INFORMER wrote:da_suns_fan wrote: Teams spend millions of dollars figuring out who to pick and five years later we look back and say almost everyone got it wrong, including the "graders".
I know you firmly believe this, because you repeat about every year. I could care less about the graders; I
think it is a gross exaggeration to say that almost everyone gets it wrong if by everyone you mean the teams drafting.
Pick ANY draft. I'll go off the top of my head an say "five years ago":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_NBA_draft
Who go it "right"? The best players were taken at 1 (Kyrie Irving), 11 (Klay Thompson), 15 (Kawhi Leonard) and 30 (Jimmy Butler).
Look at the list of players taken before Klay Thompson at 11. Bismack Biyombo, Derick Williams, JIMMER FREDETTE and half a dozen "busts" was take before Klay Thompson in the lottery! And all said players and The Morrii were taken before Kawhi Leonard.
This isnt some 80s draft. This is
2011 with youtube, combines, advanced metrics (and phx-suns.net) and 4 out of 30 teams didnt get it wrong.
The teams that didnt screw it up...
they were lucky.
Im not saying I didnt like the Suns picks or that MOST of the time the best players go in the lottery, but we wont know FOR YEARS who was right and who was wrong. So draft day "grades" the morning after are silly click-bait and we should put ZERO stock in them. Theyre just for fun.