Europe loves Patty Mills

Remember, Jordan broke a bone in his foot in his second year (and came back that same year to score 60+ in the playoffs against the Celtics). In fact, Jordan broke the same bone that Yao Ming just broke.

 

Patty Mills has a "cute accent". He had some bad shooting games, yet his team was much better with him.

 

One of the reasons he dropped was that there were just so many other PG's ahead of him. This was the best PG draft I have ever seen. Last year he would have been a first rounder for sure.

 

by the estimation of most everyone who rates drafts, 2009 was an extremely weak draft lacking both potential stars and quality depth. Conversely, last year's draft was thought to be an excellent draft on both accounts and so far the results have shown this to be true. Hard to see how a mid-2nd rounder in an extremely weak draft would have been a 1st rounder for sure in a strong-deep one.

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The All-NBA rookie teams from those years really don't validate your claim. Both draft classes seem to be equally weak in terms of superstar players, although Kevin Duran seems the most likely to become an elite player out of the two classes. Of the All-Rookie team from last year, only Derrick Rose played a major role on a playoff team, and Michael Beasley wasn't even a starter for the Heat.

 

you're confused over what I said.

to recap... 2009 = bad draft... 2008 = excellent draft.

Kevin Durant was drafted in 2007

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Oh. I didn't realize we were already judging the draft class that hadn't played a game yet. Let's discuss this at the end of the year. I'm not saying you're wrong, FWIW.

 

how could my post have been more clear? I've reread it and am at a loss... please help me understand.

It's not really me passing along my judgement here, I've been passing along the consensus opinions of the people who cover drafts over the past two years. Certainly the "experts" have been proven wrong about their predictions before, but BLAZER PROPHET's view seemed to express that not only is most everyone else wrong but they are wrong "for sure".

It's my opinion that the "for sure" part is easily debatable. In addition to the stuff I've already sited, as another pretty decent counter to Patty Mills being a lock for the 1st round in 2008, I'd throw out a PG who did go in the 2nd that year. Coming off solid season at a bigtime program including a stellar performance in the NCAA championship game, Mario Chalmers had a much better resume then Mills. He is a size larger with a huge wingspan and a solid jumper. Dude was a pretty decent all around PG prospect and went on to start all 82 games for the Heat last year... yet he wasn't deemed worthy of a 1st round selection. The Spurs haven't exactly been crying a river about selecting George Hill at the end of the 1st round either.

We can debate the merits of these two classes whenever people like.

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