I'm so sick of Spurs fans dropping back and second guessing this front office's picks. You can stop ing about players like Josh Howard and the like, because you aren't going to make a great player out of every draft pick you have. In fact, if you make a good player out of half of your picks, you're doing a damn good job and considering the Spurs have gotten 2 of their big three with less than stellar picks they're doing quite well. Manu is probably the 2nd best 2nd round pick OF ALL TIME and Tony was damn near a 2nd round pick himself.
They haven't made bad picks in the 1st round with the exception of Beno. And you can argue that Beno has all the talent in the world to be a 1st round pick, but it was his intangibles that stop him from working out. They didn't pass on Howard for a Euro, they passed on him for Jason Kidd so it would be really nice if people would stop revising history and stick to what actually happened.
The one problem I have - and it feels like this has to be stated over and over and over and over again on this board - is that the Spurs have traded away their 1st round picks that could have been effective in order to save money. But lets be honest - had they drafted Josh Howard - he wasn't guaranteed to succeed here and where was the money going to come from to pay everyone? The Spurs are already at the Luxury Tax with Tony and Manu and if Howard had blown up here who would they keep?
If you had to pick 3 out of the 4 of Duncan, Manu, Tony, and Howard, I know who I exclude and he's the guy that is in Dallas right now. I sure as would rather have Manu and Duncan. And while he may be a toss up with Parker - I think Tony impacts the game far more than Howard does.
People can about all they want out of context, but when you compare this front office to the rest of the league, you find that they may not have drafted perfectly but overall the team management of the Spurs is very efficient and good at what they do.
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