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o.iatlhawksfan · 10-20-2006, 09:23 PM

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...nes/hawks.html

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Instead of using the No. 2 pick on Paul, they went for Marvin Williams, who was the league's most disappointing rookie. I hadn't seen him much in college, and when I saw him last season I was really surprised that he wasn't more lively on the floor. Everybody knew he was raw, but I figured he would be a Stromile Swift type whose athleticism would give him a platform to improve. Instead he turned out to be an average NBA athlete with below average basketball skills. I just can't figure out what they saw in him to warrant such a high pick, because his athleticism isn't going to improve. He looks like the kind of guy who will have to develop a face-up game or some kind of skill to take bigger guys off the dribble at power forward. He needs to forget about being the No. 2 pick and work hard to develop a niche -- just because he went high in the draft doesn't guarantee that he's going to make it in the league ...

ATLien · 10-20-2006, 09:32 PM

Marvin was the consensus "best player in the draft" (according to ESPN, and all other publications) a year ago, and now he is on the fringe of not making it in the league?

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