It's impossible to think of this coach without thinking immediately of the player who helped him to 232 wins in his four full seasons in the desert - and it's impossible to think of Steve Nash without your mind's spotlight shining on the man who made him a two-time MVP.
Well, this is a deep draft for point guards - but even if we had the first pick, there is no Steve Nash waiting here for us.
But, hey! We aren't upset. The teams in front of us have snapped up the immediate contributors, and they have left us with the guys who need some time to develop. We have a very young core, and our management staff is as secure as any in the league (Even Isiah couldn't get canned from this gig!). We need a guy with talent. Lots of it. We'll show him how to use it.
So we have a choice. Do we take a smaller, flashier guy with tons of talent and a pass-first attitude or a stronger, bigger scorer who has the potential to make everyone on our team better if we can get him to pass the ball?
Neither of them have the jumper we prefer, but we aren't going one more minute without our franchise PG.
All things being equal, we like the tougher, more durable defender - but defense isn't our first priority and we don't think all things are equal. What it boils down to is that we are taking the guy with the instinct to run the show over the guy whose instinct is to be the show.
The New York Knicks select Brandon Jennings - the best raw material we can get. Now let's see our master sculpter earn his money.
Brandon Jennings shows he prefers Euros to Lira.The Toronto Raptors are on the clock.
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