Being an NBA General Manager is an extremely difficuly job. However, year after year I watch players who I know will turn out to be legit NBA perormers drop and drop and drop. Every year for the life of me I can't figure out why these GM's wouldn't use just a little common sense. GM's do not seem to notice that the draft turns out exactly the same way every year. There are several things that pretty much hold true year after year. Rarely(aside from international and in the past, high school players) will a team find an elite NBA scorer past the mid part of the first round.
The nba is a mentally challenging league, it isn't meant for immature and socially flawed children- therefore, every year without fail, a player with questionable character will turn out to be a huge bust. These guys don't grow up overnight - GM's often believe that they can be the ones to turn these guys around - more often than not, they can't.
When drafting in the second round, only draft one of three types of players - a high energy, high effort player(brandon bass, ronny turiaf, craig smith, trevor ariza). To make it as a second round pick, one must be brimming with fire and desire. A specialist( kyle korver, Paul Millsap), or a project ( monta ellis, manu ginobili). These are the types of second round picks who have a shot to make it - rarely do any other kind become much of anything in the NBA.
Some of this years candidates for the dumb gm pass overs - Tyler Hansborough if he declares, Joey Dorsey and Joe Alexander.
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no doubt, gm's are wacky...so many picks in the nba draft are wasted when common sense would allow for picks that could actually contribute.
great post - keep in mind - the nba is a league where GM's are afraid to buck the trend...thats why the draft plays out the same way every year
nba is a hype league - all about potential - its a huge mistake that GM's often make...
Some GMs are dumb, no doubt, but it's also a lot of luck. Some players are remarkably similar in college, and then in the NBA, inexplicably, one does much much better than the other. Take Carlos Boozer and Lony Baxter, for example. Their stats were nearly identical in college, so could you really have faulted a GM for taking Baxter first? Same thing with Dwyane Wade and Reece Gaines. Did anyone forsee Wade becoming so much better than Gaines? I mean, they were always compared to one another, they worked out for NBA teams together, etc. There's a crapshoot element.
agreed
there is definitely a crapshoot element... a lot of it is about luck...and character..boozer is a headstrong player...baxter as evident by his brushes with the law, was not...
but there is definitely a crapshoot element as i wrote in my first post
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