NBA Draft Thoughts

In my long awaited return to YCS, I will give my thought on tonight's NBA Selection Meeting.

Just say no to Tyrus Thomas-Even Jay Bilas, a man I greatly respect, has been fooled by Mr. Thomas's potential. However, like Kwame Brown and Tyson Chandler, some day there will be an unemployed GM regretting they gambled on potential instead of taking the sure thing like Randy Foye and Brandon Roy.

The next great Euro-I have become sold on one Andrea Bargnani, and feel he will be much closer to Dirk than Darko. Unlike many European busts before, Bargnani has produced for one of Italy's top teams, Bennetton Treviso, averaging 11 points and 4 boards a game. There's a good chance that five years from now, Bargnani will be the best player produced from this draft.

College Seniors Reign Supreme-It looks like three college seniors-Foye, Roy and Shelden Williams will be drafted in top 8, a rarity in today's undeveloped potential NBA. All three have spent four years at major programs-Villanova, Washington and Duke, improving their games and they will be instant impact players in the NBA. Roy will be my pick for next season's rookie of the year, and he compares very favorably to the Hawks Joe Johnson, one of the NBA's best kept secrets.

Production>>>>>>Potential-While many young players like Thomas, Rajon Rondo, Cedric Simmons and the bevy of Europeans will be drafted over proven commodities like James White, Steve Novak, James Augustine and Mike Gansey, GM's will be brushing up their resumes while their projects are sitting on the bench and these aforementioned players help winning teams.

Don't let the media fool you-Apparently our NBA draft experts like to question Lamarcus Aldridge's heart and effort while praising the potential of guys like Thomas and Rudy Gay. Never mind the fact that Aldridge overcame a serious hip injury to become one of the Big 12's best players, improving his jump shot and starting to bulk up. Chris Bosh has proven you don't need to a hulking bruiser to be an effective NBA post player, and Aldridge has similar athletic skills to Bosh. The guy has already proven he can overcome adversity, and will prove these many doubters wrong.

In conclusion, while these may be my best educated guesses, it will always be a well-known fact that Jay Mariotti is a fag, and I'd like to thank Ozzie Guillen for telling it like it is, and tell Cub fans and the rest of the media to kiss the fattest part of my ass for creating another fabricated media storm. And Kenny Williams, shame on you for taking the bait and badly overreacting to the Booyah Network.