back to nolan smith, because who gives a fuck about jeryd bayless at this point, why does no one bring up the fact he didn't even play the point in college? he was forced into the duty his senior year because of Irving's injury. and even then his pg skills were mediocre at best. why this organization ever thought he would be a decent to good pg is beyond me.
Here's all you need to know about Nolan Smith. Steve Blake D'd him up. Yes, Steve Blake. Smith tried to crossover Blake and Blake stripped him. Then while pressuring Smith at midcourt, Blake forced Smith to dribble off his own foot for a backcourt violation. Steve Blake ladies and gentlemen. Steve Blake. Let that marinate for a little bit...
There are three 23 year-olds on that list: Batum, DeAndre Jordan and Bayless. That's a pretty good group of prospects, in my opinion. Actually, the list as a whole looks good... the majority of them are starters and almost all of them are significantly older than Bayless. Ed O.
12 minutes tonight and he gave us NOTHING! Not taking Faried was our biggest draft blunder. Smith is supposed to be a 4 year NBA ready guy.
I am shocked. A veteran befuddled a rookie. This is amazing. You just discovered that Blake tries to play defense religiously? Why do you think McMillan liked him? For his looks?
Wait, what? Surely you jest. Several glaring oversights here, the first that comes to mind would be Rod Strickland.
After watching Felton play so badly for the past 4 months, you'd think people would appreciate Dre more. sigh.
It's sad that this soon after Dre being gone, one of his biggest hindrances (McMillan) is no longer in the way, and I've defended McMillan a lot as well.
If you change your query to account for age, suddenly Bayless looks a lot more promising. http://bkref.com/tiny/GWsEj Armon Johnson and Ben Uzoh are obvious outliers, but it's basically a list of who you kind of expect to still be pretty good in 10 years. Given that there's 31 names on the list, you can think of the talent pool there to be enough for one of these guys per team. It's nice that we've got three of those guys (Batum, Williams and Armon--even if he's an outlier) but I'd be a lot more happy with our rebuild if we had six of them, which would be pretty easy to imagine without us making some recent gaffes (Blair, Faried, Bayless).
