Anatomy of a Prototypical Geoff Petrie Draft Pick

In today’s NBA, that’s someone who can shoot and score and usually plays the 1, 2 or 3, with apologies to Dirk.

After more or less whiffing with his last two big man picks, Petrie goes smaller and more athletic. I think he’ ll use the trade or free agent route to shore up the team’s big man deficiencies and will look for a Kendrick Perkins-type banger down low.

The pick will be male, and will hail from the planet earth. He will be a college or foreign player. If he comes from the college ranks, it will be from a larger or smaller school. He will be smooth or rough. The selection is likely to catch at least a few people by surprise.

Well damn, that leaves Marvin the Martian out of the selection process 214. You’re such a hater dude.

then just say it and stop beating around the bush, and being mysterious.

Section214 man of mystery. I like it. ;)

Most of GP’s picks have been good but I really think he should snag up Cousins because I feel that Greg Monroe is too much like Hawes and Cole Aldrich is another Joel Pryzbilla. We need someone who can bang, block shots, & rebound.. If Cousins if off the board then I don’t know where I front court goes from there.

It’s the trades/signings of Divac, Brad Miller, Chris Webber etc and the general Kings’ play style this decade. I’m sure he had something to do with all of those things. Still… he brought Artest and picked Wallace so there’s no point talking about stereotypes.

The “Surprise Petrie Pick” chance is stronger than the “Soft and Finesse Tall Shooter Petrie Pick”.

A thought a prototypical Geoff Petrie draft pick is one of immediate shock that typically draws boos and scorn from the Sacramento fan base and all draft pundits except Jay Bilas, who explains he’ll hold judgment based on the track record of the guy making the pick.

“Toughness” is key to understanding the direction of GP’s ongoing picks. He is going after “tough” players. His acquisitions of late have been tough guys.

Casspi – Former Israeli solder. Enough said.

Landry – The dude that gives Nowitzki nightmares and that took bullet in the leg.

Nocioni – Tough guy in a real serious way. Playing on torn meniscus can’t be fun.

Brockman – His brockness is all that needs to be said here..

Evans – As really the only one that isn’t some prototypical tough guy, but clearly is a grown ass man.

We can look for one tough hombre that is NBA ready. That is all I would say is guaranteed.

You really never know who he is going to pick. He could choose Gordan Heyward for all we know.

anyway, i was discussing this with my friends and i think that if you guys could get demarcus cousins and whoop his ass into shape or you get wesley johnson to fit your sf needs then you guys will surely become a contender in a few years. I love how thompson, tyreke is simply a beast. I dont know what would happen to hawes with cousins but again you get him right and he will be infinetly be more productive than a rebounding averse spencer hawes. Good luck guys, i hope you guys get the perfect fit; i want to see this team win a championship

Geoff Petrie is a listener. A pensive postulator of potential. He does not operate in a vacuum.
The constants: Scotty Sterling, Wayne Cooper and Jerry Reynolds, Coachie, Joe and Gavin Maloof.
The variables: Adelman, Musselman, Theus, Westphal (sorry Kenny).

I don’t believe that Mr. Petrie picks a guy and doesn’t involve the opinion of others.Last season, I have to believe that Tyreke nailed his workouts – but that was a series of workouts that had Westphal involved. Petrie might be responsible for the selection but he is not the one who will be coaching the player.

This season the selection process will involve the constants along with Coach Westphal and I will add Jason Levien, the rest of the coaching staff (sheesh, that would be: Eyens, Elie, Gates, Robinson, Abdur-Rahim) and as he was involved in the interview process: Bobby Jackson (scout). I count: 14 and would add Mike Petrie and both Youngman and Shapiro on the athletic trainer side. That is 17 total.

Fortunately, I see no mention of PookeyGuru (or any other StR member on that list). I also excluded John Whisenant and Ailene Voison.

Some of the picks were good, some were bad, and some were simply the apparent BPA. He will take a player that he believes can help the Kings in both the short and long term. As 214 has shown, there is no such thing as a GP pick. IMO, a Petrie pick is similar to any other tenured GM (D. Walsh, M.Kupchek, Colangelo…) its the player that they think will help the team the most. Either way, on that list, every player is still active and only 4 of them still play for the Kings. Meaning that no matter who we pick this year it is likely they wont dramatically change the team next year. Any improvement the team has will be because of what Reke, Omri, Donte, JT, Landry, and so on do. While a rookie might have an impact, even a player of Reke’s caliber accounted for 8 more wins. With that said, I really hope that whoever GP takes ends up being more like Reke than Douby

Simply brilliant. Rec’d.

But it seems to me Petrie tends to drafts athletes in the first round and when there aren’t any available he ends up picking a player with a high skill set.

Jason Williams had character concerns but the Kings knew he was constantly in the gym playing basketball. A main reason cited for picking Jason Thompson was again all the time he liked spending in the gym playing/practicing basketball.

In fact as you go down the list almost every pick fit the gym rat mold. Possibly exceptions include Gerald Wallace but when you are picking at #25 you can occasionally guess on a young kid. Spencer Hawes is probably another exception, but the Kings weren’t targeting Spencer . . . they were left with Spencer. Joakim Noah was the Kings preference, a gym rat.

will gaze as adoringly at this year’s pick as he did at Evans in the above pic.

That’s a dude with a man-crush if I’ve ever seen one.