2012 NBA Draft Blog

[smaka]

We could at least trade the fatass or that taco ginger...

[Drom John]

Yes, it's only 59th.
Given what was available I was predicting the one-skill player that could either be the regular 12th man or a Toro that came up when resting Tim. I wanted a interior stopper. That guy went 60th.
I'm a Brave's fan. The last guy on offense needs to be someone who can be the backup when Chipper sits. There's a little flexibilty of 3B, LF & 1B because of Prado and Hinske.

Else, stash Radosevic.

Denman is worthy of a 59th, but not our 59th, particularly because his skill set seems to be more available in the FA market, D-League callup, unless ... Neal is not seen as part of next year's team.

[rascal]

Freaking commercial.

The Spurs get the commercial break before their pick evey year.

[rascal]

Lol, Perry's still gonna and moan about playing the 4 like he did at Baylor. Book it.

No he won't. OK City has some young stars and they went to the finals. he will fit right in with the youth and athleticism and it is a great pick for OK City.

[rascal]

What makes it worse though is Perry Jones and Moultrie sunk to the end of the first round. A place we thought we could move up to. Then on top of that the Thunder got Perry Jones.

The Spurs won too many games during the regular season. While everyone was rooting for the Spurs to win I was rooting for the Spurs to lose enough to get a good 1st round pick. the ideal scenario would have been to fall to the a lower seed and keep the draft pick . They didn't win a le this year anyways so the first overall seed ended up not even mattering. It was a deep draft and it was almost a certainty that a good player would fall late into the first round. The draft is the only way the Spurs add good young talent and that couldn't happen this year.


I didn't like how the Spurs traded that pick away. I am not as high on Jackson as most here. Jackson is getting close to going over the hill as a player and expect it to start to happen next season. The spurs needed to add young athletic players not more players on the cusp of being on their last legs.

[DPG21920]

Rascal - when a team makes the WCF it's not silly. Saying if you don't win it all, you should essentially tank is not a good way to look at it IMO. It all depends on cir stance and Spurs (after GS was stupid enough to trade) had a legit shot to win it all. But there is no way you trade a deep playoff run for a draft pick.

The pick they traded away wasn't worth much at all.

[Mel_13]

While everyone was rooting for the Spurs to win I was rooting for the Spurs to lose

Yeah, we know.

[rascal]

Rascal - when a team makes the WCF it's not silly. Saying if you don't win it all, you should essentially tank is not a good way to look at it IMO. It all depends on cir stance and Spurs (after GS was stupid enough to trade) had a legit shot to win it all. But there is no way you trade a deep playoff run for a draft pick.

The pick they traded away wasn't worth much at all.

Not tank just lose enough to not get the top seed. It all didn't matter because the Spurs traded the pick anyways. Trading away draft picks are niot smart moves for the Spurs. The spurs strenght in adding talent is with their draft picks. Free agency and trades the Spurs are far behind other teams in success.

The pick wasn't worth much because they won too many regular season games. Just a couple of loses more and they slide down to getting a good player.

Now they have no le for last year and no good young draft pick for next year. I am not high on S Jackson as a future player. He is soon to be another over the hill player on the roster.

The only way the Spurs add good young talent is with the draft. The best players on their team are the draft picks they make so trading away the pick was a crucial move. and this year the Spurs got a player that is questionable to even make the team.