Pretty good draft, but how would you rank Griffin, Harden, Curry?


Draft included:

Blake Griffin
James Harden
Steph Curry


But All Rookie team was this:
Tyreke (unanimous)
Brandon Jennings (unanimous)
Curry (unanimous)
Darren Collison
Taj Gibson

2nd team
Marcus Thornton
DeJuan Blair
Harden
Jonny Flynn
Jonas Jerebko



Also in draft:
Ricky Rubio
Danny Green
Wesley Matthews
Tyler Hansbrough
Omri Casspi
Chase Budinger
Ty Lawson,
Jrue Holiday
Serge Ibaka
Toney Douglas,
Rodrigue Beaubois
DeMar DeRozan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_NBA_Draft

Actual top 10:
Griffin (overrated)
Thabeet (lol)
Harden
Evans
Rubio
Flynn (still a confusing pick to me)
Curry (Memphis is crying a little bit)
Jordan Hill
DeRozan
Jennings

Texas players:
25 Rodrigue Beaubois
37 DeJuan Blair
42 Patrick Beverley
46 Danny Green
53 Nando De Colo
55 Patty Mills
59 Chinemelu Elonu

My retrospective top 3 is easy:
1 Curry
2 Harden
3 Ibaka

After that, it's kind of tough. Depends a lot on need and your opinion of future performance. There are a lot of guys who haven't really jumped into the top echelon. Evans was electric but may have settled in as just "decent". Griffin is flashy but ultimately kind of meh to me. Just not a complete player. Lots of solid guards like Jennings, Holiday, Rubio, Teague, Green, Henderson, and Lawson. Next year will be these guys 5th season, a number of them are still trending up.

I think Griffin could be better with a better coaching staff.

Only rule I would have as a GM...

NEVER pick a white dude.

I think I would take Harden over Curry just because I feel more confident that I would get full seasons out of Harden.

And Blake still wouldn't be a horrible pick at #1, but I could see him at #3 fine.

1. Harden
2. Griffin
3. Curry

4. Rubio
5. Ibaka
6. Tyreke
7. Evans
8. unsure from here.

Rubio at 4 retrospectively? I'll admit I haven't been able to watch him a ton, so maybe he has a ton of potential that I haven't had much of a chance to see. But I don't think I could put him ahead of Ibaka, Jennings, or Lawson on my list...due in large part to his 36% field goal percentage.

I think my top picks would be Curry, Harden, Lawson, Ibaka, Griffin, Jennings-Rubio (tie)...in that order.