the best guys taken after 9 were jarvis hayes (10), mikael pietrus (11), josh howard (29) if we wish we took a wing, nick collison (12) as an alternate PF, and that's really it.

if i could do it all over again i'd take any 1 of those guys over Mike Sweetney to be honest.

Mike Sweetney was the best choice at the time, and it hasn't really been wrong in retrospect. Josh Howard's the only guy on that list I'd trade him for, but Josh Howard was actually given real quality minutes on a top notch team, while our stupid organization didn't do that for Mike. There was no reason, coming off a 37 win season or whatever it was, and not much potential on the roster, to not start a lottery pick or at least put him in the rotation.

i just think all of those guys will turn out to be better players than Sweetney in the long run...just my personal opinion...Josh Howard is the best of the lot & he was taken last out of all of them...Pietrus & Hayes would both give us a great swingman that we could really use at this point...& Collison will end up to be a KVH type player in a year or 2 from what i can tell, but probably tougher & more physical downlow...at the very least he'll be a taller version of Matt Harpring, which i wouldn't mind either.

i don't see Sweetney impacting games the way some of you think he does, at least not nearly as consistently as he needs to in order to be considered a player w/good upside...& his ongoing weight issues leave me little faith that he'll ever be any better than a poor man's Armen Gilliam to be honest...hardly worth wasting a #9 overall pick on imho...but the jury is still out on him i guess...2 years isn't enough to fully judge his worth...i just don't see the star quality in him that many of you do.