The Green Room: Who do you think will be embarrassed tonight?

These are the players selected to the Green Room. For those that don't know what the green room is, it is in reference to the room that actors/actresses go when they are not required on a theatre stage. When draftees are invited to the "green room" it actually just means they get to go to draft night and they get a table with all their friends and family members ready to cheer when they get selected by a lottery team. They get a baseball cap with the team that selected them, they go up to the podium to shake hands with the nba commissioner, and they get a short interview about how they feel while the draft clock timer runs down for the next team. Invites are selected by poll of who they think will go lotto.

These are this year's green room invites:

Adam Morrison
Tyrus Thomas
Rudy Gay
LaMarcus Aldridge
Andrea Bargnani
Brandon Roy
Marcus Williams
Randy Foye
Patrick O'Bryant
Shelden Williams
Ronnie Brewer
Cedric Simmons
Rodney Carney
J.J. Redick
Hilton Armstrong

http://www.justbball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55660
http://www.draftexpress.com/viewarticle.php?a=1363

For kicks here is 2005 and 2004 respectively. Those in [] brackets weren't invited, but were drafted. So guys like Granger and Green were pretty disappointed that they didn't go lotto like everyone thought in the polls.

<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2">Andrew Bogut
Marvin Williams
Deron Williams
Chris Paul
Raymond Felton
Martell Webster
Charlie Villanueva
Channing Frye
[Ike Diogu]
[Andrew Bynum]
Fran Vazquez
Yaroslav Korolev
Rashad McCants
Sean May
Antoine Wright
[Joey Graham]
Danny Granger
Gerald Green
Hakim Warrick


2004

</font></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"> Dwight Howard
Emeka Okafor
Ben Gordon
Shaun Livingston
Devin Harris
Josh Childress
Luol Deng
Rafael Araujo
Andre Iguodala
[Luke Jackson]
Andris Biedrins
[Robert Swift]
[Sebastian Telfair]
[Kris Humphries]
[Al Jefferson]
Kirk Snyder
Josh Smith
[JR Smith]
[Dorell Wright]
Jameer Nelson
Pavel Podkolzine
[Viktor Khryapa]
Sergei Monia


This isn't really a contest, because I can't figure out how to score it without all of us losing or all of us winning, so just post who you think will fall just like Danny Granger/Gerald Green last year and Jameer Nelson/Josh Smith the year before.
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Hilton Armstrong and maybe Marcus Williams.

 

I'm going with the Andrea Bargnani 18-20 team free fall.

Then I'd say Marcus Williams has a big chance to slide if teams are feeling he'll be the next Frank Williams.

I think Hilton Armstrong will slide just a bit, but not far.

Foye will move up if teams are sold that he's the second coming of Chauncey Billups. Any of those Michigan State guys like Ager, Shannon Brown could take some by suprise if teams opt for undersized talent rather than pure speculation on just size and potential. The real hard one is the 13-15 bubble which I think any of those players could fool the heck out of anyone.

 

JJ Reddick or Hilton Armstrong will be the final one taken I believe

 

It will be Marcus Williams.

Here's how I think it will play out:

4:08: Williams enters the green room, his eyes get big as he sees the complimentary buffet.

5:43: He's a nervous eater, Williams is packing it away as the #7 pick rolls around. The Celtics have a spy in the green room and decide to pass after the spy just tells them that Williams has gone to the next notch in his belt.

6:25: As the Rudy Gay is giving his interview (after just having been picked by the Warriors), Williams is seen laughing and joking that Gay got out of the green room quicker than they got knocked out of the NCAA tourney.

7:07: Williams gets restless after he hears from his agent that Indiana is going to pass on him at #17. Williams decides to jog a few laps around the outer tables of the green room to show Larry Bird that he's actually in shape.

7:09: Williams gets winded and has to sit down.

7:44: One of the staff members in the green room is overheard complaining that her laptop is missing. Williams pushes his backpack further underneath the table with his leg and nervously looks around the room to see if anyone sees.

8:17 Williams is caught on camera yelling at his agent as he is picked #22 by the Nets. Williams smiles and tries not to show that he's still breathing heavy from his jog as he gets up to go to the podium.

 

^^lmfao

 

I'll take O' bryant in the free fall. Adonyl foyle i mean shelden williams should be another dropping rock.... but atlanta has put out the safety net for him.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting wtwalker77:</div><div class="quote_post">It will be Marcus Williams.

Here's how I think it will play out:

4:08: Williams enters the green room, his eyes get big as he sees the complimentary buffet.

5:43: He's a nervous eater, Williams is packing it away as the #7 pick rolls around. The Celtics have a spy in the green room and decide to pass after the spy just tells them that Williams has gone to the next notch in his belt.

6:25: As the Rudy Gay is giving his interview (after just having been picked by the Warriors), Williams is seen laughing and joking that Gay got out of the green room quicker than they got knocked out of the NCAA tourney.

7:07: Williams gets restless after he hears from his agent that Indiana is going to pass on him at #17. Williams decides to jog a few laps around the outer tables of the green room to show Larry Bird that he's actually in shape.

7:09: Williams gets winded and has to sit down.

7:44: One of the staff members in the green room is overheard complaining that her laptop is missing. Williams pushes his backpack further underneath the table with his leg and nervously looks around the room to see if anyone sees.

8:17 Williams is caught on camera yelling at his agent as he is picked #22 by the Nets. Williams smiles and tries not to show that he's still breathing heavy from his jog as he gets up to go to the podium.</div>

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">6:25: As the Rudy Gay is giving his interview (after just having been picked by the Warriors), Williams is seen laughing and joking that Gay got out of the green room quicker than they got knocked out of the NCAA tourney.

7:07: Williams gets restless after he hears from his agent that Indiana is going to pass on him at #17. Williams decides to jog a few laps around the outer tables of the green room to show Larry Bird that he's actually in shape.

7:09: Williams gets winded and has to sit down.

7:44: One of the staff members in the green room is overheard complaining that her laptop is missing. Williams pushes his backpack further underneath the table with his leg and nervously looks around the room to see if anyone sees.
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LOL wtwalker77 you have to do another one of these for this year's draft:

http://www.justbball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39699

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting custodianrules2:</div><div class="quote_post">LOL wtwalker77 you have to do another one of these for this year's draft:

http://www.justbball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39699</div>
If I have a few hours to blow, I might give it a try. It may have to wait until next year though.

btw, Shapecity came with the funny over on the draft forum with his Top 10 things to watch for in tonight's draft:

Link

I'm really looking forward to next year's draft. It's going to be one of the best draft classes in years. If I have free time like I did a few years ago, I'd like to get together with a few mods and members and make the draft a big feature of this site.

Like I told you, I think JBB's membership numbers are really going to climb in the next year or two.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting wtwalker77:</div><div class="quote_post">
I'm really looking forward to next year's draft. It's going to be one of the best draft classes in years. If I have free time like I did a few years ago, I'd like to get together with a few mods and members and make the draft a big feature of this site.

Like I told you, I think JBB's membership numbers are really going to climb in the next year or two.</div>
Thx for the link. Oh, and I agree that next year's draft will be awesome if the early entry candidates show up as planned. I'll probably have a different strategy on how we draft next year compared to this year. Go for upside! It's like the difference between 2001, 2002 (weak/weak), 2004 (average) and 2003/2005 (strong/deep). Get the solid players in 2001, 2002, go for some risk in the others if there's a Gerald Green or Dwight howard or D-wade undersized talent or some player like that.

Thx for helping with the site btw. The site is always busy on draft week I noticed. The last few years the site went bonkers and ran out of bandwidth because of it.

 

4:34: Stephen Smith is already annoying.
4:36: Raptors just screwed themselves (unless they are picking for someone else).

 

Meanwhile in the Walker Draft Complex, I buff my nails on my chest as I go 2 for 2. And over in Custodian's draft/broom closet...the draft intern begins writing CR2's consolation speech...

 

Jay Bilas on Adam Morrison: "couldn't guard a bank with a machine gun."

Zinger.

And yes, CR2, I'm already annoyed by Screamin' A. Smith too.

(3 for 3, my those nails are starting to look shiny)

 

0 for 4 and already annoyed by Wtwalker's offensively self-satisfied manner.

Definitely amused by Toronto's future frontline of Bosh, Rasho, Charlie V, Araujo and no heavy hitters or fast past first lead guards.

Good pick by the Hawks and by the Bobcats

Not sure what Portland plans to do but Aldridge is a good finesse and defensive player with room to grow inside.

Tyrus Thomas is a freak athlete with a nice short/medium range shot and defensive skills. Nice passer too.

Nice pick by Minny. If that point guard aint' there, find a way to help out Garnett. It's just too bad they picked Mccants last year.

 

Damn Gay is all sitting there all humiliated while these announcers rip into his lack of killer instinct. LOL.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting wtwalker77:</div><div class="quote_post">It will be Marcus Williams.

Here's how I think it will play out:

4:08: Williams enters the green room, his eyes get big as he sees the complimentary buffet.

5:43: He's a nervous eater, Williams is packing it away as the #7 pick rolls around. The Celtics have a spy in the green room and decide to pass after the spy just tells them that Williams has gone to the next notch in his belt.

6:25: As the Rudy Gay is giving his interview (after just having been picked by the Warriors), Williams is seen laughing and joking that Gay got out of the green room quicker than they got knocked out of the NCAA tourney.

7:07: Williams gets restless after he hears from his agent that Indiana is going to pass on him at #17. Williams decides to jog a few laps around the outer tables of the green room to show Larry Bird that he's actually in shape.

7:09: Williams gets winded and has to sit down.

7:44: One of the staff members in the green room is overheard complaining that her laptop is missing. Williams pushes his backpack further underneath the table with his leg and nervously looks around the room to see if anyone sees.

8:17 Williams is caught on camera yelling at his agent as he is picked #22 by the Nets. Williams smiles and tries not to show that he's still breathing heavy from his jog as he gets up to go to the podium.</div>

Wow, I guess this means Williams also stole a laptop as well ...

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">8:17 Williams is caught on camera yelling at his agent as he is picked #22 by the Nets. Williams smiles and tries not to show that he's still breathing heavy from his jog as he gets up to go to the podium.</div>

Well you were right about him getting picked by the Nets.