JMAC3 wrote:I almost wish he would have announced who we were taking lol.... I just want this to be over.
Instead, we have everyone trying to decipher every quote to say "oh they are taking him, or oh if that is true shouldn't they be taking him instead?...
The amount of conviction some fans have for 1 guy over the guy ranked 1 spot lower is kind of nuts. Heck many boards have him #2 and people still are up in arms. Just wild to me.
Jaden Ivey, Jabari Smith were both guys fans were diehard to go #1 last year and neither even made 1st team NBA.
Nobody had Haliburton as a top 5 pick a few years ago, there were people on our board who wanted Wiseman so bad they would of traded 3 and Bridges for him...Plenty of people had both Ball and Fultz ahead of Tatum... So many people were die hard Hezonja fans heading into the draft... I mean 100s of examples that don't even have anything to do with Hornets where people were just flat wrong.
Everything always looks so obvious when you look back on it, but it almost never is.
I mean, we also have plenty of examples of the Hornets making decisions that were flat out wrong as well, which probably factors a helluva lot more into why people are worried/concerned here than what some other random team did years ago. And having lived through most of these decisions, while there are times where fans want one player and they don't end up working out, that almost always coincides with the team picking another player and them still not working out, soooo yeah.
Factor all that in with the fact that Scoot has been the consensus #2 behind Wembanyama for at least a year now (and the only reason he has been replaced by Miller in a few cases is because of our particular interest in him), teams are talking about trading up to draft Scoot and no one (?) is doing the same to trade up and draft Miller, etc., I can see why fans are nervous that we are going to screw this up as we have so many times in previous drafts.
