Event 2018 NBA Draft

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  1. BonesJones

    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    I agree with the Hutchison part. We need that kid.
     
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    Why does Portland need a mediocre backup point guard with a low ceiling?
     
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    I'm not super high on him either but he's way better than DiVincenzo.
     
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    Yeah I'm not high on DiVi.

    Dude had a great tournament run, and that's it. He wouldn't be on boards if not for him playing well over a very short time span. Collins was already a projected top 20 pick before he played his way into the lottery.
     
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    You're not ready, Troy. Very bad decision.
     
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    Mediocre guards that have little chance at being better than Shabazz or Baldwin... What's the point in that?
     
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    That’s not fair man, he had a great all around season. 13/5/4 on good shooting off the bench, he also plays solid defense.
     
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    DiVi has some big time immature issues bordering on character issues. Yes, probably just because he is young but that is why he needs to stay in school. I don't think POR would touch him in the first round.
     
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    I never said that he wasn't having a great season before-hand. Just that this dude wasn't on draft boards and wasn't really in a situation where he was getting overlooked because he was playing on a Top 3 team all season long. Just feels like some recency bias.
     
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    Character issues? What do you base that statement off of?
     
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    I wouldn't call them character issues right now, he is young. Just that they could be if he doesn't grow as a person (and I expect him to so he should be fine). Immaturity issues. He had some horrible tweaks discovered with racist remarks, derogatory remarks about gays and talking about ladies in an unflattering manner. Probably something a large majority of young men have but those young men aren't trying to get paid millions of dollars to play a game so he has to know better. I think it is enough that our team wouldn't touch him until 2nd round though.
     
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    Ok, and I said he would grow but the gay stuff on his twitter was not quoting any song. I not saying any of us were any more perfect (we weren't! we said some of the same shit in person) but we also weren't dumb enough to put it on social media to have it come back to bite us in the ass.
     
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    His last tweets that were derogetory were from 2016. So he most certainly wasn't 13 the whole time he was posting immature shit. And come on now, you know if the nba was allowed to draft LeBron at age 13 that they would have. But my point is I personally believe that POR would find other players they want on their team more in this draft. If you disagree then that is no big deal with me man. I personally would have no problem hiring this kid for a job in my company. The NBA just thinks differently on these potential backlash situations. He stays in school another year and he is better off imo.
     
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    He last tweet was from June of 2016 specifically. I didn't say it was his last tweet that was bad. I said the article I read said some of his inflammatory tweets were from 2016 as well. But he deleted that twitter account. Show me where all the bad tweets were from when he was 13? We disagree which is no big deal as I said. If POR drafts him then I will be very happy for him and root for him.
     
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    I haven't seen anything that said the bad things he said were from 2016, and many media people who got pissed that colleagues ran with this were saying everything bad was from 2011. I've been looking for one article saying it was form 2016 and all of them say it was from 2011.

    He wouldn't have been able to get away tweeting something like that in 2016. His profile was to high at that point.
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Agreed. This tweet-mining trend needs to stop.
     
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    Overrated:
    Luka Doncic, Michael Porter Jr., Trae Young

    Underrated:
    Mohamed Bamba, Collin Sexton, Mikal Bridges, Chandler Hutchison
     
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    If I had my way I’d package the 1st round pick and ML and ET. Wasn’t really impressed with any of the college guys I saw this year.
     

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