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#701 flipdragn

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 09:55 PM

well i still say he's better than olowakandi

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 10:04 PM

^can't dispute that
kandi man is lousy lol

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 10:06 PM

^ i cant believe he was 1st round, 1st overall pick.

disappointing

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 10:25 PM

the clippers passed up on a lot of good players in that draft. they could've picked dirk nowitzki, paul pierce, antawn jamison etc but they picked olowakandi...who was a worse number 1 draft pick, michael olowakandi or kwame brown?

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 10:26 PM

well so was kwame brown

the only one of like the last 6-7 1st picks (minus the recent ones like howard and williams) not to be an all-star i think

mihm was a number 7 pick too i heard
at least hes not exactly shabby

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 10:27 PM

you really can't blame them for that pick. the draft class was exceptionally weak. only 3 bonafide stars came out of the draft in vince carter, dirk, and paul pierce. some were pretty good (jason williams, antwawn jamison, mike bibby), but overall a very weak draft. kandi man had a huge upside, and the biggest thing that nba gms look for, size.

to really show you how weak the draft was, i'll list two names that should never have been picked in the lottery. robert "tractor" traylor and michael doleac.

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 10:38 PM

dirk has size too, not to mention shooting range. though i don't really know how olowakandi and nowitzki stats compared in their rookie seasons.

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 11:10 PM

is it me or does most of the big guys 1st pick are bust.....

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 11:33 PM

bogut's been decent, howard's been pretty good, yao's been pretty good, kwame sucked, martin's been ok, and olowakandi sucked. that's as far back as i can remember. hmm...the last 5 or 6 number 1 draft picks have been power forwards or centers with the exception of lebron james.

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Posted 27 January 2006 - 06:03 AM

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Posted 27 January 2006 - 08:42 AM

QUOTE(flipdragn @ Jan 26 2006, 10:38 PM)

dirk has size too, not to mention shooting range. though i don't really know how olowakandi and nowitzki stats compared in their rookie seasons.

yes, but this was before the big european push. dirk was also a relative unknown, because he played in the german leagues, which aren't really high competition. c'mon, he was traded for tractor traylor in a draft day deal. that really shows what little confidence people had in him.

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Posted 27 January 2006 - 10:22 AM

i'm wondering about whether or not dirk would make the cavaliers better if he would've stayed on the team. of course he's good but could lebron james and him coexist on the court?

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Posted 27 January 2006 - 11:04 AM

QUOTE(flipdragn @ Jan 26 2006, 10:38 PM)

dirk has size too, not to mention shooting range. though i don't really know how olowakandi and nowitzki stats compared in their rookie seasons.

rookie stats
kandi: 8.9ppg, 7.9rpg, 0.6apg, 1.2bpg, 0.6spg, 43.1FG, 48.3FT, 1.9TO, 28.4 min
dirk: 8.2ppg, 3.5rpg, 1.0apg, 0.6bpg, 0.6spg, 40.5FG, 77.3FT, 1.6TO, 20.4min

eh... i guess kandi outperformed dirk in his rookie year...

QUOTE(flipdragn @ Jan 27 2006, 10:22 AM)

i'm wondering about whether or not dirk would make the cavaliers better if he would've stayed on the team. of course he's good but could lebron james and him coexist on the court?

dirk was on the cavs? i thought it was bucks and then instant trade to dallas

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Posted 27 January 2006 - 01:07 PM

^ you're right, he was a buck for a couple minutes before being traded.

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Posted 27 January 2006 - 01:47 PM

QUOTE(pvlostinspace @ Jan 27 2006, 01:04 PM)

kandi did get 8 more minutes per game though so that might've been a factor.

oh ok. when he said that he was traded for traylor, i assumed it was with the cavaliers.

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Posted 27 January 2006 - 05:47 PM

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NEW YORK, Jan. 27 -- The NBA announced today that Chris Andersen of the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets has been dismissed and disqualified from the league for violating the terms of the Anti-Drug Program agreed to by the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association.
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Posted 27 January 2006 - 07:06 PM

if you suck that much at the dunk contest, you deserve to be banned...

honestly though? sucks for him, but he shouldn't have done the drugs. oh well

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Posted 27 January 2006 - 08:15 PM

eh sucks for the hornets

artest gets 15 on his first day with sacto...
interesting to see how all this will play out

szcerbiak didnt do too much (according to the box score anyway... i didnt really watch) but davis turned it up a notch in minny...