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So can someone explain OKC's strategy. They have zero outside shooting surrounding Durant and Westbrook and you have solid interior players so you draft an interior player with your first pick and then a wing who can't shoot with your second pick? Dumb.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 05:25 PM) not when it first came out... my family and I watch the siskel and ebert reviews... they may have change their mind afterward. just as another movie > I went saw it and loved it. I took family and friends and after 4 or 5 times the theater was barely filled. the actor was nominated and won the award... I can't remember if it was best actor or supporting actor. the movie was usual suspects and Kevin Spacey was the actor http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/star-wars-1977

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 11:07 PM) Paxson's first draft was 2003. 2003 - Hinrich. No good today, but he was a really nice player for a long time. There wasn't anybody obviously better that went later. Good pick. 2004 - Gordon at 3 and Deng at 7. The only player I could have really criticized them for passing up on by taking Gordon at 3 was Deng, who they got at 7. Duhon in 2nd round was a rare contributor from that part of the draft. Great job here, considering the only great player in the draft went 1 overall. These guys and Hinrich turned the franchise around. 2005 - No first rounder, traded this first rounder for Luol Deng. Brilliant deal as we were picking 21st in 2005. 2006 - The big whiff: Tyrus Thomas. Made worse by the fact that we got essentially nothing in return for moving down two slots because Viktor Khryapa never had any real semblance of value. This is a big, big mistake. Moved from 16 to 13 to grab Thabo Sefolosha, which was a good enough move. Nice player and later spun him off for another mid-first pick. 2007 - Joakim Noah at 9. Arguably the second best player from this draft, more conservatively 3rd (making Al Horford better). Both those players were selected earlier. We got this pick by trading Eddy Curry and Antonio Davis to NY, getting Mike Sweetney, Tim Thomas, Jermaine Jackson, the Thabo Sefolosha pick the year before, and an option to swap picks with NY (we did - moved from 23 to 9). Great deal, great pick. 2008 - Derrick Rose. If you complain about this one, you're just being a dick. The only other players you'd want from this draft are Westbrook, Love, and Brook Lopez. Westbrook would be the most defensible pick there in hindsight, but indefensible at the time and this is not to mention the time it took for Westbrook to remotely compare to Rose. We also took Omer Asik at 36, a pretty excellent 2nd round choice. 2009 - James Johnson at 16 and Taj Gibson at 26. Johnson qualifies as a miss, but the fact that we traded him for a first rounder is noteworthy. Jrue Holliday, Ty Lawson, Jeff Teague and Taj Gibson are the main players to fret about not getting at 16. Gibson is an awesome selection at 26. Not wanting a PG at 16 is rather forgivable as well. 2010 - No picks. Our 17th pick, which was used on a foreigner that hasn't come over, was traded for another foreigner that hasn't come over, and we traded that guy with Kirk Hinrich to Washington. These are the hazards of going for the big name players. With that said, there really isn't a player worth a s*** taken at or after 17. Lance Stephenson in the middle of the second is the next best guy after Paul George at 10. 2011 - Jimmy Butler at 30: great pick. We traded our 28th pick for Nikola Mirotic. Jury's out on him, but the very fact that Chad Ford says he'd be a top 6 pick in today's draft makes that sound like a pretty good deal and a wash at worst. 2012 - Marquis Teague at 29. I won't call it a "whiff" given the expectations for a 29th pick, but no positive points here. Best players we missed (that we know of so far) are Draymond Green at 35 and Khris Middleton at 44. 2013 - Tony Snell at 20. I don't want to make too many proclamations about this given how little sample we have for him or anyone else, but I don't yet feel too bad about anyone else that got by. To Tony's credit, he has at least not yet ruled out the possibility of him becoming a decent rotation player. He could go either way IMO. It's a pretty good run IMO. Given the overall success rate of first round draft picks, we've done pretty damn well. One big miss, but several big hits and we didn't f*** up our biggest opportunity when we picked first overall. You can say what you want about it being obvious in 2008, but if you let 30 teams draft there you wouldn't have had 30 Derrick Roses. Countless examples of #1 overall picks being pretty much s***ty ballplayers or paling in comparison to players taken later. I agree with a lot of this but Iguodala has been a clearly superior player to Deng and Gordon and he went after both.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 10:04 PM) We weren't taking 2 US picks. We were either taking one guy and then stashing a Euro player or trading the pick anyway. Bulls are really high on McDermot and I still don't even know if he stays in Chicago or not. All I know is he was a great scorer / shooter in college so could be a nice 4th or 5th starter (good scorer off the bench). Maybe he turns into more but the options were always having the Bulls get 1 guy who would end up being on a roster this year. I don't like the idea of trading in these situations either and would have rather just made who the Bulls thought were best at the two spots too but I do have faith in the Bulls scouting. They took Anthony Randolph back in that deal so they didn't save money and they could have taken two USA players.

I'm assuming the pick has a ton of protection but the Magic traded a future 1st to move up 2 spots? The f***?

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 07:04 PM) Woj has spoiled every pick so far.....think I'm gonna unfollow. You should no better than to go on Twitter during a draft if you don't want spoilers.

Well if Embiid stays healthy the 76ers just got the best player in this draft. That Noel/Embiid frontcourt could be amazing.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 04:54 PM) Lol at Russia. What an embarrassing tournament. They were pathetic. Just a remarkable lack of skill in the final third for them during the tournament. Their crosses and corners today were jokes.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 03:01 PM) I like my make-believe violent movies to have depth and meaning! I don't think it is unfair to have an expectation that the movies aren't complete s*** in every way imaginable like the last two Transformers were and this one apparently is. Even the action scenes in those movies aren't entertaining because Michael Bay likes to do the quick cuts every 3 seconds.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 03:06 PM) I remember a movie in the 70's that came out, the critics destroyed it, and mentioned that the white and black of the army reminded them of hilter the Nazis. the critics were siskel and ebert. (sp) move was Star Wars. Star Wars was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars and Ebert's review of the film was positive.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 01:27 PM) BTW, the US will beat Belgium or Korea in the next round. The USA can only play Belgium or Algeria. And it is really unlikely that the US will play Alegeria because that would require South Korea to beat Belgium and Alegeria to beat Russia.

Yedlin is just insanely fast. He's still raw but you have to like the potential there.

Outside of the first 10 minutes the USA played pretty well that half. Bradley continues to struggle, he has been really awful during the World Cup except for the first half against Portugal.

Portugal on the board first against Ghana. That's good for the USA.

I obviously could be wrong but I'm not a big fan of Payton and I can't believe he has become a likely top 10 pick. I really don't like guards who can't shoot and he is just dreadful at that aspect of the game. And the fact that he is a 60% free throw shooter indicates that it is pretty damn unlikely he ever becomes a good shooter.

So there are still only 8 reviews on Rottentomatoes for Transformers 4 just a day and a half before it opens which means the movie is obviously terrible. I'm shocked.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 25, 2014 -> 11:23 AM) If you add a Stauskas / McD, add Mirotic and then get an Afflalo that isn't a bad off-season at all and that is a much improved Bulls team. I don't really see how the Bulls are getting Afflalo if they use their picks this year?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 24, 2014 -> 12:46 PM) Someone needs to beat the s*** out of Suarez one day. What the f*** is wrong with that guy? There is absolutely no way he should be permitted to play again in the World Cup. And was I the only one who thought the straight red card against Italy was excessive?

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 04:28 PM) Two penalties in a sequence of 3 seconds and dat ref called not one. Insanely obvious handball that shouldn't have been missed but Hernandez flops constantly to the point I would never give him a call unless its about the most obvious foul of all time. And that was a much deserved goal by Mexico on the corner.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 22, 2014 -> 06:57 PM) Michael Bradley sigh That giveaway at the end was inexcusable. He has f***ing sucked for two games now.

Michael Bradley has been f***ing terrible.

Jermaine Jones! f***ing awesome shot

Bradley has to put that in the back of the net there.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jun 20, 2014 -> 11:45 AM) Wow, CR just got screwed out of a PK. Blatant foul in the box not called. Yep, but we get justice a couple minutes later since Costa Rica just scored.

Costa Rica takes a 1-0 lead on Italy. They have looked really good again today.