in a recent post, i said that he had to show something, that he quit on school, he was terrible in practice, getting beaten by a 7 foot back up and now this

http://draftcity.com/dcdaily.php?p=337


i said i think this guy has kwame brown syndrome. its to bad because he does have great potential and will still be picked high, but Jeez if isiah wants Taft, he might as well drop back to the clippers at 12--and pick up 32

We have the leverage at 8

the draft SHOULD go like this
bogut
williams[who was telling me he wouldnt go 2?]
green
paul
williams
felton

from there its pot luck

Wow. As one of the biggest Taft supporters on this board, this is extremely disheartening. Chris has all the physical traits and basketball skills to make an All-Star NBA basketball player and he shows up to these workouts and does this? I admit that I was not concerned at all with the season he had last year at Pitt becuase of various reasons such as the type of offense Pitt runs and the sophmore slump that most Sophmores go through, but this news on draftcity might just tell us and most importantly myself what we need to know about Chris Taft and maybe his season last year was attributed to nothing more then his own laziness and lack of hunger. I'll give you the props on this one Briggs.



I guess Bynum is our guy now?

[Edited by - nyk4ever on 05/27/2005 13:27:29]

I have been saying this as well. But I've only seen him one game, and went by reports the rest of the way. But in the one game, he didn't really look good. I'm glad Isiah shook his head in disgust. I just wonder who he's going after. I pray it's Bynum or Blatche. I really want him to get another mid 1st round pick though.

Gimme Channing Frye.

Posted by nyk4ever:

Wow. As one of the biggest Taft supporters on this board, this is extremely disheartening. Chris has all the physical traits and basketball skills to make an All-Star NBA basketball player and he shows up to these workouts and does this? I admit that I was not concerned at all with the season he had last year at Pitt becuase of various reasons such as the type of offense Pitt runs and the sophmore slump that most Sophmores go through, but this news on draftcity might just tell us and most importantly myself what we need to know about Chris Taft and maybe his season last year was attributed to nothing more then his own laziness and lack of hunger. I'll give you the props on this one Briggs.



I guess Bynum is our guy now?

[Edited by - nyk4ever on 05/27/2005 13:27:29]

Bynum has to prove some things coming up. You have to earn pick 8. IF Bynum does well, if he shows really good stuff, THEN its a no brainer. But he has to show it first.

Im not discounting Tiago Splitter here either.

if not then we are looking at the wings

Well, the article said he hired an agent, which makes him ineligible to play college bball. So it's either pro or Europe for Taft, from this point on.

mid first round about. He's a good player and we could use guys like him, but there are guys with a higher ceiling right now and we need to make an attempt to develop ourselves a franchise player, instead of trading for one and taking back so much crap and giving up so much.

Posted by nyk4ever:

Wow. As one of the biggest Taft supporters on this board, this is extremely disheartening. Chris has all the physical traits and basketball skills to make an All-Star NBA basketball player and he shows up to these workouts and does this? I admit that I was not concerned at all with the season he had last year at Pitt becuase of various reasons such as the type of offense Pitt runs and the sophmore slump that most Sophmores go through, but this news on draftcity might just tell us and most importantly myself what we need to know about Chris Taft and maybe his season last year was attributed to nothing more then his own laziness and lack of hunger. I'll give you the props on this one Briggs.



I guess Bynum is our guy now?

[Edited by - nyk4ever on 05/27/2005 13:27:29]

couldn't agree more. if Bynum is gone which is very likely than I it would be between Granger, Webster, Splitter & Blatche I think

Antoine Wright is interesting too. That report said he looked great. We need a SG more than we need a SF.

Say we take Bynum at 8 and trade for a mid 1st round pick. Would you draft Wright or Granger? Granger might be gone anyway. Bynum and Wright would be great! We'd fill our biggest needs!

I'd rather have Wright than Graham since he is a more complete player with ballhandling skills. And we desperately need a 6-7 starting SG who plays defense

[Edited by - gunsnewing on 05/27/2005 17:16:19]

Posted by martin:

does anyone think Taft is dogging it ala Amare if there was some kind of handshake deal with a team that he really wants to go to?



Could be.

Maybe he shook someones hand 1 1/2 years ago if that is the case.

I've been a big Taft supporter, but that has to end now. If Chris was so bad that Isiah was shaking his head then the Knicks shouldn't and won't take him. Let's hope Isiah still likes Channing Frye, because we need a big man. At least Frye seems to be taking the workouts seriously, as his stock is rising.