Game Wrap Up 3/24/2010 vs. Utah Jazz

Pretty much everything that could go wrong in this game did go wrong. So why dwell on it? If everything was terrible, there is no reason to worry. Tomorrow is a new day. It's also the beginning of the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. I know Bryan Colangelo doesn't really believe in drafting players. Instead packaging our 1'st round draft picks to obtain, and then to trade away 30 year old bad knee Centers. So, perhaps we won't be watching future Raptors, but we'll be watching future NBA stars.

Tomorrow Kentucky plays Cornell. John Wall gets to go against a predominantly white team of future lawyers, physicians, and paper salesmen. Don't get me wrong, Cornell has been fantastic, but Johnnie Wall is on a whole new level when it comes to athleticism. In this upcoming draft, Wall's athleticism is going to break poor Jay Bilas down into tears as he tries to describe it and runs out of adjectives.

The Wall/Turner debate (for lack of a better word) will probably rage up until the draft, though I think Wall is the clear #1 with Turner the clear #2. A lot of the time GM's watch the NCAA tournament and put either far too much, or far too little stock into it. While it may not reveal all the skills or weaknesses a player has, it definitely will give you a window into their competitiveness. Players like Carmelo Anthony have shown that they want to win, and are going to impose their will on teams when the time arrives. That is what John Wall has to demonstrate in the upcoming rounds. The ability to put a team on his back and crush the competition under his feet like so many unfortunate snails.