NOLA Wanted Dame in Draft.....

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  1. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    THE HCP, Jan 3, 2013
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    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    And we wanted Andre Drummond. It just wasn't in the cards.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    What would we be like had we taken Drummond and Lamb?
     
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    I'd be quite interested to have seen that come to pass. Wonder who our PG would be right now... So many possibilities this past summer - Dame better be "the one".
     
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    Drummond is making Rice look like a tool!

    He thought he'd fall way out of the lotto.

    The second youngest player in the NBA putting up 7/7 (1.5 BPG) in only 19 mpg with a 22 PER? He also has a DRtg of 98.

    He has all the tools to become what we'd hope Oden would turn into.
     
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    Yeah, as someone who doesn't follow NCAA I was very interested in Drummond.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    refresh my memory, what point guards were out on the open market that this team had a shot at?
     
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    I'm just talking about possibilities in general - this team could have gone is so many different directions, but it was all dependent upon who we drafted at #6. In regards to PGs wasn't Dragic a FA? And Lowry got traded. And Lin was an RFA. And beyond the PGs that actually changed teams, you'd have to think that we would have explored trades for a PG if we didn't draft Lillard. Maybe Rondo (doubtful, but I always like trying to create trade scenarios for Rondo)? You'd think we could probably trade for Calderon without giving up too much. There's a LOT of PG talent out there, and if we didn't draft Lillard who knows who our PG would be.
     
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    Leonard will certainly have a say in this as well.

    Lillard seems to have "it", so I'm really not that worried about. And I was a big Lamb guy.
     
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    Raymond Felton.
     
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    I'd like to try to acquire Lamb from OKC. Of the wing players he was the one I was most interested in - only one that (based on draft reports & youtube) had star potential, IMO. In a league with two aging star SGs and nobody to step into the void I thought he might be worth a gamble.
     
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    If they wanted Lillard so bad, it doesn't seem like it should have been that tough to trade up from #10 to top-5 to leap frog us. This is the draft that was known as super deep but not overly strong up top, especially after the drop-off after their own #1 pick in Davis.
     
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