MJG wrote:The Consiglieri wrote:Just in reference to a few pages ago on Dom. I think nearly everyone was drinking the Kool Aid. I could be imagining it, but I remember a lot of people bothered w/the Nick Young pick (I wasn't and still am not), however w/Dom, I thought the vast majority of posters were supportive.
That's exactly how I remember it. I don't recall many outright disliking the pick, and a good chunk of those felt that way more so because there was someone else on the board they wanted instead (Strawberry was the popular one, I think) than anything against McGuire personally. And again as you say, lots of people really were against the Young pick. I don't think "I expect our second rounder to be better than our first rounder" was all that uncommon a view point at the time. Heck, if you add in an extra month or so an polled the board post-summer league, it probably would have been the majority view.
For months (if not years), I was on about Rudy, Marco and Splitter. In fact, two years out from that draft, I posted an article about Rudy playing La Bomba (back when we had La Bomba's rights), where I talked up Rudy not La Bomba. To which Ruz said, why the hell are you talking up the guy we don't own the rights to. Fight ensues over whether Rudy is too skinny and a bust in the making.
About Young pick, I was absolutely yelling that we should have traded down and gotten Rudy, Splitter or Marco. I said Young was soft mentally. About the Dom pick, I was one of a handful (if that) who immediately called Dom the steal of the draft. I said one look at Dom and you could tell he was tough, combine that with his profile of hard work, and the kid is going to blow-up. Eight page fight ensues over whether you can tell from a picture if a guy is tough. Lots of posters saying it's psychobabble to be able to tell from Dom's pic that he's a confident, tough guy.
