This draft class is going to be ridiculous

Do you not remember me saying that it was just that night?

You even commented on it. Twice.

 

Whatever man… If you want to play the over cautious fan now, then go for it. There are plenty on this board. If the troll you had in game one was you just trying to have fun, then you have a funny way of being funny.

 

We all have our roles man.

Yeah. I hardly ever troll, so sorry, most likely no repeat performances.

 

So anyway, this draft class is going to be ridiculous

 

2 out of the 5 will be busts. book it!

 

Tend to believe this:

 

wow, really? thats a quality bold statement

 

Yes.

EDIT: Caveat being that I tend to think Anthony Davis' has greater potential to be a franchise level player than a lot of other lotto picks ... Lillard included.

 

So in other words.....you will pretty much always be cautiously happy if we are winning. 16 games does not make a season, nor does 60. (Like when we were 50-10 and Walton got hurt)

Bottom line is some people prefer not to get their hopes up for fear of being let down. Others prefer to enjoy the moment a little bit more. To each his own. Personally I am more the cautious type, but I wish I wasn't.......

 

It looks to me like it' sat least 8-9 deep with all-star caliber players

 

Well then why are we sooo worried about getting anyone in this draft then? I mean for all we know, they will be at Anthony Davis's level. Your ideology would lean more towards grabbing proven vets and superstars no?

 

Repped. Well said.

 

Wow that would be ridiculous

 

They're always seems to be 2 busts when theres a draft class like this, it seems.

 

That number is probably high, but I think it will rival some of the drafts from the 80's

 

The Blazers don't have that luxury because of a combination of factors (geography, market size, cache', etc.)

And why are you getting so emotional about this?

 

I'm just off of this "tanking for picks" bandwagon. I think it's a broken idea and hardly works. The true players have GMs that find talent regardless of pick.

You or others keep bringing up "market, location" as some detour for players, but I disagree. There have been small market teams that built winners and lured solid free agents. Remember the early 2000 kings? They were winners and brought in vets to build on. Hell our team had the same privilege as well. The key to success is to develop a winning culture. That culture will attract other players that want to win too. That's why OKC can lure free-agents if they wanted to.

 

First of all define "solid free agent" and then name me one "Superstar" (your word not mine) that has left a team to go to a small market in the past 10 years. That's not a rhetorical question; maybe there's somebody I've forgotten.

 

Iggy going to Golden State? Guess he really isn't a superstar. And lately there hasn't been a small market team that contends, unless you talk about SAS. Fortunately for them, they didn't need another superstar to come to town.

 

Right now, I'm not convinced that Iggy is better than Batum.