Smelling a Bust
I’ll be the first to say that I’m not a draft nik, and I’m not even one those guys who thinks he’s a draft nik. In fact, I have no desire to be a draft nik. But my gut and read on what others are saying about UCLA guard Jrue Holiday, who the Sixers drafted with the 17th pick of the 2009 NBA draft, tells me this was a mistake. Holiday is a 180-pound, 6-foot-4 freshman who just turned 19 earlier this month. He averaged 8.5 points a game, shot 45.0 percent from the field, and 30.7 percent from three-point range. According to the Daily News blog, Sixerville , he “played out of position at UCLA last season” in “deference to senior Darren Collison.” What I just read: he’s a little frail, very much a kid just out of high school, doesn’t shoot all that well, and wasn’t good enough to start at his position in college. But he’s good enough for the Sixers? (By the way, Collison was drafted after Holiday.) Worse, the Sixers don’t really sound excited. Tony DiLeo quoted by the Inquirer said, “We