Chad Ford Projects Plaisted to Boston

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by cougjunkie

Or he is moonlighting as a writer for ESPN and he teaches at BYU-Hawaii as well as being mormon.

Oh wait that is exactly what Chad Ford does.

Didn't know that about Ford. But I do know that Peter Vescy hates him so he has to be a good guy.

[Indy Coug]

I have a soft spot for Chad Ford just because I'm good friends with his brother.

[TheSizzle36]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

He also insisted that Travis Hansen was going at the end of the 1st round too. I can only interpret both instances as attempts to raise their public profile in the hopes of getting them drafted higher.

He went 37th, which is fairly early 2nd round. And I'm suspicious that Ford does like to give BYU players the benefit of the doubt and help bump them if at all possible.

I hadn't seen a mock draft with Plaisted in the first round, this was the first I'd seen, so I figured I'd post.

And speaking of the 2003 draft, it was quite a draft.

The top 5 produced 4 consistent All-Stars in Lebron, Carmello, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade. Any other year any of those guys could have been a #1 overall pick and would have been successful #1's.

Add to that players like Kirk Heinrich, Travis Outlaw, Chris Kaman, TJ Ford, David West, Boris Diaw, Leandro Barbosa, and Josh Howard in the first round and it's a pretty deep draft.

In the 2nd you have guys like Mo Williams, Kyle Korver, Luke Walton, Jason Kapono and Steve Blake who all are rotation players on their teams and it's a deep draft.

[scottie]

Originally Posted by TheSizzle36

He went 37th, which is fairly early 2nd round. And I'm suspicious that Ford does like to give BYU players the benefit of the doubt and help bump them if at all possible.

I hadn't seen a mock draft with Plaisted in the first round, this was the first I'd seen, so I figured I'd post.

And speaking of the 2003 draft, it was quite a draft.

The top 5 produced 4 consistent All-Stars in Lebron, Carmello, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade. Any other year any of those guys could have been a #1 overall pick and would have been successful #1's.

Add to that players like Kirk Heinrich, Travis Outlaw, Chris Kaman, TJ Ford, David West, Boris Diaw, Leandro Barbosa, and Josh Howard in the first round and it's a pretty deep draft.

In the 2nd you have guys like Mo Williams, Kyle Korver, Luke Walton, Jason Kapono and Steve Blake who all are rotation players on their teams and it's a deep draft.

Speaking of deep drafts, check out 1996's:

http://www.nbadraft.net/1996.htm

Three MVPs (Iverson, Nash, and Bryant), plus guys like Camby, Marbury, Ray Allen, Antoine Walker, Stojakovic, Jermaine O'Neal, Ilgauskas, and Fisher, not bad.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by scottie

Speaking of deep drafts, check out 1996's:

http://www.nbadraft.net/1996.htm

Three MVPs (Iverson, Nash, and Bryant), plus guys like Camby, Marbury, Ray Allen, Antoine Walker, Stojakovic, Jermaine O'Neal, Ilgauskas, and Fisher, not bad.

That's a decent draft, but I'll raise you the '84 draft:

Hakeem
MJ
Barkley
Stockton

and others are

Alvin Robertson
Otis Thorpe
Kevin Willis
Sam Perkins
Michael Cage