So the NBA Draft Lottery has been and gone. The order went exactly like the percentages were laid out, Philadelphia had the odds, they got the no.1 pick and Philadelphia celebrated saying the process worked. Whoopee you got the no.1 pick. You do realise the ultimate goal is win a championship? Do that and THEN the process worked.
Mini rant over. Onto the reason why we’re here. The third pick went to the Boston Celtics and under Ingram and Simmons there are several players that are worthy of the third pick. Now Celtics GM Danny Ainge obviously won’t tell everyone who he’s going to pick, but I think whoever he picks, he won’t expect immediate impact.
“I’m excited about the No. 3 pick. I would have been excited that night if you had told me before the night started that’s the pick we were getting. For a minute, I let my mind drift to getting the one or two. It certainly doesn’t have the same cachet in trade conversations of trying to get better quicker, so it sets that back or we would have to give up more than the No. 1 or 2 overall pick,” he said. “But there are good players if we end up using that pick. We’re excited about the potential players.”
“I can’t talk about any players in particular, but a player that is going to take time to develop or a player who may not come to the NBA for a year or two, if we feel he’s the best player we have to take him. We can’t let a player slip by us just because it doesn’t fulfill our immediate satisfaction, or the objective for the fans to see someone exciting,” he said. “We have to pick the best player under any circumstance. There are too many examples of really good players that fans haven’t been excited about. When Kristaps Porzingis was drafted by New York, fans were booing all over the place and we didn’t understand. When I was in Phoenix and we drafted Steve Nash, we were booed.“
Fans know nothing sometimes I’m not surprised that Ainge doesn’t sweat about booing.
But in this particular Draft I think there are a lot of possible misses. Especially at no.3, Ingram and Simmons will more than likely pan out but after that, it’s a crap shoot. But if anyone can make the right pick it’s Danny Ainge.
