MrMiyagi wrote:bwgood77 wrote:Dunn can make the impact the quickest of guys we could have drafted, but he is a backup. But him and the shooters will show how good they are sooner, because it's easier to come in as a guard and hit a few shots than to come in as a big and make a difference. It's always that way. Almost always. Amare was different.
You think Dunn will be a backup or he'd be a backup here?
I get your concern, Miyagi, I do. But please do not forget that Dunn was a very mediocre shooter, was careless with the ball (overestimating his abilities in his passing acumen), and never posted better than a 2.23 Pure POINT Rating, While Ulis posted 5.79 and 7.25 during his two years in college. He also had much higher TO and PF rates compare to Ulis. Dunn's career FT% was 14 points lower than Ulis (83.5 vs 69.2). His career 3PT% was a tad lower (36.5% vs 37.3%). Dunn's best TS% (.55) equaled Ulis' lowest (5.5), and that wasn't even this year? The both provided about 25% of their team's total STLs. So on and so forth.
My point is simply that Dunn at 4 would not have been equal, or even close to the value we received with Ulis @ 34. Size was Dunn's only advantage. And at already being 2 years older than Ulis, 3.5 years older than Chriss and Bender, he's more of a finished product; the Suns are not, and aren't even close. Bledsoe/Knight, unless traded, would've seriously degraded any meaningful minutes for Dunn. And the fact that he's only 2 years younger than Knight, 4-5 years younger than Bledsoe, he's not adding much to our team, IMO.
I would've rather gone Dunn than Hield or Murray, but I'm not convinced Dunn was worth the 4th overall pick. Bender might not either; we just do not know, but at least he and Chriss have a real chance to earn real minutes this season.