NBA 2004 Redraft: Picking between high school and college champions
By Corey Rausch
#11 Pick: Trevor Ariza (Originally: Andris Biedrins)
This could be too much positional overlap for the team, but Trevor Ariza just fits this era of the Warriors so well. Adding Ariza to a team with Baron Davis, Mike Dunleavy, Mickael Pietrus and Jason Richardson adds so much more versatility to the roster on defense and spacing on offense for any big man they could add to the team.
If they were a more modern team, they could have played Troy Murphy at center and gone full small ball years before it was the norm in the league.
Looking to the aforementioned era of Warriors basketball, having forwards like Ariza, Matt Barnes, Dunleavy, Al Harrington, Stephen Jackson and Pietrus seem like a nightmare for any team to deal with.
This feels like the perfect Don Nelson team and Ariza fits in perfectly. Center was already a less than integral part of the way they ran their system, so going all-in on what made them great would have been beautiful to watch.
With the twelfth pick in the 2004 NBA Redraft, the Seattle SuperSonics select…