hands11 wrote:Jay81 wrote:this is sick per M Lee
Grunfeld has drafted one all-star in more than 20 years as an executive in New York, Milwaukee and Washington and Michael Redd, a second-round pick in 2000, hadn’t ascended to all-star status until after Grunfeld had moved on from the Bucks (He selected Devin Harris on behalf of Dallas in 2004).
How many top 5 picks did he have ? That is where most the AS come from.
The draft is just one piece of the puzzle. You get top 5 picks and you likely get all stars. He did bring in CB for Kwame which was a steal. He got Gil on the open market. He was another all star. He got AJ for L8ner. He sent AJ to CLE and got a first round pick and cleared cap. He did magic with cap space turning VV ( I think ) into Kip who got us Crawford and a pick that got combined with another pick and turned in I think Booker or was it Kevin. He got rid of Gils toxic contract and influence and opened the team up to let Wall grow and save cap space. Lewis turned into Oka and Trevor. He got Nene for NY and McGee.
He had the #1 and got Wall. No brainer when you have the first pick unless you do a trade down to 2-5 and more assets. More risky but can work sometimes.
He had the #6 and got Ves. Not enough time to see that produces the results it can. Ves was an upside project. Could have down a trade down but they wanted to tank another year ( strike year ) which is why we have the #3 this year.
They had the #5 and took a swing for the fences. That is the one most are upset about. But MM was/has been/is one of the best 3 pt shooters in the league and they needed that help with that and Randy is the SG on the LAC who are a good team and made a nice playoff run. We didn't like it and it didn't work out but when your owner says win now, you swing for it.
So EG and Ted have made nice moves. EG and Abe made some also but they locked in to early and it blow up.
I like the roster we have now. The cap space is fine and we have the #3 pick. I'm not complaining.
I wonder if the cap space cleared by letting Miller and Foye walk was the main reason we were able to trade VV and cap space for what eventually turned into Booker and Seraphin. So after all the smoke cleared, that's what we got for the #5 pick (and various misc second rounders).
If you look at it that way, that trade is a little less heinous, although it makes the trade for Okafor more of a head scratcher -- finally KS starts to blossom, and you immediately go out and bury him on the depth chart?
