Comments on: My top 30 prospects for 2009

By: beesballfn

beesballfn — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:43:35 +0000

I like your list and your comments on May, he is remember only 19 and he is still growing but he has all the atributes needed to succeed . the speed is there, working on the other stuff and getting it right will bring the speed back.

By: the fish

the fish — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:45:41 +0000

” Boston Phan Says:
March 3, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Norman, the draft is usually run by the scouting director. In our case it has been Marti Wolever for the past few years. I’m pretty sure he did not follow Arbuckle to KC. Can anyone confirm? If so, you can be sure that we will have similar drafts to previous years. The only way that would change is if the draft budget gets reduced due to economic reasons.”

Yes, Wolever is still with the team. The biggest disgruntlement with the organization’s management of the scouting during most of Wade’s era was that he routinely gave away picks and didn’t gain any- all most wanted to see was that they were giving Arbuckle and Wolever a chance to do what we knew they were pretty good at. Gillick did this, and the drafts reaped the benefits, and there isn’t a strong precedence to assume that absent the early picks they will go deeper with subsequent picks, or even that they will continue to try and have deep drafts at all with the new GM.

By: allentown

allentown — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:41:32 +0000

It may change a lot this year, since instead of having an extra pick, we are going without our first rounder.

By: Boston Phan

Boston Phan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:28:27 +0000

Norman, the draft is usually run by the scouting director. In our case it has been Marti Wolever for the past few years. I’m pretty sure he did not follow Arbuckle to KC. Can anyone confirm? If so, you can be sure that we will have similar drafts to previous years. The only way that would change is if the draft budget gets reduced due to economic reasons.

By: NormanChaney

NormanChaney — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:59:44 +0000

To the poster who said we had a very good draft in ’08: We’ve had very good drafts under Gillick all 3 years. It will be tought to match in the next 3 years.