That is a one dimensional perspective.SainterK wrote:
I guess long term we'll see how the picks around #12 turn out.
Pelchen was charged not just with drafting one player, but in rebuilding the whole list. Our list had an age imbalance and lacked talented players at the lower end.
Suns and GWS, because they did not value picks in the twenties and beyond as they had so many early picks, provided a unique opportunity to gain these picks from they "cheap".
These multi-picks has assisted to more rapidly rebuild the list, a task which is still not finished.
Also any one draft pick is also a risk of not making it either from not being good enough, or getting injured. So for a club needing a lot of young talent the multi-trades made a lot of sense to fastrack the process.
Pelchen's other stated comment on this was that he saw little difference beyonf the top 10 going into the early twenties.
ie so if you could swap pick 12 and get two players rated in the top 24 it was effectively two players for one. Saunders was a bonus on top of that.