<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NetsDaily)</div><div class='quotemain'>The Nets have needs at several positions, writes Matt Kamalsky in Draft Express’ review of team needs, but don’t expect Rod Thorn to reach down in the draft just for instant gratification. Instead, the team is likely to go for the best available at each spot. ”If the Nets don’t like the big men that are on the board” at #10, expect them to go small and find a big man later, Kamalsky argues.</div> NBA Team Needs: Atlantic Division - Matt Kamalsky - Draft Express I hope he sticks with this, and actually does select the BPA. Although, lately, we've had a good track record picking for needs...even tho you could say they were BPA at the time, as well.
I agree. Great picks like Antoine Wright and Marcus Williams not only were the best players available but they really filled a need.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ghoti @ Jun 15 2008, 05:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I agree. Great picks like Antoine Wright and Marcus Williams not only were the best players available but they really filled a need.</div> Don't forget Mile Ilic and Zoran Plananic!
i dont like how our frontcourt is shaping up. boone, sean, swift, diop, draft pick... all one dimensional at this point. no real big with any offensive skill
Diop will not be a Net next season. Swift is a moot point, he is not in the Nets plans past next year. Boone, Sean and Krstic will be the key bigs to watch.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jizzy @ Jun 15 2008, 06:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>i dont like how our frontcourt is shaping up. boone, sean, swift, diop, draft pick... all one dimensional at this point. no real big with any offensive skill</div> Depends on what you call "offensive skill". Our bigs aren't Elton Brands or Kevin Garnetts, but how many of them in the league? Boone is a very good around the basket player and succeeds in put-backs and lay-ups, Krstic is a different story, good shooter and that's it. If only we could combine them in some kind of Bookic...
I'm tired of picking up bigs that can never be a star player. I know not every pick is going to be amazing but how many bigs are we going to roll with.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jizzy @ Jun 15 2008, 06:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>i dont like how our frontcourt is shaping up. boone, sean, swift, diop, draft pick... all one dimensional at this point. no real big with any offensive skill</div> Why do you persist in denigrating Boone? He is better than anyone expected when the nets drafted him. In the past ten years, how many bigs drafted in the 20s have become relaible contributors? How many players drafted after him in 2006 have contributed more thus far in their careers? Here are the TWENTY FIVE players drafted immediately after Boone (I've marked the bigs): Kyle Lowry Shannon Brown Jordan Farmar Sergio Rodriguez Maurice Ager Mardy Collins Joel Freeland (PF) James White Steve Novak Solomon Jones (PF) Paul Davis (PF) PJ Tucker Craig Smith (PF) Bobby Jones Kosta Perovic © David Noel Denham Brown James Augustine (PF) Daniel Gibson Marcus Vinicius Lior Eliyahu Alexander Johnson (PF) Dee Brown Paul Millsap Vladimir Veremeenko Here are the 14 players selected immediately BEFORE Boone: Patrick O'Bryant © Saer Sene © JJ Redick Hilton Armstrong © Thabo Sefolosha Ronnie Brewer Cedric Simmons (PF) Rodney Carney Shawne Williams Oleksei Pecherov (PF) Quincy Douby Renaldo Balkman Rajon Rondon Marcus Williams OK, including Boone I just list 40 players . . . how many would you rather have, in retrospect? And it is more than just being better than the rest of his draft class--Boone has some legit skill around the basket.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dumpy @ Jun 15 2008, 09:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>That's what I wrote!</div> Valeri sounds sexier.
it works for val kilmer. if my kids were boys, i wanted to name them valeri or dmitri, but Mrs. Dumpy kind of objected. I think they are both cool names.
dmitri is german rite? or russian? well i have a baby on the way and if its a boy its jude tyler ^^ if a girl its dani-madison
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dumpy @ Jun 15 2008, 09:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>it works for val kilmer. if my kids were boys, i wanted to name them valeri or dmitri, but Mrs. Dumpy kind of objected. I think they are both cool names.</div> dmitri is badass. i think val kilmer is just val though, it's not shortened.
Honestly Boone has been pretty good considering where he was picked. Most bigs that aren't in the lottery bust and those who turn into great players are few and far between. Is Boone our answer, probably not, but he is a great player to have coming off your bench.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (danxcr @ Jun 15 2008, 08:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>dmitri is german rite? or russian? well i have a baby on the way and if its a boy its jude tyler ^^ if a girl its dani-madison</div> Russian. in Russia it's pronounced as Dmitriy.
ahhh ok ok remember playin ice hockey when i was younger and i recalled a kid with that name, for got if he was russian or german thanks
