Mike Rice @mikerice6 Good morn. I feel alot better than okc right now. Have to get going to see blazer big lottery work out this morn. Draft getting closer
Shrewd move by Les Boulez. MKG isn't the greatest fit for them, but they know he has value to someone. BUT, it makes it easier to trade with CHA now.
Just off the top of my head...First, you don't have to play the posturing game. Olshey can go to PA (if MKG is our guy) and say "he won't be there at 6, and also not at 4. So it doesn't matter if we get a late first back from CLE, we still probably won't get our guy." Second, CHA probably has a few guys they're looking at, and MKG's not at the top of that list. They'd be happy to take two players who are better fits. If you can tell them they'd get, say, Drummond and Waiters, they'd probably drop back to 6/11. If they know that CLE wants to trade up for, say, Robinson...they now know that WAS is probably going to take MKG either for themselves or someone else and if Beal or Drummond or Barnes was their REAL choice they get more assets while dropping back safely (think of LMA and Tyrus Thomas in 2006). It also sets a value for the #4, 5 and 6 picks (7 if you think Lillard is a Tier Two guy). If you know that MKG isn't getting past WAS, then the 4, 5 and 6 picks are a little easier to prognosticate.
Gotcha, thanks. Had been thinking of it differently in regards to trades, so was unsure what you meant by easier to trade. Makes sense.
Mike Rice @mikerice6 Will be best work out yet. Best guards in draft here today. Maybe Rice isn't as high on Lilalrd as we thought?
Any word on who is working out tomorrow? I heard on The Fan that the Trail Blazers are having a "secret" workout tomorrow with one of the projected top picks.
Didn't MKG say he wasn't going to work out for us and was only working out in the top 4. I think I would pee my pants if Trob came and worked out, those implications would be massive.
