The Blazers' Chad Buchanan, via courtside, said there is a HUGE dropoff after #20. With one of our scouts saying that, I have a feeling KP really wants to move up.
there is no doubt in my mind KP will try to do that, unless he uses the pick to get a proven player like Conley or Hinrich. Portland has too much talent and not enough room, so I wouldn't be surprised to see Portland move up and get a PG with promise and see if he pans out in the D League or whatever.
I hope we move up. The Clippers (I read) might want to trade their pick. Out of anyone, we have the assets to do that. Can you imagine Blake Griffin on our team? Or if we could get the Clippers pick and trade a couple down to get Rubio? I would like that better I think.
Why not? He is supposed to be a phenomenal PF! Karl Malone version 2! Or do you just lack imagination to the point that you cannot even think about a player being on our team?
I think its more of "He's not gonna be here so why waste time imagining him in our uniform" not really
I have no idea about the top 30 prospects, but I just made a full two round mock draft at Draft Express for fun. What do you think? Did I forget anybody? Who do I have too high or too low?
Just at a glance... -Danny Green is more of a second rounder -Patty Mills goes a bit earlier in most mocks -Wayne Ellington has been a lottery pick in some mocks, so having him as an early/mid 2nd rounder is wayyyyyy off. Overall pretty interesting. I love the lead-up to the draft. So many different possibilities and so many players' stocks rising and falling. Thanks for doing that. Mine would be absolutely horrible I think. EDIT: Also, Holiday is pretty high in your's, but I could see it as a slight possibility depending on how his workouts go.
I heard on the radio the other day that scouts believe there is no different between picks #4 to #10. It's a pretty big drop off after Griffin/Rubio/Thabeet.
Danny Green was more of what I personally think the Blazers should do with their pick. I agree that 24 is probably a bit high for him but several teams right below us have high second round picks, so what I would really do is make a trade like we made with Houston to get Batum last year and pick up Green a bit lower. He is the last of the players I most want though, so I wouln't take a chance on losing him though, and I wouldn't be shocked if some team grabbed him at the end of the first round. As far as Holiday and Mills go, two of the things I had the most trouble with was deciding on the order in the top ten and deciding what order the PGs will go in and which teams will pick them. Nothing would surprise me as far as those two things go. I don't remember seeing any mock drafts with Ellington in the lottery, and definitely not recently. There are so many players that seem to be rated about the same that some of them have to fall into the second round. I agree that the lead up to the draft is fun. I don't know much about some of these prospects other than what I read online, I didn't watch that much college basketball this past season, but I had fun doing this anyway. I hope others do it as well. You sure you don't want to give it a try?
I saw the talk about Chad Ford's mock draft, so I thought I'd bump this and ask once again if anybody else wants to take a stab at making a mock draft. I had fun doing it.
^^This, and frankly I'm higher on LaMarcus Aldridge as a true two way player and overall fit for the Blazers than Griffin who looks like Carlos Boozer without the jump shot. I'm not saying Griffin won't eventually be pretty good, I'm just saying I think LMA is going to end up the player that Sheed could have been if he'd truly applied himself to becoming the best he could be.
Honestly I think it's a big drop off after Griffin/Rubio. Thabeet is a decent defender and has great size, but he lacks any offensive game whatsoever.
I agree. I can easily see Harden and Hill becoming the Wade and Bosh of this draft. (guess who that makes Thabeet? )
I was more talking about one person doing a mock draft like I did, but the other way sounds fun too. I think the mock draft in the NBA Draft Forum involves a number of people, but I'm not sure how many or how the teams are divided up. Anybody else want to join in? Anybody want to make a full mock draft by themselves like I did?
I think it's more fun for the community to do one big mock draft. Then everyone gets to put their GM Caps on and make trades with each other and everything...
