It was Cleveland's 3rd time they hold the rights to the 1st overall pick in9 years, with the first two being LeBron James and Kyrie Irving. In this draft the choice of picking the right player for your team was very mind gobbling and Cleveland shocked us, picking the UNLV product, Anthony Bennett. The world was amused by that choice, thinking 'Had they seen something from that kid that we didn't?' Me, myself, didn't know much about Anthony, his game didn't catch my eye, but I was confused as to why did the Cavs pick him? I think they, themselves still are not entirely sure why they made that choice.
I was hoping to find the answer during the regular season. It turned out that this pick was a huge BUST. People are already calling him the worst 1st overall pick in NBA's history and well, it is tough to find an argument against that, when Mr. Bennett is scoring around 3 points per game on 25% shooting (Yes, 25% it is not a mistake). People ask themselves what is the problem? The guy shot around 50% from the field and 38% from deep and scored 16 points for his college team so what happened? Well, I think he just wasn't ready for the NBA. He came into the league after a shoulder injury, looking fat, overweight and out of shape. The thing I don't understand is why hadn't he worked out during the off season? Was it because of the shoulder injury? I doubt that it would limit him from any workouts. Maybe he's lazy? Nah, I don't know the man, so I won't call him lazy. But the one thing I do know is that if Anthony Bennett doesn't want to be remembered as one of the worst picks in NBA's draft history, he better start working and prove that he is worthy of the 1st overall pick. And if he doesn't? Let's just say that Kwame Brown will have some competition in "who was the worse pick".
Now I understand it's not all Anthony's fault (Although most of it is). Cleveland did some damage too. The reason they picked Bennett was because they tried to be smart, instead of going for the easy pick. They passed on guys like Nerlens Noel, Ben McLemore, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Victor Oladipo, Michael Carter-Williams and Trey Burke, saying that they have guys on that position already. So what? Didn't they draft Tristan Thompson in 2011 who also plays the power forward spot? Yes, they did, but I think they forgot about him and that forced Anthony Bennett to play the small forward, causing him to shoot more long range shots, which resulted into more bricks and the huge grop in his FG%. What I think the Cavs should have done is pick the player with the highest upside, the biggest potential. Guys like Victor Oladipo, Ben McLemore or Nerlens Noel. I don't know why they didn't pick any of those players, as I think they will turn out to be very good in the future. Another option which Cleveland had was trading away the pick, which I think was a good idea. Kyrie Irving wants to win and some fans are already afraid he might leave in free agency like LeBron, so if they had traded the pick for some good assets they might have build a better team for Kyrie. But we can't say that for sure, this is all speculation.
At the end, what's done is done and we can't do much about it, but work, work hard each and every day. That's to you Mr. Bennett. I am not hating on Anthony, I just think he can't handle the pressure of being the 1st overall pick. I wish you well Anthony, I hope you will be able to turn that ship around and prove that you are indeed worthy of being drafted the 1st pick. Good luck.
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