80sballboy wrote:...EG might be nuts but he drafted Troy Brown Jr. Brooks is the one not playing him.
Well... I've already written this too many times, but...
What makes you think drafting Troy Brown #15 was a good move? The fact that he looks like a promising player? So what?
To make a good draft pick is to use an asset (the pick) well. The pick you have is like a certain amount of $$ -- you've made a good pick if you demonstrate that you got the maximum value available for that $$.
Suppose -- just suppose now, ok? -- we could have traded our #15 pick for Atlanta's #19 pick & their #34 pick. Now suppose that Troy Brown was still there at #19, & we picked him. & then we used that #34 pick on Mitchell Robinson? Wouldn't that be better than what we did? Yes, it would be -- by definition!
Of course, Troy might not have been there at #19, but in that case one of Kevin Huerter, Donte diVicenzo, or Lonnie Walker would have been. Or Landry Shamet or Spellman or robinson. Those guys have played something approaching 2500 minutes! Brown has played 75 minutes.
I'm not talking about how good a player Troy Brown is. I'm talking about whether our GM took the trouble to maximize his draft. Whether he worked hard enough to improve his team. Or whether he was a conceited, lazy time-server who is pretty much satisfied with everything he's ever done -- because, after all, *he* is the one who did it, so how bad could it be?
Go take a look at what Hamidou Diallo is doing as a rookie for OKC. He's killing it. He was taken #45, one pick after we made sure to sew up the rights to Issuf Sanon. Rather like how we picked Sato instead of Draymond or Middleton or Will Barton -- all of whom gave their teams 4 years of productivity before we ever laid eyes on Tomas!
For that matter, even if it's Brooks' fault Troy isn't playing -- who hired Brooks?
