A healthy Bynum can put up 20/10/2 a night. He's only 21 as well. Granger is a great player, but I wouldn't take him over Drew at full health. Health is a problem though, if Drew can't stay on the court, what's the use? But as of now, if the draft was re-done, I wouldn't change anything.
Why do you say that? Dude is a stud, not his fault he's on a shitty ass team.. He's carrying the Pacers singlehandedly right now. If you wanna talk about who won't be a winner in the league, look no further than Carmelo Anthony or Allen Iverson.
Yeah I don't think intangibles like winning factor into this discussion at all really, Granger seems like a very promising young player. The issue is Drew's health, because a healthy Bynum is more useful to us.
He's the player I wanted the Lakers to draft at the time. IIRC I think the Lakers had a deal in place with Indiana to deal Odom for their pick and Jonathan Bender. This would have given them the cap space to also resign Caron Butler. It would have been interesting to see how that roster played out with Butler-Kobe-Granger-Bynum on the same team.
I think either way we were primed for a run like this. Trading Butler got us Pau, but keeping him would have given us a second all star talent anyway. Odom again is the third option on a great team where he seems to flourish, or we trade him for Granger. :]
A player like Granger is a dime a dozen in terms of potential, especially in comparison to Bynum. It is a lot easier to find a damn good wing man than a damn good C.
i'd go with Kobe - Odom - Pau - Bynum anyday... Butler, Granger and Kobe all need the ball to operate and there is only 1 to go around LOL. But a lineup of Kobe - Granger (Odom for pick + bender) - Pau - Bynum would be the best *BTW, i just noticed Orlando had the 11th pick that year, what do you guys think would happen if we didn't get Bynum and the Magic paired him up with Dwight. Damn Scary!
No, the sorry ass Pacers won't be winners in this league. ^What he said. Although, I cut Iverson some slack. He's seen every version of the NBA. It's not his fault he is a dying breed of ISO guards that dominated in the 90s, but suck now that the NBA has more team involvement.
