hillbilly hare wrote:In a sense, Colangelo was "right" not to pick Drummond, because our GM hadn't done his homework before the draft. It would've meant drafting Drummond "blind". But the question then becomes, why didn't Colangelo get up off his arse and do the job that he gets paid very well to do? That is the huge failure on his part. And should be the last straw for all the mistakes he's made as our GM.
This draft puts Colangelo in Babcock Territory, when the latter passed on drafting Andrew Bynum. Like Babock, Colangel should be fired ASAP, as in tomorrow. Then we can get on with the rebuild, which will never happen while he's here to screw things up.
I'd be surprised if one of the highest paid GM's in the NBA, the Raptors' President of Basketball Operations, didn't do his homework. It's probably more like he made an error in judgement or assessment.
Drummond was a high risk, high reward prospect, a project. Given the Raptors desperately need talent on the roster I thought on draft night when BC was on the clock and Drummond available, he'd be picked. But to everyone's shock, he picked Ross.
BC said Ross was NBA ready and thus fit his "win now" declaration at end of last season. It turns out (so far) that Ross is no more NBA Ready than Drummond. Another error in judgement in a long series of errors he's made in the past 7 years.