2012 NBA Redraft: How wrong we were in real time
By Corey Rausch
#9 Pick: Jeremy Lamb (Originally: Andre Drummond)
As someone who loves Andre Drummond, this hurts. Drummond is the best Pistons draft pick in over a decade so losing out on him would be very tough. However, this could have worked out worse for them getting to add a wing prospect to Brandon Knight and Greg Monroe. Jeremy Lamb is the pick for me but again this is a tossup between Lamb, Bazemore, Will Barton and Terrence Ross.
Jeremy Lamb took a while to put up numbers that would make him worthy of being a top 10 pick, but most of that is because he was traded to a veteran Oklahoma City Thunder team for James Harden and barely saw minutes. In Detroit, he would have gotten opportunities early and often and could have evolved into his talents faster.
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Because he was in situations early in his career that blocked him in the rotation he did not break 20 minutes per game until his sixth season. Growing pains are understandable but the per-36 minute numbers in those early seasons show why he is worthy of this slot. Solid 3-point shooting and rebounding for a shooting guard would have been interesting to watch in Detroit.
Whether it be alongside Brandon Knight or Brandon Jennings, who the Pistons traded for this summer, Lamb would have gotten a chance much sooner and possibly could have looked like the guy at the end of his Charlotte run much sooner.
With the 10th pick in the 2012 NBA Redraft the New Orleans Hornets select…