Do We NEED To Get Two Draft Picks This Year?

[philbe311]

The only two PFs that I don't have any questions about are Brook Lopez and Darrell Arthur... All the others are huge question marks to me... Speights and Love would be my next tier... Guys like Magee, Ibeka, Thompson all have huge "bust" potential written all over them... Randolph is a player I need to research a little more...

I actually think the most underrated player in this draft is Richard Hendrix from Bama... He's a solid double double guy playing in the tough conference getting little or no respect... He may not fit into the Sixers athletic mold, but kid will a player...

[SendEm]

This draft like most others will not turn out to be very deep. There is no reason to make a play for another pick in the late 1st or early 2nd rd. Those guys will be roll of the dice type players who will never see court time.

At this time of the year, every draft seems like it will be deep. You hear players names all year, you read the bios and everyone sounds like they can be very good players by what you read. One guy has incredibile athleticism, the next guy is a beast in the post, the next guy can shoot the lights out, etc.. Blah Blah Blah. The reality is most guys don't translate to the NBA.

Just look at last year when we have the 3 #1's. I kept reading people on here who were begging for guys like Nick Fazekas, Glen Davis, Kopponen, Byars (how did he turn out?), Acie Law, Aaron Gray among many others. The reality is most of these guys are NBA stiffs. You probably have as good a chance to add a guy from the D league who will do more than 2nd rd picks will ever do. Of course there will be exceptions like Josh Howard, Ginobili, Parker, etc., but if they are so easy to spot, why do 25-30 other teams pass on them before they get picked? There will be one or two guys who fall into the steal category this year also, but there will be 20 guys who went ahead of them who are trash.

Great post. How can we forget about the great Nick Fazekas...