With the 21st pick the Portland Trailblazers select a Euro that nobody has ever heard of and that will never ever play in the NBA!! (Claver, koponen, freeland ect....) Go ahead and shock the world chad buchanan.
I defy you to name one pick that the Blazers have made that no one here has heard of (and probably posted about)--international player or otherwise. Kammerichs is about the only guy who's been entirely off the radar as far as I can tell. And that was nine years ago.
LOL Yes i'm sure you had all of Koponen's stats lined up! Give me a break! 99% of the people in hear have never heard of any of these bums until 5 mins before the pick and jay bilas gives you a 20 second euro highlight clip of him. And everyone is like..... oh man he looks awesome!!!!! I remember hearing about him LOL
I'm going to disagree. We have needs at backup PF, Center and PG to pull that stunt again. I'm convinced that if we still have the 21st pick when it rolls around we're taking a player to play.
Actually, I posted about Koponen before the draft because I'd read ESPN's draft notes that had mentioned him as a guy Portland might be looking to draft late in the first. It's not like we dissected his game, but he didn't come out of nowhere for people that were paying attention. Ed O.
