i think he does in the sense that there are other quality players he would rather Portland take. But not in the sense that Drummond will have a hard time getting minutes on a lottery team. (Like Thabeet) But I do respect his opinion when it comes to draft picks. He has an inside source back East that I think feeds him information.
I just listed to Courtside and Amick just said trading back. Not necessarily to 11. It could be that it was talk about switching 5 for 6. Just thought I would clarify.
His offensive/post skills are also question marks if you ask me. So is that 29% free throw percentage.
If that happened I would lose my shit. Straight up lose it. Especially if we some how ended up with MKG and Drummond. Sign Steve Nash and run run run. That would be awesome.
Yeah, Sheridan was horrible....but Rice is way off...Drummond is nowhere near Thabeet....Even during the draft the analysts were stunned that MEM took Thabeet at #2...He had\has zero offensive game, wasn't nearly as athletic as Drummond was, had poor bball IQ and was known to be lazy....
I don't think Drummond has much of an offensive game, hasn't shown a great bball IQ (definitely better than Thabeet's though..), and is known to be lazy. He's obviously in a different league athletically though.
Mike Rice is agreeing with you. His point was that you don't take a Thabeet @2 when you have a Harden available. He did not say Drummond was like Thabeet. He was saying you don't take a big just because you need one. Memphis did that was was burned. Take the BPA. Isn't that what you have been saying?
Yeah, but in this case I think Drummond even with the risks is the better BPA than Lillard, Rice feels differently and mainly b\c Drummond will take longer to develop.....although who knows how POR mgmt ranks them, they might even have some other player (Waiters? Jones?) ranked there for all we know....
Sheridan made no sense with his Cousins rant. Didn't the Kings want to dump Cousins for crap? I think they'd gladly of traded him for Favors. Then Chris went off about how his website has 100years of basketball experience. Maybe he should find someone with 6 months of interview experience. Very odd segment. I would love to somehow trade 11 for 5. Wesley/Babbitt/Nolan/Freeland/#40 lets get that done! Then add free agents like Dragic and Hawes.
Who would you pick with the #5 and #6, assuming we traded all of the guys you listed and were somehow guaranteed to sign Dragic and Hawes? Barnes and Drummond? Drummond and Waiters? Barnes and Waiters? Barnes and Lillard? Drummond and Lillard?
TRob, MKG, Barnes, Beal in that order. We are guaranteed to get one of those at 5. Now at 6 I'm not sure, I guess I'd take Drummond but I'd see if Cleveland would be interested in giving us Beal but we probably wouldn't have the trade assets left to also do that. Guess I'm never happy where we are at Hawes LaMarcus Batum Barnes (or Beal) Dragic I go back and forth on Drummond. I would like to see a more NBA ready player to pair with LaMarcus while we have an all-star in his prime, I don't think it's a great strategy to wait 4 years for a young guy to develop. With the new CBA the big advantage of rookies is their on-court value greatly exceeds their rookie salary. A guy that needs 4 years to develop provides none of that advantage. By the time he is ready to be a big time contributor he is a restricted free agent, and if he is any good as a center he is getting a near max contract. That would reduce the resources to fill the roster with above average starters at other positions. I'm not a big Lillard fan, so maybe I'd lean towards Waiters. Now that you have me type out all my thoughts I almost want to just leave the pick 11 alone and instead swap our 6 to Sacramento for their 5. Our #40 might be enough to get that done.
My first choice would be to end up with Robinson and Lillard, but that is unlikely (unless they can find a way to turn 6 into 2, and 11 into 8 or 9). I would like Lillard/Drummond if they were convinced Drummond had a chance. If not then I would try something different to move up. I'm not excited about Barnes/Lillard or Lillard/Waiters. If you are lucky enough to turn 11 into 5, then go all in and try to get up to get Robinson.
I actually really like that starting unit, although Barnes at three and Nic at two is what I would imagine happening. My only concern would be interior defense.
