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I wanted Nick Young at SG. Our backcourt is a pretty much 70 years old combined.
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throw grandpa al in there, were now a combined 100 years old. lol.
I still just cant believe it. I thought after an hour id have gotten used to the fact, but i really and truly do not know what the clippers were thinking. Even if nick young was gone, thornton is not the right pick for the team. But with nick there, they blow it still.
Second round pick is useless, already its been stated theres little to no chance of them making the team. This was the chance to build for the future. We blew it, plain and simple. Thornton, where is his minutes going to come from? He cant play guard, and his undersized perhaps for PF, and for sure cant play center. at PF, brand is going to get about all the minutes, and thomas gets what little minutes left there. At SF, ross started much of the year last year, then youve got thomas playing there as well, and of course our supposed "second best player" on the team, maggette there as well.
The ONLY hope we can have is if he turns out to be a david lee-ish surprise that allows us to trade tim thomas. But honestly thats wishful thinking looking at his age. Bynum is like 6 years younger than the guy and is going in his third year in the league. Korolev is about what 4 years younger and is in his third year?
Meanwhile look at other teams improving themselves and making moves. portland got a first round draft pick, rudy fernandez, who probably if this was last year would have been top 10, for a 2009 second rounder. the warriors got brandon wright for jason richardson. (come on, maggette and his expiring deal plus a future first is better than jason richardson). We could have easily had brandon wright, the guy many say was the 3rd best player in the draft, and probably would have gone 1 if this was last years draft.
Teams making good picks all over the place. Look at san antonio. They get two guys who were slated to be top 10 last year: Marcus williams and tiago splitter, with their late picks.