"need an impact player"

[Mark Piotrowski]

>  i agree that we need an impact player -- but am increasingly afraid
>  that we'll be picking between Foye, M. Williams, Splitter and S.
>  Williams.... none of whom excite me to the point of wanting to keep
>  the pick.
>

>I'm starting to get the same feeling. I would be perfectly content 
>with Thomas, Bargnani, Aldridge, Gay or Roy (less so with Morrison, 
>but I think he'll go top 3), but if those six go before them, I'm 
>not as enamored with the next group of guys. Foye or Carney or 
>Brewer or or Splitter one of the Williams boys could be fine, but 
>I've got questions about all of them.

i guess that's the reason i'd take a risk on Telfair w/ the 7 should 
we end up with it...  he's shown he can play in the NBA.  Will he be 
better than Marcus Williams? or even Marcus Banks?  who knows...i 
haven't broken down enough film but we do know that he's only 20, 
still adapting to the speed of the game.

He did avg 10 ppg, 3 asst and a 2:1 A/TO ratio despite playing behind 
2 other guys on a bad POR team.

And the one thing he has is natural PG instincts -- something we 
always complained Banks didn't have, and that is something you 
genearlly can't teach.

>
>Hopefully someone will slip up ahead of the Celts. But I won't start 
>stressing until after the draft lottery.
>
>...
>
>I don't know if the No. 7 pick plus another first-rounder for a guy 
>who hasn't done anything in two years since he was the No. 13 pick 
>is buying low. I'd rather draft Marcus Williams than deal for 
>Telfair.
>
>Steve O

the MIN doesnt bother me as much -- b/c its so protected for so long. 
There's a small chance it would be a very good pick, but much more 
likely a mid rounder in 2011 or so.

(the other) mark