« Reply #36 on: August 16, 2013, 10:12:04 AM »
when danny drafted fab, he drafted for NEED instead of BPA. dumbest thing you can do, and he knows it but he still did it. probably got cocky from having 2 1sts.
?? How is this possibly drafting for need? We "need" a project 7 footer to sit on the bench for the next 3 years? That comment makes no sense.
He drafted a center because the Celtics "needed" a big, rather than taking the best player available regardless of position and how deep the team is at that position.
but who was BPA at that point? I mean the player that played the best that went after Fab last year, was probably Ezeli (you know a center). Moultrie and Jones were 6'11" PF's and played well enough to warrant a selection there. I mean it seems to me that a big was in fact the BPA, Danny just picked the wrong one. Now sure a guy like John Jenkins might have helped more last year, but he will never amount to much, while Fab at least could have been a difference maker defensively. It was a gamble and I can't fault taking a gamble from that point in the draft (though I said at the time and since then I would have gambled on PJ3).
In hind sight he should have tried to move the pick. Miami got pretty solid value from Philadelphia on the Moultrie pick. I would have tried to do something like that.
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