NBA Draft

by **Brent Burns** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:31 am

I just read through the first two rounds of the NBA Draft, and it is interesting to see that the 4 UNC players have been picked in the first round. What I don't understand is that I did not see either Dallas or Houston picking any players. Are they waiting for the later rounds? I also noticed some high school players have been picked including C.J. Miles from Skyline HS (TX) who was picked by the Utah Jazz (he was the 34th overall pick). Looks like there were no surprises, no gasps, etc.

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by **byualum** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:54 am

Dallas has not had a 1st round pick in 4 of the last 5 years due to trading those picks away.

I thought Denver (Julius Hodge) and Indiana (Danny Granger) had good drafts...Toronto had a brutal draft taking Villanueva at #7...much too high and he's the same player as Chris Bosh (just not as good).

by **Rob Graff** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:55 am

Brent:
With due respect, there were a number of surprises.

1. Danny Granger falling to 17

2. Green falling to the Celtics.

3. Timberwolves drafting McCants (GRRR - NOT happy about this).

4. Villenueva being drafted at 7 by Toronto.

5. Many Euro's falling out of 1rst round.

6. Fran Vasquez going to Orlando in the Lottery

I'm an NBA draft geek.

Rob

by **ACE** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:01 am

There were some very odd picks starting at about #6. That led to some steals by the 15-19 teams. Indiana cleaned up with Danny Granger who I think can help them right away. Boston got a phenominal athlete in Gerald Green at #18, many thought Green would go #6. Joey Graham was a nice pick. Antoine Wright at #15 I thought was a steal for New Jersey, but he'll only help off the bench for now since they still have Vince Carter and richard Jefferson. I was hoping that Antoine would hold out til #18 to go to my Celtics, but I think I can live with Green! Plus they got another good one in the second round with Gomes.

by **Brent Burns** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:56 am

I am waiting to see if Jessexy will respond to C.J. Miles out of Skyline HS playing for Utah Jazz.

by **ACE** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:12 am

I doubt he will play for the Jazz. Without the guaranteed contract of being a first round pick, he'll play for Texas for at least a year, then re-enter the draft.

by **TexOle** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:16 am

C.J. Miles and his family were quite clear that if taken in the second round he would go to UT. They said under no circumstances would he go to the NBA if drafted in the second round. We will see though. He has not signed an agent.

by **FlockOfSeagulls** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:39 am

Gerald Green is a total freak. He might not be the best player in the draft, but he'll be the most fun to watch, for sure.
And did yall catch the part where he said that he wants his contract incentives to be education-based? Thought that was fairly refreshing.

by **Sonny** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:20 pm

J. Hodge is overrated. Denver will find that out very soon.

A whole boatload of SEC players left early and didn't get drafted.

Some of the high schoolers were drafted lower then expected (or not at all). Most of them would have been better off with a few years major college ball under their belts.

The European players continue to come to the NBA in droves.

I'm sick of teams drafting players for their "upside potential." As gifted as he is, Marvin Williams (UNC, 2nd pick for ATL) didn't even started for the Heels.

That's all I got.

by **Sonny** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:22 pm

Don't forget that Utah had the No. 1 pick in the NFL (QB Alex Smith) and the No 1 pick in the NBA (C Bogut). First time ever that has happened. Props to the Utes.

by **bste_lax** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:41 pm

Bill Simmons AKA The Sports Guy's running blog of the draft:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... 0629&num=0

His running blogs of any event are always good.

As a Mavs fan, this draft was quite boring.

by **goonercb21rf** on Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:21 pm

Green and Granger will be great picks for their teams....I think Nate Robinson will be effective as well, but the Knicks will be a disaster. Trading Kurt Thomas for another guard doesn't make any sense, and drafting Channing Frye won't be the answer to their frontcourt questions. Frye is soft.

The Lakers went ahead and threw up "rebuilding" signs....Bynum is a TERRIBLE pick.

Best case scenario: He develops into a decent player in the 3 years he's under contract, with the lakers needing to dish out serious coin to keep him. We all see how decent 7 footers do on the free agent market.

Worst case scenario: He ends up riding the pine like Darko until someone from Hollywood realizes how much he looks like Gary Coleman and inserts him into "Cash Call" commercials and an re-make of the movie "Twins".

by **byualum** on Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:10 am

Sonny wrote:Don't forget that Utah had the No. 1 pick in the NFL (QB Alex Smith) and the No 1 pick in the NBA (C Bogut). First time ever that has happened. Props to the Utes.

Both will be busts...take it from a BYU grad...Rashad McCants will win Rookie of the Year next year.

by **Brent Burns** on Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:15 am

byualum wrote:Rashad McCants will win Rookie of the Year next year.

We all will remember what you said about McCants being the NBA ROY. :wink:

by **Dan Wishengrad** on Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:06 am

Interesting that all the mock drafts I had read had Diogu going late first round at best, and he goes #9 instead. Rony Turiaf is a steal in the second round. Hate seeing Martell Webster get drafted, he had committed to play for Washington but will spend the next few years picking bench-pine splinters out of his butt instead. Oh, well...

Good draft for the state of Washington though: state prepsters Marvin Williams, Martell Webster and Nate Robinson all go in first round.

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