Celts17Pride wrote:playa-hater wrote:I feel some on here would rather jump through a flaming hoop with a Motorcycle, Evel Knievel style, than admit Brad "may not" be good at drafting. Or at the least, he missed. Maybe more than once.
Draft picks like Walsh and Gonzalez are designed to show impact 3-5 years after they are drafted. Celtics know this when they draft them. The trick is to still be patient through the process. So far the Celtics have done that.
I'm guilty of playing the "shoulda picked my guy game". Heck, we'd have Giannis, Maxey and kept Bane, for starters. But of course it's never that simple.
I'm happy over overall with Walsh, Scheierman and Gonzalez even it they were not my first pick. The last time I got exactly what I wanted was probably Rob Williams, and some of the legacy stuff was from Ainge.
For Stevens, even though he knew the 2nd apron was unsustainable. He could not have predicted Tatum being out for a year and a domino effect that would lead to the departure of the team's top 3 centers. Otherwise, Filipowski would have been the obvious pick last year over Scheierman.
Walsh was a punt at 38, and he came at a good price while Brad traded back to gain more picks. He's just now starting to round into his adult form and I'm looking forward to him getting some minutes this year, warts and all. This may be his year to sink or swim.
Gonzalez was not really on my radar. Again, we didn't quite know that Kornet and Horford would be leaving, but the writing was on the wall, as it were, and it seemed that a big would be in the cards. I guess Brad didn't think that any of our list of suspects was going to contribute in the short term, or maybe those guys didn't want to end up on a two-way. In any case, it's water under the bridge at this point. Apparently the team is not even in the position to pick up Bassey.
So it's a down year, and we have some players at redundant positions and are missing quality at a position of need. I'm not ready to give up on the young guys, this is a development year.
