Ben Golliver suggests on Talkin Ball the Blazers might target Victor Oladipo..

Have you had me on iggy?

 

Well he rolls with Dwight Jaynes crew now.

 

Well if you are going to use Lillard, Babbit is closer to 12 than Lillard.

But I agree that Olshey isn't a lame duck GM. Will be interesting to see what he does with the pick. With so many Blazer projects on the bench, does he add one more to the mix as another potential chip in a big trade or trade the pick to bring in a developed vet that can help this team immediately.

 

Twelve words headline.

Eighteen words post.

 

1) Agreed.
2) Oladipo would be fine, but would be redundant with Mathews. If Blazers get Oladipo, Wes would be on the trade block.
3) Agreed. I think Portland ought to be targeting MCW out of Syracuse. Everyone has him pegged as a PG, but I think he will struggle there. If you play him as a SG next to Lillard - both could swap roles all game long. MCW would make a great backup guard for Portland (getting 12mgp at PG and 15mpg at SG).

 

Well then Oladipo would come cheaper than Mathews, While Mathews should have a very attractive contract in the trading market. You could might be onto something here.

 

MCW has terrible percentages at shooting. Also Syracuse.

 

Interesting look at NBA Draft's top 14: http://nbadraft.net/

Out of that 14 there are not that many guys i would hate getting. It's still early and a few more (Maybe internationally) will surface. I think we will be OK at 12.

 

No Zeller.
No Olynyk.
No MCW.

 

What do you purpose the Blazers do?

 

Oladipo is pretty athletic. And he's more of a slasher. Wessy's a deadeye 3pt shooter. I don't really see the redundancy outside of the fact that both their ball handling isn't that great.

 

I did not watch MCW so I can't say one way or the other. But I think #12 is fair for Zeller. He does have skills and a good basketball IQ. I would take a chance on him at 12. Granted I would prefer a defensive minded center to go along with Leonard, but again Zeller does have skills. IMO he will be in the league for 10 years unless he gets hurt. So he would have some trade value if we find something better.

Regardless we will need a veteran C for next year.

 

Isn't Oladipo a really good defender? Could sure use one of those off the bench, and eventually next to Lillard.

 

Trade up for Shabazz/Oladipo.

Glenn Robinson III, Rudy Gobert, Archie Goodwin, Kentavious Caldwell.

Hard to say before workouts, interviews, measurements, etc.

I'm being a little too critical of those 3 guys most likely, as at 12 I think Zeller would have the best value of the group, but I think MCW does absolutely nothing for us, and he won't have much trade value because he won't find much PT behind Lillard, and his absolutely horrendous shooting #'s won't help his PG prospects - and Syracuse. Olynyk I've made very clear that I don't think he'll amount to much - especially since we already have LMA and possibly Hickson.

Archie, Rudy are a little bit of reaches at that point though, but workouts can change the landscape of the draft (and if Zeller doesn't declare, Oladipo may not declare either). So.. Long way to go.

 

You forgot, no Oladipo either. Glad your not a gm

 

Why no Oladipo? If he can make Wes Mathews expendable and play just as well if not better that's a HUGE plus for the Blazers. Wes Mathews has a very attractive trading contract. Again I will ask, Are the Blazers building a popular team amongst the fan base or are they building a team to win a championship?


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I love Oladipo. Huskerman said in his past posts that he doesn't like Oladipo. Now I guess he's changing his tune

 

So you're telling me you'd take Oladipo #1 overall and would compare him to MJ and Dwyane Wade? You don't think thats overrating him a little bit?

Never did I say I didn't like him. I said he was overrated, of which is true. You can't compare him to Wade or Jordan (and it has happened repeatedly).

Don't try and put words in my mouth.

I hope you don't do anything important in this world, seeing as how your comprehension sucks an Oden-sized amount of cock.

 

19/13/5/3 (Bill Walton in his best seasons)

If Kelly O comes remotely close to those numbers, I'll eat my shorts.

Laughable comparing him to Bill Walton, at his peak. Convenient how he left out the whole defensive side of things as well as how despite leading the Zags to the #1 ranking, they still lost in the tourney fairly early.

Kelly O didn't get the credit he deserved at the beginning of the year, but he is getting more than enough credit now. Same as Victor Oladipo at Indiana, who is probably on my short list of most overrated players to go along with Kelly and Zeller.

^ That is exactly what I said. Please show me where it says "I don't like Oladipo" or even "Oladipo will be a bad player". I simply say he is overrated, and follow up that by saying "Oladipo is starting to get mentions as the number 1 pick, as well as what has been previously stated. (The MJ/Wade comparisons)".

With those comparisons, Oladipo is overrated and at #12, would be a great pick.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with you (apparently) holding onto some emotional attachment to my previous posts on Olynyk not being good enough to make LMA expendable and doubt he amounts to the hype he has garnered up to this point. Solid player, but nothing special. I don't remember if you were one of the people telling me I was stupid for saying Zeller was overrated, but that could've been Fez. Looks like that was an accurate assessment...