re: Giannis signs extension with Bucks through all of the traded picks

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Our draft picks besides Trey and Herb have fricking sucked. Sure it would be nice to have better picks but we don’t do shite with them anyway.

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Should have traded them

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Giannis would have to carry the team in those years

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You think he's falling off a cliff? In 5 years he's probably still a top 10-15 player. His game is going to age pretty well and he will probably transition more to a pure Center. I could see him finishing like Duncan. He will just need complimentary pieces for the team to be competitive.

All this to say a team featuring Giannis should never be a lottery team. Which is all that matters when it comes to the pick. A late 1st is still as asset, just not a great one.

I dont know the nba has been trending with older players playing as good or better in their older years.
(Lebron 39, KD 35, Steph 35) Giannis would still be in his prime and always stayed healthy. We worry about dames age but steph is 35 and still killing it and their games are very similar. If anything, not having to carry the load may help Dame. I agree Middleton and Lopez might age out- but not the end of the world wheh your core is still Giannis and Dame. In regards to the pelicans, hate to say it might hurt the picks but in the grand scheme not a huge deal.

According to Mac and the decisions he would make he thinks he would be 3 time world champ and gm of the year. Easy to say that now when both guys have exploded into great talents and potential stars lol

We had pick 25 that year and the entire board wanted Bane. And instead the Pels used it in some roundabout weird way to get Steven Adams.

We pick way better outside of the lottery .. hope somehow our MIL firsts turn into early 2nds

So we should let the entire board draft then?
Jonas is a big part if our team; Adams is often injured and didn’t fit.

shite happens but to constantly complain about misses and then not talk about the hits is such BS.

Did this whole board want Trey Murphy and Herb Jones? How many on this board wanted some random other guys who play like shite. You can’t hit every draft. I don’t get why this is so hard for people to understand??

That year in particular most people on this board liked Halliburton, but he wasn’t available.
Most people liked Maxey.
Lots of people talked about Bane as a great choice late in the 1st.
It’s not like it was 1 or 2 people saying all of that. It was pretty consensus.

No one was saying we should draft Kira. Not that people thought he would be a bust, just simply that no one was really saying that’s who they wanted.

There were lots of different opinions on who to take at 4. Culver, Garland, Hunter. No one was asking for Jaxson, who is who Griff wanted at 4 and figured he could get him at 8.

Griff seems to have this dumb philosophy on how to draft, and it doesn’t work well, and it’s a bit obvious he’s leaning on others a lot more in the last 3 drafts, as the picks have been drastically different.

I guess heres what I don’t get. Again I’m not a Griff fan but if you’re going to sit here and argue about the bad picks he made- why are we not giving him credit for Trey and Herb- the same picks made under his management as well? The impact that Herb and Trey have made, especially when they were picked is phenomenal. Yes I know Zion was the easy pick. He’s missed on Kira, Naw and Jax. Hes hit on Herb and Trey. He also found Naji and Jose basically off the street. Hawkins, Dyson and EJ are TBD. He missed on 3 but also hit big time on 3 (4 if you count Naji). Thats not horrible. Its honestly not bad, considering how bad some GMs are in drafting. Yes he gets credit for Jose and Naji- cause he signed and developed them in our program as rcs. I just think people need to look overall at how hes done and not just concentrate on the misses. Every NBA team misses on draft picks and still can win championships and be competitive. At the end, thats the only goal.