Chris Paul should have been a Bobcat

kickazzz2000 · May 9, 2008 at 11:59 PM

DJ_Tet said: ↑

Exactly. I can't find the thread but it might have been Wossa who was arguing that momentum, teambuilding, character can be established by playing hard down the stretch. I agree that I LIKE to see my team play hard down the stretch, but if the season is for all intents and purposes over, there's no reason for someone to overextend themselves. At that point I'd rather have the draft pick.

Of course it's no guarantee, but I'd argue that out of the NFL/NBA/MLB bad teams winning late in the NBA has the LEAST correlation to a good season the next year.

As for What If's, the Kobe situation is very different than this. Yes we drafted him, no he would have never played for Charlotte. It would have been a public relations nightmare, we got exactly what we needed out of the 13 pick, a starting center.

What If we drafted Howard? Well, that was as close as Orlando passing up on him. We couldn't have traded for the #1 pick, and people forget that we actually had the #4 pick that draft. We traded up to get Okafor. We were never as close to actually getting Howard as we were to getting Paul.

Can you imagine if we had gotten both, though.

edit: To continue the discussion, Ellis is the better player compared to Felton right now, but that might change next year.
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If you remember, Okafor was ROY that year. So in theory, Orlando passing on Howard could have triggered a domino effect of epic proportions...with a young Howard, the Cats are worst team in the league that year (or at least one worse than NO), are able to pick up Paul. Now, you've got a team in year two that has Chris Paul and Dwight Howard. Who knows where it could have gone from there...

kickazzz2000 · May 10, 2008 at 12:01 AM

DJ_Tet said: ↑

Douglas was badass for a 2nd round pick. It used to piss me off how well Miami did with their second round picks (Sherman Douglas, Bimbo Coles) vs our 2nd round picks (Tom Tolbert (cut?? wtf, he had some decent years in Golden State too) and Steve Scheffler.)

I didn't use google to pull any of those names, someone please put me out of my misery. I can't believe I just posted an internet post about the Heat vs Hornets first two second round picks.
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Byron Nix lol

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