The Center Position: Whaddya wanna do?

e.g. means "for example" so I actually put all possible available options except "do nothing" which ain't gonna happen.

 

Noel at 206 lbs? he may never be a C, more likely a PF. I'd love to develop Adams but I don't think we are going that route, I think he will end of being the best C and probably one of the best players out of this draft

 

Where's the option to trade for a guy?

 

The last 2 options are essentially that. I made it more specific - trading cap space, but it doesn't have to be.

 

Most obtainable with highest risk but best reward would be Bynum. I think we could get horford too if we give up Matthews or batum:

 

Get the Phoenix trainers and sign Bynum, how does that sound? Bynum is a knucklehead, but with him the team would be a contender and he would actually be interested in trying.

 

I would still be scared. Bynum isn't much better than just taking back oden. Obviously Bynum is a champion; but he's just as injury prone. I don't know what I would do if he went down with a season ending injury!!!

 

A rehabilitating Greg Oden ‘looks unbelievable,’ according to one draft prospect

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...believable-according-one-draft-133058101.html

 

Fuck oden. Id love it if we signed bynum and oden signed with the cavs. Id cheer my ass off for bynum to make oden his bitch

 

I picked sign a journeyman, but I don't want Chris Andersen.

 

Apparently around NBA circles nobody believes Bynum will get more than a one-year deal.

Worth the risk?

 

absolutely.

2 year guaranteed deal with third year team option?

 

They must be talking no max deal for more than one year. Obviously someone will give him a multi year for much less. I dislike him but yeah he is worth some risk. But someone will give him more than 10 for at least 2 years.

 

We'd play Leonard and JO til he came back. It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. But if he DIDN'T get hurt, it would be the BEST thing in the world.

 

I'm glad people are slowly warming to the Bynum idea. He is our only hope to be a contender that is out there.

 

I just read this and spit out my coffee! LAWL!

"- a Blue9 reply to a KS post.

I have my doubts that Damian Lillard can become more than a 3rd or 4th guard in the NBA. At best I see him as an instant offense player off a bench who can fill it up and run the offense semi-effectively for short stretches. At worst he’s just a gunner who doesn’t have the passing or defensive chops to get consistent court time. I wouldn’t use a lottery pick on him and I certainly wouldn’t draft him if a player with the upside of Waiters or Wroten were still on the board."

 

I think the Sixers gave up so much to get him, they're going to buy into the sunk cost fallacy and overpay to make sure they keep him.

 

Because, after all, Oden had the temerity to get injured! What a dick!

 

Here's a name for you: Kyle Hines. I've mentioned him elsewhere, but as this is about centers, and that's where he plays...

He's very under-heighted (6'6"!) but built like a brick shithouse with Close Encounters-like arms. Think of him as a young Chuck Hayes. He's spent the years since going undrafted working up the ranks in Euro basketball, to the point where he's been arguably the MVP of the back-to-back European champion Olympiacos. He's always going to be looked down on (pun intended) as a starting center, but he kicked the ass of MVP candidate and former Celtics and Thunder player Krstic, and he's everything that Meyers Leonard isn't, so maybe they can complement each other. Plus, he'd probably come cheap, AND he'd be a buddy to help transition his teammate Kostas Papanikolaou into American life.

As you might imagine, his game doesn't really lend itself to highlight videos, but here he is blocking future Chicago Bull Mirotic in the Euroleague final:

[video=youtube;p1Bc095vZE4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Bc095vZE4[/video]

 

WTF? Did I really write that? I have serious doubts, as I have never claimed to follow or have any knowledge of NCAA hoops. And leading up to the draft I was pretty dead-set against all of the SGs (outside of Lamb, who I wouldn't have taken at #6) and didn't even know who Wroten was.
SO - if I did indeed write this, please show me where. Otherwise, please don't connect me to such trash.