F it. I'd take MKG if he's there at 4. That'd be shocking, actually. I guess I was just trying to be realistic when I said Drummond.
Yeah I'm tired of wings, unless that's a wing whom will become a superstar. I want us to finally turn the page on Oden and get a replacement center. I know Drummond's "ceiling" is not even close to Oden's, but he looks nasty and possibly a defensive monster. Aldridge needs a player with toughness to play in the paint with him. Pryzbilla is showing, even an aging defensive tough guy does wonders for him.
That's what I was originally thinking. You have LA and Drummond. I know some people say slide LA to C, but he's not a C. He doesn't play quite with enough force to play it the majority of the time. So, LA and Drummond would be nasty together down-low. Bring back Joel for a year or two as the backup. Get a backup PF. At 11, you draft the best player available at PG, SG, or SF. I think there are a few guys that could start next year, or at least play quality minutes there. Would love Rivers, or I'd love to see us bring Terrence Jones home.
Why isn't Drummond's 'ceiling' close to Oden's? If Drummond can be healthy, he already would be more productive than Oden. Drummond is going to be a project for sure, but right off the bat he'll be a shot blocker, a guy that will make guards think twice about driving the lane. Those kind of guys are so valuable in a league that is void of big men. Anything he can get going offensively will just be icing on the cake. There was a time that I thought I'd rather have Drummond over Davis. Now I like Davis better, but Drummond ain't no chopped liver.
Oden averaged 16pts/10reb/3.3blk in 29min a game....playing with a broken wrist (his strong hand) There's a pretty big gap between then
I'm surprised that a lot of mocks I've seen have Drummond falling to 4-5. With his skill level, and given this is a deep draft but with no sure-fire stars, I figured he'd go #2 right after Davis. I hope I'm wrong and he is available to us, but I figure by the time draft night comes around, Drummond will have worked his way up to 2-3.
I thought MKG already came out saying he was staying at UK for another year? I could be wrong though.
Every time I look at Greg's advanced stats I'm shocked. Before he hurt his left knee he looked absolutely atrocious in the Vegas Summer League. Jason Quick covered some of the practices and Joel Freeland owned Greg head-to-head. He had one post move and no counter moves. Before he went down he had a string of great games but he mostly was a foul machine who could never stay on the floor. The dominant Oden we saw against Florida we only got to see once (vs. Chicago in 2009) in his 82 games with the Blazers.
Love Mags but he's in fantasy land about the playoffs, we will not make them and I'd prefer the better pick
You guys will love Chad Ford's mock 1.0 http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft2012/story/_/id/7712831/nba-mock-draft-version-1 He has us taking Bradley Beal at 4 (too high IMO) and Tyler Zeller at 11 (SMH and FML)
If that's our draft.... I hope NJ keeps the pick this year and we get it next year (or we traded the pick(s))....
i know mock drafts just go by record at the time, but NJ finishing with the 4th worst record only gives us a 10% chance at the 4th pick. kinda makes mock drafts speculating about who we will take at 4 pointless. at best we should be thinking about #5.
I don't. I think he'd be good. But I don't think he'd be D-Howard good. But it's unlikely you'll never be able to prove it, and neither will I. Even if Oden does come back, it's more than likely he'll never reach his probable ceiling before injuries. But we'll never know that either. Maybe he comes back, puts up 10/10 and that was his ceiling before injury. We'll never know. What I do know.... hindsight is 20/20 and hot damn I wish we had Durant.
Just looking at some of his productivity levels, they match up very will with Howard's at the same age/years in the league. Remember, it took Dwight about 4-5 years to really be what he is today where he actually has some post moves. Also, we're talking about a healthy Oden. We never really got a healthy Oden. He still had some very promising levels of productivity, though.
