Best case he's probably somewhere between Al Horford and Larry Johnson. IMO he's a lot more explosive than Horford and probably closer to 6'8"-6'9" (w/shoes) than he is 6'10"
I agree, I would be curious to see how he performs in a starting role and out of that MEM system...and I don't see MEM matching an offer for him, they do not want to pay the luxury tax and they have some high salaries (Gay, Randolph, Gasol) already.... Of course, you are betting\gambling that he becomes a better player in POR...pretty risky...same as paying Batum $10+mil though and betting that he becomes one of the top 3 players on your team....Of course Mayo may only cost you $5-6mil...
Horford is a nice comparison, but Horford's just got a much bigger frame and at 6'10 he can play C. T-Rob is chiseled as hell, if he was more skilled I think he could play SF to be honest. Josh Smith kind of body with a Horford kind of game. And I wouldn't be surprised if New Orleans takes Myers Leonard at 10. Some might think its a reach but they'd be taking on two bigs with HUGE potential. They've got Eric Gordon in the back court and its a weak PG class. Why not swing for a homerun in Leonard instead of Zeller? They're going to suck again next year regardless and could draft their future starting front court in one draft, a big, defensive, physically intimidating front court at that.
Hopefully we can get this draft right -- Chad Ford said the 2013 draft is going to be scary weak outside the top-5.
Which is why we need to try for those home run picks, not ones that aren't going to help us out next year. We are in the position nobody wants to be in. Not bad enough to get a top pick, and not good enough to make a run at the playoffs. If we can get two dynamic players out of this draft we can make a run.
I don't buy too much into people predicting how classes are going to be. Everyone thought this draft had multiple "can't miss" players, but there is only one. Now people are saying its not deep, which makes no sense to me at all (maybe smoke screening?).
This draft is deep IMO. 1-20 you can get starting caliber players. That is deep to me. I just think there's a lot of guys with upside, its kinda of a roll the dice type draft.
MickZagger disagrees. He thinks it heavy 1-20. He thinks when guys like Rivers, Marshall, Moultrie, Terrence Jones and Sullinger are available in the 12-20 range that its a deep draft. He also thinks that if a guy like Tony Wroten were to stay another year that he could easily be a top half of the lottery type guy.
Agree with you Mickzagger. After Anthony Davis its very difficult to distinguish between the next 20 or so guys. Prospects expected to go top 10 have their share of flaws. Guys like Wroten, Rivers, Royce White, Moe Harkless, Myers Leonard, Waiters are expected to go mid-late first but have big time potential. IMO the bottom half of the first round has an extraordinarily high level of talent, the difficulty comes in finding the guy who's going to live up to their potential.
This is exactly the kind of draft that a star comes out of nowhere and few years down all the fans are saying, "how did this many teams pass on this guy?" There will probably a HUGE late round steal and/or there will probably a second round Ginoboli-like gem. It would be nice for that to be the Blazers for once.
I wish I had the book that Bif had in Back to the Future 2 that told him all the results from sports for 50 years. I would love to sit in the war room and say, "Nope, he's gonna' suck or Nope his knees will explode.... you should draft this guy!"
KP other teams medical staffs came out and said his knees looked bad. Canzano or Dwight reported it at the time and got jeered because they are anti Blazers. I am not so sure 29 other teams would have drafted him after the medical exams
Maybe 28. Orlando and Houston were happy with their centers. Go see what draft express said on their last mock. I might be wrong, but I don't think it will say anything about Greg's knees or red flags.
Ya, ya. I want PRE draft doubters..... not months later articles. Even Seattle would have taken him #1 son!
