Canzano Calls The Worst Draft Pick In Blazers History......

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  1. tlongII

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    Certainly there were extenuating circumstances to the draft of 1972 when we picked Martin, but the fact remains that he was not a good player. He wasn't even a very good college player. We passed on McAdoo, Dr. J, and Paul Westphal to take him. Crazy.
     
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    On Cowherd: I find it funny that he pegged both Paul and Danny Granger as keepers, and mostly everybody panned him for it ... I'm glad I wasn't on BBF back in '05; I'm sure there'd be plenty I'd regret having dug up and posted (for the record, I loved the Jarret Jack pick and was neutral on Webster since I'd never seen him play and I remember thinking that Paul would be too small for the NBA).
     
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    If Oden somehow gets and stays healthy (admittedly a pretty whopping "if"), he's no consolation prize. He is the better player to have over Durant, particularly on a team that already has Roy and Aldridge.
     
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    The 2005 pick was the worst ever, not because Portland missed on Paul but they actually missed on both Paul and Deron Williams (two of the top 5 point guards in the nba today) to take one of the more inconsistent players to ever wear a Blazer uniform.
     
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    At this point with Oden I'm hoping for a Bill Walton-as-a-Blazer like career. One season of ultra-dominant play that leads to a championship in between injuries .

    Or at least a Sabonis-like career--20-25 mpg of stellar center performance over a number of years, always missing 10-20 games/year.

    Or perhaps both.

    It's definitely a downgrade in expectations over "the next David Robinson" or "the next Patrick Ewing." And definitely a pretty poor consolation prize for missing out on Durant. But oh well. You can't live your life dwelling on missing out on the Jordans, Pauls and Durants or it'll drive you crazy.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    I have a suspicion that the injuries may have robbed Oden of a pretty sizable chunk of his ceiling ... I don't think he's the same player that we drafted three years ago. I still think he's got top 5 center potential though.
     
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    Let me ask this question that I have been pondering for a while.

    Would Jordan have become Jordan if he was drafted by and played in Portland? I am not too sure. And who is to say if we took Durant that Oden might not be beasting on a different team right now? We will never know. Just don't forget, hindsight is always 20/20.
     
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    Uh... no. I was delighted that Bynum would slide to us. :) And I didn't mind the idea of Webster altogether... I just definitely preferred Paul. At the #6 spot, Webster seemed a reasonable notion.

    I do? That seems pleased to you? Haha. I'm a worse communicator than I thought.

    Here's an example of me being pleased:

    http://www.edosblog.com/2006/06/blazermania-returns-to-seattle.html

    :)

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    The writing was on the wall, as you said. We were NOT going to get Chris Paul... so us reiterating the points we made shortly after winning the lottery wasn't going to be very fun.

    (I tried to find posts closer to the lottery, where maybe Chris Paul was brought up... but the stupid search functionality never works for me on that site. Sorry.)

    By this point, we'd seen Nash's idiocy (reaching for Telfair, giving away Wells, extending Zach and Theo, getting nothing for any expiring contracts, etc., etc.) and it seemed painfully clear Paul (and Williams, although I never advocated for Daron) just wasn't going to happen.

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    In 2005 I pushed for D-Will, but I wasn't crushed when we took Webster.
     
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    If Oden stays healthy and fulfills the promise that his talent and tools suggest he has, Durant will be the nice consolation prize for OKC.

    My concern is not that Oden isn't as good or better than Durant. It's that he won't stay healthy.
     
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    But that's like the entire point of these boards: saying the same thing over and over until nobody likes you anymore.:ghoti:
     
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    You really were; back then your emotional range was "meh" to "ehn". It was fucking annoying.

    You're much better now, though. :D
     
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    I agree; I can't speak to LaRue, but for my money, Bowie over Jordan is the worst-looking draft pick in Blazer history. Martell over Paul/Williams is probably the most frustrating because we really could use either guy a lot right now.
     
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    That cover kind of makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Might as well have K*be in a #7 Blazer throwback red.
     
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    Neither would Paul or Williams.

    Hell, Martell, Bayless and Rudy would even like to be somewhere else, and Travis already got his wish.
     
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    Take a look at who did draft Dr. J, and what their lineup would have been.
     
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    The NBA had no hardship rule. The ABA did take guys who didn't finish college. George McGinnis is an obvious other such player.
     
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    Thompson was a hell of a player, and a C to boot.

    The Celtics gambled by taking Bird. He went back to college after being drafted and could have reentered the draft. He obviously did sign with the Celtics, but there is no guarantee he'd have signed with Portland.
     
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