Scoot McGroot wrote:Indy2thaWindy wrote:Almost everybody I knew thought Darko was a terrible pick. We didn't have internet back then, so I'm suprised to see that people at the time thought it was a good pick.
Darko was a unanimous top 3 pick going into that draft. Seriously. LeBron was a unanimous #1, and then people were arguing Carmelo vs. Darko for 2 and 3. Most pundits were advocating Darko for Detroit at #2 and Tayshaun was holding down SF well there, and was still young enough to have potential to continue to grow (he essentially topped out around that point), but weren't sure of Sheed's status at that point, as he was a headcase. However, I think the same pundits would've been fine with Carmelo at that pick as well. They were interchangeable at the time.
After that was the big drop off where Bosh and Hinrich were considered the next big guys. Wade jumped a bit at the end.
Like I said tho, I didn't have Internet so I didn't really know anything about him. That might be the reason why me and most of my friends thought it was a bad pick. We was watching Wade and Carmelo during the tourney at school. They let a lot of us do that or go to the gym and play basketball or football, because it was a way to keep us out of trouble. Back then we thought players like juan Dixon, Lonny Baxter, or Chris Duhon were gonna be superstars because we were kids who saw some players do good in college. It's a lot different now that I can see these players play more. I didn't know anything about Yao Ming when he was drafted. At the time I would have picked Jason Williams out of Duke number one, because I saw him play more. Like I said I was a kid.
