Story was that it came down to the last ping pong ball and we were still in it. Could our fan base survive if our hopes were even bigger? Having three franchise players drafted in consecutive years that have their knees implode may have been too much for any franchise to take.
Who knows. To be honest I think we were given a good player to develop in Bayless that draft and we really screwed that up. Well Nate did IMO.
That is true. From a most reliable source: There were a sequence of numbers drawn that represented a position in the lottery. With each number selected (as I was told) it either kept you in the lottery towards getting a particular position or eliminated you from that position and put you back in descending order of record. The first three selections made eliminated every team but the Bulls and the Blazers for the #1 pick. Some of the other GMs/reps at the lottery looked at Pritchard in disbelief that they could possibly get Oden and Rose back-to-back. The last combination that game up gave it to the Bulls and and put the Blazers back to #11. What could have been....and what agony it also could have brought.
It would have been a fascinating case study to see if Rose and Roy could co-exist. They have very different styles of play and neither is known for working well off the ball.
If we got Rose then who is to say he would have got hurt? For that matter who is to say that Oden would have continued to get hurt? 1 little change in history can change the whole future. With all that said, I am good with what we have now (more then good even, I am ecstatic)!
