What would we do in 2008?  Im sitting here bored at work the day before Thanksgiving, and thought it would be cool to check out last years draft.  Are we happy with the results???  Roy has us all giddy, Rush has been both sides of the coin, and Bayless (our original pick) hasnt done a darn thing.  Heck , Portland brought in Andre Miller this year to put in over him, lacking depth at the PG.  But being that PG is our most needed position, would it have been better to keep him?  Check it out

Here are the results from NBA.com for the draft last year.  Looking back on it, I think it is safe to say Roy was an absolute steal!  Not even close.  If they redrafted, starting from Chicago, I'd say from what we have seen so far, he goes in the top 10.  It is tough to find a young, coachable, talented, legit center, and this year it seems we really have found it.

 

Now on to the Rush pick.  I would still take Rush over Bayless. I think Rush becomes a solid Defender, 3rd option type guy a year or two from now, while Bayless is still struggling to get PT.  Going back, if we had that pick again I would obviosly take Roy there, but for everyone else after, I think the only players I would have rather drafted at this point are Anthony Randolph - definitely (who is probably just going to be a complete animal once Don Nelson is let go), MAAAAYBBBEEE think about Courtney Lee but I'd still rather have Rush, and probably take his college running-mate Mario Chalmers over him for our lack of PG.  Chalmers started all 82 games at PG for a playoff team last year, not bad for a rook.  All in all, I think Bird did a hell of a Job in this draft looking back a year later, what do you guys think?

 

 

 

1	Chicago Bulls	Derrick Rose, Guard, Memphis
2	Miami Heat	Michael Beasley, Forward, Kansas State
3	Minnesota Timberwolves	O.J. Mayo, Guard, USC (To Memphis)
4	Seattle Supersonics	Russell Westbrook, Guard, UCLA
5	Memphis Grizzlies	Kevin Love, Forward, UCLA (To Minnesota)
6	New York Knicks	Danilo Gallinari, Forward, Italy
7	Los Angeles Clippers	Eric Gordon, Guard, Indiana
8	Milwaukee Bucks	Joe Alexander, Forward, West Virginia
9	Charlotte Bobcats	D.J. Augustin, Guard, Texas
10	New Jersey Nets	Brook Lopez, Center, Stanford
11	Indiana Pacers	Jerryd Bayless, Guard, Arizona
12	Sacramento Kings	Jason Thompson, Forward, Rider
13	Portland Trail Blazers	Brandon Rush, Forward, Kansas
14	Golden State Warriors	Anthony Randolph, Forward, LSU
15	Phoenix Suns (from Atlanta)	Robin Lopez, Forward, Stanford
16	Philadelphia 76ers	Marreese Speights, Forward, Florida
17	Toronto Raptors	Roy Hibbert, Center, Georgetown
18	Washington Wizards	JaVale McGee, Center, Nevada
19	Cleveland Cavaliers	J.J. Hickson, Forward, N.C. State
20	Charlotte Bobcats (from Denver)	Alexis Ajinca, Center, France
21	New Jersey Nets (from Dallas)	Ryan Anderson, Forward, California
22	Orlando Magic	Courtney Lee, Guard, Western Kentucky
23	Utah Jazz	Kosta Koufos, Center, Ohio State
24	Seattle SuperSonics (from Phoenix)	Serge Ibaka, Forward, Spain
25	Houston Rockets	Nicolas Batum, Forward, France (To Portland)
26	San Antonio Spurs	George Hill, Guard, IUPUI
27	New Orleans	Darrell Arthur, Forward, Kansas (To Memphis via Portland)
28	Memphis Grizzlies (from L.A. Lakers)	Donte Greene, Forward, Syracuse (To Houston)
29	Detroit Pistons	D.J. White, Forward, Indiana (To Seattle)
30	Boston Celtics	J.R. Giddens, Guard, New Mexico

31	Minnesota Timberwolves (from Miami)	Nikola Pekovic, Center, Serbia
32	Seattle Supersonics	Walter Sharpe, Forward, Alabama-Birmingham (To Detroit)
33	Portland Trail Blazers (from Memphis)	Joey Dorsey, Forward, Memphis (To Houston)
34	Minnesota Timberwolves	Mario Chalmers, Guard, Kansas (To Miami)
35	Los Angeles Clippers	DeAndre Jordan, Center, Texas A&M
36	Portland Trail Blazers (from New York)	Omer Asik, Center, Turkey (To Chicago)
37	Milwaukee Bucks	Luc Mbah a Moute, Forward, UCLA
38	Charlotte Bobcats	Kyle Weaver, Guard, Washington State
39	Chicago Bulls	Sonny Weems, Guard, Arkansas (To Denver)
40	New Jersey Nets	Chris Douglas-Roberts, Guard, Memphis
41	Indiana Pacers	Nathan Jawai, Forward, Australia
42	Sacramento Kings (from Atlanta)	Sean Singletary, Guard, Virginia
43	Sacramento Kings	Patrick Ewing Jr., Forward, Georgetown
44	Utah Jazz (from Philadelphia)	Ante Tomic, Center, Croatia
45	San Antonio Spurs (from Toronto)	Goran Dragic, Guard, Slovenia (To Phoenix)
46	Seattle SuperSonics (from Portland)	Trent Plaisted, Forward, BYU (To Detroit)
47	Washington Wizards	Bill Walker, Forward, Kansas State (To Boston)
48	Phoenix Suns (from Cleveland)	Malik Hairston, Guard, Oregon (To San Antonio)
49	Golden State Warriors	Richard Hendrix, Forward, Alabama
50	Seattle SuperSonics (from Denver)	DeVon Hardin, Center, California
51	Dallas Mavericks	Shan Foster, Guard, Vanderbilt
52	Miami Heat (from Orlando)	Darnell Jackson, Forward, Kansas (To Cleveland)
53	Utah Jazz	Tadija Dragicevic, Forward, Serbia
54	Houston Rockets	Maarty Leunen, Forward, Oregon
55	Portland Trail Blazers (from Phoenix)	Mike Taylor, Guard, Idaho Stampede (To L.A. Clippers)
56	Seattle SuperSonics (from New Orleans)	Sasha Kaun, Center, Kansas
57	San Antonio Spurs	James Gist, Forward, Maryland
58	Los Angeles Lakers	Joe Crawford, Guard, Kentucky
59	Detroit Pistons	Deron Washington, Forward, Virginia Tech
60	Boston Celtics	Semih Erden, Center, Turkey