Comments on: Pacers 2011 Draft Day Grades and Reactions

By: pa pa patrick

pa pa patrick — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:09:49 +0000

during draft night i was mad about this pick, but apparently george hill is the real deal. the only i have is that his name isn’t fun enough to get a jersey for. if only we had our own rondo-esque name

By: Andy Zehner

Andy Zehner — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:16:29 +0000

Ugh. The only thing worse than reading what these scribblers’ before-the-fact predictions is reading their post facto assessments. All we learn reading these post draft grades is, as ‘btyler’ points out above, which writers know the least about the Pacers.

Jared Wade does his readers a service by pulling all the comments together in one place. But I, for one, trust Bird’s and Morway’s decision.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:32:32 +0000

I’m not a huge Rush fan either, but why is everyone assuming he’s getting traded? We have roughly 30 million to play with in FA to get a big. And AJ’s and Lance’s future isn’t so much brighter than Brandon’s. With getting Hill, AJ would be the first option to get traded just because we don’t need 3 PGs. Lance and Brandon can play the 2 spot and defend a little.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:17:58 +0000

im excited to see the pacers got hill!!!! i think kawhi is danny granger2.0 with better rebounding ability and will thrive on the spurs but the pacers dont need him. hill will provide clutch scoring and decent defense plus with this move rush will most likely be traded along with 1-2 others for a power forward for sure. if we dont snag david west or another in free agency. future is lookin pretty good. its about damn time bird gets to do what hes been trying to do all along. build this state a worthy basketball team. go pacers and tom ziller is a douchebag!

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:52:54 +0000

Ziller is a tool. Just because they made this trade on draft night in June means that their roster is now set? They have absolutely no bigs, and they will most likely try to package a deal with some wing players (especially Rush) to land a PF. They will also be going nuts in free agency this year. Wake up Ziller.

By: btyler

btyler — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:45:52 +0000

Tom Ziller just sounds ridiculously ignorant. It’s obvious he didn’t watch a single Pacers game last year that wasn’t against the Heat, Lakers, or Knicks. AJ Price is very likely on his way out of Indy now that he’s obsolete. Although, I do agree that we shouldn’t have traded completely out of the draft and just walk away with George Hill. But I’m still ecstatic to have Hill back home. He might help attract Eric Gordon’s attention, as well as the rest of the still-rebuilding team. And if he doesn’t attract EJ, maybe he’ll help make us good enough to attract any “big name” free agent.