I'm not a person that believes in tanking, but that has nothing to do with the talent in next years draft. I spend hours and hours watching highschool basketball, followed by hours and hours of college basketball, and to have someone like yourself come along and say that this isn't even a good draft is frustrating to me. I'm certainly not perfect, and neither are the players, but it you had paid attention last year, Muhammad's stock started falling before he even got to college. Ditto Harrison Barnes. I was never high on Muhammad, and I had serious questions about Barnes. But there are some players you watch, and you just say, My God! This coming draft is not only heavy at the top, its deep, with some carry overs from last year.
No, their not all going to be superstars, but there will be a lot of very good players that will have very good careers. There will be potentially 5 to 7 players in this coming draft, that could have been the 1st pick in this last draft. There are good drafts, and their are bad drafts. This coming one is a very good one. You don't have to downgrade the draft, and the players in it, in order to make a point about tanking. I don't understand the sarcasm. I understand your bitterness about Tyreke, but don't you think its time to move on. He was one of my favorite players, but he's gone! Am I supposed to sit around and wring my hands and cry about it into the next millennium. Personally, I don't think it had anything to do with the money. I think they didn't feel that Tyreke fit the type of team they wanted to put together. I have no inside info, but they did go and meet with Cousins at his home, and they've admitted consulting with him on the type of players him might want to play with.
I may or may not agree with their plan, but they did pay a lot of money for the team and they're entitled to build the type of team they want. While the past 5 or 6 years may matter to them as a matter of fact, their not responsible for those years, so our impatience is not there's.
