I was at the office for the duration of it, but the Hawks never really made any progress towards getting into the 2008 NBA Draft and, as expected, added no new players last night.
GM Rick Sund, speaking with Sekou Smith afterwards, basically said it came down to the team not wanting to give up any future assets to make any moves into this year's proceedings. This is pretty consistent with what he told me when I interviewed him a few weeks ago, when he sounded less than enthused about this current crop of players.
I can get behind that line of thinking, as I too don't look at this draft as one we'll really see a ton of great players from, but it certainly makes for a boring night when you have no picks, I'll tell you that much.
I won't get into too much draft analysis, because you can't really judge anyone until at least a few years into their careers, but I will say this. I think Chris Douglas-Roberts is going to make a bunch of teams regret passing on him. I thought he was the best player on Memphis' team last season, and just because he doesn't play the game in a prototypical manner doesn't mean he won't be successful at the next level. CDR dropped all the way to 40th, where he was scooped up by a fortunate New Jersey team, and I fully expect him to be on their roster come opening day. Just wanted to state that for the record.
Otherwise, not too much to report from these parts. July 1 is the first day of free agency, so I imagine we'll have much to discuss come next week.