draft

Fri May 4 12:42:51 CDT 2007

Perhaps some are overrating danny's drafting ability.

2003 was a disaster.  Marcus banks ahead of players like david west, leandro barbosa, boris diaw, luke walton, and josh howard to name a few.  Heck the 2 picks right after kendrick perkins (4 points, 5 rebounds per game) were barbosa and howard.  Zaza pachulia went 42nd.  I give the 2003 draft an F.

2004 was much better.  Jefferson was the right pick at 15.  And taking delonte and tony allen were solid as well.  The pick right after allen and west was kevin martin who is arguably better than both of them though (arguably, not definitively).  Overall, I would give ainge an A for this draft.

2005 is a huge quesiton mark.  We took green ahead of hakim warrick, david lee, jarret jack, luther head, and 22 picks ahead of monta ellis.  So was Green the right pick?  Isn't monta elllis much more polished and the same age?  I think the jury is still out here.  Gomes was a steal at the end of the draft but i am not convinced he is anything other than an 8th-9th man on a good team.  the classic glue guy, nothing wrong with that though, especially so late in the draft.  Hard to rate this draft because Green can really go either way right now.  i'd give Danny a B on this one, largely because of Gomes.

2006 is another failure.  Danny decided the talent was not as good as sebastian telfair and thus traded foye/roy (foye actually went #7, not sure if we would have swapped him for roy) for telfair.  It is still too early to judge rondo but we could have had marcus williams or jordan farmar among others.  Out of those 3, i can't say who is going to be better, too early to tell (hopefully it is rondo).  However, deciding the talent wasn't good enough in the top 7 and trading it for telfair gives ainge a D.  At #21 there were a number of players he could have taken over rondo that could be argued as being better or worse, too early to tell on that one.

So by my count
2003: F
2004: A
2005: B
2006: D (maybe a C if you think rondo is really going to be a stand out, i just don't know right now, but danny gave up huge potential here).

So is danny really that great of a drafter?  Or is he just good at finding a rotation guy (gomes, powe) when other people have given up?  I thnk the record is mixed.

rmn

>From: Steve Ouellette <bosox18 at charter.net>
>Date: 2007/05/04 Fri AM 11:30:42 CDT
>To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List <celtics at igtc.com>
>Cc: steve knight <stevebknight at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: draft

>I have a lot of faith in Danny's drafting ... but there's no way he finds anyone comparable to Durant later in the draft. If they get pick 1 or 2, they're not dealing it. If it's later than that, anything could happen.
>
>Steve O
>
>---- steve knight <stevebknight at yahoo.com> wrote: 
>> well, it's clear now. ainge wants defense. if we have
>> the first pick, it's oden. if the second pick, don't
>> be shocked if he gives up durant and trades down a
>> couple picks for someone else on his wish list and a
>> rock-solid starter. as much as i'd love to see durant
>> on this team, i would trust danny to trade down given
>> his success in finding good young talent. as long as
>> he gets a solid vet in the process. and i'm not
>> talking a borderline starter. i'm talking a josh
>> howard level of talent.  
>> 
>> think 2 for 1 unless we get the top pick. done right,
>> it will make red proud.    
>> 
>> 
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