Quick Draft Question #2: Yi

Today's QDQ is about Yi, and it's simple:

Aren't you really happy this year's most agonizing and disturbing draft related event is happening to someone else?


The Yi situation is ugly. It's awful. It's like watching a car crash. I can't take my eyes off it.

Things like this have happened before: Danny Ferry, Keith Van Horn, and Steve Francis all come to mind. Each time someone involved gets hurt- the player, the drafting team, the sensitive humanitarian agent. Sometimes all of them get hurt. Once this type of thing starts going badly, it just does not ever seem to work out.
Maybe this time will be different.

In the meantime, here's a handy hint for all you clever General Managers out there: When a draft prospect tells you he's not working out for you, that he hates your team, he hates your city, he wishes he never met you, and that he'd rather play in another country than wear your uniform— THEN JUST DON"T DRAFT HIM... just don't. It's so much easier. Besides what are you losing out on? ... the next Danny Ferry, Keith Van Horn, or Steve Francis? That's a good thing isn't it?

Anyway, back to Yi: I think Yi's going to be a player, but way down the road. Not this year, maybe not next year. He moves great for a tall guy, he's got the goods, but realistically he's a few years off.

Who knows, Milwaukee may yet work everything out with him. In the meantime the building international crisis between the superpowers of China and Wisconsin is extremely tense. Emotions are strained. The entire international community- Japan, Korea, The United States, and both Dakotas are riveted by the building conflict. Other nations may be drawn in. What's next- Russia versus Montana?

It grinds on week after week. Bucks fans everywhere are in misery.


...Aren't you just absolutely delighted it's not us? (Hee hee hee.)