When the dude freaked out at me for comparing Kennard to Redick and then tries to tell me that Swanigan is likely a future all-star, it'll take some effort.
Great post Schilly our musings are but an attempt to guess what the "brass" are thinking and hope we guessed what they choose! Good specultion though! I have gone over the list of vidieo and can not yet see who I would think fits best into the Blazers line up. Way too many unknowns.
No one ever said that Swanigan is a future all-star. I made the comparison to ZBo, as an average level starting PF.
Bryant and Swanigan is another good matchup. How can Caleb do against height and what kind of potential can Bryant show. Both could be long shots for 26 or a bought 2nd rounder.
We got one more workout and we haven't seen Justin Jackson and Bell and the other Collins. Who else we haven't seen that would be around our picks.
Looking at the Blazers complete workout list and putting it in order of average mock for DraftExpress.com and NBADraft.net: 13.0 Donovan Mitchell (G) 16.0 Justin Patton - best available 17.5 Harry Giles 18.0 John Collins 18.0 TJ Leaf 20.0 Bam Adebayo - best available 21.0 Terrance Ferguson (G/F) 26.0 Jawun Evans (G) - best available 27.0 Og Anunoby 31.5 Tyler Lydon 34.0 Anzejes Pasecniks 35.0 Caleb Swanigan 41.0 Josh Hart (G) 42.0 PJ Dozier 44.0 Tyler Dorsey (G) 45.0 Dillon Brooks (G/F) 46.0 Sindarius Thornwell (G) 47.0 Dwayne Bacon (G) 51.0 Cameron Oliver 52.0 Thomas Bryant It's pretty clear that bigs are the target in our draft range. If we're looking at taking the 'best available' according to these mock drafts, then the Blazers could potentially take: #15 - Justin Patton, or Harry Giles #20 - Whoever is left of: John Collins, TJ Leaf, Bam Adebayo, or Terrance Ferguson #26 - Whoever is left of: Jawun Evans, Og Anunoby, Tyler Lydon, or Anzejes Pasecniks. Top targets of 2nd round picks if purchased: Anzejes Pasecnics, Caleb Swanigan, Josh Hart or PJ Dozier Would you be happy with a Patton, Adebayo, Evans draft? With less than a week before the draft, there's still a ton of uncertainty. The Blazers have 3 first round picks, and I haven't heard a single name that the Blazers are targeting. This is going to be a crazy/exciting draft!
NBAdraft.net must have Pasecniks rated really low for him to average out at 34, cuz he is at 23 at draftexpress.
I'm still trying to work out a magical way Zach Collins falls to us. But yeah, don't seem him dropping past 10 or 11. Just imagine a would without Meyers Leonard. It is a truly wonderful world!
He'll go first round for sure, because the bottom half of the first is always Eurostash players these days, because teams want to put off paying guaranteed money to low-first-round talent.
