OT: Kris Dunn reppin' Whalers at Draft

[tcf15]

 

[uchusky32]

Like who we got but really thought he should have been a Husky.

 

[EastCoast2]

That's his high school

 

[champs99and04]

That's his high school

Well title is still technically correct.

 

[tcf15]

Well title is still technically correct.

I totally meant the New London Whalers.

 

[boog204]

I think he's going to be an excellent NBA player. T-Wolves are putting together a really, really nice nucleus with Dunn, Wiggins, Levine, and KAT. Even with Thomas, the C's made a mistake passing on Dunn.

 

[BUConn10]

Celtics blew it

 

[Chief00]

Celtics blew it

I don't think so.

 

[intlzncster]

Celtics blew it

He grades out really poor on some predraft metrics, for what they're worth. Interesting point:

More condemning is this: In the stats-only portion of Pelton's model, Brown ranks an impossibly low 101st among all draft-eligible prospects with a WARP (wins above replacement player) of minus-0.5. For the sake of comparison, Bender ranks second in that model with a WARP of plus-3.4.

Take a stroll through the archive of draft WARP projections and that mark gets even more worrisome. While a decent number of players have been taken in the first-round teens and 20s with a negative WARP, only two players have been selected in the top 10 with a negative WARP since 2006 -- Austin Rivers (minus-0.1) at No. 10 in 2012 and Joe Alexander (minus-0.1) at No. 8 in 2008. [EDITORS NOTE: both suck]

Brown scored alarmingly low in Nylon Calculus' projection model. Author Andrew Johnson noted, "Brown leads the 'Do Not Want' list, his overall play all year indicated less than a starter performance at the college level. In my training model, not a single player went from this level of play in their draft year to become a star in the NBA."

Not the model choice: Would Celtics roll dice with Jaylen Brown?

Buuuuut....he was the captain of his middle-school chess team!

 

[superjohn]

Dunn, Lavine, Wiggins and Towns is going to be a lot of fun to watch. Dieng isn't bad either.

 

[superjohn]

He grades out really poor on some predraft metrics, for what they're worth. Interesting point:

More condemning is this: In the stats-only portion of Pelton's model, Brown ranks an impossibly low 101st among all draft-eligible prospects with a WARP (wins above replacement player) of minus-0.5. For the sake of comparison, Bender ranks second in that model with a WARP of plus-3.4.

Take a stroll through the archive of draft WARP projections and that mark gets even more worrisome. While a decent number of players have been taken in the first-round teens and 20s with a negative WARP, only two players have been selected in the top 10 with a negative WARP since 2006 -- Austin Rivers (minus-0.1) at No. 10 in 2012 and Joe Alexander (minus-0.1) at No. 8 in 2008. [EDITORS NOTE: both suck]

Brown scored alarmingly low in Nylon Calculus' projection model. Author Andrew Johnson noted, "Brown leads the 'Do Not Want' list, his overall play all year indicated less than a starter performance at the college level. In my training model, not a single player went from this level of play in their draft year to become a star in the NBA."

Not the model choice: Would Celtics roll dice with Jaylen Brown?

Buuuuut....he was the captain of his middle-school chess team!

He seemed like a reach at 3.

 

[80shusky]

There have been some sort of head scratching selections. I have to admit I don't know much about most of the international guys other than Dragan, but Papagiannis?

 

[BUConn10]

Ainge is terrible. I said it, Celtics fans have their heads so far up his A for so long. He amassed all these "assets" sits on them until they become less valuable than anticipated, then doesn't make any moves (Noel/Covington and Butler were both proposed) instead to take Jaylen Brown and his 29% shooting from the field.

In the last 8 first round picks Ainge has taken: MarShon Brooks Jared Sullinger Fab Melo Kelly Olynyk Marcus Smart James Young Terry Rozier R.J. Hunter.
Awful.

 

[superjohn]

Karl-Anthony Towns is so polished in his game and the way he carries himself. He's an incredibly impressive young man, hard to believe he's only 20.

 

[superjohn]

There have been some sort of head scratching selections. I have to admit I don't know much about most of the international guys other than Dragan, but Papagiannis?

Papagiannis seems like a huge reach, we were looking at him a year or so ago.

 

[80shusky]

Papagiannis seems like a huge reach, we were looking at him a year or so ago.

Yea, what little I know about him is that he really wasn't all that good. However, I am not an NBA GM so I have to assume they know more than I do about this.

 

[superjohn]

Yea, what little I know about him is that he really wasn't all that good. However, I am not an NBA GM so I have to assume they know more than I do about this.

He looked incredibly slow.

 

[Adios]

The Celtics did blow it with their 3rd pick. That was just so dumb.

 

[Adios]

Ainge is terrible. I said it, Celtics fans have their heads so far up his A for so long. He amassed all these "assets" sits on them until they become less valuable than anticipated, then doesn't make any moves (Noel/Covington and Butler were both proposed) instead to take Jaylen Brown and his 29% shooting from the field.

In the last 8 first round picks Ainge has taken: MarShon Brooks Jared Sullinger Fab Melo Kelly Olynyk Marcus Smart James Young Terry Rozier R.J. Hunter.
Awful.

Phil Jackson seems to know what's doing.

 

[Scoe]

Ainge is terrible. I said it, Celtics fans have their heads so far up his A for so long. He amassed all these "assets" sits on them until they become less valuable than anticipated, then doesn't make any moves (Noel/Covington and Butler were both proposed) instead to take Jaylen Brown and his 29% shooting from the field.

In the last 8 first round picks Ainge has taken: MarShon Brooks Jared Sullinger Fab Melo Kelly Olynyk Marcus Smart James Young Terry Rozier R.J. Hunter.
Awful.

You sound exactly like Mike Felger lol.

 

[BUConn10]

Thank God Ainge drafted those two euro bigs. Add in Olynyk and Sullinger and you have an NBA front court that embodies toughness, LOL.

 

[Adios]

The Nets might have gotten a better player at #20.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

We are!... My whaling city!

 

[UConnStats]

Ainge is terrible. I said it, Celtics fans have their heads so far up his A for so long. He amassed all these "assets" sits on them until they become less valuable than anticipated, then doesn't make any moves (Noel/Covington and Butler were both proposed) instead to take Jaylen Brown and his 29% shooting from the field.

In the last 8 first round picks Ainge has taken: MarShon Brooks Jared Sullinger Fab Melo Kelly Olynyk Marcus Smart James Young Terry Rozier R.J. Hunter.
Awful.

Only one of those was a lottery pick. The rest were all mid to late first rounders.

Jae Crowder and Isaiah Thomas were incredible trade acquisitions. The Nets trade was arguably the biggest fleecing of all time.

He got a first round talent last night in Demetrius Jackson at 45. Zizic is a great offensive big man, and Yabulese gets Draymond comps. Brown has a high ceiling and the Celtics have a great coach in Stevens. Not all of these guys will pan out, but I don't see how you could hate their draft at all.

 

[willie99]

The C's won 48 games with one of the youngest teams in the NBA and they have stockpiled draft picks, their future looks great

and people are bashing the man who set this up

priceless