Time Travel Drafting

Time Machine

If you had a time machine and could go back to the previous three NBA Drafts (naturally, your first places to visit), how would you change Milwaukee’s draft picks?

Who would you pick, if you could do it all over? Easy for us to say, now. Not easy. Easier.

Perspective

But it is not so easy at the time for John Hammond or any other general manager to identify the very top player still on the board. It rarely happens for any team, actually. If you can look back years later and even say that you picked one of the top three or four players at your given spot, you probably did well.

Think of it this way: You are not choosing between one player or the other player. This is not a 50-50 shot. You are choosing between 60 players, or 50 players, or 40 players. And so on.

Re-Drafts

So, what would you have done differently in 2010, 2011, and 2012, if you knew what you know now about those drafts?

Hardly anything, maybe.

In 2010, the Bucks held the #15 pick. In 2011, they selected at #19 (after trading down from #10). And in 2012, they chose at #14.

In all three of those cases, they arguably selected the best player on the board. At the least, they picked one of the three or four best players each time.

Let’s take a little trip back in time.

 

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