Official Spoiler-Friendly Draft Thread 2017

[objective]

Just to illustrate:

Pop took charge of the front office in summer 1994.

Since then, he/RC have ultimately taken (not including players who were traded away on draft night), 10 total NCAA players in the second round (not counting Javtokas who had returned to Europe to play pro).

Those 10 players, COMBINED, played fewer games total than Nando De Colo, who only hung around the NBA as a back-up for 2 seasons.

And I mean fewer games than Nando as a Spur, not even including Toronto.

And fewer minutes than Nando his rookie year.

[SAGirl]

Spurs buying a pick...

POP doesn't even play the ones he gets fir free.

[ceperez]

I appreciate the fact that it's a 59 pick. I also assume they might have had another player or two in mind whose agents demanded the Spurs not pick them that late.

But it's a fact that RC and Pop have not hit even marginally on any American or NCAA product in the second round, ever, in what, 20 years?

But foreign second round? Manu, Scola, Nando, Bertans, possibly Hanga ...

Scouting foreigners in foreign leagues against grown men is probably easier to gauge the players than the lesser regarded NCAA players in the garbage, hard to watch NCAA game.

Good point of not having a good track record. Perhaps though, historically, the pickings have always been very slim.

[sasaint]

POP doesn't even play the ones he gets fir free.

Actually, I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

[spurraider21]

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