The Consiglieri wrote:dandridge 10 wrote:I think its way, way too early to call Beal a bust. However, I don't think its too early to express some concern. Beal came out of high school billed as a elite shooter. However, through his first year in college and the beginning of his pro career he has been anything but. Moreover, he hasn't shown that killer instinct that you would have from a potential star player. Last night was a perfect example. When Mullens switched on him last night in double overtime, Beal's eyes shot have lit up and he should have went right at him. Instead, you could tell he just wanted to get rid of the ball.
Again, Beal is very, very young, and he certaintly has plenty of time to turn it around. He certainly seems coachable, has good instincts, shooting mechanics, etc so I am not going to write him off. However, I think its not too early to express concern on whether he has that "it" factor.
And, while I think Beal will turn out to at least be a good player, the thing that concerns me the most is that there is certainly a chance that our 1st, 3rd, and 6th picks in the last couple of drafts don't amount to anything more. When you have that many low picks, you have to at least get one all-star and at least one borderline all-star to truly rebuild. I'm not sure one of our low picks are close to either type of player. That scares me.
i expect Wall to be at worst, a very good player, I already think he's a good one. Vesely, a busted pick in a busted draft. The sad fact is that draft was bad to begin with, and when we got completely hosed in the lottery for the umpteenth time AND refused to trade up, but got fixated on a guy with no seemingly discernible technical skills and no shot, that draft was botched. This draft considering where we were slotted, offered no players with elite potential at a position of need, only Drummond, and maybe Lillard struck me as guys with potential greatness in him (All the barnes hype is silly to me, hes in a perfect situation, and it shows, and he's a professional and always was, his problem has always been passivity and an inability to live up to his potential on the court, and he has 70 college games at an elite instititution with elite coaching where he should have been the #1 option and wasn't even the #2 to show these faults). The one miss we may regret, to me, is Drummond. If he gets it, he'll be great. And we would have easily shoved Seraphin aside for what he could be. That could hurt in time. Nobody else other than maybe Lillard, and he was a PG.
While this may not have been a HOF pick, this is was what I was thinking that year.
http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Nik ... evic-5828/
We sure could use a young center prospect. I think this kid is going to keep getting better.
If a trade down was possible that year they would have picked from
Markieff Morris or Nikola Vucevic or Kenneth Faried to address the front court and added
Marshon Brooks as the SG prospect.
Personally, I was leaning toward Nikola Vucevic and Brooks but clearly Faried would have been a good pick.
That would have made for a nice draft. Then even if they did go Beal this year, the roster would look a lot better.
Wall/Livingston/Price
Brooks/Crawford/Beal
Trevor A/Webster
Nene/Kevin/Booker
Nikola/Okafor
They would probably still stink this year with Wall and Nene injured, but you could have two young prospects who would already be productive that add things to the team needs. Then they could go into this draft focused on adding a SF and depth at any position. Seems they are a year behind because of the Ves, Singleton draft. Maybe both will still work out, but I would have preferred adding players who had a little more offense.
