Phenomenal Draft

[AHF]

4 hours ago, NBASupes said:

He clearly needs to develop at the SG position. But his PG skills are good, not advanced like CP3 but good. His scoring, shooting and passing is off the charts

You mean PG not SG, right?  

[nathan2331]

I think he means SG. To develop his off ball skills.

You mean PG not SG, right?  

[Flight]

I've actually seen a lot of writers declare us as "Winners" from this draft and say they liked our draft overall. It's like a complete 180 from reading the opinions of my own team's fanbase smh.

[deester11]

1 minute ago, Flight said:

I've actually seen a lot of writers declare us as "Winners" from this draft and say they liked our draft overall. It's like a complete 180 from reading the opinions of my own team's fanbase smh.

I didn't expect that but you're right.  Most feel like both Dallas and Atlanta won.

[Flight]

1 minute ago, deester11 said:

I didn't expect that but you're right.  Most feel like both Dallas and Atlanta won.

Yeah, I guess our standards are just higher than they should be or something. Most are saying it's good for both teams and you can't declare a true winner or loser until you see how they pan out.

 

[AHF]

4 hours ago, Flight said:

you can't declare a true winner or loser until you see how they pan out.

 

That is elementary.  You can't truly grade a draft until like 5 years later and your grades will be even better 10 or 15 years later.  

[NBASupes]

2 minutes ago, AHF said:

That is elementary.  You can't truly grade a draft until like 5 years later and your grades will be even better 10 or 15 years later.  

He's right. We can grade it now but the real score won't be seen to till year 3

[thecampster]

5 hours ago, Flight said:

I've actually seen a lot of writers declare us as "Winners" from this draft and say they liked our draft overall. It's like a complete 180 from reading the opinions of my own team's fanbase smh.

So...funny thing here.  When I was in Bosnia and escorting journalists, you would have been surprised how many of them came to do a story and did "zero" homework before showing up. I spent a lot of time giving journalists backgrounds and points of research in between their interviews. They'd do "interview 1" and then later ask me for details about things the soldier said. I'd explain a few things, give him research locations..go to interview 2 and he'd do his research in between. Do "interview 2", rinse, repeat. The journalists would come to country with 1 opinion and a pre-written article angle and then go back and write a completely different article.

I'm suspecting its very similar pre-draft with sports journalists...especially for picks outside the top 10. These guys aren't watching 30-40 college games a year outside of the tourney. They aren't scouring advanced stats and they aren't researching lower picks. I'm thinking they are just going off hearsay and since most are doing it, it creates a phony hype around players.  They hear a name, an angle and run with it until after the draft when fans want details.