Very good, but not star, guards and 3′s are a dime a dozen and always readily available in the draft, but bigs are much harder to find so you simply have to overpay/reach for them while you can.

Fizer was the best of a bad lot the year that the Bulls drafted him. Chandler had to get traded multiple times around the league before finally finding a place to fit in (but I’m happy for finally maturing and earning a ring), and Thomas was able to totally snow naive then Bulls GM John Paxson.

Thomas sold Paxson hard on his work ethic and scouts sold Paxson hard on his upside, and when the Bulls then traded for him they got a lazy, malcontent slug who thought that the league and the world owed him a living. Yes indeed, that was a horrible and inexcusable move on the part of Paxson. No argument there!

Purdue’s season ended last year before it started when key 2 guard Robbie Hummel went down with a torn ACL before the season ever started, and anyone who knew anything about collegiate basketball knew that Purdue had no answer to backfill the guy who the entire offense was built around.

Jazz fans have a long history of hating draft picks initially… they boo’d Stockton’s pick for example. If anything the hostile reaction is a good sign for the team.

Keep up the good work, John Hammond.

Not sure what “spectacular” pick you were expecting Phoenix to take at #14. They took the best player for their needs.

BRIAN CARDINAL SUCKS.

http://www.spotrac.com/nba-trade-tracker/

Make the world a better place; punch Le Bum James in the face.

The Bulls don’t need the kid from Spain now anyways; all he’d do is ride the pine. This way the Bulls can keep him stashed for 3-4 years in Spain until Carlos Boozers deal is about to run out and then? BINGO! Boozers heir apparent steps right in! Stick THAT in your pipe, greaser Pat Riley!!!

In addition, Michael Jordan continues to show that he doesn’t have a clue as Charlotte goes the “project” route and reaches for a couple of guys too high. This also is good for the Bulls, as the Bulls own a future Charlotte #1 draft pick that as time goes by goes from being a protected lottery pick to an unprotected pick, regardless of lottery status (Bulls option).

So if Charlotte continues to make fumblebutt moves and keeps backfiring, the Bulls will likely find themselves with a lottery pick either in 2013 or 2014 compliments of Charlotte. Stick THAT in your pipe too, greaser Pat Riley.

Ya, Riley’s a genius all right… just so long that is that he has a blank checkbook. But his genius in the 2008 draft was EPIC! After having done everything possible to tank the end of the season in order to try and get in the draft position to take Derrick Rose, genius Riley takes Michael Beasley and passes on emerging star Kevin Love, who went three picks later to the T-Wolves.

No only does Riley now have to deal with the likelihood of a greatly reduced, and possibly “hard”, salary cap coming out of the new CBA (due to the backend loaded contracts of the “Big 3 Prima Donna’s”), but he also has to deal with a very young Bulls team that not only has a solid nucleus but is also sitting in the catbirds seat 2-3 years down the road to reload.

Stick that in your pipe too!, you greaser! (Riley)

Explanations and other draft observations:
http://www.behindthebasket.com/btb/2011/6/24/2011-nba-draft-observations.html

Even though the Cavs landed Irving, they got a poor value at #4 by doing a bad job of judging the possiblities and deserve a grade of nothing better than a C.