Mike Rice thinks tomorrow is going to be a very big day for the Blazers. He knows something is up. All of this anticipation I'm going to be completely useless at work tomorrow.
Thank god I'm working out of my home now days. I'm going to actually be riveted, only to be crushed with disappointment. We better get Collison as a bare bones enough to make me kinda excited trade. Really it's gotta be CP3.
Me thinks you are in store for a big let down come Friday morning. The odds are nothing huge will happen. The CPaul stories have set the bar too high for anyone to be satisfied tomorrow. Even if Paul was traded somewhere, I don't see it being done by tomorrow. Late July maybe
He also mentioned something about 4:45 being about the time for the Blazers to be involved. Draft starts at 4:30 yeah? EDIT:And yeah, I'm agreeing with pinwheel1 to some degree. I'm skeptical about anything big happening, but it's still a fun day.
I would be satisfied with anyone other then Roy, Oden, Batum or LMA for Collison. There are other trades worthwhile like LMA for Dirk or garbage for Nash stuff like that.
For whatever it's worth: Rice closed the interview by teasing their show tomorow by saying something along the lines of "we'll know who the Blazers are going to pick by about a quarter to 5"... Simple math tells you, draft starts at 4:30, "quarter to 5 = 4:45", which means that Rice seemed to be insinuating that roughly 15 minutes into the draft the Blazers will have picked somebody. To my knowledge, each pick has a 5 minute timer on it right? That would suggest that the Blazers are somehow going to get the 3rd or 4th overall pick... Easy enough to shrug off as Rice being Mike "WILD" Rice, but he seemed pretty certain and made multiple references to having "inside sources" and "knew" what was going on... Intriguing if true, tomorrow could be BIG! (emphasis on could)
Serious question who is worth going after in this draft other then Wall and Turner? Are any of the big men an upgrade over LMA or Oden (when healthy)? Are there any guards beyond Turner and Wall worth a damn? I feel like trading for established players is the move this year.
agree..i'm going into the draft expecting rudy to be traded and that's pretty much it....i don't wan't to get my hopes up for nothing like i normally do
ESPN and NBA.com both are showing 4pm start time. Is that for their coverage or the actual start time? EDIT: If that's the actual start time Rice's quote puts us at about the 9th/10th pick.
Yeah it's similar to how the last two playoffs I have gotten my hopes up at the start, I even knew it was unrealistic to expect much but ya know, thats just what being a fan is about. We get too high with the highs and too lows with the lows but it's called passion and I've accepted theres nothing I can do about it.
This Terrico White kid is very intriguing. He's 6'5" but extremely explosive and with a major vertical he also has a great outside shot. Passing is not his strength, but hey that's Brandon's job right?
I don't see Johnson or White as part of a "very big day". Out of the draft picks, Wall, Evans, Favors = a very big day. Cousins a very good day. The rest are just lottery picks that really don't mean much next season.
I have a feeling about this kid, just like I did with Brandon Jennings, Tyreke Evans and Darren Collison. All guys I would have gone after on my draft board, and many of them I was mocked for before the draft.
