That's great. Always good when someone like Locke throws some cold water on things to damped expectation. Overall, just a really bad strategy to bring in three first rounders. Obviously we don't know what was or could have been on the table in terms of parlaying (particularly that last pick) into something in the future but, barring some large multi-player trade, our roster crunch and already having two guys coming off their rookie season was pretty predictable to know that using all three picks on three players was going to default you into have a couple guys that you can't really develop. I don't like the idea of only irrigating a portion of your yard but then buying sod for the whole property and saying "just throw that over on the dry dirt and we'll see what happens." First rounders hold a lot of (inflated) value. We can use that stuff to get pieces we need, but drafting them is like a brand new car you drive off the lot and experience massive depreciation (pre-covid). The two times I remember having three picks was when we took Quincy Lewis, Scott Padgett and then did the draft-and-stash with Kirilenko. Lewis and Padgett ended up being completely pointless. We didn't have time and weren't interested in developing those guys and then they just fizzled out of the league. The other was Humphries, Snyder and Podkolzin in 2004. We ended up trading Podkolzin to Dallas for a future pick, which we then were able to use to include in the deal that moved us up for DWill.
tl;dr actually drafting three guys in the first round is most often stupid and almost always a waste of resources.
