The Quest for Tony's Eyebrows: the 2012 NBA Draft

Has this been posted?

www.cbssports.com/nba/draft/gm-ratings/

Rates all current GMs draft performance. Guess whose at the bottom

feel like it needs to be related to draft position - Pat Riley and Donnie Nelson have (for the most part) been picking in the teens and twenties as GMs, they haven't had the freebies of a Lebron/Durant/etc.

feel like it needs to be related to draft position - Pat Riley and Donnie Nelson have (for the most part) been picking in the teens and twenties as GMs, they haven't had the freebies of a Lebron/Durant/etc.

Yeah that's factored in there

Also all the Royce white/Anthony Mason comparisons reminded me of Anthony Mason's awesomeness

Guess whose at the bottom

Guess who's in second place ... Geoff Petrie! And then Billy King at 3!

Scrap the whole thing and start over imo

Yeah forming a coherent team out of those draft picks clearly isn't a factor. Nor is who you passed on

i've always loved this feature http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8100861/ford-vs-simmons

also chad ford SAVAGES austin rivers

SAVAGES might be too kind. He all but calls him the homeless man's Tyreke.

this is the strongest i've ever heard chad ford speak against a prospect

FORD: Look, Lillard was a late bloomer. He wasn't lightly recruited until his senior season. You may be right that Rivers would've put up better numbers as a freshman. However, here's my knock on Rivers. He thinks he's Kobe. He's not. He doesn't have the length, the height, nor the athletic ability. Take those things away from Kobe, and he's Ricky Davis — an irritating ball hog no one wants to play with and who isn't good enough to warrant the diva act.

SIMMONS: Wow, you just waved two middle fingers at Doc Rivers — you compared his son to his least favorite player to have ever coached. Why didn't you just throw a Dominique Wilkins barb in there while you were at it?

FORD: Lillard is a willing passer. Rivers isn't and will never be. Lillard made dramatic improvements from year to year. I thought Rivers was the exact player in college that he was in high school. Lillard is a team player. He was the second most efficient player in college basketball DESPITE being the only decent player on his entire roster; teams game planned to stop him and him alone every night. I just don't see Rivers ever being anywhere near as unselfish or efficient. I think Rivers will be shocked at the athleticism and length at his position. He'll try to do the same things at which he excelled in high school, spend a lot of time on the bench, get into it with his coach and teammates, get traded in a year or two to a desperate team, put up huge numbers for a cellar-dweller for a year or two, make some money, and eventually, teams will realize he can't be the alpha dog on a winning team.

SIMMONS: Other than that, you're a huge Austin Rivers fan.

FORD: I honestly think Rivers is the one guy I wouldn't touch in the lottery. Too toxic for team chemistry, doesn't have the same physical tools to make it worth it.

‏@Chris_Broussard
G State is eyeing several SFs via trade: Rudy Gay, Iguodala, Marvin Williams, in addition to Wil Chandler, sources say. Nothing imminent.

Marvin Williams, yikes

hahahahahahahahaha

smh

curry-thompson-ACTUALLY GOOD SF X-lee-bogut

that's a decent team! as long as "actually good SF X" isn't marvin williams

Marvin Williams isn't actually any good so doesn't change your equation.

Pablo S. Torre ‏@SIPabloTorre

Royce, on Michael Kidd-Gilchrist: "I don't like that kid. He's too hyped up. He's not as good as they think he is. He's a kid. I'm a man."

Asked Royce what he told Drummond, who'd downplayed ISU frontcourt, in ISU-UConn: "'You f----- up. You talked too much.'

also chad ford SAVAGES austin rivers

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, June 27, 2012 2:31 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya ive been v surprised at how much love rivers has gotten, chad ford otm

Beckley Mason ‏@BeckleyMason
Important report from the draft: loooooots of staring at reporters trying to match faces to Twitter profile pictures

i've been low on austin rivers since he was in high school

oh man, ford has the nuggets taking royce white in that thing. PLEASE

i can't decide whether i want the nuggets to take a stretch 4 or a back up point guard. i'm giddy at the thought of either.

"he's roy tarpley before the drugs"

this draft is gonna be fun. does NBA tv do live coverage? has to be better than ESPN's right?

espn's nba draft coverage is amazing in its wall-to-wall spectacle of ineptitude.

it's kind of nuts that TNT once had the draft. i would pay an embarrassing sum of money for that to happen tomorrow night.

srsly

omg it's today

please don't fuck it up gms (esp. blazers)

@ESPNStatsInfo: Since 1999, Spurs have made 27 picks, 15 have been international players. That is the most int'l players drafted by a team since then

dispite all the darko/grainy video/workout wonder bashing the spurs of course know whats up

the nba today podcast from this morning with ryan rueselio & chad ford was very good

of those drafted, offhand:
Parker
ginobili
splitter
Scola
dragic
barbosa (I think?)

that's not a bad starting 5 tbh
god why couldn't we have had Scola

xpost cause bron wont have a ring

Chad Ford ‏@chadfordinsider
Just going up on ESPN with @ESPNSteinLine: Celtics pessimistic they can get high enough in draft No. 1 target Austin Rivers

o jesus

doc over compensating for being a horrible father

hahaha
doc yelling at Austin
FUCK U DAD
AUSTIN YOURE GROUNDED
ESPN reports the team has suspended Austin Rivers for his potty mouth

austin rivers has been send to bed w/o dunks

o my god they cannot be serious

Austin you get to shoot 4 more three pointers before bed because you earned 4 downtown bucks on your star chart

this has to be some thing where doc sat danny down and was like "look let's leak to the press that we tried to get austin so he doesn't hold any resentment but don't actually try and draft him"

docs the only one who can salvage austins career that hes dooming via his selfish style of play which he developed in a desperate attempt to get his coach father to pay attention to him

aw

look dad a contested fade away three off the dribble im not a little kid anymore

lol first line of chad fords bobcats mock draft Analysis: The Bobcats need help everywhere. They don't have a starting-caliber player on their roster right now.

Austin Rivers DNP - ungrateful son

*unfortunate son

austin rivers has been send to bed w/o dunks

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:33 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Austin Rivers DNP - ungrateful son

― Moreno, Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:56 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Also praying that the Celts move up to take him so the Pacers don't try to do the same.

but what if doc really is the only one who can get through to him, then he would be a steal

I cant care for this on the same day healthcare was decided

that's how i feel about healthcare