Thinking that the team should settle on inferior prospects (or "safe" players, or "role" players) is what has hurt us recently in the draft, IMO. We SHOULD be swinging for the fences with our picks, rather than settling on someone who has a lower probable ceiling. I don't know that much about Singleton, but I look at his four years in college and I wonder how he still wasn't much of a player offensively. Raw players who have played four years of college scare me. If he's the best prospect, though, then I would be fine with us drafting him... better than reaching for a guy merely because of need. Ed O.
It wouldn't be surprising to me if the Blazers traded out of the first round and packaged their pick with a player or two to bring back a more experienced guy. This team is past the point where continuing to stock the roster with rookies is the right thing to do.
Past the point in what sense? Do you think there's some kind of window that the team is going to miss if they don't add another veteran? I'm all for getting rookies if they have good potential. The rookies that we've seen lately (except maybe Babbitt; too soon to tell) haven't had that. Ed O.
