Round 3 Review

Round 3:  VC-GWallace-BLopez-Timmy-Iggy-KevMartin-Devin-Caron-Melo-BenG-DavidLee

• Loved It!:  David Lee - workman like big man who'll rebound like crazy, get some rips & hit a great FG% all in an up tempo system.  Only downside is sacrificing blocks with one of your pivots.  Honorables to Kevin Martin - some injury risk, but he's the MAN in Sac-town and if healthy will produce big numbers on the "someone has to" principle that any NBA team can score 80 a night (Charlotte excepted).
• Hated It!:  Carmelo Anthony - biggest overdraft of the entire draft on my board.  Injury prone, plus his scoring average has dropped for 2 straight years & that's the only thing he's really good at.  Hurts your percentages except for MPTO, doesn't block shots or pass particularly well & is only so-so on the glass for a Forward.  Just can't justify him at pick 31 with what few positives he brings to the table, particularly given the injury risk and the precipitous decline in the one thing he does well, score as his PPG have gone 29-26-23 the last 3 years.  Honorables to Brook Lopez - while not a bad pick, it was an overdraft.  Problem was he wasn't coming back to SteveO in the 4th so if he wanted him, he had to take him, but 25th overall?  I saw him as good value in the 35 to 40 range, but...He's not a team wrecker by any stretch, but he wasn't a value pick either.
• This Just Might Work:  VC & Ben Gordon are both high profile scorers moved to new teams, how exactly they mesh in the new system and what minutes they find will determine if these were good picks.  May be the perfect spot for Vinsanity as if anyone was born to be a Robin like Cape-Rider it would seem to be Vince.  Also Honorables to Tim Duncan who's finally rested after a short playoff stint and rare summer off - this may be the Spurs final shot at a ring so Timmy should be pushing hard.