back when they called the arena "Stack's House." That didn't last long.

SendEm · Post #11 » by **SendEm** » Wed Jun 4, 2008 4:12 pm

ahwi_quacoe wrote:So I guess Kobe wasn't a mystery but was well on his way to becoming what he is today. You get the feeling that they knew he was going to be successful sooner than later.

The thing with Kobe was that everyone could clearly see that he could play and had great pedigree but no one knew how long it would take a 6'6" 18 year old scorer to adjust to a "grown man's game." People looked at Garnett at the end of the day as still being a near seven footer coming out of high school so there was more chance of success on some level due to his height. But once I heard that Kobe was beating Stackhouse in 1 on 1 games I knew that he was guaranteed to be a legit NBA player.