KingSpeed

Tayshaun Prince

Carlos Boozer

Flip Murray

Dan Gadzuric

Darius Songalia

Rasual Butler


Amazing...

Target

...that we are going over this again?

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It's only a matter of time before Rip City Rules again!!

R-Star

Rasual Butler sucks. And what is the point of looking back at what could have been? You made out like bandits that year anyways by drafting Zack so low.

Reep

Your hindsite is amazing. Too bad it doesn't remember the other few posts that dealt with this same content.

tlong

What's the deal with people criticizing a post about the Blazer's lack of draft intelligence? What a bunch of lemmings!

TP3

depressing.

KingSpeed

We didn't draft Zach that year.

Kid_kanada

and MJ went third, what's the point?? It's not like the player drafted 19th will be better then the player drafted 20th every time, sometimes 20th is better, it happens and people move on.

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Ed O

Prince and Boozers are the only guys I'd clearly prefer to Woods, even in the current state of things. Krstic is a guy, too, I think, although he hasn't proven anything yet.

Given the potential Woods had at the time he was drafted, I think it was a good pick even if it turns out to be a flop.

It could be worse... we could have drafted a guy at #16 and waved him a couple of years later. Unlike Qyntel, who was an enigma with huge upside, Troy Bell was a big reach for Jerry West and the Grizz and it's no surprise to me that he's not panned out.

Ed O.

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"In the end, it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win -- if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last."

-- Sandy Koufax

Reep

Let's see . . . how about

www.basketballboards.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=121998&highlight=prince +boozer

or

www.basketballboards.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=119157&highlight=prince +boozer

or

www.basketballboards.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=119349&highlight=prince +boozer

And that's just in the last month.

My only comment is you can't look at those that turned out good without considering those that we passed on that didn't work out. Overall, Woods was as good a gamble as anyone else at that pick and much better than a whole bunch of picks that were made in front of him. You have to keep things in perspective.

MARIS61

You left out a couple hundred stiffs we could have drafted instead of Woods.

What we knew then, it was the right pick.

Still might turn out that way in the end.

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NateBishop3

I just remember being excited at the prospect of drafting a guy who was supposed to go in the top 10. I think that was the general consensus. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, loved that pick. I guess Bob Whitsitt is going to be blamed for this team's follies until the day he dies.

ProudBFan

What is with you, NathanLane? I'm about as anti-Qyntel as anyone here, but even I don't see the point of all the second-guessing you're doing yesterday/today.

And how can you be so dialed in on Qyntel's faults yet be so oblivious to Rasheed's?

What's done is done. Let it go. Take what you have right now and do the best you can with it.

PBF

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crandc

When you take chances in drafting, sometimes you do well and sometimes you get shafted. Hey, plenty of can't miss prospects miss.
Yeah, we all thought Woods was talented. He was. But there was a reason he dropped like a stone in the draft: marijuana and attitude. Not suprisingly Whitsitt didn't care. Blazers could have gotten lucky but didn't.
No point in going over and over it. But to say it's somehow unfair to blame Whitsitt for his pick, a pick other teams shied away from due to off-court issues when Whitsitt never saw an off-court issue he considered too major, is silly. Part of the "Whitsitt never made a mistake" mindset.
Woods was a mistake, we can't redo the 2002 draft. It's up to current leadership to clean up mistakes. It's not going to happen in one season but they are at least moving in the right way.