Post#1267 » by WizarDynasty » Thu Apr 5, 2012 4:56 pm
in the end, none of "this finding a diamond in the rough player that does some particularly well actually matter unless you seem him bringing back a starting caliber player on the trade market.
the only thing that seems to signficantly improve is a players free throw shooting. if you aren't targeting a player who is a two way player in college, that is also oversize for his position, with quick lateral ability and high basketball iq, you are pretty much wasting your time.
When you are as horrible and devoid of difference maker talent as the wizards are, plans to acquire role players really makes no sense. the history of the draft pretty much shows that outside the top 6 players, most players after that are bench players. The players who fall outside the top 6 who become starters normally fit the description of being oversized for their position, quick laterally, decent basketball iq, and showed the ability to be two way players in college. usully if they lack two these dimensions..at best they were bench players. so people here speculating on second round picks should realize that the odds of seeing a poor product five years down the line if EG is hoping to rebuild through picks outside of the top 6 are fooling themselves. This draft at best is going to get us one starter and if we have a skilled GM like weaver, we might get the chance to grab an ibaka or a batum. Players who were oversized for their position, with decent basketball iq's, with nice lateral quickness, who showed two way ability.
Any examination into nick young should have raised flags of low bbiq. Flags into Javale showed he had poor lateral quickness. Unfortunately for EG, we lost an entire season because EG didn't want to acknowledge that he made a mistake in thinking YOung was a longterm answer and didn't want to show Ted Leonsis just how little value his draft pick had in the league as far trade pieces.
You draft a player that is going to get you the highest return on the market 3 years down the line.
so the question really becomes, which of these late round picks can we upgrade into an asset that someone might trade a late lottery pick for if we can upgrade his value in two years. A perfect example is monta ellis. 2nd round pick and Udoh who late lottery--both combined allowed GS to get a number one overall draft pick. These is no way in the world Bucks would have traded Udoh and Young for Bogut. A horrible team needs an outstanding GM who transform late 1st round picks into late lottery assets. If you can't see a player commanding a late 1st round pick after you give him some great coaching and upgrading, then he isn't really worth it, especially if your team lacks significant talent base to acquire new assets. Wizards have no liquid talent that would command a high draft pick outside of john Wall and maybe Seraphin in a year. That's it. So only way to acquire talent is to have a Great GM upgrade late second round talent into lotto level talent. It takes a far seeing GM put it all together. EG has a horrible track recond at doing this and no one on this board has been successfull at predicting which 2nd round or late 1st round talents can now command late lottery picks.
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