This is a theory of relativity question right there. As Einstein once explained - if you spend an hour on a bench with a beautiful girl, time passes fast. If you spend an hour on a bench with the beautiful girl's father - time passes slow. MM trades with beautiful girls. Soon works.
"My motor is going to be the best in the NBA," Swanigan said. "That is my goal, that is what I want to be. You come watch Swanigan play, he is playing hard every night, just talking, just trying to win. That is the type of player I want to be and the legacy I want to leave."
https://www.sbnation.com/2017/7/12/...ghts-blazers-nba-summer-league-draymond-green His nickname from here on out is "Balls!"
How exactly did Neil go and get him? By sitting at 26 and having him fall in his lap? How is luck not involved there?
Remember back in February when CLE agreed to move the pick from the Varegao trade up by one year from 2018 too 2017... Maybe Neil had his sights set on Swanigan at that time and planned to use the CLE pick to get him. Or not. BNM
GMs "target" players in every draft, but not all of them work out. We "targeted" Greg Oden, Sam Bowie and LaRue Martin, for example, and we didn't get lucky with any of them. So far, it appears that we got lucky with Swanigan.
According to who NBA draft.net ? History says he was the first rounder, so maybe it's you that should stop trying to revise it.
Well to be honest I think it was Cleveland who approached us because they wanted to be able to trade 2019 pick that Atlanta wanted in exchange for Kyle Korver.
The fact that you would argue that luck was not involved is just astounding to me it really is but hey you're always going to be right so you win.
http://www.nbadraft.net/2017mock_draft https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nb...cle/2017/06/15/2017-mock-draft-second-edition But these mocks mean nothing theyre just opinions, shit you can go back on this very board and check my pre-draft arguments with bonesJones where I said that Id take Swanigan even higher than the end of the first
People just don't make sense sometimes. You post two mock drafts one of which has us taking him at 26 and another have him going at 27... so again, how did Neil Target his guy? He went and took on a contract to get another first-round pick and got the guy that he wanted. Any suggestion to the contrary in my opinion is subjective.
1. You asked for the mocks. I gave them to you. 2. Now you pivot to something else to the point where I don't even know what exactly you're arguing about anymore. Neil didn't go to Cleveland asking for this years pick. Cleveland needed it for the Korver trade. And even if Neil initiated it, how would he have known where exactly Swanigan would be drafted 5 months later? Does he control every teams draft board? 3. Teams target multiple players. Without getting into how I know, teams have a cluster of about five players they like that fall in the range of their picks. They order them. Swanigan very well could've been first on that list for the 26th pick, but he wasn't the only one on it, that's for sure. Teams don't know exactly where players will go, but they make educated guesses. Guesses. Meaning luck can and usually is involved. For you to say it isn't is naive, especially when Neil made no actual move on draft night to secure the guy. He got lucky his plan A (most likely his plan A) worked. 4. This discussion was a huge waste of time, don't know why I even went into it this much, but I also don't really understand your need to constantly check people on this forum, and usually for the smallest, most insignificant things.
