Well for one Dirk was European and the perception was back then that the European style was inferior to the American. European players were considered unathletic and defensive liabilities and while Dirk was never elite in those areas he certainly was much better than the credit he was givin throughout his career. He was a seven footer who didn't play with his back to the basket, wasn't a glass eater and his main skill was his ability to score from 15 feet and beyond which was undervalued for bigs back in the day. It also took him two years to really find his footing in the league so he wasn't exactly an overnight sensation. If it wasn't for Dirk changing the perception of European players guys like Zingis and Luka might have spent their entire careers overseas........ And of course you wouldn't get bums like Andrea Bargnani being drafted number one just because he was a seven footer with a jumpshot lol
@@justinnowak3904 And offensive! That's the crazy thing about them, your opponent would get scored on time and time again, and your opponent would also get locked up.
Why were 29 players drafted before jimmy butler and where are they now? Btw I love this series man also, maybe why were 12 players drafted before Devin booker and where are they now
So sad he got injured again , he might have won MVP and DPOY . I heard in any podcasts how he has to prepare so much just to be in game due to that shoulder injury. Hope he gets healthy by playoffs.
As a Sixers fan I kind of wanted DeMarcus cousins paired up with Drew holiday, Andre iguodala ,Thaddeus Young ,Maurice Speights, Lou Williams. Evan Turner was too similar of a player to iguodala.
Hindsight being 20/20 you should probably find a couple scouting reports to further show why these players fell to wherever they went. Would also help deciding how stupid/defensible the decisions were.
I LOVE this series. I think if you did a "why Darko Milicic was the second overall pick" or whatever other bust, it would be a really cool alternative by giving us insight as to why players like Darko were seen as one of the best players before the draft. :)
In my opinion, the biggest teams to miss on Paul George were, you guessed it, Philadelphia, Minnesota and the the L.A. Clippers. Philly drafting Even Turner was seen as the better move at the time, but unlike Markelle Fultz, I'm not someone that can say that for myself because I didn't watch the NBA until 2013 or 2014, somewhere then. So even if you say Paul George would have flipped anyway, it still hurts not to get him. Minnesota could have built a potential team around Kevin Love and Paul George, and the Clippers. Yikes. The Clippers could have the monster Paul George that attacks the rim instead of the one that shoots poorly from time to time. Granted, he got better these last playoffs as of the time I type this comment, but still. Imagine a starting 5 of CP3, J.J. Redick (or Jamal Crawford) Paul George instead of Matt Barnes, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan. Definitely would have been champions in 2014 and/or 2015. Let me know how fucked the Clippers are right now to you due to the future they traded away for Paul George.
Actually the warriors can only sign cousins to a small percentage above the mid level exception he signed this year. Other teams can sign him to the max. Sooooo......
... y'all do know that he's only playing 25 minutes a game, right? If he was playing 35-40 like he played on the Kings/Pelicans, he'd be reaching the same numbers based off what he's producing now. There's no reason to think that the injury has made him decline.
