the only kind of people who use that excuse are the people who would follow one retard jumping off a cliff simply because everyones doing it.

I think the stats are impressive enough to warrant a fan shot, since he’s a rookie and a 2nd rounder at that.

But you are right, there isn’t much point in complaining about the draft. There are 30 teams in the draft and there will almost always be a team that gets lucky (or drafts well) and gets a player that’s much better than they should be based on their draft position. So relative to your player, they look better.

I hate Taj, but he’s played very well for his slot. Blair might be better, but that’s kind of analogous to complaining about receiving a car for Christmas because it wasn’t a ferrari (that’s probably a poor metaphor, but eh).

Most importantly though the fanshot doesn’t complain about drafting Johnson or Gibson, it just notes that Blair played a monster game, so you might be misinterpreting Johnny Thread Kerr’s post. You’re going to keep hearing about the play of Evans, Jennings, and Blair because they are producing at a very high rate.

It might be good if we didn’t complain as much, but our team isn’t good, so it’s hard to be happy. I’ll quote YFBB, quoting Mike Prada:

And you know what [a ~.500 season] means. Angry, bitter Bulls fans bitching (correctly, I might add) about their dysfunctional organization, their braindead coach, their overpaid swingman, their chucking shooting guard and their cerebral backup point guard whom the organization treats like a son. Can’t wait!

I think if Johnson ends up sucking next year, you’ll add poor drafting to the above quote. We shouldn’t have drafted Gordon (or probably Thomas) in the end because the organization doesn’t know how to build a team and let Gordon go for nothing (Thomas probably as well)

its gonna eat me for the rest of his career.

via Truehoop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojsJKq1Au9Y&feature=player_embedded