HJS {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:I'd also suggest, again, that immediate impact for rookies is like real estate, location, location, location, with bad location being good in this instance. Durant's first Seattle team got out to a 3-15 start and finished 20-62, which netted them Russell Westbrook with the 4th pick. Of course, that team went 23-59, which netted them James Harden. Good thing they did not devalue all those top-5 draft picks, eh?
Just like the Grizzlies... who also chose to not devalue their Top 5 draft picks for those same drafts (Mike Conley (#4), OJ Mayo (#3) and Hasheem Thabeet (#2)).
Conley was pretty good pick there. That said, Ainge is closer to Sam Presti than he is to Chris Wallace