A weak draft class?

DeaconBlues

G-League
OK, so before draft night all the wise men (P'shaw, wiseguys you mean) told us it was a weak draft class. Now we're a quarter of the way into the season, and the top two picks have barely recorded any PT between them, and while I haven't payed as much attention to previous draft class, I think we can already say that this was a decent draft class; Possibly even stronger then some of the recent ones.

We've got burgeoning superstars in Tyreke and Jennings, a slew of solid role-players (Casspi, Thabeet, Henderson, Harden, Gibson, Jerebko, etc') a couple of guys who might still become middling stars (Curry, DeRozan) and a couple of guys who haven't played yet but could be very special players (Griffin, Rubio.)

So how would you rate this class compared to previous ones? Average, below average, above average? And why do you think it got the bad press to begin with?
 
Was it really considered a "weak draft" or were people more lukewarm on the consensus top pick and guys like Thabeet and Rubio?
 
The term "weak draft" gets applied to pretty much every draft class by somebody. I do remember hearing a lot about it last year because only Griffen really dominated in college, but a lot of people knew better. Many of these experts think NBA draft scouting begins and ends with the college game so it's not surprising they missed on Jennings and Casspi. Then a lot of college guys (Lawson, Gibson, Budinger, etc) have exceeded expectations so far. I guess you could say this was the year of the under-rated player. There was only one real center in the first round too and we know how much GMs love to draft "project" centers with their first round picks. Actually, come to think of it, maybe that's the reason this draft class has performed so well this year relative to other years. :)
 
I think that it was considered a "weak" draft class because there wasn't a lot of consensus on the future success of more than 2-3 players. Griffin, Evans, and Harden were the only sure fire players in this draft, and they went 1, 3, 4. After that is was harder to determine which players would have success in the NBA, as demonstrated by Jennings going 10th, Casspi going 23rd, DeJuan Blair going 37th, etc. Previous drafts were considered stronger drafts because going in, teams knew that a larger group of players had a good chance of sticking in the league for years to come. That is where Geoffe shines, always finding value for his picks, even during hazy draft years...
 
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