tsherkin wrote:Anticon wrote:2006 was arguably worse, as they passed on Granger twice.
I was on RealGM Radio during that draft, lmao. With Harry Palmer and Aaron Bronsteter. Wonderful time; those were two great.
But man, I was SALTY about that pick...
I was at my first ever draft watch party. More than half of us (we had about a dozen people there) wanted Granger at 7. A few guys like Gerald Green. We figured getting either one would be a win.
We took CV at 7 who turned out alright, but none of us were that enthralled with him at the draft. Like, why draft another PF beside Bosh? Questionable fit esp when we had other positions of need at the time. But whatever, we figured you can't go wrong with size, and maybe it'll be a twin tower thing. Cool.
Then Granger (and Green) kept dropping (I think many of us had Granger as a top 10 pick), we screamed with joy when it was our turn to pick. We were all thinking - there's no way we don't take him now, right? He was clearly BPA and played a position of need for athleticism and all-around game on the wing. Perfect pairing with Bosh. Worst case, we take the other guy in Green, who I think we kinda viewed as a similar player - great athlete and can play the wing.
The silence that fell over the party when we called Joey Graham's name. I've never really seen a party go from 100 to 0 so quickly. We took 2 guys who projected to play the same position as our burgeoning star player. Joey was technically a SF due to height, but he operated in the same areas as Bosh (primary at the rim, secondary long 2's). It was dumbfounding.
That was our "reward" for trading VC. Joey Graham. We got Mourning, the 2 Williams, Joey Graham, and a pick we never used (It was traded as a salary dump with Jalen Rose for AD who played 8 games, got waived, then retired...which is just another inept chapter in our putrid trade history that seems to have been forgotten). INSANE.
