agoo101284

I've said several times that Ainge drafts high schoolers and college upperclassmen. Well, what if he was here in 2001 when we had three first round picks? Obviously, Kedrick Brown would be out, as would Joe Johnson (take the good with the bad there kids). I'm led to believe that we would have ended up with Troy Murphy and Richard Jefferson at 10 and 11. At 21, Joe Forte, a sophomore, would not have been considered. We could have ended up with Jamaal Tinsley, a senior, there.

In 2000, we went with Moiso at 11 when seniors available included Etan Thomas (who I love), Desmond Mason, and Jamaal Magloire.

I know it sucks to bring up with '01 draft, but its interesting to consider.

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#1AntoineWalkerFan

or we couldve had murphy, jefferson and tony parker...sighhhhhh...kinda depressing huh??

P-Dub34

Very much so.

Anima

Premier

Well, our bad picks really had nothing to do with management (Chris Wallace), I believe. Jim O'Brien was lobbying for Kedrick Brown as he needed an athletic wing in his defense. Joe Forte was Red Aurebach's pick.

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ehmunro

Actually, Keddrick Brown was Wallace's pick. The Trailblazers approached him about acquiring one of the Cs' lottery picks to select KB (they were offering Wells and #18), which is when the Pilsbury Draftboy went to work scouting him. O'Brien just wanted athletic guys that could shoot, Joe Johnson was his guy, not Brown. Case in point, Phoenix requested either Johnson or Brown in the Rogers/Delk trade. Do you think O'Brien wanted to lose the guy that was playing to hold on to the guy buried on the end of the bench? And Forte didn't become "Red's pick" until after Joe's summer league stint, when it dawned on the Pilsbury Draftboy that Leo Papile was right, and that Parker & Arenas were better. Then Wallace began passing around the "Well, Red wanted him" excuse. But the reality was that he severely overvalued Forte and drafted him in spite of the prevailing wisdom that Forte was a washout waiting to happen.

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