Draft:Bulls looking at Marcus Thornton/other notes

[dougthonus]

Reraft:Bulls looking at Marcus Thornton/other no

With that said we could use a guy at 26 that does everything okay but not great. If the scouting report on him is accurate and he moves without the ball and is used a lot off screens he helps this team out.

I haven't looked at Thornton to backup this description of him, but I think a guy who does everything "okay" and does it just "okay" enough that he's available late in the draft isn't real likely to help you. I think at that stage you're better off finding someone who does at least one thing great and figuring he can fill some role on your team. Granted, Thornton might do one thing great. I have no idea, or maybe he does enough things "good".

This isn't meant to be a criticism on him, but just when I view a late prospect, I'd be thinking role player or project as my best bets. The all-around average guy doesn't seem likely to pan out to me.

 

[Ralphb07]

Reraft:Bulls looking at Marcus Thornton/other no

dougthonus wrote:

With that said we could use a guy at 26 that does everything okay but not great. If the scouting report on him is accurate and he moves without the ball and is used a lot off screens he helps this team out.

I haven't looked at Thornton to backup this description of him, but I think a guy who does everything "okay" and does it just "okay" enough that he's available late in the draft isn't real likely to help you. I think at that stage you're better off finding someone who does at least one thing great and figuring he can fill some role on your team. Granted, Thornton might do one thing great. I have no idea, or maybe he does enough things "good".

This isn't meant to be a criticism on him, but just when I view a late prospect, I'd be thinking role player or project as my best bets. The all-around average guy doesn't seem likely to pan out to me.

Okay can mean Good not great though which is what I was assuming. IMO Okay would be better than average.

You'll have to take a look at him Doug and see what up. Everything I read is he's a good shooter and scored mostly off of screens and moving without the ball which could help us

if we can land a Eddie House/Daniel Gibson talent at 26 I would be extremely happy. I think people undervalue that type of role player.

 

[Shakes]

Reraft:Bulls looking at Marcus Thornton/other no

bullsman24 wrote:

if we take this guy though it spells the end for ben gordon in chicago.

It's the 26th pick in the draft, you don't know whether you're getting Kevin Martin or Ndudi Ebi (to pick two recent 26th picks). I don't see why you'd throw away Ben Gordon over it.

Even if we do luck into the best case and get a Kevin Martin sort of player, the chances of him stepping in and replacing Gordon next year are basically zero. For example, Martin scored a grand total of 131 points in his rookie year.

This is what I hate about the draft, everyone talks the rookies into being way better than they are likely to be, until you have even undrafted guys like Eddie Basden on the all rookie 1st team.

 

[dougthonus]

Reraft:Bulls looking at Marcus Thornton/other no

This is what I hate about the draft, everyone talks the rookies into being way better than they are likely to be, until you have even undrafted guys like Eddie Basden on the all rookie 1st team.

I remember when the Eddie Basden hype machine was rolling and I said this guy will be lucky to make the team, and got flogged for it. I couldn't believe how many people thought he was going to be such a valuable piece for us.

In his defense, he did have a really nice summer league

 

[Ralphb07]

Reraft:Bulls looking at Marcus Thornton/other no

dougthonus wrote:

This is what I hate about the draft, everyone talks the rookies into being way better than they are likely to be, until you have even undrafted guys like Eddie Basden on the all rookie 1st team.

I remember when the Eddie Basden hype machine was rolling and I said this guy will be lucky to make the team, and got flogged for it. I couldn't believe how many people thought he was going to be such a valuable piece for us.

In his defense, he did have a really nice summer league

I wasn't too high on him either...... Wasn't he undrafted?