Tank or Trophy run

[Nowitzki Way]

Is this the 2000 draft?
Mavs ended up with 3 1st rd picks in the absolute worst draft in history. Is this draft comparable to it or the better drafts.
Playoff run is pretty much a guarantee of running into OKC from this point forward?
The inability to answer those two questions leads me to factoring the odds. The odds say that injuries preventing us from climbing high enough to avoid the play in and A 1ST RD dismissal is LESS THAN this being a repeat of the Courtney Alexander, Etoe Thomas and Donnell Harvey (9, 10, & 22) draft

This made me go back and look at the 2000 draft. And it was horrible.   I remember doing so much research on those guys because the Mavs were picking in the lottery.  I remember thinking that Keyon Dooling was going to be  star and we needed to get him.  

Never would have guessed we'd acquire two more firsts. And then all 3 picks would be terrible.  Even if we could hand pick three guys right now with those picks, i'm not sure we'd be happy.  I guess we could have went Turkoglu at 12, Q. Richardson or Mo Peterson at 13, DeShawn Stevenson at 22.  But none of those guys were stars. 

We did get Najera in the 2nd round, but Michael Redd was picked 5 picks later and was the best player from that draft. So yea. Terrible draft.