Selling the 2013 first round pick was huge blown opportunity with Gobert available

[TeamRicky [enjin:6648771]]

Love that Gobert kid. He's a beast. We passed up opportunity to draft him. We sold 26th pick and he was taken with the 27th pick. That's why I hate selling first round draft picks. Chance at a really good player on a cheap contract. Another in a long list of squandered opportunities.

By the way, the other crazy good shotblocker to emerge this year is Hassan Whiteside. He was ready to sign with the Wolves as a free agent and we passed on him.

[Q12543 [enjin:6621299]]

In hindsight, he was the superior pick to Dieng. What's especially ironic is that Flip worked Gobert out and passed on him because he was too skinny. Yet he goes out and picks Dieng, who topples over whenever someone breathes on him.

Full disclosure: I loved the Dieng pick at the time. But I'm starting to love him like I loved Brewer - the person is great; the player may be not so much....

[kekgeek]

This is things I hate sometimes with fans, it is total hindsight, I understand a lottery pick screw up getting mad at. A late first pick is a crap shoot, aren't we lucky we didn't get stuck with bullock or felix, or nedivc. You are blaming our the franchise about Whiteside the side played in like 7 leagues in 4 years, is/was a head case and he didn't preform in his first few years in the league. He is a great story but come on. Sorry for calling you out but it is one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to basketball

[KiwiMatt]

Blame Glen Taylor for that one.

[Camden [enjin:6601484]]

I can't speak about the 2013 draft and use hindsight. I only truly liked a handful of prospects. Oladipo (loved him), Len, Adams, Dieng and Bullock were my guys, so to speak. Guys I wanted nothing to do with included Porter, Bennett, KCP and Olynyk.

Then there was the "oh shit, they could be good but I wouldn't pick them" group that included the Greek Freak, Shabazz and Goodwin.

Mixed bag of results. It's funny, though. That draft was supposed to be awful. So far, it's been decent.

[BizarroJerry [enjin:6592520]]

Hindsight=20/20

[Volans19]

This is things I hate sometimes with fans, it is total hindsight, I understand a lottery pick screw up getting mad at. A late first pick is a crap shoot, aren't we lucky we didn't get stuck with bullock or felix, or nedivc. You are blaming our the franchise about Whiteside the side played in like 7 leagues in 4 years, is/was a head case and he didn't preform in his first few years in the league. He is a great story but come on. Sorry for calling you out but it is one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to basketball

Lets get over this Whiteside thing, every team in the league had a chance to sign him and the Heat were the ones who finally took the chance

Well said, completely agree

[worldK]

In hindsight, he was the superior pick to Dieng. What's especially ironic is that Flip worked Gobert out and passed on him because he was too skinny. Yet he goes out and picks Dieng, who topples over whenever someone breathes on him.

Full disclosure: I loved the Dieng pick at the time. But I'm starting to love him like I loved Brewer - the person is great; the player may be not so much....

The ironic thing here is that we didnt work out dieng yet flip pick him. I like dieng. I agree that he is too easy to push around in the paint and he needs to add core and leg strength and hold his ground in the paint but he knows how to play. Gobert projects to be the better player now though but Im fine with dieng.

[mrhockey89]

In hindsight, he was the superior pick to Dieng. What's especially ironic is that Flip worked Gobert out and passed on him because he was too skinny. Yet he goes out and picks Dieng, who topples over whenever someone breathes on him.

Full disclosure: I loved the Dieng pick at the time. But I'm starting to love him like I loved Brewer - the person is great; the player may be not so much....

Oh c'mon Q, Dieng was a solid pick at the time and he's still a solid pick. Everyone from every team can play revisionist history because there's almost always a pick that was taken later that was better than the pick a team ended up with, but he was taken like 23rd overall or something, and STILL looks like a steal at that pick.

[Q12543 [enjin:6621299]]

In hindsight, he was the superior pick to Dieng. What's especially ironic is that Flip worked Gobert out and passed on him because he was too skinny. Yet he goes out and picks Dieng, who topples over whenever someone breathes on him.

Full disclosure: I loved the Dieng pick at the time. But I'm starting to love him like I loved Brewer - the person is great; the player may be not so much....

Oh c'mon Q, Dieng was a solid pick at the time and he's still a solid pick. Everyone from every team can play revisionist history because there's almost always a pick that was taken later that was better than the pick a team ended up with, but he was taken like 23rd overall or something, and STILL looks like a steal at that pick.

Understood and I've said a gazillion times that I liked the pick at the time. It's just funny that Flip thought Gobert was too skinny, yet the #1 issue with Dieng is his ability to hold his ground in the paint.