Bellinelli = Welsh

[turk3d]

-NELSON: What you

[SinceGatlingWasARookie]

I think he'll be more like Brent Barry (the younger version), which isn't a bad player to be compared to.

That is what I was thinking. I hope he is as emotionally mature as young Brent Barry. Talent wise, I am pretty sure Belinelli can do the same sort of things that Barry did.

[bargs]

-NELSON: What you

[old rem]

There's something to about every one of these posts-and we won't get the real answers until he plays some REAL minutes. Salim has more % from deep (or that's what he showed in college) while Reddick was a volume guy with perfect form on his J. Both lack the D to really make much impack---unless they can shoot in the NBA just like in college. Belli has decent quicks..handles...but he's yet to show enough D,and he's yet to show consistant shooting. He hasn't had near enough CHANCE to show anything,so,as with our OTHER #1 picks....you wonder why we draft guys who need floor time-developing-patience-commitment,when we have none of that stuff to give. Might as well trade the draft picks for some Croshere type who WILL get in some games.

Yeah....that would be a way to NOT become a contender. It would look Stupid. Sadly....it might be an improvement.

I didn't see Belli as the sensible pick at #18. We HAD a bunch of SG's and there was no reason to see Belinneli having an advantage over who we had.

[turk3d]

There's something to about every one of these posts-and we won't get the real answers until he plays some REAL minutes. Salim has more % from deep (or that's what he showed in college) while Reddick was a volume guy with perfect form on his J. Both lack the D to really make much impack---unless they can shoot in the NBA just like in college. Belli has decent quicks..handles...but he's yet to show enough D,and he's yet to show consistant shooting. He hasn't had near enough CHANCE to show anything,so,as with our OTHER #1 picks....you wonder why we draft guys who need floor time-developing-patience-commitment,when we have none of that stuff to give. Might as well trade the draft picks for some Croshere type who WILL get in some games.

Yeah....that would be a way to NOT become a contender. It would look Stupid. Sadly....it might be an improvement.

I didn't see Belli as the sensible pick at #18. We HAD a bunch of SG's and there was no reason to see Belinneli having an advantage over who we had.

If you consider that the FO does on occasion make some intelligent decisions, the Belli pick may have been an insurance move if they were considering moving J-Rich (may have had the trade in place) keeping in mind that they were probably unsure about Monta (also were planning on trying him at the point) and Bukie was too young and inexperienced. Bellie gave them some additional depth at the 2 spot which perhaps they knew J-Rich would be vacating. That would actually be somewhat logical.

[floppymoose]

I think the approach was simply BPA. The FO tried drafting for need with Diogu, passing on Bynum because they were high on Andris.

If we had drafted Bynum we would be playing with a KG/Bynum or KG/Biedrins frontline right now, sitting at the top of the western conference.

Marco may end up sucking forever, but at least he has some kind of upside as a reasonably sized guard with some pg skills and pretty amazing shooting mechanics. Williams was the last pick with really significant upside, and he went one spot ahead of us.

[bill curley II]

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If you consider that the FO does on occasion make some intelligent decisions, the Belli pick may have been an insurance move if they were considering moving J-Rich (may have had the trade in place) keeping in mind that they were probably unsure about Monta (also were planning on trying him at the point) and Bukie was too young and inexperienced. Bellie gave them some additional depth at the 2 spot which perhaps they knew J-Rich would be vacating. That would actually be somewhat logical.

If you look at how the draft transpired, out of the guys available, at the time of the draft, out of the general consensus, the BPO available was either Marco, Javaris, Daequan Cook, and Josh McRoberts (who slid to the 2nd round, so maybe there was something about wrong with him that wasn't published).

The guy I really wanted was Nick Young but he went 2 picks ahead, and even looking back at the draft now, there are a couple of useful players drafted after 18 like Glen Davis and Carl Landry, but no one really that makes you go "Goddammit Mully... you really f***ed up that pick."

[Mylie10]

I wanted Stuckey badly.

Last year I would have killed to trade up one spot to get Gay.

Belli will be OK. This is good for him to get acclomated to the league and the U. S.. I'm pretty sure we have ourselves a good player, so I'm not to worried.