10-04-2022, 10:02 AM
(10-03-2022, 09:48 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Posting this on you because your draft contributions going back years is impeccable, but the question I have is for the board as a whole. Is it really fair to compare Green to Bane as a Dallas miss? Someone will probably correct me, but I don’t recall anyone calling for us to draft Bane at 18. Bey…yes. Tons of people wanted him there. Maxey, there were some, but not as many as Bey. I do recall lots of people liking Bane and wanting us to move up to grab him in the late 20’s. I was in that group as I follow TCU because my kids went there.
I just see an ever increasing move on this board from ‘Dallas blew it by not drafting Bey’ to ‘Dallas blew it by not drafting Bane’. 11 other teams made the same mistake, some more grievously than others. I’m just wondering how many of us can really say “I told you so” on Bane at 18?
I didn't have Bane that high either. I was late the the party on him as well. I never heard of him until after that season. And even then, I thought he was your standard older guard who wouldn't interest me. When I finally watched him, I really liked him. Just a really fun watch. At the time, you also had some pros who were really high on him playing pickup leading up to the draft.
With that being said, my top two guys were Maxey and Precious. After that, I had a grouping of guys like Bane, Terry, Hampton, Stewart and probably 1 or 2 more if I remember correctly. So Bane was never a super high priority for me at 18. Bey was probably closer to the range of Bane for me than in the Maxey and Precious wishlist.
On another board, I made a comment Josh Green may be a guy being slept on and wondered if the Mavs might be able to move back into the late to mid 20's to pick a guy like Green. He was never a consideration for me at 18.
I seem to remember some had Bane in their wishlist with others at 18 as we got closer to the draft, but that was probably the minority.