Rhetorically Speaking...
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Rhet(orically?)t Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
I've been having these ideas for the last 2/3 weeks that usher/malice (Don) and I would do some internet synch-up thing and do mock draft, team gradings and that sort of thing but since I can't be bothered sorting all those boys out I thought I'd just ask myself questions and answer them - so much easier and so much more polite.... So now onto interviewing myself:
Q: So TBF - how bad WAS this draft?
A: Great question TBF. This drat was so bad that had any of the top 4 players, currently projected, from next years draft nominated they would have gone #1. That means in 2013 I'm calling Rookies to beat Sophs now....
Q: Wow TBF that's a pretty big call. So there were no diamonds in the rough then?
A: Settle down TBF you devilishly good-looking scholar... No there were plenty of diamonds to be found - I just don't think they're going to show their "glimmer" for a couples of seasons is all.
Q: So who is your #1 diamond?
A: It's a big call but I'm going to say Nikola Mirotic. When that kids gets to the NBA he'll be so much better than he already is, and will slot into a twin-tower position for Chicago right alongside Noah. Flatout scary.
I do have to mention one other notable and that's Kenneth Faired in Denver. It's kind of ironic that K-Mart only started showing any remote signs of validating his contract in these last 2 seasons at Denver but I think Denver are about to be rewarded for their patience in a big way with Faried. He'll be the ying to Gallinari's yang with the two of them offering one hell of an inside-outside punch.
Re-sign Nenê and Denvers front line becomes extremely tough to handle and I imagine they won't give up too many second chances with Nene and Faried cleaning up inside.
Q: Zyrconia mistaken for diamond?
A: Say what?
Q: Sheesh... who went for a reach?!!?
A: JJ Reddick... I mean Jimmer Freddette.
Wait - same thing? Sacramento did all that work to get the Freddette pick when really he's a JJ Reddick clone with a "tad" more dribbling ability.
Honestly, for a team looking to rebuild I would have taken Biyombo and paired him with Cousins.
OR I would have just moved the pick in exchange for a future pick or experience. Jimmer will be a bust until he returns to Utah/Indiana where all white players go to retire....
Q: Best team on the day?
A: Best team on the day would have to be the Spurs. They turned George Hill into Kawhi Leonard and David Bertans - two things they needed for a player they were going to lose next off-season regardless. Many say that this now guarantees the now Ex-Mr Longoria's spot on the team - I don't buy it. They'll swing for the fences with Parker and get in someone more past first orientated or even an Aaron Brooks/Monta Ellis and let Ginobili run the show. Either way the Spurs just took 1 year off their re-build.
The Wizards did pretty well too - will be interesting to see if Vesely can fix that J because if he can then they got a great SF to run alongside Wall. And he can flat-out run.
Refusing to trade JaVale McGee was as good as an extra draft pick too.
Q: Hold on what about Milwaukee - surely their use of Ctrl-Z has to get a mention?
A: You said "on the day" - sheesh man what am I a mind reader???
Overall Milwaukee will be the team everyone is standardised against so far. They managed to lose the dead weight from last off-season, obtain one of the most underrated SF's in the game, and still grab two decent picks!! So i guess Milwaukee manouvered best on the day, but the Spurs draft best on the day - happy?
Q: So who was the biggest reach or is that obvious...?
A: It is and it isn't obvious!
I think Cleveland would have taken any half decent offer for pick 4 once Kanter was off the board and Utah had taken the phone off the hook because they had another white guy. By the same token, Valanciunas wasn't coming over for 2 years, Vesely was not a need, Knight was not a need, and Biyombo was an even bigger reach than Thompson!!!!
So in all honesty they "did what I would have done" but saying that I would have tried to trade down for a Morris twin plus a half-decent youngster. Charlotte for example - S-Jax + Morris twin for pick 4 and something..... You get the idea.
Q: Thanks for chatting!!!
A: Oh get f#%@ed you pretentious git...
Rhet(orically?)t Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
I've been having these ideas for the last 2/3 weeks that usher/malice (Don) and I would do some internet synch-up thing and do mock draft, team gradings and that sort of thing but since I can't be bothered sorting all those boys out I thought I'd just ask myself questions and answer them - so much easier and so much more polite.... So now onto interviewing myself:
Q: So TBF - how bad WAS this draft?
A: Great question TBF. This drat was so bad that had any of the top 4 players, currently projected, from next years draft nominated they would have gone #1. That means in 2013 I'm calling Rookies to beat Sophs now....
Q: Wow TBF that's a pretty big call. So there were no diamonds in the rough then?
A: Settle down TBF you devilishly good-looking scholar... No there were plenty of diamonds to be found - I just don't think they're going to show their "glimmer" for a couples of seasons is all.
Q: So who is your #1 diamond?
A: It's a big call but I'm going to say Nikola Mirotic. When that kids gets to the NBA he'll be so much better than he already is, and will slot into a twin-tower position for Chicago right alongside Noah. Flatout scary.
I do have to mention one other notable and that's Kenneth Faired in Denver. It's kind of ironic that K-Mart only started showing any remote signs of validating his contract in these last 2 seasons at Denver but I think Denver are about to be rewarded for their patience in a big way with Faried. He'll be the ying to Gallinari's yang with the two of them offering one hell of an inside-outside punch.
Re-sign Nenê and Denvers front line becomes extremely tough to handle and I imagine they won't give up too many second chances with Nene and Faried cleaning up inside.
Q: Zyrconia mistaken for diamond?
A: Say what?
Q: Sheesh... who went for a reach?!!?
A: JJ Reddick... I mean Jimmer Freddette.
Wait - same thing? Sacramento did all that work to get the Freddette pick when really he's a JJ Reddick clone with a "tad" more dribbling ability.
Honestly, for a team looking to rebuild I would have taken Biyombo and paired him with Cousins.
OR I would have just moved the pick in exchange for a future pick or experience. Jimmer will be a bust until he returns to Utah/Indiana where all white players go to retire....
Q: Best team on the day?
A: Best team on the day would have to be the Spurs. They turned George Hill into Kawhi Leonard and David Bertans - two things they needed for a player they were going to lose next off-season regardless. Many say that this now guarantees the now Ex-Mr Longoria's spot on the team - I don't buy it. They'll swing for the fences with Parker and get in someone more past first orientated or even an Aaron Brooks/Monta Ellis and let Ginobili run the show. Either way the Spurs just took 1 year off their re-build.
The Wizards did pretty well too - will be interesting to see if Vesely can fix that J because if he can then they got a great SF to run alongside Wall. And he can flat-out run.
Refusing to trade JaVale McGee was as good as an extra draft pick too.
Q: Hold on what about Milwaukee - surely their use of Ctrl-Z has to get a mention?
A: You said "on the day" - sheesh man what am I a mind reader???
Overall Milwaukee will be the team everyone is standardised against so far. They managed to lose the dead weight from last off-season, obtain one of the most underrated SF's in the game, and still grab two decent picks!! So i guess Milwaukee manouvered best on the day, but the Spurs draft best on the day - happy?
Q: So who was the biggest reach or is that obvious...?
A: It is and it isn't obvious!
I think Cleveland would have taken any half decent offer for pick 4 once Kanter was off the board and Utah had taken the phone off the hook because they had another white guy. By the same token, Valanciunas wasn't coming over for 2 years, Vesely was not a need, Knight was not a need, and Biyombo was an even bigger reach than Thompson!!!!
So in all honesty they "did what I would have done" but saying that I would have tried to trade down for a Morris twin plus a half-decent youngster. Charlotte for example - S-Jax + Morris twin for pick 4 and something..... You get the idea.
Q: Thanks for chatting!!!
A: Oh get f#%@ed you pretentious git...
