New draft trend

[BornReady]

Is it me or are teams now looking at international players with great physical tools and athleticism but raw skill?
Since Nicolaus batum and esp giannis have been drafted, this years draft seems to have more of these type of guys that are raw but have all the tools necessary to be a great player.

[Quetzalcoatl]

As the rest of the world catches up to basketball, better athletes are gravitating to the sport when they would otherwise play a variety of other sports like.....well, exclusively soccer.  There are some decent leagues and coaches around the world, but they're not as good at training up young talent like the high schools and colleges in the United States.  Pretty soon, these raw freak prospects are going to outnumber the US freak prospects and some GMs that invest early are going to look really smart.  It's coming

[fairweatherfan]

As the rest of the world catches up to basketball, better athletes are gravitating to the sport when they would otherwise play a variety of other sports like.....well, exclusively soccer. 

This makes me picture a 1980s soccer match where half the guys are 6'7" and up.   

[BornReady]

It's gonna be interesting to watch future drafts

We have already seen Toronto go for this trend with Bruno caboclo

It's like how dirk was drafted from Europe and became a great player here and all of the sudden teams started drafting euro players and buying into the hype

Drafting guys like bargnani and Milcic over more traditionally higher rated prospects
Of course some players did become great but a lot have fallen off

It will be interesting to see whether ainge goes into this hype with future drafts considering we have so many picks and are able to make a gamble on some of them

[BornReady]

As the rest of the world catches up to basketball, better athletes are gravitating to the sport when they would otherwise play a variety of other sports like.....well, exclusively soccer.  There are some decent leagues and coaches around the world, but they're not as good at training up young talent like the high schools and colleges in the United States.  Pretty soon, these raw freak prospects are going to outnumber the US freak prospects and some GMs that invest early are going to look really smart.  It's coming

Yes but I think they need to take more calculated risks with this as we have seen from past drafts

It may be foolish to take a player during a hyped trend

Detroit taking milcic over carmelo, wade, bosh ,

But it can make the GMs look like geniuses
Taking Asik, vucevic, pekovic, batum, tony Parker, gasol bros etc