12-13-2020, 04:01 PM
(12-13-2020, 03:52 PM)Playmaker Wrote: Through out his years of drafting for every Luka, Dirk, Josh Howard, ect there would be fifteen Justin Andersons, Moe Agers, Nick Fezekas, Jarred Cunningham, Shane Larkins, Shane Fosters, Nick Calathas, Amand Nevins.
Its always been too feast or famine with Donnie. Donnie is like the baseball player known to be a homerun hitter but his batting like .200 when it comes to hitting.
Ok, so I totally agree with your assessment that it's "feast or famine."
What I'm saying is that A) pretty much all GMs' track records are like that, even the universally respected ones, and B) if he were a small market GM that depended on the draft to improve (even when they're already pretty good) he'd get more ATTEMPTS to feast, just like all of those GM's do.
I heard a podcast right after the bubble in which Tim Connelly (Nuggets GM) basically made the point that even the best GM's are going to be wrong more often than right when it comes to the draft. He's one of the good ones, too.
Again, I'm not arguing that Nelson is an industry leader in draft evaluations, but that he's far from BAD at it. I also think that when you examine the WHOLE of his performance as a GM, and not just focus on late first, 2nd round draft picks, it's pretty clear that our team could do much, much worse. It's only my opinion, but I would absolutely prefer Nelson over Presti. No hesitation.