Turner the Right Pick, So Far
It’s human nature to say, “I could have done it better.” To second guess every decision. To question everything everyone does.
But, as they say, “Hindsight is 20/20.”
Really? Sometimes I’m not so sure about that.
Rather, maybe hindsight is 20/40 correctable to 20/20 with glasses on. And those glasses would be intelligence, time and perspective.
For instance, look at Evan Turner. Many fans believe that Evan Turner was a terrible pick, a bust, and that the Sixers could have done better with the 2nd pick. But their glasses lack the intelligence and time. First of all, to call someone a hopeless bust after one year of scarce paying time is ignorant. And second of all, who should we have taken over him second overall?
There’s no obvious solution to this second question on the surface. So how about we look at the alternatives, starting with the guy picked right after Turner.
He goes by the name of Derrick Favors. He plays a position of potential need for the 76ers. (Elton Brand isn’t a long term solution at power forward). He could be sat and groomed behind Brand for a couple of years while we get him ready to produce, and he’s dripping with potential.
But wouldn’t this be similar to what is going on with Turner? Turner played behind Iggy. Plus, Favors’ stats this year, with 6.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, weren’t more impressive than Turner’s, which might make him look like a bust also. He would be the one getting talked about in the crowd to the tune of,” Worst draft pick ever.”
(I actually heard that about Turner this year. Is Hasheem Thabeet dead? Did Darko pass away?)
So I cannot say with any certainty that Favors was a better pick than Turner.
So now we move down the draft board and look at the number four overall pick, Wesley Johnson, a small forward out of Syracuse. He was listed in the summary on NBA.com of the draft as,” The best small forward in the draft.” Um, help me out here. What does that prove? The second drafted small forward was Gordon Hayward, who is not going to be confused with any game-changers with his rookie performance. So does that mean the best thing you can say is he was the best small forward in a draft without any other good small forwards?
Another thing he has going against him is that he was selected by David Kahn, who, while entertaining, ( Like when he said, “Beasley’s a good kid who smoked too much marijuana.”) is not going to be confused with Red Auerbach. In fact, just think of all of the perplexing and bizarre moves that he has made over the years. (Johnny Flynn over Jrue Holiday, Stephen Curry and Ty Lawson.) He has probably made only one good move ever, which was trading Kevin Love for O.J. Mayo. (Plus, he made that great pick of Ricky Rubio, who averaged six points and three assists in the euroleague this year. Wait, maybe it wasn’t great.
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Prison is punishment enough. - AnjaliPrashar Blog
When a man commits a crime and their punishment is a prison sentence is that not enough of a punishment?
Do we honestly agree with torture? Do we honestly think its acceptable for one human being to beat, burn or drown another human being in the name of the law?
The world's most notorious prisons were named and shamed in the newspaper on Wednesday. Why are we publishing articles about this? Why do we know of a prison that tortures their inmates and not do anything about it?
There is seriously something wrong here.
1300 inmates were killed by various methods of violence in a Prison in Brazil..
Guards in a Military Prison in Syria drag prisoners by ropes until dead or beat them to death with pipes. The guards who are known to be more blood thirsty chop up body parts in the courtyards of the prison..
Do I really need to say anything.. Is this a lawful punishment? No. This is disturbing. This is sick. This is horrific.
I cannot understand how the guards can do this to another human being? Shouldn't the guards be held accountable for inflicting this much pain and suffering?
And where are these orders even coming from? The prison guards didn't just take this up as a hobby.. And the Governments are fully aware of what is going on in their prisons.. The idea of torture has long been embodied within the system.
Sometimes the inmates are wrongly imprisoned, a man in Iran has been in an out of prison, almost lost his sight and his wife and children tortured because he protested for a fair days wage.. Did he deserve to be in Prison for that? No.
We should be living in a world where everyone who does something wrong is held accountable, and for that accountability to be justifiable to the wrong committed.
'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.' Martin Luther King Jr..
We need to be the voice for those who have none.
Amnesty International sum this up in three words - Protect the human.