Letters to the Editor
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One way to kill a lunch hour...
Great article King,
In hindsight it sure looks like every year a large number of teams totally flub their draft picks...outside the few Cheney-esque "slam dunk" first picks every few years (Lebron comes to mind, so does Duncan and Iverson) it really looks like a crap shoot. I wonder how often teams with the first pick in a non-slam dunk year go with the safe pick instead of the "project" in order to avoid looking stupid a few years down the road?
But it got me thinking, how often does a team actually draft anyone of value from the second round? So I just wasted about half an hour looking it up and came up with my top three since 2000:
2001 - Gilbert Arenas
2002 - Carlos Boozer
2000 - Michael Redd
other than that...man, there's alot of offal there...you'd think with the sheer number of college teams and international leagues that the number of quality 2nd round picks would be higher. What's going on here? Is it that most teams take fliers on projects in the 2nd round? Any thoughts?