Well, the underwhelming draft of 2011 and what the night lacked in talent, it made up for in confusion. Not only were there a slew of minor trades but teams kept drafting kids who duplicated players already on their roster. One can only assume that there are going to be a lot of trades going down after the lockout because there are a lot of messy rosters out there. The thinking of the evening was probably best (and by best, I mean terribly) summed up by #2 pick Derrick Williams when he said:

"There's Kevin Love, Michael Beasley and me at the 4 spot. Whenever you have three people that play the same positions, it's going to be hard to guard. It's going to cause a lot of mismatches."

To nobody's surprise, David Kahn made a lot of trades that didn't really improve his team. And the one trade that people thought he would make, with the #2 pick, never happened because he apparently was being unreasonable in trade talks.

Some people like what the Bobcats did but I don't really get it. I like Kemba but nobody has to guard a backcourt of Kemba, Gerald Henderson, and newly acquired Corey Maggette on the perimeter. And Bismack Biyombo is another African big man with the same initial for his first and last name (like fellow busts DeSagana Diop and Saer Sene) who has no real offensive game and while Ty Thomas showed some signs of life last year, I think the 'Cats needed someone who at least had some idea of what he was doing on offense.

Overall, some teams did alright but this was a pretty forgettable draft unless some kids from the mid-to-late picks can surprise and turn into impact players. No teams really improved. It's too late to write it now but in the next week I hope to come up with some trades for teams so they can clear out there logjams at certain positions and improve their standing.

That monster deal leaves the Clippers out in the cold, the Celtics trying to assure Rondo that he's wanted, and the usual suspects (Granger, Iguodala, Ellis) still stuck on their squads. I'll try to figure out something to do with them tomorrow or later this week.