This draft is a D.
I hate the Jaylen Brown pick. He can't shoot (Danny drafting a suck-ass shooter? What a shock), he was absolutely putrid the last half-dozen games of the season (how bad is he going to be then during the last 2 dozen games of next season?),
he is an inefficient Black Hole (his assist/turnover was one of, if not the worst in college basketball), and he came off as a pompous ass during the interviews at the combine & individual workouts. If Brad Stevens couldn't get through to Rondo,
then he's not going to get through to this guy either, who unlike Rondo has no NBA-ready skills.
If Danny wasn't going to accept Philly's most generous offer of Noel (the rim-protecting, paint-defending 5 we most desperately need), Robert Covington, and #s 24 & 26, then he should've taken Jamal Murray, the best scorer in the draft.
God damn to hell forever the LA Fakers for purposefully losing (at least NJ was losing because they simply didn't have enough healthy players who were any good) so much that they stole Brandon Ingram from us.
I really hate the Gina Gershon Yabba-Dabba-Doo pick. His stats-accumulation on his lousy team in France is merely the result of being a big, fat fish in a small pond. He's purely draft-and-stash for now, if not forever.
Henry Ellenson was there for the taking, but once again Danny bypasses the best available big in favor of a far inferior talent.
I do like the Ante Zizic pick, however. He was Danny's best big-man option not named Deyonta Davis, and depending on free agency, trades etc, he could actually make this team now, especially because Danny didn't acquire ANY of Nerlens Noel,
Henry Ellenson or Deyonta Davis, or he could stay on his Euro team for another season before arriving, like Denver's Nikola Jokic.
I really, really hate the trading of #s 31 & 35 for an LA Clippers 2019 first-rounder. Danny could've had lottery-talent, rim-defending Deyonta Davis at 31, and 1st-team All-American, high-character, 3-and-D Malcolm Brogdan at 35.
The Clip Joint better be completely disintegrated by 2019 (which could be an actual possibility) in order for this trade to come close to working out.
I do really, really like the Demetrius Jackson & Ben Bentil picks, however. They were the Best Players Available, and by far in the case of Jackson, who will now give the Cs a genuine, legitimate Point Guard and makes at least one of Avery Bradley,
Marcus Smart and most especially Terry Rozier immediately superfluous.
But I absolutely despise the unathletic, unproductive Abdel Nader pick, who is not even a D-League-worthy player. There were way, way, way better players still available, too many to name here.
Danny basically threw this pick away as if it were poison, as if he never had it at all, as if he didn't even want to bother to try to find anybody with it. Embarrassing.