Draft Chat

Deng might be out of the picture now that they moved Hinrich.

It is more than a little scary that the Clippers don’t have anybody high up in the organization who has significance experience in basketball. There’s no head coach. The general manager has no basketball experience except as a high school coach. The President doesn’t know anything about basketball. The owner doesn’t either.

So how does anybody think this is going to work out well?

The best thing the Clippers can do is to follow the suggestion of Mark Heisler and Lisa Dillman in the paper today and draft Al-Farouq Aminu of Wake Forest. The Times basketball writers likely know more about basketball than any of the current Clipper brass.

The general manager did make a good comment in the paper today:
“Olshey spoke about this year’s draft from compared with the 2009 class.

“What you realize is how important the point-guard position is in our league,” he said. “There were 10 point guards taken in the first round last year, all of whom had excellent years in whatever roles they were given.”

That comment certainly does underscore why it’s so important the Clippers dump Davis.

All of those ten point guards are preferable to Davis.

Hmmmm…who would Donald T. Sterling prefer to be the “face” of the franchise? Just go look at Clippers.com. They aren’t promoting the best PLAYER available. They are promoting Babbitt and Hayward (who, I’m sure are fine players, but this has Celtics and Jazz written all over it). It is 2010, not 1860, Mr. Sterling. PLEASE show the NBA world that things will be different in Clipperland.

The Clippers should have traded this pick Aminu is wack. He looks like a poormans Stacey Augmon. And Augmon wasn’t anything special.