Ever heard of Clyde Drexler? And without Bowie, we would have never gotten Buck, which in my estimation means no NBA Finals appearances.
Can you imagine how good we would have been if we had Clyde AND MJ? We would have won 8 or 9 championships.
This thread just knocked down the intelligence level of this messageboard community by a notch. I really would have expected a little more from this group. So far the only smart additions to the thread were those who said if picking a consensus #1 overall pick by every NBA scout and 39 of the 40 mock drafting firms would cause a GM to be fired, then 29 other GM's would have also gotten fired had they been drafting in the same spot. Simple as that.
Dude, its been obvious that the U.S. was going to coast to the medal game for a long time now. I knew this when I heard Pau, Dirk, Ginobili, Nocioni, Yao, Bogut, Parker, Pietrus and Nene weren't playing.
Morey, Otis Smith, Kupchak ... that's three I can think of off the top of my head who most certainly wouldn't have.
http://www.draftexpress.com/article/Durant-Eclipses-Oden-on-DraftExpress-Mock-Draft-1815/ Oden wasn't quite the consensus #1 people are making him out to be in this thread
At the time I didn't think he was the consensus number 1. Durant was an absolute stud in college. My opinion at the time was that you can't go wrong with either one.
Well, to be fair, that article was written in Feb, before the tourny. That same tourny where Durant flamed out and Oden's team went to the title game, and in that same game that the Ohio State guards shot their team out of the win, Oden made Horford and Noah look like chumps. To certain basketball people the tourny counts for a lot in their players assessments. Durant was good as a rookie, but nothing special. He was a low efficiency, high volume scorer, who didn't defend or rebound. It is what Durant has NOW become by making constant and large improvements in his game that has everyone going apy.
That's an old article. Here's the NBA.com's archive post of the final Mock Draft consensus for the big 20 mock drafting sites. You'll note 19 of 20 of the major sites went with Oden as #1. http://www.nba.com/draft2007/board/mock.html
I'm just pointing out that in the months leading up to the draft it wasn't quite the unanimous decision that some people are making it out to be.
Template of bi-weekly "Oden vs. Durant" thread: "I still feel the same way I did two days ago." "What? I mean, I still do too, but how could you?" "Wait, you still feel the same way you did two days ago?" "Indeed. Let's re-visit this in a few days."
Fair enough. There were a couple of people from the "other camp" that were praying on the stats that Durant was putting up in college while Oden obviously was playing left-handed after the high school injury that carried over into the beginning of his OSU season. So there were the minority out there posting fodder (just like there are a few folks out there that post about UFO's existing and government cover-ups and follow Bigfoot and Lochness Monster sitings on their Twitter) but the folks who actually have to feed their families based on having correct projections and actually have to hold their heads up and be held accountable for their final rankings such as scouts, draft analysts covering the draft and mock draft websties all were unified in Oden being the clear #1 overall pick. So all 29 other GM's would have been unified as well had it been their pick.
So basically your saying that I am the smartest one here! See forum geeks, my PER is rising by the day!
Actually "PER" would imply your intelligence PER post. Due to the quantity of post you do and how many really don't add much, your PER wouldn't be too good.
Spot on. You're a chucker. Nothing wrong with that. You put up a lot of shots and the 30% you get right are enough to make you an all-star.
