smackeddog wrote:

Chandler wrote:
I will admit I am impressed with his round 2 picks (and UDFA) for the Knicks.

Having said that, I'm not sure how proud he is of the following. His best value pick was arguably K. Middleton but after one year (mostly in G league) he was included in a dump to get Brandon Jennings from the Bucks

Oladipo arguably his most talented pick but he was dumped with Sabonis and ilyasova for Ibaka
De'Aaron Fox is another quality pick

Detroit: vice president of basketball operations from 2008 to 2012:

2008
1/ 29 D.J. White
2/ 59 Deron Washington

2009
1/ 15 Austin Daye
2/ 35 DaJuan Summers
2/ 39 Jonas Jerebko
2/ 44 Chase Budinger

2010
Round
1/ 7 Greg Monroe
2/ 36 Terrico White

2011
1/ 8 Brandon Knight
2/ 33 Kyle Singler
2/ 52 Vernon Macklin

2012
1/9 Andre Drummond
2/ 39 Khris Middleton (Arguably his best pick but traded to Bucks after 1 season and 27 games in a package with Brandon Knight to get Brandon Jennings)
2/ 44 Kim English

Orlando: vice president and assistant general manager

2013
1 / 2 Victor Oladipo (traded by Perry FO to OKC along with Ersan İlyasova and the draft rights to Domantas Sabonis, to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for Serge Ibaka
2 / 51 Romero Osby

2014
1 / 4 Aaron Gordon

2014
1 / 12 Dario Šarić (draft rights traded for E. Payton --

2015
1 / 5 Mario Hezonja
2 / 51 Tyler Harvey

2016
1 / 11 Domantas Sabonis (traded to Oklahoma City)
2 / 41 Stephen Zimmerman
2/47 Jake Layman (from Chicago, traded to Portland)

2017 (just in case he had any input; he moved to Kings 4/17 before the draft)
1 / 6 Jonathan Isaac
1 /25 Anžejs Pasečņiks
2 /33 Wesley Iwundu
2 / 35 Ivan Rabb

Kings
2017
1 /5 De'Aaron Fox
1 / 10 Zach Collins (traded to Portland for Justin Jackson and Harry Giles)
2 / 34 Frank Mason III

Right, so if the vice president of bball operations is responsible for the Detroit picks, does that mean the vice president of bball ops is responsible for our draft picks?

Kings picks were all great, who knows how much input he had on the Magic decisions, but whoever did, Oladipo, Aaron Gordon, Sabonis and Saric is an excellent track record. Knicks record is also good so far

i don't think it's as awesome as you do. I think you have some very creative accounting

He traded Oladipo before he was good (along with Sabonis) for Ibaka who they kept for a year. If he was good in picking him he was a dummy to trade him and Sabonis for so little
Saric rights were traded for E.Payton (Philly wanted Saric; Magic wanted Payton)

CrushAlot wrote:Interesting tidbit in Bermans article today about Wooten. Apparently the Knicks told Wooten they would take him at 55 if they didn’t move up. Wooten looks like a keeper

he looks like another great pickup (even if he were 55); better still as UDFA

I would argue that so far this is Perry's biggest strength -- a lot of great teams have found gems late (e.g., M. Gasol; Draymond; Jokic ; Toronto up and down)

Chandler wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:Think Perrys record is above par.

Fact of the matter is that you cant point to any GM who has had a "great" record predicting the crap shoot we call the draft. Out of 60 picks taken in each of the 2 rounds for last several years, here are the very few one can consider "So Called" top tier or High Impactt players.

2017 (Too early but strong starts)
3. Jayson Tatum
13. Donovan Mitchell
27. Kyle Kuzma
2016
1.Ben Simmons
Solid but not stars(Ingram,Brown,Bronson)
2015
1. Towns
2. DLo Russell
4. Kristaps
11. Turner
13. Booker
2014
3. Embiid
4. Gordon
13. Levine
41. Jokic
2013
2. Olidipo
10.McCollum
15. Giannis
2012
1. Anthony Davis
2. Beal
6. Damian Lillard
9.,Drummond
35.Draymond Green
39. Middleton

May have missed a couple but think about it.... 22 Out of 300 picks taken were solid impact players. The fact he had a few of them is pretty good.

Point is it is not as easy as made out to be. Reason I believe draft and young assets should be gathered to pick up proven young TOP tier players. Or teams can just continue to play the crap shoot for years waiting for that lucky pick.

360 picks for 6 years. Agree it's a crap shoot. and he deserves credit for De'Aaron Fox probably too.

I think his picking is par or below par pre-Knicks. If we want an out and say it's someone else's fault (GM) that seems questionable (why the hell did we hire him then)

If you want to credit the Olidipo pick that's fine but someone screwed up in trading him when they did. And Middelton could have been a great pick; but they kept him in mostly in the G-league for a season and then dumped him for low value. Perhaps we blame someone else for the trades??? (no sarcasm intended)

he has been doing great (not good) in 2d round and UDFA for us